HUMANITIES CENTER

300.303 (H)
(W)

EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS: POETRY OF THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE (3) Patton   Limit 12  This seminar begins with women orators of the Italian Quattrocento and then explores the poetry of European salons and social circles: Gaspara Stampa, Vittoria Colonna, Louise Labé, Les Dames des Roches, Elizabeth I, Katherine Parr, Mary Sidney, and Elizabeth Cary.
Cross-listed with English, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

Th 2-4 F 10-12

300.313 (H)
(W)

THINKING LIVING TIME (3) Schott   Limit 15  Time is passing: it is, but it also is no longer and not yet. How do we experience, i.e. live, this transience? How, if at all, can we make sense of it? This seminar will study answers to these questions by Augustine, Bergson, and Heidegger. Cross-listed with German & Romance Languages & Literatures Course added 11/29/06

Sec. 01

Th 2-5

300.319 (H)
(W)

THE HISTORY OF IDEAS (3) Macksey/Dechand   Limit 15   A tour of interdisciplinary activities largely focused on Hopkins, from Peirce’s Metaphysical Club and Lovejoy’s History of Ideas Club to more recent developments in cooperative studies in philosophy, history, and literature: a narrative of people, ideas, institutions, and their consequences.

Sec. 01

F 2-4

300.334 (H)

MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY (3) Shuster   Limit 25   This course will serve to introduce students to the diversity of Modern Jewish philosophy and thinking, from theology to philosophy, Hasidism to Zionism, politics to history.
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, History, and Philosophy

Sec. 01

T 3-5:30

300.338 (H)

MODERN KOREAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (3) Rhee   Limit 20 The course examines twentieth century Korean literature in historical context. Readings include Yi Kwangsu, Yi Sang, Kim Su-young, Park Kyong-ni, and Hwang Chiu. There will be a film component to this course that focuses on the director, Im Kwon Taek.
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

M 2-4

300.350 (H)

MORAL PERFECTIONISM (3) de Vries/ Lefebvre   Limit 20   Taking Stanley Cavell's Cities of Words as our guide, this course explores themes and principles of moral perfectionism in philosophy, literature, and film. Attendance at weekly film screenings is mandatory. Cross listed with Anthropology, Philosophy, and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

Scr.

T 2-4:30

T 8-10:30pm

300.357 (H)

WHAT COUNTS AS HUMAN? (3)
Marrati   Limit 20   This course analyzes different concepts of the human and others. Readings include: Plato, Descartes, Kant, Levinas, Arendt, and Butler.   Cross listed with Philosophy, Anthropology, Political Science, German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

F 1-3:30

300.360 (H)

THE BODY IN PRE-MODERN CHINESE CULTURE (3) Guo Limit 15 An examination of the body in pre-modern China in comparative perspectives. We shall look at the ways in which the body is imagined medically, cosmologically, artistically, and legally. Among the topics we shall treat are the medical body (yin yang relationships), the cross-dressing body (theatrical and everyday transvestism), the body of the friend (friendship), the “fashion-able body”  (footbinding), the sacrificial /sacrificed body (male and female suicide), and the legally imagined body (gender, sex, and law). No prior knowledge of Chinese is required.
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

M 1-3

300.363 (H)
(W)

READING JUDITH SHAKESPEARE: WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND (3) Patton   Limit 12  Virginia Woolf’s account of the thwarted career of Shakespeare’s hypothetical sister, Judith, frames our reading of women playwrights, poets and diarists of the 16th and early 17th century England.
Cross-listed with English, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

Th 10-12

300.372 (H,S)

HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES (3) Leys   Limit 20  A seminar on topics and issues associated with Holocaust testimony.
Cross-listed with History, History of Science and Technology, and Anthropology

Sec. 01

M 2-4

300.382 (H)

PHILOSOPHY, MEMORY, AND RECONSTRUCTION:  WESTERN EUROPE AFTER WW II (3)Geroulanos  Limit 25   This course on the intellectual history of Western Europe with focus on the war’s legacy, reconstruction, existentialism, the appeal of Soviet communism, the crisis of humanism, and film.  Cross-listed with History, German and Romance Languages and Literatures    
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

Scr.

W 5-8 pm

T  7-9pm

300.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY  Staff

300.504 (H)
(W)

INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK – JUNIORS Macksey and Sponsoring faculty  Open only to students admitted to the Honors Program in Humanistic Studies

300.506 (H)
(W)

INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK - SENIORS Macksey and Sponsoring faculty Open only to students admitted to the Honors Program in Humanistic Studies

300.508
(W)

HONORS SEMINAR: METHODS IN HUMANISTIC STUDIES   Macksey/Dechand   A workshop on Honors projects in progress and their relation to methods in humanistic scholarship. Open only the members of the Honors Program in Humanistic Studies

Sec. 01

Sun 3-5

300.526 (H)
(W)

EDITORIAL INTERNSHIP Macksey   S/U only   Students with a serious commitment to critical journalism may contract a supervised internship with one of the University publications or cooperating sponsors in the Baltimore community.  Admission by interview

Sec. 01

TBA

213.255 (H)

VOICES: FROM THE ROMANTIC TEXT TO GRAMMOPHONE AND TELEPHONE (3) Campe   Limit 15   Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

T 1-3

070.328 (H,S) (W)

THE CONCEPT OF THE PATIENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3) Meyers Limit 25   Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology, Anthropology, and Public Health Studies Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

070.361(H,S)
(W)
             

RELIGION AND PLURALISM IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES (3) Baxstrom     Limit 20
Cross-listed with Political Science and Anthropology

Sec. 01

ThF 1:30-3

070.369 (H,S)
(W)
             

ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES (3) Khan   Limit 30
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology and, Political Science

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

300.604

LITERATURE OF THE CITY:  PARIS Hertz     Limit 20   The focus this spring will be on Second Empire Paris, between the 1848 Revolution and the Commune of 1871. Readings to include works by Flaubert, Tocqueville, Marx, Baudelaire, & Zola. Readings in the works of novelists and poets, historians, sociologists, journalists, and urban theorists on life in Western cities (e.g., London, Paris, Chicago, and Los Angles) from 18th century to the present.   Cross-listed with English and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

F 9-12

300.619

TRAUMA THEORY NOW   Leys     Limit 20   A discussions of current debates about trauma, testimony, and representation after Auschwitz.  Texts by Freud, Derrida, Felman, Caruth, Spiegelman, Agamben, and others.
Cross listed with History, History of Science and Technology, Anthropology, Philosophy, and English

Sec. 01

T 1-4

300.631

TOPICS IN ESTHETICS AND CRITICISM    Fried   Limit 20   This seminar will be taught successfully by four “estheticians,” Richard Moran (Harvard), David Wellbery (University of Chicago), Michael Fried (JHU), and James Conant (University of Chicago).

Sec. 01

W 5-8pm

300.635

AMERICAN MODERNISM:  STEVENS, WILLIAMS, AND MOORE    Macksey   Limit 20   Poetry and selected prose by three American originals: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams.  An interlude will be devoted to the home-made worlds of Charles Ives, George Herriman, and Chuck Jones.  Seminar meets at instructor’s home.

Sec. 01

M 8-10:30pm

300.671

STANLEY CAVELL’S “THE CLAIM OF REASON”  de Vries/Marrati Limit 15 This 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, Political Science, English, German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

213.638

EPISTEMOLOGY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Rheinberger  
Limit 15   Meets 3/26-4/23 (plus additional session)
Cross listed with the German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, and History of Science and Technology

Sec. 01

M 3-6pm

213.662

ADVOCACY: FÜRSPRACHE Campe
Limit 15   Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Political Science, and Classics

Sec. 01

Th 3-5pm

212.673

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN FILM AND FILM THEORY: EUROPEAN AUTEURS Wegenstein   Limit 15
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

215.685

LITERATURE AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Egginton   Limit 15
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

Th 1-3

300.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

300.802

INDEPENDENT STUDY -  FIELD EXAM

300.804

DISSERTATION RESEARCH   Leys
Discussion of dissertations in progress. Limited to students writing dissertations.

300.806

LITERARY PEDAGOGICS Macksey

300.808

HUMANITIES RESEARCH PRACTICUM Fried