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Courses in this sequence may be taken individually in any order. Nature is, and has been, a fundamental category in human thought. Yet Arthur Lovejoy (1935) enumerated sixty-six senses in which the word had been used in European literature and philosophy. We examine the roles that the (nominally continuous) category of "nature" played in sources such as ancient religious texts, Greek and Roman philosophical writings, and medieval poetry and theology . A. Gugliotta. Spring. Not offered 20 0 9-10; will be offered 2 0 10-1
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Courses in this sequence may be taken individually in any order. Raymond Williams writes that a history of the uses of the "keyword" nature "would be a history of a large part of human thought." This course shares many of the themes and analytical questions of ENST 28601, but extends them to the period from 1400 to 19 00. We ask how ideas and images of nature were contested and reconstituted in such contexts as Medicean Florence, Enlightenment France, or ante-Darwinian Engla nd. A. Gugliotta. Sprin
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From the time of the Hippocratic medical text Airs, Waters, and Places, the natural and built environments were understood to shape the states and characteristics of human bodies. This connection is evident through many centuries of medical theory and practice, as well as in arguments advanced for the climatic and geographical determination of racial traits. The relationship between the body and the environment became a matter of particularly intense political struggle in nineteenth-century England and has become so again in our own time. This course examines the history of conceptions of the environmental shaping of human bodies with particular attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over sanitation, disease theories, and poverty, as well as to contemporary debates over toxic contamination and health. A. Gugliotta. Winter.
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PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. PQ for ECON 26800: ECON 26500 and consent of instructor. This course shows how scientific constraints affect economic and other policy decisions regarding energy, what energy-based issues confront our society and how we may address them through both policy and scientific study, and how the policy and scientific aspects can and should interact. We address specific technologies and the policy questions associated with each, as well as with more overarching aspects nvironmental tudies of energy policy that may affect several, perhaps many, technologies. S. Berry, G. Tolley. Autumn.
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PQ: Consent of faculty supervisor and program director. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This course may be counted as one of the electives required for the major. This course is a reading and research course for independent study not related to BA research or BA paper preparation. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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PQ: Students must have an approved topic proposal and a faculty reader. Required of students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in Environmental Studies. This colloquium is designed to aid students in their thesis research. Students are exposed to different conceptual frameworks and research strategies. The class meets weekly. Autumn.
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PQ: Open only to students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in Environmental Studies. Must be taken for P/F grading. This colloquium assists students in conceptualizing, researching, and writing their BA theses. Winter.
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PQ: Consent of instructor and program director. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This is a reading and research course for independent study related to BA research and BA thesis preparation. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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The first half of this course is devoted to studying some of Nietzsche's major works as cultural critic and diagnostician of the modern condition, focusing on The Birth of Tragedy, The Genealogy of Morals, and other texts. In the second half of the quarter, we examine the impact of Nietzsche, both in terms of his ideas and of his style, on some key works of literary Modernism (e.g., Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Ernst Jünger) . R. Buch. Spring.
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This course is a close reading of Cervantes's Don Quijote that discusses its links with Renaissance art and Early Modern narrative genres. On the one hand, Don Quijote can be viewed in terms of prose fiction, from the ancient Greek romances to the medieval books of knights errant and the Renaissance pastoral novels. On the other hand, Don Quijote exhibits a desire for Italy through the utilization of Renaissance art. Beneath the dusty roads of La Mancha and within Don Quijote' s chivalric fantasies, the careful reader comes to appreciate glimpses of images with Italian designs. All work in English; students who are majoring in Spanish do all work in Spanish . F. de Armas. Winter.
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