Liberal Studies  at St Joseph College .   ***   St Joseph College has been serving returning and nontraditional students since  1932. .  ***   The Prime Time program has been offering  weekend and evening courses since 1985.   . ***     St Joseph  has strong traditions, small classes, and  a sense of value,  but also flexibility and progress.  .  ***     All of our courses are crafted by our faculty,  not mass-produced cookie-cutter courses.   .    Liberal Studies is a major for students who wish to design their own interdisciplinary or focused major,  or .    Liberal Studies is a major for students who wish to pursue a wide range of courses in a traditional liberal arts manner, with an interdiscplinary philosophy, or .    Liberal Studies is a major for students who have taken enough courses to be near graduation, with a well-balanced liberal arts range, but have not found or completed a major.	Welcome ! Hi- I'm Rick Rayfield, the program director for the Liberal Studies progam.  I have taught for ten years at St Joseph.  I think it's a great school- interesting students,  eager colleagues, and a can-do atmosphere.   Since 1979, I  have taught at Norwich University, Trinity College, and Roosevelt University.  My PhD is in Biopsychology from The University of Chicago,. My other work includes a book store, building a house, programming computers for research labs, singing, and art history.   I teach the core course in liberal studies LBST120, advise students, and teach the final course, LBST495. I also teach in the Psychology Department- History and Systems, Human Development, Human Sexuality, Psychology of Fear, Psychology of Art,  and Behavior Analysis    I tucked this page on my personal web site until I run it through the administrative channels for official approval.   Let me know if you have questions.   Rick
LINKS  MainSt JosephCollege web site. www.sjc.edu     Blackboard, the platform used for most courses.  Sign in as student, with password student.  Click on the sample course to help you decide if on-line learning will work for you.  http://bb.sjc.edu    Ten Commandments is an essay by me based on 35 years working with computers on how to use them more efficiently. Get more work done for less effort by setting up your screen and keyboard correctly etc See Computer Wisdom tab at left    Turnitin organizes  students' papers, and makes sure they are in a format which the instructor can access and read from any computer.  It also does plagiarism checks. www.Turnitin.com    Welcome from the President http://sjc.edu/content.cfm/pageid/7313   Prime Time program page at the SJC web site. http://www.sjc.edu/content.cfm/pageid/1785   Library at St Joseph: on-line catalog, connections to other libraries, journals, etc http://www.sjc.edu/content.cfm/pageid/6329   Admissions http://admissions.sjc.edu/admissions/welcome/welcome.asp Lectures from  my Psychology of Fear course.   Much of life is oriented toward getting what we wanted,  but fear is the ubiquitous multi-faceted emotion which accompanies all we do to avoid and escape things we do do not want.  The weekly theme and lectures start with the F sound- Forest and Farm Fear, Phobias, Final Fear, Fantasy Fear, Physiology of Fear, Foreign Fear, Federal Fear, etc.  The course was readings, lectures, discussions, and short papers.  I start with Fire Fear -about how we learn basic fears. Lecture 2 Fun Fear has stills from horror movies in class we watch excerpts.  See tab at left for rough drafts of the lectures.	Major Freedom through Hybrids .    St Joseph College has three main divisions: .   The Women's College is mostly daytime classes for live-on-campus and commuter students. .   The Prime Time program is mostly evening and weekend courses. .    The Graduate School offer Master's degree programs. . We say that Liberal Studies  gives you Major Freedom. The three kinds of hybrids provide you with flexibility and choice. . A.  You can take all you courses on-line,  or you can take classroom courses on campus as well, Prime Time or Women's College. . B.  Many courses are hybrids of teaching technology- Blackboard-based, video, PSI, collaborative, backyard laboratory, and many more. . C.  Liberal study is multidisciplinary.  You choose your courses from a wide range, making up you own major,  or integrating many fields of knowledge into a coherent education to help you in your professional, academic, and personal worlds.
Reason and Rhetoric: Bickering for Humanity       As part of LBST120 Foundations Course,   students will watch seven feature films.  All are great films, award winners, great acting, faculty favorites. The primary focus of the films is how persuasive arguments are constructed, flow, and resolve. Rhetoric is classically the first Liberal Art. The secondary theme is modern scientific debate- evolution, genes, cosmology. (Liberal arts have outgrown rhetoric, grammar, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.)  LBST120 in an on-line course. Students must borrow, buy, or rent these films. I can copies to lend if necessary.  I will screen the films on-campus for students and course visitors if requested on Wednesday evenings.        Rick Rayfield, Instructor   Inherit the Wind(1960)   128 mins.   Starts at 4:20                   Courtroom giants  Darrow vs  Bryan.                    Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly .                   Great book, great play, great film.                    Evolution on trial while the country watches.  Twelve Angry Men (1957)    96 mins                      Ordinary citizens on a jury.                   Henry Fonda and all-star cast directed by Sidney Lumet.                   Everybody who sees this film gets pulled in,                     and everyone is moved. What is justice?  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)  108 mins                   Family persuasion   AA Katharine Hepburn,                      Spencer Tracy, Sidney Portier                    Interracial love disrupts a well-educated liberal family. Lion in WInter  (1968)     135 mins                         Royal family bickering AA Katharine Hepburn,                      Peter O’Toole are King and queen with razor tongues                    arguing over which son should succeed.   Proof (2004)      99 mins                              Campus furor on sanity & genius Gyneth Paltrow                  Jake Gyllenham Anthony Hopkins                    A mathematical proof needs checking and an author.                    Rivetting.   Copenhagen(2002)    117 mins                             Nobel physicists argue the universe Tony Award winner                  by Michael Frayn, Brilliant playwright (Noises Off)                  imagines with clarity two geniuses and  rivals,      Bohr and Heisenberg, arguing atomic politics and      subatomic rules.   Gattaca (1997)       106 mins                          Evidence of what is human in genetically twisted future                   Ethan Hawke wants to be an astronaut,                   but his hippie parents did not get their genes cleaned.   The Bachelor’s in Liberal Studies  is a Prime Time Degree program. Contact Admissions,       or Program Director Rick Rayfield   rrayfield@sjc.edu	Download these files of interest Powerpoint: SJC On-Line LBST Core Course Outline draft Radio Ad for Liberal Studies Hollingworth on Sex Differences Washburn Consciousness