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Gilhuly (Classical Studies) Plato's Symposium provides one window into the culture of dining in antiquity, revealing how people gathered in ancient Greece to enter-tain and be entertained, to perform music and exchange ideas, to form political ties, and to share food and drink as well as other bodily pleasures. Written texts have provided a primary source of evidence for scholars investigating the social relationships and cultural symbols of ancient Greece and Rome. In this course, we will consider literary materials together with visual and archeological materials to under-stand these cultures. Writing assignments will ask students to assess and make arguments, based on the cultural records, about how these cultures expressed themselves through the distribution of food at the symposium in ancient Greece and the cena in Rome. This course satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit toward the Classical Studies major. Includes a third session each week. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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Pankenier (Russian) Russian literature has given the world some of the best stories ever told, and this course surveys two centuries' worth of them. Someone once quipped that all of twentieth-century Russian literature came out of Nikolai Gogol's ?Nose.? And so we begin with ?The Nose? and other ridiculous stories by Gogol. We will go on to read some of the finest short stories of Chekhov and the Nobel Prize winner, Ivan Bunin. The grotesque realism of Isaac Babel's stories and the magical realism of Vladimir Nabokov's also lie within the scope of this course. We will conclude with the late and post-Soviet stories of Tatiana Tolstaia and Ludmilla Petrushe vskaia. No prior knowledge of Russian lan-guage or literature is required. This course satisfieWRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit toward the major in Russian Language and Literature. Includes a third session each week. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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Schwartz (The Writing Program) This course examines the basic elements of short fiction, but it might also be titled ?How Writers Write.? In conjunction with reading and writing about short stories, we'll study commentaries about the art of fiction by writers, such as Flannery O' Connor, Henry James, Ray-mond Carver, Charles Baxter, and Lorrie Moore. We will approach these texts as a source of inspiration and instruction for our own efforts to master the writing process. In order to better appreciate a short story writer's technical and artistic strategies, we will occasionally try our hand at some fictional exercises. Note: This is not a fiction-writing course; the fiction writing exercises are assigned in conjunction with analytical pap ers. Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Spring Unit: 1
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Johnson (The Writing Program) Wellesley's mission is to educate ?women who will make a difference in the world.? In this course, we will study Wellesley's place in the world, particularly its role in the history of American education, collegiate athletics, women's rights, and politics and diplomacy. We will also study the world that is Wellesley, with special emphasis on the College's historic buildings and unique landscape architec ture. This section is appropriate for students who have not done much writing in high school or who lack confidence in their writing. Mandatory cre-dit/noncr edit. Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Fall Unit:
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Cezair-Thompson (English) Students will read and discuss stories by a wide range of writers, including James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and Gabriel GarcÃa Már-quez. Essays will be based on these reading s. Mandatory credit/noncredi t. Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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Viti (The Writing Program) In this course, students will read and write about landmark United States Supreme Court opinions, and in doing so, locate important themes and trends in the Court's decisions, beginning with the power of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, and jumping ahead to more recent decisions about the Fourteenth Amendment and equal educational opportunity (Brown v. Board of Education), privacy rights (Gris-wold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade), executive privilege (U.S. v. Nixon), and federalism (Bush v. Gore). We will also read and analyze essays and reports by journalists and legal scholars who comment on the Supreme Court, including Laurence Tribe, Bob Woodward, Nina Totenberg, Jeffrey Rosen, and Jeffrey Toobin. Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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Cain (English) In this course, we focus on Macbeth, the most intense and disturbing of Shakespeare's tragedies. We will analyze the language, charac-ters, and themes of the play in depth and detail, as well as documents and texts from the period dealing with free will and predestination, witchcraft, and tyrannicide. We will consider important film versions by Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa, and Trevor Nunn. Students with some prior interest in and knowledge of Shakespeare will especially enjoy and benefit from this course . Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Meyer (English) Students will read a selection of the great novels of Jane Austen and use her work to learn skills for the close reading of fiction in general. We will study the details of Austen's fictional technique. From what perspective are the novels told How does the author reveal her atti-tudes toward her characters At the same time, we will consider the broader questions raised by the novels. What values motivate Aus-ten's fiction How does she comment on the larger social and historical scene What are her views on such issues as slavery or the prop-er role of women Mandatory credit/noncredit . Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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Johnson (The Writing Program) In studying the intersections of sport and art in America, we will analyze the ways in which athletes and athletics have been represented in literature and film, and we will examine how writers and others use sport as a metaphor to find deeper meaning in it. We will also consider philosophical questions regarding the nature of art and of athletics and their proper role in our society. In addition, we will explore the rela-tionship between athletics and the liberal arts, particularly in light of recent arguments that an increasing focus on athletics is undermining the academic mission of many schools. Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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Ford (English) The city is not just a setting but a character in its own right in the American literary and cinematic traditions. In this course, we/ll read and watch selected works of literature and film that tell stories in and about American cities; we will examine the ways in which these urban myths define particular ideas about gender, race, and identity in contemporary narrative. Characters like the hard-boiled detective hero and the femme fatale, urban experiences like race riots and existential angst, and images of fairy-tale and futuristic cities will all figure into our exploration of the role of the city in defining contemporary American culture. We'll use writing assignments to make connections between the city's varied characters while developing rich and layered readings of individual texts . Mandatory credit/noncredit . Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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