HUMA 13500-13600-13700 - Introduction to the Humanities

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University of Chicago

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Students registered in this sequence must attend the first and second class sessions or their registration will be dropped. This sequence emphasizes writing, both as an object of study and as a practice. As we study the texts of the course, we pay special attention to the nature and effects of different writing structures and styles: How does the written form of a text influence the way that we interpret it The texts raise enduring humanistic issues, such as the nature of justice, the scope of freedom, and the stability of knowledge. As we consider these questions, we consider how our views are shaped by the very language used to ask and to answer. This sequence also emphasizes writing as practice. Over the course of the year, students average one writing assignment per week, and we discuss these assignments in seminar groups of five or six. The writing workload is significant: this is not a course in remedial writing; rather it is a course for students who are particularly interested in writing or who want to become particularly proficient writers. Readings for this course are selected not thematically or chronologically but to serve the focus on writing. In the Autumn Quarter, we read two of Plato's Dialogues, The Declaration of Independence, selections from The Peloponnesian War, and Henry IV. In the Winter Quarter, we read further selections from The Peloponnesian War, short fiction by Bierce and Conrad, and Nietzsche' s Beyond Good and Evil . In the Spring Quarter, we rea d Descartes ? Meditation s, Tolstoy 's War and Pea ce, and selections from radical feminist pros

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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