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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Impressionism and its impact on modern painting and literature, with attention to origins and theories of style. Painters include Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cezanne. Writers include Baudelaire, Flaubert, Mallarmé, James, Pound, Joyce, and Woolf.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the origins and development of the scientific method and some of its contemporary applications in the natural and social sciences and the humanities.
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3.00 Credits
Romanticism as a recurrent characteristic of mind and art and as a specific historical movement in Europe and America in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Emphasis on primary materials in philosophy, literature, music, and painting.
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3.00 Credits
Examination and discussion of significant accounts of the quest for understanding of the self, in differing historical periods, cultural contexts, and genres. Among figures who may be discussed are Augustine, Dante, Gandhi, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, and selected modern writers.
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3.00 Credits
The theory of tragedy in ancient and modern times; the expression of the tragic in literature, art, music, theatre, and film.
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3.00 Credits
The theory of comedy in ancient and modern times; the expression of the comic in literature, art, music, theatre, and film.
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3.00 Credits
The nature of myth through creation and hero myths; the uses to which myths have been put in different historical periods; various modern explanations of myth (literary, religious, anthropological, psychoanalytic, social, and historical).
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of the ironic view of life in literature, art, history, theatre, and film.
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3.00 Credits
Multidisciplinary presentation and discussion of portrayals of aging in selected materials from several of the liberal arts: philosophical and religious perspectives; selections from literature and the visual arts; historical development of perceptions of aging; imaging of aging in contemporary culture. Also listed as HMN 357.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of what Venice has meant to non-native artists and writers, and what they have made of it. Artists and writers include Byron, Turner, Ruskin, Henry James, Sargent, Whistler, Proust, Mann, and others.
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