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3.00 Credits
HU R.Castillo Sandoval The course will consist of two one-semester parts. The first, taken in the Fall semester, will have the format of a seminar under the supervision of one Spanish Department faculty member. The purpose of this seminar will be to prepare students for the research and writing their Senior Theses by 1) enhancing and refining the reading tools and critical approaches to texts in Spanish acquired in previous courses; 2) elucidating and contextualizing relevant aspects of literary history, theory, and culture 3) determining the thesis topic, key secondary sources and approach to be deployed in writing the thesis, and 4) polishing the skills and methods for successful research and proper use of available resources. Problems in literary and cultural analysis-selected with a view to their pertinence in relation to the group's interests-will be presented through close readings of works from various periods and genres and through selected works of criticism or theory. The second semester will involve the process of writing the thesis. Seminar meetings will continue-albeit in a more sporadic schedule-for progress reports while students work under the supervision of individual professors. Typically offered every Semester.
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3.00 Credits
HU J.Brooks An exploration of how concepts of justice and criminality are related to cultural and national identity. We will read fiction, philosophy, cultural criticism, and journalism on a wide range of issues - from the O.J. Simpson trial to principles of Islamic Law to motorcycles gangs in Japan - and then examine questions such as: Are concepts of justice universal What constitutes a just punishment Is the American judicial system fair We will have discussions and debates to hone critical thinking and persuasive argumentation skills and examine aspects of the writing process critical for creating effective essays: from generating ideas and interesting theses, to making sure an essay is focused, to editing for clear and precise prose. This is a first-semester course with individual tutorials that prepares students for a second-semester topic-based or discipline-based writing. Prerequisite: Open only to members of the first-year class as assigned by the Director of College Writing.
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3.00 Credits
HU P. Gaffney From the Dandi Salt March of 1930 to the 2000 Water Riots in Bolivia, civil disobedience and other forms of resistance have had a major impact on social, political and economic relations worldwide. This course will examine the strategies of a number of suffragist and civil rights movements, with an aim to understanding whether (and how) they have succeeded in overcoming inequality and social injustice with regard to race, gender, class and religion. What does a culture of resistance aim to achieve Are there many movements, or do all movements strive to achieve the same goal What are the philosophical (but also practical) differences between violent and non-violent resistance How do we distinguish the "message" of a movement from the rhetorical strategies it deploys to mobilize support The course will include speeches, films, songs and texts by Mohandas Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Spike Lee, Che Guevara, Ozomatli, Oscar Olivera and Angela Davis. Prerequisite: Open only to first year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. This is a first-semester course with individual tutorials that prepares students for a second-semester topic-based or discipline-based writing. Enrollment limited to 10 students.
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3.00 Credits
HU K.Lindgren An exploration of the narrative dimension of disease. We will examine the forms that stories of illness take and the purposes they serve, and also how doctors such as Freud and Oliver Sacks have shaped the genre of the case history. Prerequisite: Open only to first year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. (Satisfies the freshman writing requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU M.Ruben Poverty is one of the most persistent problems and controversial issues in the United States. Along with its obvious economic dimensions, poverty has a wide variety of cultural meanings. In fact, the subject of poverty forces us to think critically about how we define and understand the concept of culture. Through a selective critical examination of fiction and nonfiction works addressing the theme of poverty in America, this course will explore key methods for studying and writing about culture. It will look at how poverty and poor people have been discussed and represented in the United Sates at various points during the last 125 years, and it will provide an opportunity to explore the many ways "poverty" and "culture" intersect and interact, each term affecting the meaning of the other. Readings from Horatio Alger, Sandra Cisneros, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Harrington, Jacob Riis, and Richard Wright. Prerequisite: Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing.
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3.00 Credits
HU C.Schilling Always in emergencies we invent narrative, observed the writer Anatole Broyard when he became a cancer patient. We will read his and other narratives about the experience of responding to and living with medical and disabling conditions that alter lives. These stories will bring us to complicated questions about human resilience; the making of identity; the constructions of normality, difference, and human community; and medical, ethical, and social responses to alterations of the body. We will also speculate about the contributions of writing and other arts to the process of living with and interpreting the fluid states of human bodies. We will concentrate on essays and print memoirs, but also include some poems, a graphic memoir, and film. Prerequisite: Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. (Satisfies the freshman writing requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU C.Schilling The capacious explanatory power of Darwin's concept of evolution depended upon the metaphors and stories that circulated in the scientist's cultural world to make a startling idea accessible and persuasive. Ever since their publication, The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man have, in turn, generated literary fictions representing disparate interpretations of evolution's meaning to human culture. We will trace these cultural exchanges between science and literature by reading selections from Darwin's writing along with literary works that have responded either explicitly or indirectly to his ideas. We will discuss the literary and cultural fate of some of Darwin's key words, such as "survival," "extinction," "adaptation," "fittest," and "progress." And we will speculate about how they enter certain constructions of abundant productivity or irretrievable loss, incremental alteration and catastrophic change, stunning beauty or grotesque horror, competition or cooperation, elegant design or universal chaos. Prerequisite: Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. (Satisfies the freshman writing requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
NA (Cross-listed in Biology) J.Owen The study of public health and the development of public health policy are multidisciplinary activities which engage students and practitioners in the areas of science, medicine, mathematics, public policy, economics and politics. This course will address both national and global public health issues. In the first half of the semester, students will read and write about the increasing rate at which Americans are afflicted with type 2 diabetes, analyze why it preferentially affects certain racial and ethnic groups and develop their own ideas about how to ameliorate this incipient public health disaster. The second half of the course will focus on the ongoing problem of infectious disease in America and in the countries of the third world. Despite more than a century of research, we have still not solved the global health problems associated with influenza, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Students will learn about the biology of some of these diseases and study the mechanisms which are currently being used to minimize their impact on the health of different populations. Prerequisite: Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing.
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3.00 Credits
NA (Cross-listed in Biology) J.Owen An exploration of the narratives underlying scientific discovery. Using select scientific memoirs and biographies as a guide, we will explore motivations that drive scientists and scientific breakthroughs. We will then analyze the work of a single biologist from multiple perspectives and examine how scientific controversy is portrayed in the media and in fiction. Finally, by evaluating the writings of scientists and journalists, we will work together to determine the most effective models of communication of scientific advances. Prerequisite: Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. (Satisfies the freshman writing requirement.)
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3.00 Credits
HU M. Giammarco From the first century to the twenty-first, terrorism has been a chilling phenomenon that has reverberated throughout human history. Neither random, spontaneous, nor blind, terrorism is a deliberate use of violence against civilians for either political or religious ends. To better understand the many aspects of this subject, we will read literature, fiction and non-fiction, as well as watch films such as The Battle of Algiers, Four Days in September, Bloody Sunday, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, and The Terrorist that dramatize the psychological and ideological factors at work amid complex political struggles. Prerequisite: Open only to first year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing.
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