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3.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, the Lotus Sutra, Dream of the Red Chamber, Tale of Genji, Zen literature, Noh plays, bunraku (puppet) plays, Chinese and Japanese poetry. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List A.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: AHUM V3400 is recommended as background. Introduction to and exploration of modern East Asian literature through close reading and discussion of selected masterpieces from the 1890s through the 1990s by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writers such as Mori Ogai, Wu Jianren, Natsume Soseki, Lu Xun, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Shen Congwen, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, Yi Sang, Oe Kenzaburo, O Chong-hui, and others. Emphasis will be on cultural and intellectual issues and on how literary forms manifested, constructed, or responded to rapidly shifting experiences of modernity in East Asia. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization List B.
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3.00 Credits
Inquiry into the values and cultural expressions of the people of the United States. Through an examination of literature, history, social thought, and the arts--with a special emphasis on film--we will explore how modern Americans have understood and argued about their country's promise and perils. Lecture, discussion sections, and weekly film screenings. Discussion Section Required.
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3.00 Credits
The course seeks to combine literary and historical approaches to investigate one of the most rapidly growing and increasingly influential genres of American popular (and, increasingly, critically recognized) literature: the graphic novel. A historical overview of the genre's development, along with analysis of relevant broader institutional and cultural factors illuminating the development of American media culture more generally, will be complemented by study of a series of works that illuminates artistic approaches taken within the genre to the classic themes of the American experience: politics, ethnicity, sexuality, and America's place in the broader world, among other themes. Authors read include Eisner, Crumb, Spiegelman, Bechdel, Sacco, Thompson, and Hernandez.
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1.00 Credits
This course is for American studies majors planning to complete senior projects in the spring. The course is designed to help students clarify their research agenda, sharpen their questions, and locate their primary and secondary sources. Through class discussions and a "workshop" peer review process, each member of the course will enter spring semester with a completed 5-8 page prospectus and bibliography that will provide an excellent foundation for the work of actually writing the senior essay. The colloquium will meet every other week at a convenient time for the participants, and is required for everyone planning to do a senior research project.
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3.00 Credits
Required for all Ancient Studies majors, but also open to advanced undergraduates in classics, history, art history and archaeology, and other related disciplines. Topic: The Greek Household. This seminar explores the composition of the classical Greek household and the relationships of its members, examining the different factors affecting the position of an individual within his or her family and the degree to which a household was defined by the status, role and profession of its members. Although concentrating on classical Athens, we will pay attention to other states, notably Sparta. Investigation of general trends will be complemented by analysis of particular circumstances, including certain historical puzzles such as the union of Pericles and Aspasia (harlot-concubine or legal wife?) and that of Stephanos of Neaira (did they really break Athenian family law?).
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3.00 Credits
How did Western scholars/missionaries/anthropologists/colonial officials understand the strange world of India they found themselves in? The religion was unrecognizable by the terms of a Western understanding: it was not congregational, confessional, or recognizably scriptural. Culturally, Indian society was deeply hierarchical, divided by a system called "caste" which was both scriptural and not. Furthermore, religion and caste contributed centrally to the understanding of "culture" a term invoked interchangeably with "tradition." The divide between caste, religion, and culture, at the same time the difficulty of implementing that divide baffled Western scholars and missionaries of the late medieval period, but also later (19th century) colonial officials and anthropologists. Knowledge about India was centrally produced by these various gatherers and compilers of information on India, and in this course we begin with early accounts of missionary activities, and will work our way through the writings of political theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, in order to arrive at an understanding of the interdisciplinary and anthropological history of India.
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4.00 Credits
"Feminist history" is a concept that encompasses a wide and rich range of histories of ideas, issues, movements, and contemporary controversies. In this seminar we will examine the history of feminist movements, anthropological descriptions of South Asian women's lives and cultures, political tracts on contemporary issues with older genealogies, and historical/anthropological monographs dealing with specific scandals associated with women's bodies, such as dowry murders, or honor killings. The seminar will progress thematically rather than geographically, and will address issues specific to the lives of women in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Beginning with the British colonial period in South Asia (1757-1947/8) it will address the impact of missionary and colonial policies associated with reform on the lives of women, moving onto the nationalist period, partition, and the post-nationalist milieu. The course is divided into four sections: Colonialism and law/property/education and reform; Nationalism, religion and identity ; Violence/Conflict and Minority Struggles; Globalization and its discontents. Field(s): SA
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4.00 Credits
Please note: this course is intended for--and required of-- Barnard seniors. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a senior essay accompanies research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual senior essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and the adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department.
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