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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to reading literature by asking how literature can be used to reflect on human experience and generate new and established ways of responding to the world. Interpretation of philosophical and literary texts, evaluation of aesthetic style, reconstruction of historical context, and development of skills to respond effectively by writing about literature from a variety of perspectives.
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4.00 Credits
People's faces play a pivotal role in our social world. Beginning at birth and continuing into old age, faces convey messages and guide interactions across diverse social domains. Explore the captivating components and impact of faces from diverse perspectives such as psychology, biology, religion, politics, and communication. Examine topics such as the expression of emotions and the perception of beauty, age, character, the divine, and the enemy along with how faces influence personality development, selfidentity, and social reputation.
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4.00 Credits
Topics that address the expertise of visiting Scholars-in-Residence in the Institute. These topics will be offered on a rotating basis. Past topics include: Women Artists and Life and Death: Science and Psychology of Survival.
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4.00 Credits
Origin and history of Western literature and philosophy stem from common concern with truth of human existence and drama of questioning in word and deed. Critically reflect on five books that have historically and conceptually influenced how the correlation between living in search of one's truth and narrative of one's self-discoveryhas been understood in Western civilization. Explore stories or narratives individuals need to tell and "live" about oneself in order to confrontthe truth of one's existence. Is finding the truth of existence the basic "plot" that gives lifedrama-opening life to equal possibility of tragedy or comedy?
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4.00 Credits
Examines the intersection of gender and other areas of study, including literature, politics, sociology, economics, among others. Gender identity and gender representation are central to classroom discussions. Examination of history, science, culture, and society from multiple gendered perspectives. The course allows students to clarify the transformative power of gender in their lives. Topics may differ from year to year.
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4.00 Credits
How are human identities shaped, transformed, distorted, and annihilated by extreme personal and social experiences? How do representations of extreme situations affect experiences of readers, witnesses, and audiences? These questions are explored by focusing on works that represent central existential issues of their times-the psychological integrity of the individual and the continuity of the community-through Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare's King Lear, among others. Discussion of literary, historical, and psychological perspectives, emphasizing intersections of disciplines.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the historian's craft, skills, and theoretical background to document the past. Acquire meaning and liveliness through historical inquiry, imagination, interpretation, assembling primary sources, asking questions, providing context, developing point of view, and finding a voice. Draw on primary and secondary sources including rare books, manuscripts, artwork, literature, still photography, film, radio, and new media to consider ways in which technological developments and documentary styles impacted historical understanding using cultural resources in Boston (libraries, archives, historical societies, museums, monuments, architecture).
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4.00 Credits
History of exoticism, the "charm of the unfamiliar,"in Literature and Art, the specific relationship between the artist or author, the subject, and the intended audience that creates the essence of the "Other" and the fascination with the foreign.Exploration of colonial fascination with the exotic-foreign landscapes, customs, cultures-in18th- and 19th-century fiction, nonfiction, painting; contemporary representations of exoticism, including photography and auto exoticism. Discussions of film, television, pornography, and performance art through interdisciplinary written and visual media (literature, painting, photography, advertising).
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4.00 Credits
Investigates and analyzes theories and practices that surround key social issues, link theory, local issues, and cross-cultural contexts to strengths of community involvement, local resources, and potential for enacting change on global scale. Forum for social problems through variety of disciplinary lenses, including anthropology, philosophy, political science, and human geography. Project will utilize ethnographic methods to identify issue of interest related to surrounding community, engage in participant observation, practice visual and written documentation, critically analyze problem, and make recommendations for action plan.
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4.00 Credits
What does it mean to see? How is meaning made in visual culture? How do paintings, photographs, films, advertising, and new media reflect and shape how we define ourselves and interact with others? Visual experience, representation from perspectives of philosophy, contemporary cultural studies, interaction between media and global cultures, aesthetics and politics of "seeing" incontemporary society. Combine creative, critical approaches to study of visual culture. Classical and modern ways of seeing, language of film and television, advertising, hyper-reality, spectatorship and the gaze, surveillance, and culture of technology.
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