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Wednesday, August 21, 1974
University Daily Kansan
New Classes to Include Solzhenitsyn, Women in Art
Alexander Solizenylt, the author who was recently expelled from the Soviet Union because of his political dissident, will be the subject of a course at the University of Kansi.
The course, BUSS 790, Solentnyn and
Antecedents, Patterns of Russian Dissent—is one of about 30 classes being offered for the first time this fall.
These classes are from about 20 departments and schools within the University, designated as new offerings in the Fall Timetable of Classes.
Among new classes from the department of anthropology are ANTH 315, Controversies of the Living and the Dead; ANTH 385, Warfare in Non-Western Cultures.
The department of anthropology describes ANTH 315 as the examination of the pros and cons of conflicting theories on the past and present evolution of man. Race and intelligence, evolution of skin color and identity, the nature are among the topics to be considered.
ANTH 395 is described as a survey of the peoples and cultures of Europe from the late Medieval period to the modern metal working. Emphasis will be given to such topics as village life and organization, trade ceremonial patterns and monuments development and impact of agriculture.
"The course will be a basic introduction to comparative law of societies," Lund-
ANTH 404, a study of the nature and function of law in small-scale social systems, will be taught this fall by Henry Lundsaerga, professor of anthropology.
One of the new classes being offered from the department of history is HIST 441, Inside Hitler's Germany. The class will be held by Charles Sidman, professor of history.
"The class will basically cover the Third Reich, Germany during the Third Reich," Sidman said.
A few of the topics to be discussed in the class are National Socialism, the personality of Adolf Hitler, the Nuremberg Trials, the war in Europe, the Jewish concentration camps, Sidama run.
"The major substance of study in the course will be the years 1933 to 1945 in which he was chiefly active."
Prof Declares Space Shuttle A Natural Step
By RICK HIRD Kansan Staff Reporter
Columist Nicholas Ven Hoffman
walks into the space shell an ex-
perienced wife.
According to Richard K. Moore, professor of electrical engineering at the Space Technology Center, the program is "a natural step forward."
The space shuttle is a manned vehicle that takes off in the same manner as a rocket, but that will land at an airfield and, therefore, will be resuable.
"It is a transportation system, similar to an airplane in function," Moore said.
"You must understand that there are wastes in every human activity," he said. "But if you are going to be a man,
"THE SPACE BUDGET was around $3 billion this year, which is something like a little more than one per cent of the federal budget that people talk about being wasted."
Moore's conclusions about the space program are not purely opinion. As an advisor to NASA, he has had an opportunity to see the advantages from the inside.
More said he thought the space shuttle program was an important step, forward.
"However, we should have started baking the shuttle when we started aplastic hips."
Moore said that the principle of utilizing a craft that could be reused was both sensible and practical.
"We've got to face the fact that people we be going to and from space all the time."
He said there was a defensive attitude at NASA. Constant assaults on the space program on the basis of cost-benefit studies might not be accurate, he said.
COST-BENEFT STUDIES are often ridiculous," he said. "Everyone's so afraid of cost-benefit lag that they do these studies over and over again.
"They're important, true, but the people in the government tend to place too much emphasis on it."
In response to the criticism that the space program lacks direction and purpose, Moore said that there should not be a single program with all of its benefits were returned in varied forms.
"There are things such as communications of various kinds that have direct application," he said. "You can use indirect or direct, but meteorological and earth observation satellites have practical uses. Military uses are obvious."
MOORE SAID the space shuttle would serve as a "bus driver" for military satellites. The shuttle will be used to carry satellites to outerspace for launching,
Moore said that keeping the military and NASA independent of each other had resulted in duplication but that it was the difference in the military was to stay out of civilian operations.
"If we had the cameras and other equipment that they've been using for 15 years, then you might be able to see them."
The class is scheduled to meet in the evening once a week for two and one-half to three hours. The class will have a three-part structure, Sidman said.
The first 45 to 50 minutes of each class period will be a lecture by Sidman. One of the early lectures will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler, Sidman said.
The second part of the class period will be a panel discussion by persons on the campus who lived in Germany during Hitler's era who heard speeches by Hitler. Students may be used on the panel discussion, Sidman said.
The last section of each class period will be listening to recordings of speeches by Hitler, or viewing documentary films on Hitler, he said.
Sidman said he has chosen a variety of books to serve as texts for the class, leaving the option for students to read any books from the list.
Jeanne Stump, assistant professor of art history, will be teaching H A 476. Women in Art, with Marilyn Stokstad, professor of art history. The class is designed to survey the history of art from two standpoints related to women.
The first standpoint is the image of women as she appears in art works: as earth mother, goddess, allegorical figure, domestic woman and female fatale.
The second standpoint is the investigation of women as artists from the earliest to contemporary figures, Stump said. The class includes students with field trips to the Nelson Art Gallery, Spooner Hall and studios of women artists in the area, she said. An exhibition of women's art will be held in the Kansas Museum of Art, Stump said, in coordination with the class.
Stump will also be teaching another new art history, H A 758, Symbolism. The
Theories, concepts, literary connection and themes, and subject matter of the symbology.
class will investigate in depth the symbolist movement of the later 19th century.
Some of the artists to be studied include Gustave Moreau, Oedion Redon, Paul Gauguin, the Nabi group, Eduard Munch, and Gustav Klimp, Stump said.
PHIL. 172, Philosopical Problems in Modern Literature, is a freshman sophomore class that will be taught in the college. Shapiro, assistant professor of philosophy.
"The class is intended to make philosophy immediately accessible to students," Stuart said.
The class will read literary works such as modern novels, poetry, and plays and relate them to philosophical ideas, Shapiro said. The class will discuss differences between literature and philosophy, while reading such pieces as "Crime and Punishment" by
Datooyevsky "Nauseus" by Jean-Paul
Shustre the Wasteland by T. S. Eltol,
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VOIC 618, Seminar in Romantic Song Literature; VOIC 672, German Diction for Singers; FREN 241, Studies in Aspects of French Civilization; FREN 400, French Literature; FREN 395, Novel; FREN 440, Contemporary French Press; FREN 502, French Stage and
Other new classes offered this fall are:
ANTH 524, Magic, Science and Religion;
ANTH 530, Psychological Anthropology;
ANTH 605, Archaeology of the Great Plains;
ANTH 608, Ancient Andean Civilization;
ANDH 612, Polynesian Archaeo-
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BIOL 148, Introductory Environmental Studies; CLXS 229, Greek and Latin in English; SPED 380, Clinical Observations in Special Education; DRWG 101, Introductory Drawing I; DRWG 102, Introductory Drawing II; and PNTG 271, Filmmaking I
Stagcaster; ITAL 501, Relationship of Italian Language and Literature to Music; GEOL 118, Prehistoric Life; GEOL 331, Mining Resources; GEOL 561, Mineral and Energy Resources.
HIST 422, the World of the Middle Ages; HIST 413, Hong Kong on Asia; China and Japan in American Films; HIST 633, History of American Radicalism and Reform; HIST 688, Topics in Environmental History; HIST A, Biography of a City; HIST B, Chinese Painting; MATH I11, Probability and Statistics; PHIL 12, Introduction to the Logic of Science; PHIS X10, Physical Science; and PHIS X14, College Physics I.
BIOP 108, Radiation, Environment and Man; MREL 344, Theology in Literature Albert Camus; REL 364, Women and Religion; ALRE 102, Special Topics —Religion in Art; ELRS 102, USSO 220, Technical Russian; and POLS 270, Contemporary Issues in World Politics.
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