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3.00 Credits
This course examines the different perspectives that feminist theorists have offered to analyze the unequal conditions of women's and men's lives. Students taking this course will develop an understanding of how theory functions as a way to know, understand and change the world. They will also be provided with a lens for comparing the assumptions and implications of alternative theoretical perspectives. A particular emphasis of this course is on theorizing the interrelationships among gender, race, class, sexuality and nationality. Course material includes applications of feminist theory to issues such as gender identity formation; sexuality; gender, law and citizenship; women and work; and the history and politics of social movements. Students will not receive credit for both HUM 409 and HUM 509. (AY) 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Discussion, Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of existentialism through the study of literary and philosophical texts. Particular themes such as freedom, commitment, alienation, and death will be considered in an attempt to formulate an existential conception of the human condition. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Discussion Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
This course will be taught in English, and will focus on the influence of Italian literary models for the construction of female literary types as well as female voices in France and Italy from 1300 to about 1600. Italian authors studied include three very influential Florentines, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, as well as Castiglione and Ariosto. We will read women poets, patrons, prostitutes and queens from Italy and France such as Veronica Gambara, Isabella di Morra, Vittoria Colonna, Christine de Pizan, Louise Labe, and Marguerite de Navarre. At issue will be women's roles and women's images in city and court culture during the early modern period, and the interaction of their writings with the literary canons of Italy and France. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Internet/E-mail Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
This course will analyze how Hollywood as the nation's dream factory has manufactured fantasies and cultural myths that have constructed the image of American citizenship, both for Americans and non-Americans. It will establish the ideological function of Hollywood texts as providing unifying symbols for a fragmented society. (YR). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Rackham, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
This writing intensive course will train students to compose a film script, focusing on the substance, structure, and style of an original screenplay. The course will be conducted as a workshop in which students will first study classic scripts (and films based on these) of the film-school generation of directors, then model scenes and sequences of their own scripts on the principles of the above texts, and finally, write their own respective film stories in accordance with an appropriate narrative structure and design. (YR). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine works produced by Black women authors, activists, filmmakers and musical performers in order to determine the methods they have incorporated in order to challenge and eradicate the prevailing stereotypes about Black women while advancing their their own personal and racial agendas. It will also focus on the extent to which race, gender, and class have shaped the creative work of Black women. Students will be required to read, discuss, analyze and write their own responses to the works of such firebrands as author Zora Neale Hurston, activist Ida B. Wells, filmmaker Julie Dash, and singer Billie Holliday. 3.000 Credit hours 1.000 Lecture hours 2.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Audio/Video Tape, Discussion, Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
This course will analyze ethnographic films as a medium for the construction of meaning in and across cultures. It will teach students to understand how the putatively "real" content of documentary film creates a mixture of fantasy, news and "science." Covering texts as varied as National Geographic photographic layouts, traditional ethnographic films made by anthropologists, and auto-ethnographies of cultural groups such as native Americans and the Trobriand Islanders of Papua, New Guinea, the course will aim to deconstruct such oppositions as indigene vs. alien, us vs. them, and self vs. other. Students cannot receive credit for both HUM 477 and HUM 577. (YR). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
The Humanities Internship offers students experience in types of work available to liberal arts graduates. Regular meetings between the Humanities Internship Coordinator and the intern are required. Credit applies to the degree as a general elective and does not apply to any concentration. Maximum total hours credit: 12. Graded Pass/Fail. (F,W). 3.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours 3.000 TO 6.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Internship/Co-op, Independent Study Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Examination of problems and issues in selected areas of the humanities. Title as listed in Schedule of Classes will change according to content. Course may be repeated for credit when specific topics differ. (OC). 3.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 3.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Readings or analytical assignments in humanities in accordance with the needs and interests of those enrolled and agreed upon by student and advising instructor. (YR). 1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 1.000 TO 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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