Taught by Richard Brettell
The University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D., Yale University
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Professor Richard Brettell creates a vivid, "virtual" museum through which to appreciate the genius and enduring accomplishments of the Impressionists: the men and women who, in but a few short decades, forever changed the art of painting.
Who Were the Impressionists?
They appeared in a period of upheaval. They saw the rebuilding of Paris, the rise of industrialism, the ruin of the Franco-Prussian war.
They displayed their works—paintings that were startlingly, even shockingly, new—in a series of exhibitions from 1874 to 1886.
And by the 1890s this "loose coalition" of artists who rebelled against the formality of the French Academy had created the most famous artistic movement in history. "They" were the Impressionists, and Professor Brettell is your expert curator and guide to a movement that created a new, intensely personal vision of the world.
Churchill (12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma, Ph.D., Harvard University
The winner of 15 awards for his outstanding teaching skills—including University of Oklahoma Professor of the Year three times—he frequently leads study trips to historical sites in the United States and Europe.
Of these, "Winston Churchill and World War II" is the most popular.
These lectures will make it clear why this is so as you experience Professor Fears's learning, his deep understanding of Churchill, and his command of both the details of his subject's life and of the lecturer's art as he brings his subject to life with dramatic flair.
Taught by: Professor Brian M. Fagan—University of California at Santa Barbara Professor Fagan takes you into some of the sophisticated chiefdoms and civilizations that developed in the Americas over the past 3,500 years, including the Pueblo cultures of the North American Southwest and the Mississippian culture of the South and Southeast. You will also learn about Mesoamerican civilization, the primordial Olmec culture of the lowlands, and the spectacular Ancient Maya civilization.
Moving to the highlands, you will visit the city-states of Monte Albán in the Valley of Oaxaca and Teotihuacán near the Valley of Mexico. Professor Fagan also describes the rise of Aztec civilization, followed by a journey to the Andes, where the beginnings of Andean civilization on the arid north coast of Peru culminated in the Moche civilization of the first millennium A.D. Finally, you explore the southern highlands, with the rise of Tiwanaku near Lake Titicaca, the Chimu civilization of the coast, and the huge Inka empire.
The series closes with a lecture on the closing centuries of prehistoric times during the European age of discovery and summarizes the main issues and themes of the course—what was involved in the archaic world, the appearance and spread of modern humans, food production, and the development of states.
So You Want To Be a Professor
A Handbook for Graduate Students Vesilind’s book will serve as a valuable resource, not only for graduate students on the threshold of academic careers, but also for current assistant professors in need of a mentor and even for those top undergraduates deciding whether a doctorate followed by college teaching is the best use of their talents. Combining good-humored criticisms of academia with sincere defense of the contributions of professors, Vesilind gives informal and, more importantly, frank advice for every stage of the career, from the career choice to retirement. "Maybe you’d like to combine the two loves of your life—teaching and scholarship—and perhaps build a satisfying and profitable academic career, but you’re not sure if this is really what you want or how to go about it. Or maybe you’ve made up your mind but need some good advice on how to succeed. If so, this book is written for you. So You Want To Be a Professor begins with a discussion of jobs in academia and how to find them. Chapters cover a wide range of political skills for future academic success, including lecturing, organizing a course, meeting your first class, testing, maintaining a research program, and writing for publication. No other book provides such a practical overview of essential career-building skills. Even junior faculty will benefit from the advice in this engaging, comprehensive book.
From Monet to Van Gogh:
Churchill
