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3.00 Credits
This quarter works toward understanding the relation (in the modern and post-modern periods) between economic development and processes of cultural transformation. We examine literary and visual texts that celebrate and criticize modernization and urbanization. Beginning with Baudelaire's response to Paris in his prose poems, we then concentrate on novels that address economic, social, and cultural change in the 1930s, including Abdelrahman Munif' s Cities of Sal t and Richar d Wright ? Native So n. As the quarter concludes, students develop projects that investigate the urban fabric of Chicago itself
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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. In this three-quarter sequence, the focus is on the question of how aesthetic experience can be affected by the medium in which an artwork is presented. Students are introduced to some of the fundamental issues raised in the interpretation of visual, verbal, and aural works. Each quarter arrays a mix of artworks involving different media-visual, aural, textual-for examination, but addresses an issue that is primarily associated with one of these three media. The Autumn Quarter deals with the aesthetic experience of seeing, exploring problems that arise when objects and texts seem to offer themselves as images which reflect or imitate reality (e.g., Vel ?quez' s Las Meninas , the computer-generated hyperreality o f The Matrix , Wilde ? Picture of Dorian Gray). The Winter Quarter turns to the experience of reading and the questions routinely associated with the quest to decipher meanings from the enigmas, puzzles, or clues offered by artworks (e.g., Welles's Citizen Kane, Van Gogh's "Peasant Shoes ," Sophocl es' Oedipus Rex, Aust en's Pride and Preju dice, Pl ato's Cratyl The Spring Quarter focuses on hearing, with particular emphasis on how sounds are "composed" into forms or structures that produce aesthetic effects (e.g. , Stravinsky ? Rites of Sprin g, blues song s, Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Experien ce, Nietzsch e's Birth of Traged
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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. Language is at the center of what it means to be human and is instrumental in all humanistic pursuits. With it, we understand others, persuade, argue, reason, and think. This course aims to provoke us to critically examine common assumptions that determine our understanding of texts, of ourselves, and of others. The first quarter of this sequence (Autumn Quarter) explores fundamental questions of the nature of language, concentrating on language in the individual: the properties of human languages (spoken and signed) as systems of communication distinct from other forms, of how language is acquired, used, and changes, to what extent language shapes perception of the world and cognition, and the nature of translation and bilingualism. These questions are examined through classic and contemporary primary and secondary literature, drawn from the Bible, Plato, Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Descartes, Lewis Carroll, Chomsky, and other modern authors. The second quarter of this sequence (Winter Quarter) is devoted to examining how language mediates between the individual and society; its origin, spread, and development; and its role in power, gender, identity, culture, nationalism, and thought; as well as its use in politeness, irony, and metaphor. Selected readings include Rousseau, Herder, von Humboldt, Saussure, Sapir, Bloomfield, Whorf, Eco, and George Orwell.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: These seminars are available only in combination with either a two- or a three-quarter general education sequence in the Humanities. These seminars introduce students to the analysis and practice of expert academic writing. Experts must meet many familiar standards for successful writing: clear style, logical organization, and persuasive argument. But because they work with specialized knowledge, experts also face particular writing difficulties: they must be clear about complexities and specific about abstractions; they must use uncomplicated organization for very complicated ideas; they must create straightforward logic for intricate arguments; they must be concise but not incomplete, direct but not simplistic; they must clarify the obscure but not repeat the obvious; and they must anticipate the demands of aggressively skeptical readers. The seminars do not repeat or extend the substantive discussion of the Humanities class; they use the discussions and assignments from those classes as a tool for the advanced study of writing. We study various methods not only for the construction of sophisticated and well-structured arguments but also for understanding the complications and limits of those arguments. These seminars also address issues of readership and communication within expert communities. As students present papers in the seminars, we can use the reactions of the audience to introduce the techniques experts can use to transform a text from one that serves the writer to one that serves the readers. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on a close reading of Paradise Lost, attending to its redefinition of the heroics of war and of marriage and friendship. Topics include family, politics, history, psychology, and theology. W. Olmsted. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
Given the importance of the written word in Russian culture, it is no surprise that writers were full-blooded participants in Russia's tumultuous recent history, which has lurched from war to war, and from revolution to revolution. The change of political regimes has only been outpaced by the change of aesthetic regimes, from realism to symbolism, and then from socialist realism to post-modernism. We sample the major writers, texts, and literary doctrines, paying close attention to the way they responded and contributed to historical events. This course counts as the third part of the survey of Russian literature. Texts in English. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: LATN 20600 or equivalent. Substantial selections from books 1 through 9 of the Confessions are read in Latin (and all thirteen books in English), with particular attention to Augustine' s style and thought. Further readings in English provide background about the historical and religious situation of the late fourth century AD . P. White. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the production of particularly gendered norms and practices. Using a variety of historical and theoretical materials, it addresses how sexual difference operates in various contexts (e.g., nation, race, class formation; work, the family, migration, imperialism, postcolonial relations). K. Schilt, Winter; D. Nelson, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Second-year standing or higher. Completion of the general education requirement in social sciences or humanities, or the equivalent. These courses may be taken in sequence or individually. This two-quarter interdisciplinary sequence is designed as an introduction to theories and critical practices in the study of feminism, gender, and sexuality. Both classic texts and recent conceptualizations of these contested fields are examined. Problems and cases from a variety of cultures and historical periods are considered, and the course pursues their differing implications in local, national, and global contexts. Both quarters also engage questions of aesthetics and representation, asking how stereotypes, generic conventions, and other modes of circulated fantasy have contributed to constraining and emancipating people through their gender or sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on histories and theories of sexuality: gay, lesbian, heterosexual, and otherwise. This exploration involves looking at a range of materials from anthropology to the law and from practices of sex to practices of science. S. Michaels, Autumn; B. Cohler, Winter.
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