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FRSEMR 38l: Modes of Reading
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
What are our modes of reading? How do we create meaning? What contextualizes our reading, and how do social, political, historical, and gender differences affect our interpretations? What differentiates "reading" speech from reading writing? What constitute "literature" and "authorship," and how have these notions been changing historically? What is "text" in the first place? This course introduces basic vocabulary of literary and cultural theories in order to enhance students' ability to interpret.
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FRSEMR 38m: Meeting the Byzantines
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Byzantium remains for many an alien place, in some respects an imaginary world from a very distant past. The seminar focuses on bringing participants closer to the people of Byzantium through representative groups and individuals, from emperors to monks, from scholars to soldiers. How did one become emperor or empress? Who controlled the content of religious dogma? Who helped pagan Greek literature to survive in a conservative Christian culture? Who took care of the recording of history?
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FRSEMR 38z: Romancing the Kitchen: Food Culture across the Romance Languages
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
This course offers a taste (sapore) of the knowledge (sapere) that is found in the language and culture the Romance languages, in particular, French, Italian, Spanish, infused by unique flavors of Portuguese and Catalan as well. Consumption of food and the consumption of texts, eating language and culture, the Romance kitchen as a liminal space between language and culture, body and spirit, the living and the deceased.
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FRSEMR 39g: The Book of Hours: Picturing Prayer in the Middle Ages
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
The proverbial "bestsellers" of the later Middle Ages, Book of Hours served both as prayer and picture books. Using originals in Harvard's Houghton Rare Book Library as well as facsimiles of famous examples, the seminar will consider the history and development of both the Book of Hours-the most common type of illustrated manuscript in the later Middle Ages-and, more generally, other forms of prayer books from the period (1100-1500).
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FRSEMR 39l: Art in Multiple Dimensions
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Examines the crooked paths artmaking practices have taken since artists began blurring lines between painting, sculpture, writing, and music (and video and cooking and sleeping), and the work of many artists who would find it difficult or misleading to ally themselves with a single medium. Texts will include artists' writings and selections from John Dewey's Art as Experience. Students asked to write short response papers to facilitate discussions, and to "make art", in a myriad of ways.
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FRSEMR 40i: The Supreme Court in U.S. History
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Often described as the world's most powerful court, the US Supreme Court has not always enjoyed high prestige or unquestioned authority. The Court's significance has waxed and occasionally waned, with the variations typically depending on surrounding currents in the nation's social and political history. Examines the history of the Court from the nation's founding to the present. Highlights relation between constitutional law and ordinary politics, and the ways in which they influence one another.
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FRSEMR 41p: American Presidential Campaigns and Elections 1960-2008
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
What can we learn from modern presidential campaigns and elections about our own political era? In this Seminar, we examine changes in campaigns and elections since 1960; demographic shifts of the last fifty years; nature and structure of American public opinion; ways American news media transmit information and people learn about matters in the public sphere - and use all these perspectives to understand the remarkable 2008 presidential campaign and our own times, issues and society.
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FRSEMR 42k: Comparative Law and Religion
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Investigates the use of legal processes in addressing religion-based conflicts, a leading source of tension in modern societies. The seminar will explore theoretical approaches to accommodating religious diversity and examine existing models of religion-state relationships. Drawing on legal cases from the US, Turkey, India, Israel, Spain, Canada, and England, the seminar will also familiarize participants with contemporary debates involving religion: the wearing of Islamic headscarf, religion and education, the funding of religious institutions, etc.
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FRSEMR 42n: Comparative National Security of Middle Eastern Countries
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
The course surveys the national security threats and opportunities facing the primary countries of the Middle East, from their perspective. Issues discussed include the domestic sources of national security considerations, relations with regional and international players, military doctrine, foreign policy principles. The seminar is an interactive, "real world" exercise, in which students play the role of leaders in the countries of their choosing and write practical policy recommendations on current affairs.
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FRSEMR 42s: Jews Onscreen: An American Story
4.00 Credits
Harvard University
Traces the representation and self-representation of Jews in American radio, television, and cinema, focusing on questions of integration, assimilation, and Jewish identity. Explores the evolution of media portrayals of Jews in the context of American history, with an eye to the unique situation in which onscreen images of Jewish characters were often created by Jewish writers, actors, producers and/or directors.
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