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4.00 Credits
The Sixth Commandment is succinct: "Thou shalt not commit murder." And yet descriptions of murder feature prominently in Western literature and culture. Why are we so engaged by the telling of these grim tales, and what is at stake in their being told? By analyzing the challenges of shaping coherent narratives around incomprehensible acts, this course examines the ethical and aesthetic implications of mediating a phenomenon as elusive, and terrifyingly actual, as murder.
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4.00 Credits
The Sixth Commandment is succinct: "Thou shalt not commit murder." And yet descriptions of murder feature prominently in Western literature and culture. Why are we so engaged by the telling of these grim tales, and what is at stake in their being told? By analyzing the challenges of shaping coherent narratives around incomprehensible acts, this course examines the ethical and aesthetic implications of mediating a phenomenon as elusive, and terrifyingly actual, as murder.
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4.00 Credits
Poetry has long been a space for solace and contemplation, particularly throughout the wars of the twentieth century. How has poetry changed in the past 100 years as it attempts to apprehend atrocity, genocide and total war? We read poems that describe ruthless violence, that respond to works of art, and that address contemporary refugee camps and HIV hospices. In such forlorn environments, can poetry remain "poetic"?
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses questions about the past and present American urban experience by analyzing cities from various disciplinary perspectives. Unit I hones critical skills through close readings of How the Other Half Lives, an expose of late nineteenth-century New York. Unit II emphasizes the importance of context through analysis of the play, A Raisin in the Sun with companion texts. Unit III teaches the fundamentals of the research process through independent projects on Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses questions about the past and present American urban experience by analyzing cities from various disciplinary perspectives. Unit I hones critical skills through close readings of How the Other Half Lives, an expose of late nineteenth-century New York. Unit II emphasizes the importance of context through analysis of the play, A Raisin in the Sun with companion texts. Unit III teaches the fundamentals of the research process through independent projects on Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses questions about the past and present American urban experience by analyzing cities from various disciplinary perspectives. Unit I hones critical skills through close readings of How the Other Half Lives, an expose of late nineteenth-century New York. Unit II emphasizes the importance of context through analysis of the play, A Raisin in the Sun with companion texts. Unit III teaches the fundamentals of the research process through independent projects on Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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4.00 Credits
This class will provide an opportunity to critically consider a number of contemporary moral issues. These range from everyday choices regarding charitable giving and the kind of vehicle one drives to life and death issues surrounding abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty. We will also address more general ethical questions such as why it is that death is often harmful and whether or not it would be a good thing to be immortal.
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4.00 Credits
This class will provide an opportunity to critically consider a number of contemporary moral issues. These range from everyday choices regarding charitable giving and the kind of vehicle one drives to life and death issues surrounding abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty. We will also address more general ethical questions such as why it is that death is often harmful and whether or not it would be a good thing to be immortal.
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4.00 Credits
This class will provide an opportunity to critically consider a number of contemporary moral issues. These range from everyday choices regarding charitable giving and the kind of vehicle one drives to life and death issues surrounding abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty. We will also address more general ethical questions such as why it is that death is often harmful and whether or not it would be a good thing to be immortal.
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4.00 Credits
This class will provide an opportunity to critically consider a number of contemporary moral issues. These range from everyday choices regarding charitable giving and the kind of vehicle one drives to life and death issues surrounding abortion, assisted suicide, and the death penalty. We will also address more general ethical questions such as why it is that death is often harmful and whether or not it would be a good thing to be immortal.
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