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3.00 Credits
In this interdisciplinary course, we explore the long history of vision and visual representation from antiquity to the present so as to shed light on how people at different moments have understood vision, have seen their own seeing and have encoded this seeing in different artifacts and media-from ancient cave painting to modernist paintings and motion pictures.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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2.00 Credits
A practical introduction to research in the humanities. Students develop and complete a project in a research area of possible long-term interest.
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3.00 Credits
Same as History 3042
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of the desire to perfect or eliminate what is most human through the creation of artificial men and women. Familiar questions-Can robots feel? Can we tell who is a robot? -are considered alongside the traditional use of robots to understand or emblematize justice, sin, progress and modernity, self-awareness or simplicity, indifference, virtuosity, authorship, invention, and art itself. Examples are drawn from both fictional and real robots in literature and in film. Texts likely include: Homer, Hesiod, Spenser, Descartes, Hobbes, Vaucanson, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Shelley, Hoffmann, Capek, Filisberto-Hernandez, Lem, Lang, and Scott. This course is intended primarily for sophomores considering a major in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. Freshmen are considered by permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
We focus on operas drawn primarily from the French, Italian, and German traditions that served as watershed moments in the history of literature, music, philosophy, and criticism. We read source texts (including famed literary works by Molière, Beaumarchais, Scott, Hugo, Béroul, Maeterlink, Mérimée, Hoffmann, and James), view performances in their entirety, discuss the literary works, philosophy, and criticism that the works inspired, and consider the American reception of the works, including their influence on pop culture. Students gain a sense of opera's vital role at the intersection of the arts (text, music, and dance) and the disciplines (History, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies), learning to approach the study of the genre from multiple perspectives. Preference is given to IPH majors and Text and Tradition students, though others are welcome.
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3.00 Credits
When did sexuality begin? Is it safe to assume that gender constructions are universal and timeless? In this course, we engage with a broad range of readings that serve as primary texts in the "history of sexuality and gender." Our aims are threefold: to analyze the literary evidence we have for sexuality and gender identity in Western culture, to survey modern scholarly approaches to those same texts, and to consider the ways in which these modern theoretical frameworks have become the most recent set of "primary" texts on sexuality and gender. Some of the texts we read include: Aristophanic comedy; Plato's Symposium; the poetry of Sappho, Catullus and Propertius; the Satyricon of Petronius; the Letters of Abelard and Heloise; the Roman de la Rose; Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women; the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Lacan; Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; the Kinsey Reports; and Foucault's History of Sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the medieval tradition of King Arthur that arose in northern Europe from the "Dark Ages" to the invention of printing. The objective of this course is to achieve a thematic, historical, and structural insight into some of the best examples of medieval storytelling and understand why they continue to cast a spell over readers today. You may want to try your own hand at Arthurian storytelling after you have learned the building blocks. The course also lays a foundation for the study of premodern literature, the medieval and early modern world, and the national cultures of France, Germany, and Britain.
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0.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Abraham Lincoln's writings and of how they emerged from his reading and his experiences. We read his speeches and other writings to investigate his political and social philosophy. And we look at his legacy, politically and culturally.
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