Life 101
Fall 2008
Professor Stratton

OFFICE: Building 6, Room 12
OFFICE HOURS: 11:00pm to 1:00am Tuesday through Thursday
E-MAIL ADDRESS: ichiban@stacysspace.com
WEB PAGE: http://www.stacysspace.com/
COURSE PAGE: http://www.stacysspace.com/edu01.html

A. DESCRIPTION
This course examines the hurdles that come with growing up in the information age. Emphasis is placed on personal limitations and interpersonal relationships. Incorrect thinking is illustrated while means to a better mindset are are pointed out in a direct manner in order to assist individuals to discover quick, simple solutions.
It is an exploratory, first course in humanitarianism designed for students who have been having trouble with the stress that comes with the aging process.

B. ORGANIZATION
This is a lecture-lab course in which topics are presented by the instructor, practice is explained, and all assignments are completed by students outside of class. Objective thinking and real life experience are required to complete this course. Quizzes will be supplied by the world in which your life orbits. There is a comprehensive final exam based on the topics covered in lecture. The course is a prerequisite for the beginning regular-program called Everyday Life.

Most students generally have had neither high school or other life training, so when students in this course proceed into to the life after completing this preliminary course they will be at approximately the same level of expertise as those who have had previous training or experience. This basic course therefore assumes no previous experience or training, so the initial emphases are on the use of equipment and basic procedures.

C. COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To introduce students to the use of acceptance, understanding, and love to work through the times when Life throws you a curve ball.
2. To introduce students to various forms experience to illustrate specific personal and inter-personal problems.
3. To introduce students to the idea of quantum mechanics.
4. To orient students to the range of experience methods, topics, and reasons which can help to characterize confusing situations.
5. To provide students with opportunities to develop their own skills to work their own ways through.

D. COURSE TOPICS
The course will cover a new topic each class. The subjects are as follows (click on the topic to view that lecture)

1. For Love or Money
2. Fear, Doubt, and Pessimism
3. The Time of our Lives
4. Letting Go
5. Open Hearts, Open Minds
6. Gorgeous
7. Emotional Plot
8. Family
9. Sex
10. Help
11. Personal Responsibility
12. Black and White
13. Fantasy
14. Understanding
15. America
16. Play
17. Communication
18. Intro to the Arts
19. Fine and Studio Art
20. Performing Arts
21. The Written Word
22. Music
23. Death
24. Life

E. Assigned Media
All Media are optional. None of the choices are more important than any of the others. If you wish to take advantage of the non-assigned media and do not have access to them, contact the professor to schedule a loan.
http://www.youtube.com/user/stacykins26

SUPPLIES:
1. A computer and an internet connection.
2. An open mind and the ability to look beyond face value of words and symbols to take what you need from any given situation.
3. Lots of drinking water.

READING
1. Guests - Michael Dorris
2. I am America, and so can you - Stephen Colbert
3. The Tooth Fairy - Graham Joyce
4. The Butterfly Jar - Jeff Moss
5. Metamorphoses - Ovid
6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
7. Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
8. The People in Pineapple Place - Anne Lindbergh
9. The Dream Hunters - Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
10. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

WATCHING (Professor's suggested options)
1. Waking Life
2. What the Bleep do we know Anyway?
3. Across the Universe
4. The Wall (Pink Floyd)
5. Fantasia
6. Requiem for a Dream
7. Magnolia
8. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Memento
10. Orlando

LISTENING
1. Green Day
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. David Bowie
4. The Beatles
5. Smashing Pumpkins
6. Melanie Safka
7. Rufus Wainwright
8. Siouxsie and the Banshees
9. Type O Negative
10. Tarkio

F. GRADING PLAN
Coursework will be graded by your own ability to interact with the world around you.

LAB WORK:
All Students are requested to spend some time interacting with others in some capacity. This can be done via the internet, telephone, or face to face. Lab work consists of delving deeper into the topics of each lecture. This can be discussion of class themes, acting out the situations presented in topic, or actually living the situations. Lab work will happen even if you don't expect or want it to. c'est la vie.

FINAL EXAM:
The final exam will be comprehensive and entirely multiple choice. As everything else in this course, the Final Exam is optional.

ATTENDANCE:
Attendance is not mandatory.

GENERAL:
You can meet privately with the instructor in her office outside of class time during the duration of the course.

G. CLASSROOM RULES OF CONDUCT

1. Radios are allowed in class as long as the program does not hamper your own or another students ability to keep your attention focused on class material.
2. Emotions are allowed to hang out. If you feel the need to get up, jump around, get angry, laugh, or whatever comes to you. When it does let it flow. You have the right to bitch out your instructor as long as you do it towards the monitor on which you read her work. Don't hold back your experience, especially when you are alone and no one can see or judge you.
3. Food and beverages are welcomed in the classroom. Drug use or Alcohol consumption is permitted as long as it doesn't interfere with your ability to work a scroll bar. If you do bring food, drink, or substance into the classroom, be sure you have enough to share with your classmates.
4. Class lab time is expected to be spent outside of the classroom. Lab time can be free time, hang out time, play time, or quiet time. Lab time is most productive when you spend it with fellow students.