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4.00 Credits
This course explores diverse examples of the family narrative, from origin stories to coming-of-age tales to contemporary journalistic or political writing which often shapes larger narratives about the "matters of family" in our society. Readings range from the Bible to Batman to Obama and will self-consciously question how we understand ourselves as being both apart from our families and a part of them: how we "become ourselves.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores diverse examples of the family narrative, from origin stories to coming-of-age tales to contemporary journalistic or political writing which often shapes larger narratives about the "matters of family" in our society. Readings range from the Bible to Batman to Obama and will self-consciously question how we understand ourselves as being both apart from our families and a part of them: how we "become ourselves.
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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 develops and strengthens the skills necessary for successful public speaking. Students learn strategies for impromptu speaking, preparing and delivering presentations, formulating and organizing persuasive arguments, cultivating critical thinking, engaging with an audience, using the voice and body, and building confidence in oral expression. Besides refining their skills, students receive training as public speaking tutors in preparation for serving as peer tutors for the Derek Bok Center's Program in Speaking and Learning.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines witchcraft (and the "magical world view") from cross-cultural, historical, and literary perspectives. Although witches and witchcraft are considered in their non-Western settings, the course focuses on the melding of Christian and pagan views of witchcraft and magic in the European Middle Ages, and the evolving construction of witchcraft ideologies through the witch crazes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the rise of modern paganism.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the ways in which the dancing body internalizes and communicates cultural knowledge to both dancer and observer. By participating in dance workshops, watching dance performances (live and on film), and reading ethnographic and theoretical texts, we attempt to understand the emergent meaning of dance performances from multiple perspectives.
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4.00 Credits
Rather than textual artifacts of a cultural past, Indigenous oral literatures are living traditions in particular landscapes, activities in which communities are engaged. Features trips to local Native places and engagement with communal tellings and literary texts from around the globe, emphasizing the interdependent relationship between the spoken and the written word, and the importance of local knowledge in an increasingly global indigenous network.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar invites participants to explore the complex relationship between people and plants in the American environment and especially, the American imagination. We will read texts by Michael Pollan, William Bartram, Annie Proulx, Susan Orleans and Leslie Marmon Silko, explore traditional Native American plant stories, and get out on the ground with the people who work most closely with plants.
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4.00 Credits
Instruction and direction of reading on material not treated in regular courses of instruction; special work on topics in folklore, mythology, and oral literature. Normally available only to concentrators in Folklore and Mythology.
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