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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Katz, Corrigan, Decherney, Beckman. This topic course explores aspects of Film Practice intensively. Specific course topics vary from year to year. See the Cinema Studies website at for a description of the current offerings.
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Staff. Resistance to local and global patriarchies, imperialism and capitalism constitute the historical context of Third World feminisms. Women's struggles against these practices constitute their identity in such a way that the very category of women becomes determined in terms of the intersection of class, race, nation and culture specific politics and histories. In this course we shall focus on the historical development of women's liberation movements in South Asia, Middle- East and certain parts of Africa. We shall examine the ways in which women's movements in these parts of the world have led to a necessary convergence of anti-racist, anti-imperialist struggles along with oppositions to patriarchy and capitalism. We shall also examine the political and philosophical implications of Third World feminisms for some specific feminist trends developed by women of the First World.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This advanced seminar will examine the classical backgrounds to English poetry, in particular the Biblical and Greco- Roman antecedents to Renaissance lyric verse and verse drama (such as, preeminently, Shakespeare). Different versions of this course will have different emphases on Biblical or Hellenist backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kirkham. This is a topics course.
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3.00 Credits
Murnaghan. As an epic account of wandering, survival, and homecoming, Homer's Odyssey has been a constant source of themes and images with which to define and redefine the nature of heroism, the sources of identity, and the challenge of finding a place in the world.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kirkham. Through a range of authors including Augustine, Dante, Petrarch, Galileo, and Umberto Eco, this course will explore the world of the book in the manuscript era and contrast it with our own assumptions about reading. Lectures/discussion in English.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Benjamin Franklin Seminar. Major texts in the modern drama from the time of Ibsen through World War I. Plays by playwrights Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and Shaw, Zola, Hauptmann, Wedekind, Maeterlinck and Gorky. The plays are generally considered as scripts for performance and the dramatic technique of each playwright wi ll be considered in the relation to contemporary dramatic and theatrical movements.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Brownlee. In this course we will read the Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso, focusing on a series of interrelated problems raised by the poem: authority, fiction, history, politics and language. Particular attention will be given to how the Commedia presents itself as Dante's autobiography, and to how the autobiographical narrative serves as a unifying thread for this supremely rich literary text. Supplementary readings will include Virgil's Aeneid and selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses. All readings and written work will be in English. Italian or Italian Studies credit will require reading Italian texts in the original language and writing about their themes in Italian. This course may be taken for graduate credit, but additional work and meetings with the instructor will be required.
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3.00 Credits
Breckman. Starting with the dual challenges of Enlightenment and Revolution at the close of the eighteenth century, this course examines the emergence of modern European thought and culture in the century from Kant to Nietzsche. Themes to be considered include Romanticism, Utopian Socialism, early Feminism, Marxism, Liberalism, and Aestheticism. Readings include Kant, Hegel, Burke, Marx, Mill, Wollstonecraft, Darwin, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Breckman. European intellectual and cultural history from 1870 to 1950. Themes to be considered include aesthetic modernism and the avant-garde, the rebellion against rationalism and positivism, Social Darwinism, Second International Socialism, the impact of World War One on European intellectuals, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and the ideological origins of fascism. Figures to be studied include Nietzsche, Freud, Woolf, Sartre, Camus, and Heidegger.
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