Besides the Core Course in the fall term, Kresge College offers additional classes each academic year.

Classes that will be offered for the 2008-2009 school year are (tentatively):

Fall 2008

Krsg 12A: Service Learning —3 credits
Students will find an independent field placement with the instructor’s assistance, work in the placement, meet weekly, read appropriate texts, keep a journal, and write a final reflection on the experience.

Winter 2009

Krsg 12A: Service Learning —3 credits with Stewart Cooper
Krsg12B: Service Learning —2 credits with Franklin Williams
Students will find an independent field placement with the instructor’s assistance, work in the placement, meet weekly, read appropriate texts, keep a journal, and write a final reflection on the experience.

Krsg 60F: Writer’s Read —2 credits
Students will attend weekly creative writing readings by fiction writers and poets, read excerpts from the writers’ works, participate in questions and answer sessions and write short creative and/or analytical responses to the readings/writings.

Krsg 60K: The Art of Comedy: Literature & Performance —3 credits
Students analyze comedic writing and practice writing comedy. Students will develop pieces to be delivered in a performance at the end of the quarter.

Krsg 62: Transformative Action —5 credits
Addresses the most effective methods of social change. Examines principles and strategies of transformative action and case studies of leaders solving world problems. Empower students to be innovators in real-life community projects. Integrates - nonviolence, psychology, sustainability and social justice.

Spring 2009

Krsg 12B: Service Learning —2 credits with Stewart Cooper
Students will find an independent field placement with the instructor’s assistance, work in the placement, meet weekly, read appropriate texts, keep a journal, and write a final reflection on the experience.

Krsg 63: Kresge Garden Cooperative —2 credits
The Kresge Garden Cooperative course offers students hands on gardening skills with in a student-run space. The focus of the class is to continue to develop a strong cooperative garden on campus, with special attention to the documentation of this process.

Krsg 70: Filmmaking: From Writing to Releasing —5 credits
Practical and hands-on approach leads students through the laborious and labyrinthine process of making and distributing an independent narrative feature film.

Krsg 60C: Prison Narratives —3 credits
This course seeks to ask hard questions about the role of the prison, its increasing use in our nation and the use of torture by the US government in Guantanamo, Abu ghraib and other prisons.  We will read J. James’s Imprisoned Intellectuals, Alexander Berkman’s Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist and writings by American prisoners.  We will watch Eve Ensler’s, “What I Want My Words to Do To You”.  This is primarily a reading and discussion course; students will be asked to keep a reading journal and write a critical/creative essay at the end of the quarter.
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** More classes will be added to this list as our program develops; details will be available in the quarterly Schedule of Classes. For your interest, here's a sampling of some of Kresge's offering from previous years:

Film and Politics - This course introduces students to the study of film and focuses on both form: the terminology and techniques appropriate to such a study and meaning, the broader political implications of film and its impact on postmodern America.

Memoir and Autobiography Workshop - Students will read excerpts of memoirs, autobiographies, and semi-autobiographical short stories, and write sections of a memoir or autobiography which we will workshop in class, and a final self-reflection/evaluation on the course.

Student Leadership - This course takes a holistic approach to examine leadership as it relates to personal and institutional ethics, spirituality, personal accountability, group dynamics, and the effects of culture on leadership.

Literary Journalism - This course is an introduction to literary journalism, emphasizing contemporary issues in California. Students read and analyze articles that use creative strategies to grip readers, and develop their own narrative style by writing their own pieces.

Natural History and Research Methods - This student-directed seminar is a field-based course studying and experiencing UCSC campus from a Holistic tracking perspective. Practice “reading” the landscape, develop observation/interpretation skills applicable to any environment, and learn local flora and fauna. Assignments encourage expanded awareness, questioning, present moment learning and active participation in nature. Permission of instructor