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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Beyond the abstraction of American democracy as government of, by and for the people, what can we glean about our definitions of American governance from historical and artistic representations of it? This course will examine what US democracy looks like when brought to life in campaign commercials, in the architecture of government buildings, and in conspiracy films. We will ask how these works shape our understanding of the possibilities and constraints of democratic action.
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4.00 Credits
Beyond the abstraction of American democracy as government of, by and for the people, what can we glean about our definitions of American governance from historical and artistic representations of it? This course will examine what US democracy looks like when brought to life in campaign commercials, in the architecture of government buildings, and in conspiracy films. We will ask how these works shape our understanding of the possibilities and constraints of democratic action.
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4.00 Credits
Beyond the abstraction of American democracy as government of, by and for the people, what can we glean about our definitions of American governance from historical and artistic representations of it? This course will examine what US democracy looks like when brought to life in campaign commercials, in the architecture of government buildings, and in conspiracy films. We will ask how these works shape our understanding of the possibilities and constraints of democratic action.
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4.00 Credits
This course will recover the radical reputations of Manet, Monet, Degas, and Renoir as well as explore the vital artistic circles in which they moved-reading selections by Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Zola. We will examine the vanguard movements of Realism and Impressionism in terms of major changes in nineteenth-century society, including: industrialization, Parisian urbanism, photography, the status of women, and the institutions of art. Finally, we will address Impressionism's contentious reception and blue-chip status today.
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4.00 Credits
This course will recover the radical reputations of Manet, Monet, Degas, and Renoir as well as explore the vital artistic circles in which they moved-reading selections by Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Zola. We will examine the vanguard movements of Realism and Impressionism in terms of major changes in nineteenth-century society, including: industrialization, Parisian urbanism, photography, the status of women, and the institutions of art. Finally, we will address Impressionism's contentious reception and blue-chip status today.
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4.00 Credits
This course will recover the radical reputations of Manet, Monet, Degas, and Renoir as well as explore the vital artistic circles in which they moved-reading selections by Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Zola. We will examine the vanguard movements of Realism and Impressionism in terms of major changes in nineteenth-century society, including: industrialization, Parisian urbanism, photography, the status of women, and the institutions of art. Finally, we will address Impressionism's contentious reception and blue-chip status today.
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4.00 Credits
This course will recover the radical reputations of Manet, Monet, Degas, and Renoir as well as explore the vital artistic circles in which they moved-reading selections by Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Zola. We will examine the vanguard movements of Realism and Impressionism in terms of major changes in nineteenth-century society, including: industrialization, Parisian urbanism, photography, the status of women, and the institutions of art. Finally, we will address Impressionism's contentious reception and blue-chip status today.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the search for self-knowledge and the quest to unravel the mystery of identity in poetry, fiction, and film. We focus on Walt Whitman's groundbreaking expression of self in Song of Myself, and then grapple with questions of being and knowing in Paul Auster's City of Glass. Finally, we consider how contemporary films about becoming one's self-like Persepolis and Memento-represent complex questions of identity.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the search for self-knowledge and the quest to unravel the mystery of identity in poetry, fiction, and film. We focus on Walt Whitman's groundbreaking expression of self in Song of Myself, and then grapple with questions of being and knowing in Paul Auster's City of Glass. Finally, we consider how contemporary films about becoming one's self-like Persepolis and Memento-represent complex questions of identity.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the search for self-knowledge and the quest to unravel the mystery of identity in poetry, fiction, and film. We focus on Walt Whitman's groundbreaking expression of self in Song of Myself, and then grapple with questions of being and knowing in Paul Auster's City of Glass. Finally, we consider how contemporary films about becoming one's self-like Persepolis and Memento-represent complex questions of identity.
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