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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
How do you know what another person feels? Why would you want to know? Are there social or political advantages to the ability to relate emotionally to others? This class explores these central questions through select pieces of fiction, visual art, film, and criticism from such diverse writers and artists as Adam Smith, George Eliot, Ang Lee and Susan Sontag. Together, these texts scrutinize how and why we attempt to connect emotionally.
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4.00 Credits
How do you know what another person feels? Why would you want to know? Are there social or political advantages to the ability to relate emotionally to others? This class explores these central questions through select pieces of fiction, visual art, film, and criticism from such diverse writers and artists as Adam Smith, George Eliot, Ang Lee and Susan Sontag. Together, these texts scrutinize how and why we attempt to connect emotionally.
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4.00 Credits
How does immigration create new possibilities for identity and belonging (familial, cultural, national, and transnational)? On the other hand, what challenges does it pose for individuals and groups? We will examine recent experiments in fiction to respond to these questions, in works by Hemon, Jen, Nair, and Diaz, drawing also on cultural and anthropological theory. Topics include the American Dream, resident aliens, hybrid identities, diaspora, history and the individual, storytelling's powers and risks.
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4.00 Credits
How does immigration create new possibilities for identity and belonging (familial, cultural, national, and transnational)? On the other hand, what challenges does it pose for individuals and groups? We will examine recent experiments in fiction to respond to these questions, in works by Hemon, Jen, Nair, and Diaz, drawing also on cultural and anthropological theory. Topics include the American Dream, resident aliens, hybrid identities, diaspora, history and the individual, storytelling's powers and risks.
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4.00 Credits
How does immigration create new possibilities for identity and belonging (familial, cultural, national, and transnational)? On the other hand, what challenges does it pose for individuals and groups? We will examine recent experiments in fiction to respond to these questions, in works by Hemon, Jen, Nair, and Diaz, drawing also on cultural and anthropological theory. Topics include the American Dream, resident aliens, hybrid identities, diaspora, history and the individual, storytelling's powers and risks.
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4.00 Credits
How does immigration create new possibilities for identity and belonging (familial, cultural, national, and transnational)? On the other hand, what challenges does it pose for individuals and groups? We will examine recent experiments in fiction to respond to these questions, in works by Hemon, Jen, Nair, and Diaz, drawing also on cultural and anthropological theory. Topics include the American Dream, resident aliens, hybrid identities, diaspora, history and the individual, storytelling's powers and risks.
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4.00 Credits
Perhaps more than any other event in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the AIDS crisis condensed or crystallized cultural anxieties about the body, identity, and difference. In this course, we will examine the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in North and Latin America through fiction, poetry, and visual art from the pandemic's first fifteen years. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is necessary; all materials will be available in English.
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4.00 Credits
Perhaps more than any other event in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the AIDS crisis condensed or crystallized cultural anxieties about the body, identity, and difference. In this course, we will examine the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in North and Latin America through fiction, poetry, and visual art from the pandemic's first fifteen years. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is necessary; all materials will be available in English.
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4.00 Credits
Perhaps more than any other event in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the AIDS crisis condensed or crystallized cultural anxieties about the body, identity, and difference. In this course, we will examine the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in North and Latin America through fiction, poetry, and visual art from the pandemic's first fifteen years. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is necessary; all materials will be available in English.
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4.00 Credits
Perhaps more than any other event in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the AIDS crisis condensed or crystallized cultural anxieties about the body, identity, and difference. In this course, we will examine the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in North and Latin America through fiction, poetry, and visual art from the pandemic's first fifteen years. No knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is necessary; all materials will be available in English.
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