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From ancient Athens to Hollywood, romantic comedies have enjoyed continuous widespread popularity in the theater. In this course we will read a broad spectrum of romantic comedies, from the genre's beginnings with the Greek New Comic playwright Menander to the Roman Plautus, and on to Shakespeare. We will also watch a modern romantic comedy, Pretty Woman. We will begin the course with some ancient and modern literary theories of intertextuality and metatheatre that shed light upon the relationship between Comedy and Tragedy. Some questions we will ask in this course are: What's the historic relationship between Comedy and Tragedy? What's the connection between sex and comedy? What can Romantic Comedies tell us about the audience that is addressed from the space of the stage or screen? Does laughter depend on personal and cultural values and variables? Does comedy have a personal and social function? Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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The purpose of the course is to increase the student's understanding of the remarkable transformation of the American South from an isolated regional backwater committed to racial segregation to a vibrant, complex, rapidly growing, diverse biracial society that has rejoined the national mainstream. In fact, a quick look at where our national political leaders have come from recently--President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and President George W. Bush of Texas, to name the two most prominent examples--indicates how central the South has become to the nation. We will explore all aspects of the transformation of Dixie during our course. Central to the story will be political change, although, of course, politics cannot be easily isolated from social and economic life. Thus, it was a grassroots social development--the Civil Rights Movement--that gave important impetus to the key political changes that occurred in the mid-1960s and beyond, as we shall see. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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"The Birth of the Modern: 1905-1925" will attempt to answer the question "What is the modern?" by exploring some of the breakthrough works of literature, music, art, and scientific theory in the first decades of the twentieth century. We will study what characterizes the new modes of thinking or "language" of modernity, developed in experimental work across the arts, the sciences, and the social sciences. We will be examining some of the major manifestos of and statements about the nature of Modernism in order to see how they illuminate, for example, a novel by James Joyce or a painting by Picasso, a composition by Stravinsky, a scientific theory of Einstein's, or a psychological theory of Freud's. At the conclusion of the seminar, students will present their findings and write a research paper about "the modern" as it relates to a field of particular interest to them. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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Leaders are both born and made. Some seem to naturally know what to do and some need to study and practice to gain the necessary skills. Both groups can be successful and it usually requires a combination of natural ability and effort to become the very best. Leaders often point to role models as being important to the development of "natural" or acquired ability. This course is appropriate for both those who are intellectually curious about leadership. The course will be divided into three sections. The first part will involve reading and discussions to explore and identify what leaders are like and what they do. During the second part you will observe leaders in action and talk to them about what they think makes them successful. Some examples of what you may observe will include a surgeon in the operating room (theater), a coach with his/her players, an executive in the board room, a concertmaster with his/her musicians and a judge in a courtroom. The third part of the course will involve readings and discussions during which you will develop a personal approach to the level of leadership to which you aspire. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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This course explores the history of Paris as it became the center of French national life, international culture and politics in the 19th century and a global city in the late 20th. The course acquaints students with the history of Paris as a dynamic environment deeply influenced by industrializing forces during this period. We will study contemporary writings, art and popular culture economic developments, political and military events, and architectural and engineering projects that have profoundly shaped the city and popular responses to it. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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This course examines the relationship between medicine and narrative by exploring the representational structures and narrative conventions that have been used to understand and communicate the experience of illness, to tell stories about the human body, and to diagnose and treat disease. The course focuses on literary texts (including novels, plays, short stories and memoirs) written by doctors, patients, nurses and creative writers, as well as on medical case histories from different cultures and historical periods. It examines such topics as the uses of narrative in medical practice; the uses of metaphor in conceptualizing and representing disease; the ethical dilemmas posed by medical research and practice; the therapeutic value of narrative; the structural similarities (and historical links) between detective fiction and medical case histories; the imaginative function of illness in literature; the cultural myths and iconography of disease in different historical periods; the representation of physical and mental illness and the human body in language and art, and cultural responses to major health crises such as bubonic plague, syphilis, and AIDS. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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Leonardo da Vinci is often regarded as the Renaissance epitome of the "universal man." This seminar will help students reach a deeper understanding of Leonardo's achievements and working methods as an engineer, anatomist, architect, and artist. As our own age moves towards narrow specialization, the myth of Leonardo looms large as an unreachable ideal of "genius." Yet some contemporary artists and collaborative groups do claim to be a part of Leonardo's legacy. This seminar will include debate over the relevancy of Leonardo's example, the success of uniting humanistic and artistic thinking with the latest advances in science and engineering, and the ethical issues of "art" emerging in the fields of robotics and genetic engineering. Students will learn fundamental methods of art historical analysis, formulate ethical positions, and discover some of the basic scientific methods used to analyze and authenticate artworks. The course will begin with historical study, then move to modern applications. In the process, each student will be encouraged to find ways to make Leonardo's example relevant to his or her own intellectual development. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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Our purpose is to explore the nature of nonverbal communications and analysis in several different contexts. Because nonverbal communication is so closely related to emotional processes, we will also become acquainted with basic ideas surrounding communication and emotion. Within this framework, we will discuss and apply a variety of theoretical approaches to understanding this channel of human communication. Upon completion of this course, students will have a better understanding of decoding and encoding nonverbal messages. Additionally, the student will have a thorough understanding of the functions of nonverbal communication in social and rhetorical life. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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One need only look at the "War on Terror" to see the deep relationship between violence and identity. Can violence help to create identities as well as destroy them? By exploring historical and cultural constructions of violence, the processes by which identities are created and maintained through violence come to light. Starting from the assumption that cultural positions are always multiply defined, this course will look not only at contemporary film and print media, but also Renaissance texts such as Marlowe, Malory, and Shakespeare to try and understand how these texts both create identities for their characters and impact our own understanding of ourselves. We will use the comparison of these two cultural moments to explore how different representations of violence impact constructions of identity categories such as race, gender, and class. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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From Ishtar to Esther, the Virgin Mary to Mary Madalene, we will examine women in biblical text to determine how these texts came to be, and how their traditional interpretation has shaped images of, and attitudes toward, women in western civilization. Following this line of inquiry, we will examine key distinctions between traditional and academic sense-making strategies to account for differences between traditional and modern visions of womanhood. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSY, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100
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