300.153 (H)

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGON: AN INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH PHILOSOPHY (3) Shuster  Limit 35 18 This class will survey some of the major names and themes in Jewish philosophy, situating them within their larger philosophical/historical contexts.  Students also will be introduced to general questions in the philosophy of religion.  Readings include Philo, Saadiah, J. Halevi, Maimonides, Gersonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Buber, Soloveitchik, and more.

Cross-listed with Philosophy and Jewish Studies

   Sec. 01

   W 6:15-8:30pm

300.300 (H)

CHANCE: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE (3) Follett  Limit 15  An investigation of some important moments in the history of the metaphysical, epistemological, scientific and aesthetic idea of chance in Western culture, from antiquity to the present day. Course added 04/18/05

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30 MT 10-11:30

300.377 (H)

RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENTS: SPINOZA’S HERETIC “ATHEISM AND THE MATERIALIST TRADITION” (3) deVries Limit 30 20     This undergraduate course will introduce one of the major thinkers of the so-called radical Enlightenment, analyze his materialist equation of God and Nature, his conception of philosophy and intuitive knowledge, civil religion and the political order, and discuss the renewed influence of his thought in contemporary debates.

Cross-listed with Philosophy, German, Jewish Studies, Romance Languages, Political Science, and Anthropology

Sec. 01

      Th 1-3:30

300.379 (H)

              (W)

THE RHETORIC OF FICTION: REALISTIC AND FANTASTIC NARRATIVE  (3) Macksey   Limit 15      A comparative study of representation in 19th and 20th century fiction, including selected film adaptations.

Sec. 01

W 2:30-4 F 2-3:30 WF 2-3:30

300.383 (H)

WHAT MAKES US DESIRE? (3) Marrati   Limit 35 20  This course will analyze different philosophical & literary conceptions of desire. Reading will include: Plato, Pascal, Freud, Proust, V. Wolf, Levinas, Deleuze & others.

Cross-listed with Anthropology, Philosophy, Romance Languages, and Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

M 2-4:30

300.385 171 (H)

PREMODERN KOREAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (3) Rhee   Limit 20     Premodern Korean Literature in Translation: Examines literary texts and cultural productions of Korea from the Three Kingdoms period to the late nineteenth century. No prior knowledge of Korean is required.

Cross-listed with Language Teaching Center (Korean)

Sec. 01

      Th 1-3:30

300.387 (H)(W)

NARRATIVE VERSIONS AND INVERSIONS IN YIDDISH LITERATURE AND FILM (3) Eakin Moss  Limit 20  Examines the practices of rewriting, adaptation, intertextuality and parody in Yiddish literature and film from folklore to modernism. Readings in narrative theory and Yiddish rewritings and adaptations of Biblical stories, legends, folk tales and Shakespeare, in translation. Course added 4/14/05 Course canceled 09/14/05

Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies and Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

M 2-4:30

300.391 (H)(W)

THE POETICS OF HOME AND EXILE IN 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN CULTURE (3) Eakin Moss  Limit 20  Examines the concept of home in 20th century Russian poetry, fiction, essay, art and film. Topics include: modernism, socialist realism, public and private space, nation and empire, internal and external exile, and nostalgia. Readings in translation. Course added 4/14/05

Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

360.101 257 (H,S) 

INTRODUCTION TO AFRICANA STUDIES (3) Hayes   Limit 25     Introduction to Africana Studies through an interdisciplinary examination of patterns of change, movement, & adaptation among people of African descent in Africa & the Americas.

Cross-listed with Africana Studies, History, Interdepartmental, Political Science and Sociology

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

360.133 (H)

              (W)

GREAT BOOKS: WESTERN TRADITION (3) Patton/Bett/Celenza/Biddle     Limit 20 per section

Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Classics, Philosophy, and Romance Languages, German

Sec. 01

02

03

04

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 Perm. Req’d.

Cross-listed with Art

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

360.375 (H,S)                  (W)     

BEBOP, MODERNISM AND CHANGE (3) Limit 20   Hayes

Cross-listed with Africana Studies, English, History, Interdepartmental, Political Science and Sociology

Sec. 01

ThF 2-3:30

070.377 (H,S)

              (W)

MAGIC, SCIENCE, RELIGION (3) Khan

Cross-listed with the Humanities Center         

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

090.384 (H)
             (W)

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE (3) Wilczek   
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Cross-listed with Romance Languages, Cognitive Science

Sec. 01

M 3-4:30
W 2-3:30

300.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY

300.503

INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK – Junior Honors Students only

300.505

INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK – Senior Honors Students only

300.507 (H)

              (W)

HONORS SEMINAR: METHODS IN HUMANIISTIC STUDIES (2) Macksey/ Mao     A workshop on Honors projects in progress and their relation to methods in humanistic studies.  Open only to those admitted to the Honors Program

Sec. 01

TBA

300.525 (W)

EDITORIAL INTERNSHIP (3) Macksey Admission by interview

Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only

Sec. 01

TBA

300.677

TRANSCENDENCE & IMMANENCE: THEODOR W. ADORNO AND GILLES DELEUZE deVries/Marrati Seminar will consist in a systematic confrontation of two important concepts in two influential 20th century thinkers by way of a close reading of their two major works: Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. Central topics of discussion will be: the concept of the concept and the task of philosophy, difference and dialectics, materialism and empiricism.

Cross-listed with Anthropology, English, Philosophy, German, Romance Languages and Political Science

Sec. 01

T 1-4

300.679

TIME IN THE NOVEL: NARRATIVE STRATEGIES FROM STERNE TO PEREC Macksey  Limit 20  (Course meets at faculty’s home) 

  Sec. 01

 M 8-10:30pm

190.658

THE POLITICAL AESTHETIC OF THOREAU AND WHITMAN Bennett  Limit 15

Cross-listed with Political Science

Sec. 01

Th 10-12

360.661

THE PHILOSOPHY AND  NEUROSCIENCES OF EMOTIONS  Leys/Williams  Topics include: The role of meaning and intention in the emotions; the nature of the intentional object; Darwinian approaches to the emotions; “natural kinds” and the emotions; and recent neurological approaches to the emotions.

Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, Political Science, History, Philosophy and Interdepartmental

Sec. 01

W 1-4

040.693

BACCHUS AND DIONYSUS TODAY  Detienne

Cross-listed with Classics, Anthropology, History, Romance Language

Sec. 01

W 3-5

300.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

300.801

INDEPENDENT STUDY-FIELD EXAMS Staff

300.803

DISSERTATION RESEARCH Staff

300.805

LITERARY PEDAGOGY Staff

300.808

HUMANITIES RESEARCH PRACTICUM Staff Course added 08/17/05