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CPB 99: Laboratory Research for Honors Thesis
8.00 Credits
Harvard University
For honors candidates writing a thesis in CPB. Indivisible for students enrolling in the fall term. Students intending to enroll in the fall are required to submit a written proposal to the Course Director. Students may enter the course at midyear only with the permission of the Course Director. The thesis proposal must be approved by the Coure Director and Head Tutors prior to enrolling in CPB 99. Ordinarily may not be taken as a fifth course.
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CULTR BLF 13: The Contested Bible: The Sacred-Secular Dance
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
A short history of the Bible. Questions addressed include how the Bible became a book, and how that book became sacred; the advantages and burdens of a sacred text; Jewish-Christian disputations; how interpretive efforts helped create and reinforce powerful elites; how that text became the object of criticism; and how the Bible fared after the rise of criticism.
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CULTR BLF 16: Performance, Tradition and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Folklore and Mythology
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Examines major forms of folklore (e.g., myths, legends, epics, beliefs, rituals, festivals) and the theoretical approaches used in their study. Analyzes how folklore shapes national, regional, and ethnic identities, as well as daily life; considers the function of folklore within the groups that perform and use it, employing materials drawn from a wide range of areas (e.g., South Slavic oral epics, American occupational lore, Northern European ballads, witchcraft in Africa and America, Cajun Mardi Gras).
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CULTR BLF 17: Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Gladiatorial combat, beast fights, staged hunts, mock naval battles, and exposure of criminals to wild animals were defining features of the culture of ancient Rome. Examining texts and images from across the Roman world, this course seeks to identify and probe the values, attitudes, and social, political, and economic factors that contributed to the popularity of institutionalized violence as public entertainment for six hundred years from the Punic Wars until the Christianization of the Empire.
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CULTR BLF 19: Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Offers an introductory survey of the fundamental concepts of the Islamic faith and devotional practices of Muslim societies around the world. Focuses on developing an understanding of the diversity of Muslim religious worldviews and the manner in which they have been shaped by the political, social and cultural contexts in which Muslims live in various parts of the world, particularly in the modern period. Briefly considers the contemporary situation of Muslims as a religious and racial minority in Europe and the US.
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CULTR BLF 20: Reason and Faith in the West
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Examines from an historical perspective one of the central themes in the Western intellectual tradition: the desire to reconcile rational philosophy with religious and biblical authority. Discusses the transformations in conceptions of reason, science, biblical interpretation, and divine intervention (among other themes) in the context of the long period of change from medieval to modern. Readings emphasize primary sources-including, for example, Augustine, Aquinas, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and Darwin.
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CULTR BLF 21: Pathways through the Andes-Culture, History, and Beliefs in Andean South America
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
This course explores the arts and cultures of Andean South America from the Pre-Columbian through Colonial periods. Emphasis is on the place of objects-textiles, ceramics, sculptures, and books-in the construction of meanings, identities and values as these changed over time. Readings are drawn from archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnology, art history and original sources. Students will work with Pre-Columbian and Colonial Andean artifacts in the collections of the Peabody Museum.
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CULTR BLF 22: The Heroic and the Anti-Heroic in Classical Greek Civilization
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
The readings, all in English translation, are the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, seven tragedies (Aeschylus' Oresteia Trilogy, Sophocles' two Oedipus dramas, and Euripides' Hippolytus and The Bacchic Women), and two dialogues of Plato (the Apology and the Phaedo, both centering on the last days of Socrates); also, selections from the New Testament, especially from the Gospel according to Mark, and from the dialogue On Heroes by an eminent thinker in the "second sophistic" movement, Philostratus.
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CULTR BLF 27: Among the Nations: Jewish History in Pagan, Christian and Muslim Context
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Can we trace an "authentic" Jewish identity through history, as distinct from many "cultures" of Jews in the multitude of times and places in which they have lived? This course provides an overview of major trends in Jewish civilization from biblical times through the early modern era (to approximately the 17th century), with this and related questions in mind, by engaging in close readings of traditional Jewish sources on the one hand and seeking contextual understandings of Jews and Judaism within various non-Jewish settings on the other.
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CULTR BLF 29: Strange Mutations": Wonder, Faith, Skepticism, and Disbelief in Western Antiquity and the Renaissance
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
How does metamorphosis encourage belief and disbelief? This course examines the experience of change and transformation as represented by major writers in the Western literary, philosophic, and theological traditions. We will explore the diverse meanings given to metamorphosis in antiquity and consider how and why such meanings are remade in the Renaissance. Authors include Sappho, Homer, Plato, Ovid, Augustine, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes.
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