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Course Schedule
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| HUMANITIES CENTER |
| 300.205
(H) |
INTRODUCTION
TO CHINESE CINEMA (3)
Guo Limit 15 An introduction to the history of Chinese cinema from its emergence
in 1905 to the "Sixth Generation." Directors we cover
include Wu Yonggang, Xie Jin, Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar-wai, Ang Lee,
etc. Particular emphasis on issues of history writing, gender,
sexuality, and politics. No previous knowledge of the Chinese
language is required. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies
Course
added 7/19/06 |
Sec. 01 |
M 1-3 |
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text indicates the current, updated information. |
| 300.311
(H) |
Comparative Sensibilities: East & West (3)
Rhee Limit 20 This course will examine the concept of literary sensibility through
comparative readings of novels and poetry from Western (European,
American) and Eastern (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) authors writing
in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cross-listed with
East Asian Studies |
Sec. 01 |
M 1-3 |
| 300.317 (H) (W)
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INTRODUCTION
TO COMPARATIVE DRAMA AND FILM (3) Macksey Limit 15 Course canceled 5/08/06
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Sec. 01
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WF 2-3:30
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| 300.335 (H) |
PROUST AND PHILOSOPHY
(3) deVries
Limit 20 In addition to the extensive reading
of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost
Time, with special focus on the novel’s use of philosophical tropes,
this course will investigate its philosophical reception and significance.
Readings will include Bergson, Benjamin, Beckett, Adorno,
Jauss, DeLeuze,
Levinas, Girard, deMan, Ricoeur, Pippin.
Cross-listed with German, Romance Languages, Philosophy, and
Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality
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Sec. 01 |
T 2-4:30 |
| 300.343 (H) |
BERGSON AND THE PROBLEM
OF NOVELTY IN PHILOSOPHY (3) Marrati Limit 20 What is the new? This course examines how Bergson has transformed philosophy asking the question of
the production of the new. It will focus mainly on his understanding
of the evolution of life forms in biology and its consequences
for anthropology, politics, and psychology. Readings will include: Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, The Two Sources of
Morality and Religion, The Creative Mind, and
Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.
Cross-listed with Anthropology, German, Philosophy,
Romance Languages, and Political Science |
Sec. 01 |
T 2-4:30 |
| 090.386
(H) |
GERMAN
JEWISH THOUGHT SINCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT (3) Tobias
Limit 15
Cross-listed with German,
Jewish Studies, and History |
Sec.01
Reading
hour |
W 3-5pm
TBA |
| 212.379
(H) |
THE
INTELLECTUAL WORLD OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (3) Celenza
Limit 20 15
Cross-listed with History, Classics, Romance Languages, and Philosophy |
Sec. 01
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W 11-1 |
| 300.501 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY |
Sec.01 |
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| 300.503 |
INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK
– Open only to Juniors admitted to the Honors Program Macksey/Staff |
Sec. 01 |
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| 300.505 |
INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK
– Open only to Seniors admitted to the Honors Program Macksey/Staff |
Sec. 01 |
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| 300.507 (H)
(W) |
HONORS SEMINAR: METHODS
IN HUMANISTIC STUDIES (2) Macksey
/ Dechand
A workshop on Honors projects in progress and
their relation to methods in humanistic studies. Open only
to students admitted to the Honors Program-Taught at Faculty’s
home |
Sec. 01 |
Sun 3-5 |
| 300.525 (W) |
EDITORIAL INTERNSHIP (3)
Macksey Admission by interview Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
only |
Sec. 01 |
TBA |
| 300.623 |
MIRACLES, EVENTS, EFFECTS deVries
Limit 20
The seminar will seek to establish a conversation
between theologies of the miracle, philosophies of the event,
and media theories of special effects. Readings
will include St. Paul, St. Thomas Aquinas,
Hume, Feuerbach, Benjamin, Wittgenstein,
Davidson, Cavell, Badiou, Marion, Manovich, Pierson, and others.
Cross-listed with Anthropology, Philosophy, and Political Science |
Sec. 01 |
Th 1-4 |
| 300.639 |
PSYCHOANALYSIS
AND ART HISTORY Fried/Leys Limit 20
A consideration of major art historical and interpretive texts
that make use of psychoanalysis. No prior knowledge of psychoanalysis
is required. Authors include: Freud, Laplanche
and Pontalis, Melanie Klein, Winnicott,
Lacan, Kristeva,
Schapiro, Wollheim, Clark, Steinberg,
Bersani, and Anne Wagner.
(Co-listed as 010.688)
Cross-listed with German & Romance Languages, History,
and Philosophy |
Sec. 01 |
T 1-4 |
| 300.640
(W) |
IRONIC NARRITIVE: THEORIES
AND PRACTICES Macksey Limit 20 Romantic,
modern, and postmodern concepts of irony; verbal and situational
instances; “perpetual parabasis” and
the limits of communication. Course meets at faculty’s home. |
Sec. 01 |
M 8-10:30pm |
| 300.678 |
DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION AND ITS SOURCES
Marrati Limit 20 This
seminar analyzes Gilles Deleuze’s major
book and its philosophical sources: Plato, Bergson,
Kant, Leibniz, and others.
Cross-listed with Philosophy, Political Science, Anthropology,
German & Romance Languages |
Sec. 01 |
M 2-5 W 10-12:30 |
| 040.601 |
MYTHOLOGY
OF GREEK GODS: HERMES AND APOLLO Detienne Limit 10 Hermes and Apollo in cults and representations
of ancient polytheism. Readings:
W. Burkert, W.F. Otto, J. Strauss Clay,
and others. Cross-listed with Anthropology, Classics, and
Philosophy |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5pm |
| 090.641 |
HEGEL:
ON ETHICS AND THE THEORY OF TRAGEDY Menke Limit
12 Two month intensive course
Cross-listed with German and Philosophy |
Sec. 01 |
M 3-6pm |
| 090.656 |
THEORIZING EMOTIONALITY
Pahl Limit 12 Cross-listed with Study
of Women, Gender and Sexuality, German, and Philosophy |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5pm |
| 212.761 |
BOOKS,
READERS, AND WRITERS IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE Celenza / Izbicki Prereq: Basic reading knowledge of Latin or Perm. Req’d.
Limit 15
Cross-listed with Classics, History, and Romance Languages
and German |
Sec. 01 |
T 4-6pm |
| 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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| 300.808 |
HUMANITIES RESEARCH
PRACTICUM Staff Course
added 7/10/06 |
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