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• W289762574 abstract "Abstract This paper examines a first-year composition course that began with a unit considering the 9/11 tragedy and the arts. The course then moved to consider western and multicultural perspectives on the arts. The paper argues that instructors should be cautious about designing courses that focus on a particular tragedy or even on the theme of tragedies in general. Many students in this course tired of discussing 9/11 (or already had even before the course began), while others were only willing or able to discuss the tragedy in superficial terms. Based on student evaluations, class discussions, and writing assignments, assert that students in my course were better able to learn from the range of perspectives and issues that we discussed than if we had focused exclusively on 9/11. ********** Only two days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, an article in The New York Times considered the power of the various arts to express grief. In the article, Times critics wrote entries on theater, literature, art, television, dance, photography, film and music. Almost all these writers argued that the arts can help individual mourners connect with a larger community. Far from an isolated example, this New York Times article was one of many in the popular press that considered the arts and 9/11. Because of my own teaching and research interests, was immediately drawn to the questions raised by these articles. the arts really have anything to say in the face of such a horrible tragedy? Can high forms such as literature and overcome their traditionally elitist associations to comfort the broad range of people affected? Are the more popular arts such as television and pop music profound enough to address a serious tragedy? This paper examines a course that designed and taught at Indiana University, Bloomington. Entitled, Do We Need Art? The Role of Art and the Artist in American Culture, the course began by considering writings on and the September 11 tragedy. The second unit looked at western conceptions of art, many of which inform writers on 9/11. My third unit compared these western conceptions with multicultural perspectives. Serving as an alternative to the required first-year composition course, Indiana University's Projects in Reading and Writing (W170) program allows students to assay a particular topic throughout an entire semester. Recent W170 classes have examined such topics in American culture as nature, baseball, and the AIDS epidemic. For the most part, the W170 courses appeal to serious students who hope to actively engage a specific topic. But because of the way the University's registration process works, some students never see the course description before enrolling or register based solely on the class meeting time. Although a few students drop a W170 course after learning its theme, some remain in the class despite a lack of strong interest (to be fair, it can be difficult for students at Indiana and other large universities to find space in required classes). Even students who genuinely hoped to pursue the topic of my course had varying interests within the arts and the September 11 tragedy. As a result, tried to construe the topic of art broadly so that students could develop their own projects. While most of our in-class activities focused on painting, sculpture, and architecture, students were free to look at such diverse forms as music, dance, tattoos, and literature, and to analyze them from a variety of perspectives. Because of the wealth of articles that were written in response to 9/11, was tempted to base the course entirely on that tragedy. Indeed, some colleagues who provided written comments about my course proposal advised me to focus on the first unit. One reviewer wrote, I find the introductory unit of this proposal, on the role of in the wake of/ face of catastrophe, worthy of its own course. …" @default.
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• W289762574 title "Teaching the 9/11 Tragedy and the Arts" @default.
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