Farrand Residential 
Academic Program
FARR 1000-1. Farrand Service-Learning Practicum: Special Topics. Offers a varying service-learning practicum experience as corequisite to a service-learning lecture course. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours, provided the practica are different. Graded pass/fail.
FARR 1001-1. Avant-Garde Film Appreciation. Provides students with an introduction to the aesthetic and critical concepts surrounding the viewing and appreciation of film art through lecture, discussion and film screenings. Explores primarily non-narrative expressions of film as art. Recommended prereq., FILM 1502.
FARR 1002-1. Spinning Progress. Examines the broad notion of progress by focusing on cloth. Mechanization of textile production over the past 250 years announces one “modern” understanding of progress based on speed on efficiency. But, even from the outset of the industrial revolution, competing conceptions of progress grounded on other values contested this “modern” conception. By what understanding are we to assess progress today?
FARR 1003-1. Banned Books and the First Amendment. Focuses on a heated topic of discussion since the Constitution was drafted: the censorship of books. This class will look at some classics in literature: Catcher in the Rye, The Color Purple, and Huck Finn, and will explore the questions of why they were controversial and whether censorship of books is ever justified. Graded pass/fail.
FARR 1004-1. Teen Trials and Tribulations in Literature. Discusses major themes and literary strategies in coming-of-age literature. Pass/fail only.
FARR 1513-1. The Individual and the Community. Examines the relationship between the individual and the community through films, both narrative and documentary. Focuses on the problems and possibilities of losing and/or promoting both community and individuality.
FARR 1520-1. Theatre Arts Workshop.
FARR 1561-1. Nonviolence for Everyday: Meditation and Other Helpful Habits. Focuses on the challenge of achieving nonviolence on a day-to-day basis by maintaining a peaceful, focused frame of mind. Explores ways to train the mind, including methods that may aid healing.
FARR 1562-3. Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Love in Action for Humans and Other Creatures. Class texts and films explore social justice and structural violence in regard to humans, animals, and the environment in the light of a Gandhian approach to these issues. Outreach work in the community is included.
FARR 1595-1. Community Service: Personal Growth and Public Good. Provides an opportunity for students to engage in volunteer service. Provides support and guidance in reflecting on personal and sociological issues that derive from their experiences.
FARR 2000-3. Farrand Seminar in the Humanities and the Arts. Studies an aspect of the theme of the Center for Humanities Seminar Program each year, and will be taught by faculty participants in the Center’s fellowship program. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
FARR 2002-3. Literature of Lifewriting. Examines how diverse writers have created unique personal narratives that shape memory within historical and social contexts. Works will exemplify a wide range of literary structures, themes, and strategies that enhance an understanding of the genre and provide models for students’ own lifewriting assignments. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
FARR 2100-3. Digital Design Interfaces, Interactivities, and Information Design. Learn the key components of digital design and how to create unique and informative digital designs. Has immediate application through work in small groups with nonprofit agencies with whom a website, based on the agency’s information and needs, will be designed.
FARR 2400-3. Understanding Privilege and Oppression in Contemporary Society. Through a focus on race, class, sexual orientation, and physical ability, this course explores privilege, oppression, and empowerment in the United States. Through community service, students learn how oppression and privilege interact, and apply classroom learning to community experiences. Same as LDSP 2400. Approved for the arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity or contemporary societies.
FARR 2510-3. Exploring Good and Evil through Film. Eighteen films depict our capacities for good and evil. Topics addressed include the following: the Holocaust, Jung’s concept of “the Shadow,” the Seven Deadly Sins, altruistic and sociopathic personalities, capital punishment, the redemptive narrative, and the satanic in film. Same as FILM 2613. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
FARR 2660-3. Ethics of Ambition. Through selected readings in classical literature on ethics and through more contemporary readings and films, examines critical ethical issues relating to the competition of ambitions and the alternative styles of choosing between courses of action in a dangerous world. Uses biographies of those whose lives illustrate both the complexities of the struggles and the profundity of possibilities. Considers the unconscious metaphors of national visions and ambitions, the competing ethics of ends and means, the conflicting ambitions in a pluralistic society, and the transcendent ambitions of visionaries. Same as HONR 2250. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
FARR 2820-3. Future of the Spaceship Earth. Examines major ecological, political, economic, cultural, legal, and ethical issues that will shape the future. Students consider how their decisions influence the future, and reflect on fundamental values and ideals underlying the search for solutions to these complex problems. Approved for the arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
