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1.50 Credits
Selig This introductory survey course, beginning with the United States' emergence in the late 19th century as an industrialized, urbanized society, traces America's evolution into a complex, heterogeneous, "modern"state. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
Riggio, Fucaloro, Rajczi, and Finegold (KGI) This course explores the art and science of being a leader in science and science-based organizations. Topics include: leadership in the creation of knowledge, building effective science-based organizations, ethical decisions in science, leadership in science-influenced public policy, and scientific entrepreneurship. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff This seminar is a standing course with a director and topic that change annually. In the Fall semester of 2008- 2009 the topic will be and will be taught by David Yaffa. Course summary: Yaffe This course explores the range of musical and cultural influences that informed and influenced Joni Mitchell to become not only one of the most important singersongwriters in the history of the genre, but also a composer, a painter, a poet, and a key traveler through the highs and lows of American culture from the 1960s onward. We will examine how Joni discovered what she called her "Chords of inquiry" in over 80 different openguitar tunings, how she came to define the Woodstock generation by writing a song about a concert she never attended, how, with her words and music, she was only matched by her two fellow "Pace Runners" BobDylan and Leonard Cohen We will also analyze what it was about Miles Davis's use of space that captivated her so, and how and why the saxophonist-composer Wayne Shorter became her ideal collaborator on a dozen albums. We will spend time contemplating her collaborations with the great bassist-composer Charles Mingus and her complex musical dialogues with the innovative fretless bass player Jaco Pastorius and other musical, theological, and philosophical influences.
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1.50 Credits
Staff A cross-disciplinary examination of the study of women. Current analysis of women's past and present role in society, their creativity, their physical, emotional, and intellectual development, and their sexuality will be examined by historians, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, economists, political scientists, artists, and literary critics. Offered every semester.
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1.50 Credits
Staff A writing-intensive course that emphasizes critical thinking, sound argumentation in writing, and close analysis of literature. Students will encounter a range of literary texts and write the equivalent of at least twentyfive typewritten pages. Topics vary by semester and section; see course bulletin for the semester's offerings. Individual sections may also require oral presentations or other speaker intensive assignments. Offered every semester.
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1.50 Credits
The course examines literary criticism as a discipline with unique traditions of inquiry beginning with classical debates about form and reality and the tensions between the moral and aesthetic dimensions of literature as they have been engaged by such writers as Plato and Aristotle, Sidney, Johnson, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Arnold and Pater, Woolf, and Eliot. Second semester. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the thorough, systematic study of poetry, thus increasing students' enjoyment of poetry and preparing them for advanced study of poetry in other courses. We will examine such issues as form, poetic voice, symbolism and metaphorical language, irony, meter, and recurring themes as treated by poets of different backgrounds, in different cultural and historical contexts. The course will be organized thematically, but will include work by poets from the middle ages to the present. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
In this course we will read the span of modern British poetry, including Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Houseman, Rupert Brook, Sigfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Graves, and W.H. Auden. Our course will conclude with an examination of contemporary poetry through reading Philip Larkin, Geoffrey Hill, Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney. Offered occasionally. 106. Comedy and Laughter. Bilger Comedy is the spectacle of justified mirth. But when is mirth justified, and how should the spectacle be arranged What does it mean when we laugh Is comedy entitled to be cruel We will consider the theory and practice of comic drama, ancient and modern. Authors will include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Behn, Hobbes, Goldsmith, Cowley, Wilde, Freud, Wasserstein, and others. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Staff In this course we will read works by British and Irish dramatists, as well as samplings of contemporary English-language plays by authors not residing in Britain. Our course begins with the dramatic and thematic innovations of Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Synge and O'Casey. Our subsequent readings will include the writing of Osborne, Pinter, Orton, Fugard, Churchill, Behan, Friel, McDonogh, Beckett, Shaffer, Soynika and Stoppard. Offered every other year. 108. Early Women Writers: Medieval. Meyer This course is an interdisciplinary survey of some of the outstanding women writers of western medieval Europe from the 9th through the 15th centuries. Although all works will be read in modern English translations, they represent a wide range of linguistic and cultural traditions (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin). Genres represented in the course include religious visionary works, letters, spiritual poetry, and the secular literature and visual art of the courts. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Meyer This course will focus on medieval methods of biblical interpretation and the imaginative representation of sacred texts in the literary and visual arts. In addition to key biblical texts, we will read works by Chaucer and Dante, selections from medieval drama, lyric, dream vision, apocalyptic writings and the literature of the mystics. Our study of selected medieval paintings, sculpture, and architecture will focus primarily on northern European sources. Offered occasionally. 110. Arthurian Romance. Meyer In this course we will trace the tradition of Arthurian literature from the 12th through the 15th centuries, drawing on medieval French, German, Welsh, and English sources. We will pay particular attention to how the earlier sources were reinterpreted and how the medieval tradition as a whole reflects evolving conceptions of heroic narrative, chivalry, courtly love, and kingship. Readings (all in modern translations) will include Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot and Perceval, selected poems of Marie de France, Beroul's The Romance of Tristan, the Vulgate Quest of the Holy Grail, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. Offered every third year.
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