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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. M. Meyer. Feminist theory grows out of women's experiences. In this course we will investigate how some contemporary feminist thinkers' consideration of women's experience has caused them to criticize society and philosophy. Traditional philosophical areas addressed may include ethics, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, and epistemology.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Bosk, Hannum, Jacobs. Freshman Seminars. Topics vary from semester to semester. Past offerings include Society and History; The 1960's: Preludes and Postludes; Mistakes, Errors, Accidents & Disasters; Urban Analysis with Computers; Race and Public Policy; Perspectives on Inequality; Homelessness and the Urban Crisis.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This survey of the novel addresses key questions about the novel's "rise" in the eighteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as attending to the cultural conditions that attended this new literary from. How did the concurrent "rise" of the middle classes and the emergence of an increasingly female reading public affect the form and preoccupations of early novels What role did the institutions like literary reviews, libraries, and the church play in the novel's early reception While reading will vary from course to course, students should expect to read such authors as Austen, Behn, Brockden Brown, Burney, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Rowlandson, Rowson, Scott, and Smollett. This course will be cross-listed with GSOC when the course content includes women, gender and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Auerbach/Laws. Fulfills Arts & Letters Distribution. During the nineteenth century the novel became the dominant literary form of its day, supplanting poetry and drama on both sides of the Atlantic. In this introduction to the novelists of the period, we will read the writers who secured the novel's cultural respectability and economic prominence. Likely authors will include Austen, the Brontes, Collins, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thackeray, Scott, and Stowe. The course will explore the themes, techniques, and styles of the nineteeth-century novel. It will focus not only on the large structural and thematic patterns and problems within each novel but also on the act of reading as a historically specific cultural ritual in itself.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Padilla. A survey of cultural productions by Latinas/os (i.e. people of Latin American descent who have been raised in the U.S.) that usually will focus on the twentieth century, but might at times examine earlier periods instead. The course will take a culturally and historically informed approach to a wide range of novels, poems, plays, and films, and will sometimes include visual art and music. Writers and artists might include Am_rico Paredes, Piri Thomas, Cherrie Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, Cristina Garcia, El Teatro Campesino, John Leguizamo, Carmen Lomas Garza, the Hernandez Brothers, and Los Tigres del Norte.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ramsey. This course examines jazz performance as a twentieth century American musical discourse, one that covers and critiques the standard textbook/mediated narratives of jazz history. One goal of the course is to think about how our knowledge of jazz might be reshaped by including women musicians and gender in the narrative. Another is to begin to think about jazz as a musical language that reaches far beyond the borders of the United States, largely through the networks of the entertainment industry.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Paxton. Freshman Seminar. Starting with birth and working chronologically through a series of case studies, this course invites students to examine the centrality of rituals that celebrate the human lifecycle as well as overtly competitve sporting and political rituals. We will explore rituals that unfold at the local level as well as those that most Americans experience only via the media. Rituals under examination include birthday parties, Bat Mitzvahs, Halloween, Quinceaneras, Proms, graduations, rodeos, Homecomings, weddings, Greek initiations, beauty pageants, reunions, and funerals. Students will be encouraged to critically examine their own ritual beliefs and practices and to consider these and other theoretical questions: What is the status of ritual in post-industrial culture What distinguishes popular culture from official ritual and secular from religious ritual How do sociological variables such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and religion shape people's understanding of, and participation in, modern famliy life How do contemporary rituals bond Americans at the local and/or national level All students will be expected to conduct original research on a ritual of their own.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Focusing on literature by and/or about women, this course examines women as readers, writers, and subjects of literature. Works studied vary considerably from semester to semester and may include a wide range of works from various countries and in various genres, often selected to allow for examination of theoretical issues such as feminist humor, feminist literary theory, women and popular culture, and the place of women in the literary mainstream. Often special attention is paid to the experience of minority women.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. English is a global language with a distinctly imperial history, and this course serves as an essential introduction to literary works produced in or about the former European colonies. The focus will be poetry, film, fiction and nonfiction and at least two geographic areas spanning the Americas, South Asia, the Caribbean and Africa as they reflect the impact of colonial rule on the cultural representations of identity, nationalism, race, class and gender.
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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Love. What makes men and women different What is the nature of desire This course introduces students to a long history of speculation about the meaning and nature of gender and sexuality -- a history fundamental to literary representation and the business of making meaning. We will consider theories from Aristophanes speech in Platos Symposium to recent feminist and queer theory. Authors treated might include: Plato, Shakespeare, J. S. Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Michel Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Catherine MacKinnon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, bell hooks, Leo Bersani, Gloria Anzaldua, David Halperin, Cherr_e Moraga, Donna Haraway, Gayatri Spivak, Diana Fuss, Rosemary Hennesy, Chandra Tadpole Mohanty, and Susan Stryker.
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