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3.00 Credits
Concepts of time in representative civilizations of the ancient and medieval periods. Time, as utilized here, includes not only how time is measured, how activities are organized, and how a record of the past is preserved, but also myths of creation and prophecies of the end of time, rhythms of agriculture and stages of life, connections to ancestors and the nature and meaning of death and the afterlife. Focus on festivals, periodic public events that connect the present to the past and create and affirm communal values and identity. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Concepts of time related to global exploration, contacts among previously unrelated civilizations, and the biological, technological, and political revolutions that followed. The challenge in the modern and postmodern period for people who have been cut off from historical, geographical, cultural, and spiritual roots to recreate, reform, or invent traditions and identities, to accommodate to faster, complex, often disruptive structures of time, and to use time as a resource rather than be owned by it. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the role of memory in shaping individual and collective identities in premodern societies undergoing profound social and economic transformations. Issues to be adddressed include the retention and reconstruction of memories in records (e.g., print), rituals (e.g., festivals), and cultural representations (e.g., theatre); the impact of new technologies of and on memory; the uses of memory by different groups within societies to establish and resist domination. The course aims to illuminate both thecommonality and diversity of human experience in light of the ways in which human memory has shaped and been shaped by identity in widely different societies. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the role of memory in shaping individual and collective identities in modern societies undergoing profound social and economic transformations. A central force in these transformations was the rise of European power, which posed serious challenges to the survival of cultures throughout the world. The course examines different cases of the interaction between European and indigenous cultures, with particular emphasis on the ways dominated societies managed to maintain or reconsruct their identities by selective choice of memories. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the role which visual signs play in world civilizations from ancient times to the present. Beginning with an examination of the centrality of visual perception in the formation of culture, the course addresses the technological and semiotic aspects of the images and icons which societies produce. As used here, images and icons include public monuments, photographs, the visual arts, film, the printed word, and roads and bridges. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the role which visual signs play in world civilizations from ancient times to the present. Beginning with an examination of the centrality of visual perception in the formation of culture, the course addresses the technological and semiotic aspects of the images and icons which societies produce. As used here, images and icons include public monuments, photographs, the visual arts, film, the printed word, and roads and bridges. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as World Literature 17.) Comparative examination of representations of love and sexuality in Japanese and Russian literature with supplementary guest lectures from Judaic and Chinese culture. Specific issues to be addressed across a diverse body of literature, film, and art include 1) the fusion of sexuality and romance, 2) love as a problem/love as an ideal, 3) societal conventions as to so-called proper or normative behavior (the various ways hetero- and homosexuality, celibacy, and hedonism have been understood nd commented upon in artistic media). All discussions and readings in English. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Examines the construction of the self in various civilizations and in selected historical periods, particularly those characterized by the colonial dominance of one culture over another. Literary sources, including the works of Indian, Native American, African and/or Caribbean authors, and readings from psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives are studied to reveal the structures of identity. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as International Letters & Visual Studies 84, Japanese 84 and German 84.) Comparative study of fascism, its history and foundations in social and political developments and ideologies; philosophical and historical concepts through literature, art, myth. The structure of fascism and fascist iconography. Fascist tendencies in modern Japan and Germany. In English. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: East Asian Culture and Diasporas Germanic Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Special Topics. Please see department website for further information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement - FALL 2007 ONLY - Love & Sexuality This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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