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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. R. Fulton. Autumn.
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25.00 Credits
Must be taken for P/F grading; students who fail to complete the course requirements will receive an F on their transcript (no W will be granted). Students receive .25 course credits at completion of course. This course is for students who secure a summer internship. For details, visit frogs.uchicago.edu/internships/course_credit.cfm. Students write a short paper (two to three pages) and give an oral presentation reflecting on their internship experience. Course meets once in Spring Quarter and once in Autumn Quarter. Course fee $150; students in need of financial aid should contact Susan Art at 702.8609. D. Spatz. Summer.
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3.00 Credits
Students registered in this sequence must attend the first and second class sessions or their registration will be dropped. This sequence examines the relationship between the individual and society in a rich selection of literary texts from across the globe. We address the challenges faced by readers confronting foreign literatures, reading across time and cultures, and reading texts in translation. We focus on two major literary themes and genres: Epic Poetry (Autumn Quarter) and Biography/Autobiography (Winter Quarter). Selected readings may include: Homer's Odyssey, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Ancient Indian Ramayana, Saint Augustine' s Confessions , Vladimi r Nabokov ? Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisite d, and Wo le Soyinka 's Ake: The Years of Childho od. Students wishing to take the third quarter of this sequence in the Spring Quarter choose among a selection of topics (e.g., "Gender and Literature," "Crime Fiction and Murder Mysteries," "Reading the Middle Ages: Europe and Asia," or "
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3.00 Credits
Students registered in this sequence must attend the first and second class sessions or their registration will be dropped. This sequence considers philosophy in two lights: as an ongoing series of arguments addressed to certain fundamental questions about the place of human beings in the world, and as a historically situated discipline interacting with and responding to developments in other areas of thought and culture. Readings tend to divide between works of philosophy and contemporaneous works of literature, but they may also include texts of scientific, religious, or legal practice. In Autumn Quarter, we explore fundamental ethical questions-concerning virtue, the good life, the role of the individual in society, the extent of human freedom and responsibility-as they were formulated by ancient Greek writers and philosophers. We begin with the foundational text of Greek thought , Homer ? Ilia d, and proceed to the Greek dramatists, Plato, and Aristotle.Winter Quarter focuses on the questions and challenges posed by the scientific and philological "revolutions" of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A central topic is worries about the possibility of knowledge, both of the self and of the surrounding world. Authors include Descartes, Hume, Shakespeare, and several others. In Spring Quarter we return to the ethical questions of the autumn, but considered now from the vantage point of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought. How do art and philosophy of the modern and contemporary periods approach questions of responsibility, obligation, and the possibility of human happiness Authors in the spring vary widely, but tend to include Hume, Kant, and Melville. We also may screen a movie or two.
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3.00 Credits
Students registered in this sequence must attend the first and second class sessions or their registration will be dropped. The first two quarters of this sequence are designed as a complete unit, and they approach their subject matter both generically and historically. First, they offer an introduction to humanistic inquiry into the most important genres of Western literature: epic poetry (Homer); tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides); historiography (Herodotus and Thucydides); philosophic dialogue (Plato); and comedy (Aristophanes). Secondly, they offer a broad introduction to ancient Greek thought and culture, which aims at understanding what ancient works meant to their original authors and audiences as well as how they reflect the specific historical conditions of their composition. In Spring Quarter, each section builds on the experience of the previous two quarters by tracing the development of a different literary genre (e.g., historiography or tragedy) or cultural mode of expression (e.g., philosophy or oratory) from the Greeks and Romans into the modern period. Thus, for example, a section on epic might progress from Vergil and Milton to Derek Walcott's modern epic Omeros, and one on comedy from Plautus and Shakespeare to The Simpsons.
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3.00 Credits
Students registered in this sequence must attend the first and second class sessions or their registration will be dropped. Socrates asks, "Who is a knower of such excellence, of a human being and of a citizen " We are all concerned to discover what it means to be an excellent human being and an excellent citizen, and to learn what a just community is. This course explores these and related matters, and helps us to examine critically our opinions about them. To this end, we read and discuss seminal works of the Western tradition, selected both because they illumine the central questions and because, read together, they form a compelling record of human inquiry. Insofar as they force us to consider different and competing ways of asking and answering questions about human and civic excellence, it is impossible for us to approach these writings as detached spectators. Instead, we come to realize our own indebtedness to our predecessors and are inspired to continue their task of inquiry. In addition to providing a deeper appreciation of who we are as human beings and citizens, this course aims to cultivate the liberating skills of careful reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The syllabus is revised slightly each spring for the next academic year. The reading list that follows will be used in 20 0 9-10. Autumn: Plat o, Apolo gy a nd Symposiu m; Home r, Ilia d; a nd Genesi s. Winter: Aristotl e, Nicomachean Ethic s; Augustin e, Confession s; and Dant e, Infern o. Spring: Shakespear e, Measure for Measur e; Kan t, What Is Enlightenmen t a nd Foundations of the Metaphysics of Moral s; a selection of English lyric poetry; and Hard y, The Return of the Native
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3.00 Credits
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 Credits
This quarter focuses on the way both objects and stories are selected and rearranged to produce cultural identities. We examine exhibition practices of the past and present, including the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the University' s own Oriental Institute. Some of the texts we read includ e Ovid ? Metamorphoses, The Arabian Night s, and collections of African American folktales. We conclude by considering modernist modes of fragmentation and reconstellation in Cubism, T. S. Eliot 's The Waste La nd, and fil
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3.00 Credits
Students registered in this sequence must attend the first and second class sessions or their registration will be dropped. This sequence introduces methods of literary, visual, and social analysis by addressing the formation and transformation of cultures across a broad chronological and geographic field. Our objects of study range from the Renaissance epic to contemporary film, the fairy tale to the museum. Hardly presuming that we know definitively what "culture" means, we examine paradigms of reading within which the very idea of culture emerged and changed.
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on the literary conventions of cross-cultural encounter, this quarter concentrates on how individual subjects are formed and transformed through narrative. We investigate both the longing to travel and the trails of displacement. We read several forms of travel literature, from the Renaissance to the present (e.g., texts about the European encounter with the Americas, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place), and screen films.
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