LHUM 341 - Studies in Irish Culture

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Berklee College of Music

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Description:

Credits: 3 credits Prerequisites: LCOR-112 Course Chair: C. Colatosti Required of: None Electable by: All Offered: Fall Description This interdisciplinary course is a study of how artists, political figures, and everyday citizens continue to grapple with the diversity and tensions of Irish identity. The focus of the course will vary from semester to semester to include a broad range of topics centered on the fusion in Irish life of politics, history, and the arts. Literature study will include writers of the literary revival such as Joyce and Yeats; J.M. Synge, Eugene O'Neill, and other Irish-American writers; and contemporary authors such as Edna O'Brien, Seamus Heaney, and Roddy Doyle. Additional topics for each year's course will be chosen from the following: the Great Famine; the resistance to British rule; the Irish Civil War; Michael Collins, the IRA, and Sinn Fein; the "troubles" in Northern Ireland and the peace process; films by Jim Sheridan, Neil Jordan, and others; and contemporary Celtic music, from Altan to Sinead O'Connor.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

09/01/2007 - 09/01/2007 

Institution Website:

www.berklee.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 747-2222

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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