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| HUMANITIES |
| 300.116
(H) (W) |
FORMS
OF COMEDY: THEORY & PRACTICE (3) Macksey
Limit 20
A comparative survey of comic forms in drama & narrative from
classical antiquity to the present. Texts will be read with representative
theoretical statements. |
Sec. 01 |
WF 2-3:30 |
| 300.137 (H) |
REPRESENTING GENDER AND POLITICS: CHINESE CINEMA
(3)
Guo Limit 15 This course is an introduction to the
history and development of Chinese Cinema, with a particular focus
on its representation of the intertwined issues of gender and
politics in modern China.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course Cross-listed
with East Asian Studies |
Sec.
01 |
W
2-3:30,
F 11-12:30 |
| 300.303 (H) |
EARLY
MODERN POETRY (3) Patton Limit
15 Cross-listed with Humanities Center and Studies of Women,
Gender and Sexuality Course cancelled
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Sec.
01
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T
1-3
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| 300.315 (H) |
MIND AND MATTER (3) Leys
/ Marrati Refer to graduate course
300.657 for course description. Course added 9/16/04. |
Sec.
01 |
Th
1-4 |
| 300.317 (H) (W) |
THE RUSSIAN NOVEL (3) Eakin Moss Limit 20 Examines Russian
experiments with the novel – in verse, epistolary, Realist, Symbolist
– and contributions of Russian literary criticism in defining
novel and genre. Authors include Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky,
Tolstoy (in translation).” |
Sec.
01 |
MW
2-3:30
W 2-3:30 |
| 300.337
(H) |
THINKING
FILMS (3) Marrati
Limit 35
This course examines how films deal with and renew philosophical ways of thinking
about reality, perception, ethical choices, identify personal
& historical memory. Readings include Descartes, Kierkegaard,
Cavell, Deleuze. Cross-listed with Philosophy, Film &
Media Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures Additional
meeting time added for film screening 9/7/04 |
Sec.01 |
M 7-9:30pm T 12:30-3
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| 300.357
(H)
(W) |
FREUD
& CULTURE (3) Leys Limit
20 A critical examination of texts by Freud and his commentators
on the origins of ethics, religion, and culture. Cross-listed
with Anthropology and History of Science and Technology |
Sec. 01 |
F 1-3 |
| 300.361
(H) (W) |
LITERATURES
OF TIME (3) deVries Limit 35
20 Can literature recount (the experience of) time where
philosophy, psychology, and cosmology must, as some have argued,
fail? Readings include selections from Augustine, Heidegger, Ricoeur,
Proust, Mann, Beckett, Celan, Blanchot. Cross-listed with
Philosophy, Anthropology, German, English, and Romance Languages
and Literatures |
Sec. 01 |
T 10:30-1 |
| 300.369
(H) (W) |
AFRICAN
AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS (3) Chandler Limit 15 Beginning with Harold
Cruse’s “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,” (1967), the seminar
considers Cedric Robinson’s monumental “Black Marxism” (1983)
& Hortense Spillers’ magisterial “Black White & in Color”
(2003). Cross-listed with Africana Studies Course canceled 8/5/04
|
Sec. 01
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M 2:30-5:30
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| 360.133 (H) |
GREAT BOOKS: IN THE WESTERN
TRADITION (3) Roller/
Williams/ Campe/ Patton Limit 80
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Classics, Philosophy,
and German |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
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ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 371.147 (H) |
THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE (3) Schiffman Limit 15 Cross-listed
with Art Instructor's
Consent Req'd. Perm. Req'd. |
Sec. 01 |
Th
1-4 |
| 360.253 (H) (W) |
WRITING IN THE HUMANITIES: GODS AND GODDESSES
OF ANCIENT EGYPT (3) Waraska Limit 15 Cross-listed
with Interdepartmental, Humanities, and Near Eastern Studies
Not offered Fall 04
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Sec. 01
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MTW
11
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| 300.501 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY |
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| 300.503 |
INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK
-- JRS Honors Students only |
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| 300.505 |
INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK
-- SRS Honors Students only |
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| 300.507 (H) |
HONORS SEMINAR (2) Macksey A workshop on Honors projects in progress and
their relation to methods in humanistic studies. S/U
only Open only to those admitted to the Honors Program |
Sec. 01 |
Sun 3-5 |
| 300.525 (W) |
EDITORIAL INTERNSHIP (3)
Macksey Admission by interview Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only |
Sec. 01 |
TBA |
| 300.602 |
THEORY, PAINTING, VISION
Fried Readings in theoretically interesting texts on
painting, photography, vision, the “visual arts”. Authors studied
include Merleau-Ponty, Barthes, Derrida, Cavell, Benjamin, Wittgenstein,
and Martin. Cross-listed with History of Art |
Sec. 01 |
W 1-4 |
| 300.640 |
IRONIC
NARRITIVE: THEORIES & PRACTICES Macksey (Course meets at faculty’s home) Romantic, modern, &
postmodern concepts of irony; verbal & situational instances;
“perpetual parabasis’ and the limits of communication. |
Sec. 01 |
M 8-10:30pm |
| 300.647 |
ART, MYTH, ORIGIN Cohn A short seminar(six
meetings). What relation to the past and to tradition establishes
the work of art: citation, transformation, variation, or rupture?
Is it possible to renew an art by association with a more perfect
earlier period, to rediscover a lost primitive force? Recourse to
mythological thinking, to ideas of an origin – prehistoric, Greek,
Medieval, or Renaissance – abound toward the end of the 19th century
in literature, music, and painting. This seminar will analyze some
crucial episodes in order to grasp the relation of the work of art
to theories of myth and origin. Cross-listed with Romance Languages
and Literatures |
Sec. 01 |
W
4-6pm
3-5 |
| 300.651 |
INTRODUCING OBJECTS Gil A
short seminar (six meetings) on linguistic ways of introducing
objects as well as theories of imagination and judgment that have
the position of objects at their core. Key figures include Langacker,
Husserl, Brentano, and Kripke. |
Sec. 01 |
Th
3-5 |
| 300.657 |
MIND
& MATTER Marrati/
Leys A critical discussion of modern &
contemporary works on the relations between mind & matter.
Texts by Bergson, Freud, Canguilhem, Deleuze, Sartre, Damasio
and others. Cross-listed with Philosophy, Anthropology, and
History of Science and Technology |
Sec. 01 |
Th 1-4 |
| 300.671 |
STANLEY
CAVELL’S “THE CLAIM OF REASON” deVries
Seminar will explore Cavell’s
magnum opus and discuss his contribution to the understanding
of philosophical skepticism, literature, film, ethics, politics
and religion Cross-listed with Philosophy, Anthropology, English,
German & Romance Languages and Literatures |
Sec. 01 |
Th 10-1 |
| 300.673 |
HISTORICITY
& RELATION Chandler The question of a “transcendental historicity” in the work
of 3 major thinkers of the African Diaspora: Wilson Harris, Eduardo
Glissant & Paul Marshall. Course canceled 8/5/04
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Sec. 01
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T 3-6pm
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| 090.607 |
PLACES
OF SOVEREIGNTY Campe
The modern stage, from
Shakespeare to Handke, is oftenspecifically related to sovereignity--as
the king's antechamber, the place of aclamation or expulsion, or
the ambivalent zone between territories. Readings in English and
German; discussion in English. Cross listed with Romance Languages
and Literature, and German. |
Sec. 01 |
W 5-7pm |
| 040.689 |
CLASSICS AND/IN ANTHROPOLOGY: HISTORICAL AND
COMPARATIVE APPROACHES Detienne/ Yatromanolakis Cross-listed with Anthropology,
Humanities Center and Political Science |
Sec. 01 |
W 2-4 |
| 300.800 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY |
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| 300.801 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY-FIELD EXAMS Staff |
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| 300.803 |
DISSERTATION RESEARCH Staff |
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| 300.805 |
LITERARY PEDAGOGY Staff |
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