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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An expansion of the Advanced Topics essay into a full-length Senior Thesis is written in regular consultation with an advisor chosen by the student. It must be completed in time to allow for a defense before the advisor and two additional faculty members. Prerequisities: Senior status, a major in Humanities, an outstanding Advanced Topics essay, and permission of the department. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
History, literature, and philosophy from the Trojan War to the decline of the Roman Empire (ca. 1200 BCE to 300 CE), with readings from Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Virgil, et. al. Offered each fall; Not to be taken after LLE 220. 3 credits each.
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3.00 Credits
History, literature, and philosophy from the rise of Christianity to the disintegration of the Medieval world view (ca. 300 CE to 1350 CE), with readings from Beowulf, the Song of Roland, Medieval poets and dramatists, Dante, Chaucer, et. al. Offered each spring; Not to be taken after LLE 220. 3 credits each.
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3.00 Credits
History, literature, and philosophy during the period of transition from Medieval civilization to the modern world (ca. 1350 to 1750), with readings from Petrarch, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Racine, Molière, Swift, et. al Offered each fall. Not to be taken after LLE 220. 3 credits each.
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3.00 Credits
History, literature, and philosophy from the French Revolution to the present, with readings from Wordsworth, Keats, Dostoyevsky, Ibsen, Kafka, Garcia Marquez, Chinua Achebe, et. al. Offered each spring. Not to be taken after LLE 221. 3 credits each.
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3.00 Credits
Major twentieth-century writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, R.K. Narayan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Wole Soyinka, and Chinua Achebe, with emphasis on ways in which their works both sustain and criticize the European literary tradition. Prerequisite: 6 Humanities credits or department permission. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Major literary texts that discuss the idea of the self--is it divided, multiple, or even non-existent?--by such writers as Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, and Luigi Pirandello, as well as texts that reaffirm the idea of a unique individual self that grows with experience. Prerequisite: 12 Humanities credits or departmental permission. 3 credits.
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1.50 Credits
Designed for students who are beginning their Jewish studies programs. Selections from Leviticus and Genesis with the commentary of Rashi. 1.5 credits each.
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1.50 Credits
Students read the entire text (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings) in translation. Class sessions will be devoted to an analysis of selected passages in the original as they relate to thematic issues and historical questions. 1.5 credits each.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: JMH 102 or equivalent. 1.5 credits each.
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