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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a historical, critical, and theoretical approach to American avant-garde and independent film from the 1940s till the present. Filmmakers include Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, Andy Warhol, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and David Lynch.
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3.00 Credits
Examines novels by Dostoevsky, including The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, and works of literary theory and philosophy which grapple with his poetics and thought (Bakhtin, Girard, Shestov, Rozanov, Nietzsche, Freud, Levinas).
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the Israeli novel through close reading of the works of major Israeli writers such as, Ya’akov Shabtai, Amos Oz, A.B Yeshoshua, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Yehoshua Knaz, David Grossman, Orly Castel-Bloom, Yoel Hoffmann and Etgar Keret. We will focus on questions of style, genres and thematic choices. Among the topics to be discussed are Jewish history and tradition, social and political critiques and minority representations. Classes conducted in English, but students with knowledge of Hebrew are encouraged to read texts in the original.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Israeli cinema of the last two decades. Among the films to be discussed are: Oscar nominees Adjami and Waltz with Bashir, Late Marriage, A Matter of Size, Year Zero, Lemon Tree, Sweet Mud, and Lebanon. We will study the different influences and the innovative use of style and genres in these films, as well as the new themes and agendas that they offer.
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1.00 Credits
Employing feminist, literary, historical, socio-cultural, and theological approaches, we will explore texts written by or about women, paying close attention to how various perspectives on gender shapes the understanding of these sometimes fragmentary texts. Topics examined will include medieval women’s relation to textual authority, piety, preaching, monasticism, dissent, food and men.
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3.00 Credits
Over the last two hundred years, tragedy has repeatedly been declared dead on the grounds that the changed social, aesthetic and philosophical conditions of modernity do not allow for the genre in a strict sense. In this course we read a number of the most important dramatists of this period and examine the extent to which the concept and experience of the tragic have changed in our time. Authors to be read will include: Schiller, Büchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Maeterlinck, Lorca and Beckett.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine several attempts by ancient, modern, and contemporary thinkers to come to terms with the Biblical concept of revelation and prophecy, law and election, apocalyptic and eschatology. We will put special emphasis on the first articulation of the idea of Christian universalism, faith and justification, time and eternity. Readings will include the entire corpus of St. Paul's authentic letters, in addition to the major Scriptural passages on which he draws, but also selections from Philo of Alexandria, St. Augustine, Spinoza, Luther, Nietzsche, Jakob Taubes, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
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3.00 Credits
Literary and philosophical imaginations of moral community in the post-WWII period (1950-2001). Texts include: Coetzee, Disgrace; McEwan, Atonement; Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World; Roy, The God of Small Things; Lessing, The Grass is Singing; Mistry, A Fine Balance; Morrison, Beloved; and essays by Levi, Strawson, Adorno, Murdoch, Beauvoir and Barthes on the deep uncertainty over moral community after the crisis of World War II. Close attention to novelistic style and narrative will inform our study of the philosophical questions that animate these works. What does it means to acknowledge another person's humanity? Who are the members of a moral community? Why do we hold one another responsible for our actions? How do fundamental moral emotions such as contempt, humiliation, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, and regret reveal the limits of a moral community?
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how films and TV series can offer new perspectives on philosophical problems and how, in turn, philosophy can help understanding their power of conviction for contemporary culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines modern Korean culture through film and literature in translation. Emphasis will be on the politics of representation, especially in light of the many collective and personal traumas (caused by poverty and factionalism, colonial rule, war, and an accelerated pace of modernization) that mark twentieth century Korean history.
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