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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to assist advanced students of Chinese in reading Chinese texts.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a comparative study of the idea of “love” in Chinese and Western literature. We begin with an examination of various historical modes of love as they are expressed in literary works in both traditions. We approach love by questioning its relationship with other important aspects of culture and human existence. What does love have to do with social, political, and natural orders? How is desire conceived differently in different historical and cultural contexts? Is there an intrinsic relationship between love and what we consider to be essentially “literary” about literature? What does love have to do with being modern? We will ask these questions via close analyses of a variety of texts, including literary classics (e.g. Tang Xianzu’s The Peony Pavilion, chapters from Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Elective Affinities, stories by Zhang Ailing), philosophical writings (e.g. excerpts from Denis de Rougemont’s Love in the Western World and Stephen Owen’s Mi-Lou), as well as cinematic texts (e.g. Yellow Earth).
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on how film lends itself to visually capturing distinct cultural ethos, social customs and personal psychology bounding the greater China region (mainland and Taiwan) in the global era. Well-known Chinese directors such as Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang will be studied through the 1990's "New Wave Cinemas." We will also study the distinct techniques and styles of the rising "Sixth Generation" directors (such as Wang Xiaoshuai, Jiang Wen, Jia Zhangke) to see how key values of traditional Chinese Culture and society have been contested and reinvented under the global conditions. To that end, we will study the newly revived genre of "martial arts legends." This course can be taken by Department majors in conjunction with CHIN 1908, Directed Writing.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey the wax and wane of pop culture through disparate phases of social and political developments of modern China. The readings will introduce students to works of literature, art, and film to see how tradition and modernity, elite and mass cultures, East and West conflict and converge; how China absorbs, adapts as well as resists capitalistic modernity while embracing global market economy; how China grapples with urban alienation, social flux, moral laxity and other negative aspects of industrialization and urbanization. The course will make available to students a host of art images, DVD clips and e-Texts to enhance and expand their perception of modern China.
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3.00 Credits
The course will be composed of three segments--one deals with Confucianism, one with Daoism, and the final segment with Buddhism. In the first segment on Confucianism, basic texts, including the Analects and Mencius, will be studied with relevant commentaries. Particular attention to their wide-ranging and profound implications for Chinese culture, especially in the ethical and socio-political dimensions. In the second segment on Daoism, basic texts on Daoism, including the Laozi and Zhuangzi, will be studied with some of the most influential commentaries. Their indelible impact on Chinese aesthetics and mode of thinking will be emphasized. The final segment on Buddhism will concentrate on representative sutras of the tradition (e.g. the Diamond Sutra) as well as important texts from the Chan (Zen) masters, along with the key commentaries. Although a foreign import from India, Buddhism was so thoroughly sinicized that it has become part of Chinese culture. Furthermore, the common threads that link these main three thought systems as well as the interaction among them will also be studied in order to demonstrate how together they have contributed to the evolution of Chinese culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to (re)acquaint students with the acknowledged classics of Greek and Roman literature. A variety of genres will be considered, including epic poetry, tragedy/comedy, history, biography, oratory, and satire. Equal emphasis will be accorded to Greek and Roman authors. GE: Literature
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3.00 Credits
The study of a special topic in classics.
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3.00 Credits
How can we understand our world? In western culture, science dominates all our answers to this question. But there are other ways. They can be found in the mythologies of ancient and modern peoples. This course will compare the scientific and mythological ways of seeing the world and their more subtle connections. In particular, we will turn to the remarkable events in Ancient Greece of 800-400 B.C. and discover how the scientific approach actually grew slowly out of mythological thought itself.
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3.00 Credits
The Mediterranean Sea is a lake and its shores have produced many important cultures and artistic traditions. The course will survey the artistic and cultural traditions of the Near East (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Turkey, Iran) and the Aegean, from the Neolithic to the Persian Empire. Special attention will be paid to: 1) the relationship between the artistic traditions of these areas and the societies which produced them, and 2) the way in which influences from one culture were transformed by another.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents an historical-critical investigation of Christian origins. Special attention is paid to varieties of 1st century Hellenistic and Palestinian Judaism within the Greco-Roman world. Primary readings include selected Biblical passages and apocrypha, 1st century historians and philosophers (Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Philo), the New Testament corpus (including Paul and the Pastorals), and selected readings from the Dead Sea Scrolls. In addition there will be assignments from various modern New Testament critics, historians, and theologians.
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