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Integrated Arts During the last century, major changes in the ways works of art and culture were conceived took place under the influence of modernism and poststructuralism. This seminar engages key texts in this transformation. Through the reading of full-length studies or significant excerpts of major theorists, students are introduced to the aesthetics and ethics of modernist and postmodernist debates about representation. Students also explore the links between ethics, politics, and language. Perspectives introduced include semiotics, deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, Foucauldian history, and postfeminist film theory. Prerequisite: college-level course in philosophy; literature; or cultural, political, or arts theory.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies American modernism's push to "make it new?eant a break with the past and convention. For many writers this was facilitated by use of an "other." Critic Michael North argues thatGertrude Stein and Picasso each took on "a figurative change of race": Stein through an African American voice, and Picasso through African masks. This course examines how seeing oneself through a mask affects modernist narratives and how the mask subverts conventional definitions of race and gender. Texts include Stein's Three Lives; Sinclair Lewis' s KingsbloodRoyal; Richard Wright's Savage Holiday; Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks; and Freud's Totem and Taboo.
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The course starts with some of Kafka's letters, diaries, and fiction and carries on with the diffusion of the Kafkaesque into the absurdity and cruelty of our times. To explore the literary heritage of Central and Eastern Europe, Kafka's "neighborhood," students read the work of suchwriters as Musil, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Ionesco, Kundera, Canetti, and Danilo Kis.
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Every craft, science, skill, and discipline can be articulated, and anyone who can do real work in science or scholarship or art can learn to write "creatively"-to make personal concerns interestinto other people by means of language. This workshop, for juniors and seniors who are not writing majors but wish to learn about the world through the act of writing, provides the chance to experiment with all kinds of writing.
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4.00 Credits
With special emphasis on postgenre fabulism and the New Gothic, this workshop is intended for the writer interested in engaging the theory that reading is a primary function of creating fiction. Students explore, through selected readings and responsive writing, the ways a literary narrative best finds its expression, its voice. Students read contemporary fiction by David Foster Wallace, Jamaica Kincaid, Angela Carter, Rick Moody, Russell Banks, John Crowley, Kelly Link, and others. Class discussion focuses on the variety of technical means by which the author develops a story, and on intensive workshop discussion of student writing.
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An opportunity to meet, debate, and converse with some of the world's greatest living authors. The course usually brings together two writers who work in the same genre or who write about complementary subjects. In recent years this course has been taught by such authors as Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and the celebrated Latin American writerMario Vargas Llosa, among others. The authors debate, together and with the class, such topics as the relationship between art and history, literature's capacity to affect moral value, and the literature of extreme situations.
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4.00 Credits
Often fiction writers-Balzac, Galsworthy, Doyle, Joyce, Hammett, Powell, Settle, and Updike, to name a few-generate a fictional world larger than one book, with characters returning again and again, sometimes maturing, sometimes fading into relative insignificance, sometimes seeming to die and be reborn. The reasons for creating a series of connected novels are various: the compulsions of the writer, the audience's appetite, the marketability of recognition, and nostalgia. This seminar focuses on several multinovels, including several of Anthony Trollope's Barchester novels; Ford Maddox Ford's World War I tetralogy Parade's End ; andthree novels by ThomasWolfe: Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River; and You Can't Go Home Again.
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Concepts in probability and statistics are developed to the extent necessary to understand the applications. Most topics are introduced in a case-study fashion, usually by reading an article in a current periodical such as the New York Times. Other examples are drawn from journals such as Chance, Nature, Science, and Scientific American. Primary reading is supplemented by readings on basic probability and statistics. The goal is to enable the student to make critical judgments and come to informed conclusions about current issues involving chance. Prerequisite: eligibility for Q courses.
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4.00 Credits
Geometrical mathematics involves many topics other than traditional Euclidean geometry, including symmetry, groups, frieze and wallpaper patterns, graphs, surfaces, knots, and higher dimensions. Prerequisites: eligibility for Q courses and a willingness to explore new ideas and construct convincing arguments.
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4.00 Credits
For students who intend to take calculus and need to acquire the necessary skills in algebra and trigonometry. The concept of function is stressed, with particular attention to linear, quadratic, general polynomial, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Graphing in the Cartesian plane and developing the trigonometric functions as circular functions are included. This class makes extensive use of the TI-82 graphing calculator. Prerequisites: eligibility for Q courses and satisfactory performance on the precalculus entrance exam.
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