300.310 (H)
(W)

POETRY REALIZED IN NATURE:
THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION
(3) Dechand   Limit  20 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his inheritance. We will consider Coleridge in his various guises as romantic poet, literary critic, historian & philosopher of science, political correspondent, and religious thinker. Supplementary authors include but are not limited to Wordsworth, Davy, Mill, Emerson, and Poe.

Sec. 01

TTh 2-3:20

300.312 (H)
(W)

IMAGINING REVOLUTION AND UTOPIA (3) Moss   Limit 25 20 Examines theories of revolution and utopia and responses in literature, art and film. Primary case study is Russia and the Soviet Union, with comparative look at influential European works and contemporary politics. Topics include gender and the family, terror, communism and communalism, and the avant-garde in art and film. Cross listed with Studies of Women and Gender, and Sexuality, and Film & Media Studies 

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4

300.316 (H)

SURREALISM (3) Warnock   Limit 15
Course will explore the vagaries of surrealist thinking about art, with an emphasis on specific case studies. Artists include: Ernst, Miro, Masson, Picasso, Giacometti; texts by Breton, Bataille, Leiris, Einstein. Cross-listed with History of Art and German & Romance Lang. & Lit.
Deans Teaching Fellowship Course added 10/31/07

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

300.328 (H) (W)

SURREALIST NARRATIVES (3) Khatib   Limit 20 This course will explore the novels and films of key surrealists and their fellow travelers, and discuss the development of specifically surrealist critique of gender, race, and power in narrative form. Authors include: Appollinaire, Aragon, Breton, Carrington, Svankmajerova, Rosemont, Peret, Lautreamont, Ernst, Crevel, Benjamin, Marker, and Cesaire. An intensive reading and discussion seminar devoted to the examination of several key surrealist texts, with a specific focus on the underlying social, ethical, political, and historical themes at stake .
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality and Film & Media Studies Deans Teaching Fellowship Course added 10/31/07

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

300.340 (H)
(W)

ANIMAL SPIRITS; OUR RELATIONS WITH FELLOW CREATURES (3) Macksey   Limit 15
Comparative literary, philosophic, and visual perspectives on dealings with neighboring species. Readings will include Montaigne, Condillac, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Rilke, Kafka, Ackerley, Sebald, and Coetzee; an interlude with George Herriman, Chuck Jones, and Werner Herzog.
Note: Seminar meets at instructor's home

Sec. 01

F 2-4:30

300.350 (H)

MORAL PERFECTIONISM (3)
Marrati   Limit 25 20   Readings included Cavel, Emerson, Mill, Nietzsche and others.

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4

300.368 (H)

DO MIRACLES (STILL) HAPPEN? (3) de Vries   Limit 25 The seminar will seek to establish a conversation between theologies of the miracle and philosophies of causation and the event. Readings will include St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Spinoza, Hume, Feuerbach, Rosenzweig, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Santner, and others.  Cross listed with Philosophy, German and Romance Languages, Anthropology, and Political Science

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

300.376 (H) (W)

EUROPEANS CONCEPTIONS OF THE NEW MAN, 1789-1945 (3) Geroulanos  Limit 35
A course on the cultural and conceptual history of the political, intellectual, and artistic figure of the "New Man" in philosophical writings and political movements from the French Revolution through Nazism and Stalinism.  
Cross-listed with History and German and Romance Languages

Sec. 01

W 5-8pm

371.140 (H)

CARTOONING (3) Chalkley  Limit 15  Not open to Freshmen
Cross-listed with Art

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4:20

371.146 (H)

BASIC BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY (3) Berger     Students must have a 35mm camera with manual aperture and shutter speeds.  Attendance at first class is mandatory.  Limit 7 per section 
Cross-listed with Art

Sec. 01

02

F 2-5pm

F 10-1

371.151 (H)

PHOTOSHOP AND THE DIGITAL DARKROOM (3) Berger   Limit 10
Students must have a digital camera. Prior knowledge of Photoshop is not required.
Cross-listed with Art

Sec. 01

Th 10-1

371.152 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY (3) Salazar   Students must have a digital camera with manual aperture and shutter speed.  Attendance at first class is mandatory   Limit 10 per section   Cross-listed with Art

Sec. 01

02

T 1:30-4:30

W 1:30-4:30

360.216 (H,S)

THINKING FREEDOM, THINKING FEMINISM (3) Weber Limit 18  Foundational texts of modern feminism from Descartes through Simone de Beauvoir. We willconsider the framing questions of feminism emerging from the complicated dynamics of freedom, justice, and responsibility to others. Readings to include critical esays, philosophy, and literature.

Cross-listed with Interdepartmental and Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Course added 12/17/07

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

371.300 (H)

BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY SEMINAR (3) Berger   Limit 14     Prereq: 371.146 or perm req’d. Attendance at first class is mandatory.  Students develop a project of their choice, working independently in the darkroom and meeting for weekly critiques and discussions. Using the Zone System (a method of pre-visualization developed by Ansel Adams), students will experiment with different film, paper and developer combinations specific to their projects. Frequent gallery trips and visits from guest artists are an integral part of the seminar experience.
Cross-listed with the Art

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4:30

213.332 (H)
 (W)

ZIONISM IN MODERN LITERATURE: JEWISH OR ISRAELI? (3) M. Caplan   Limit 20 
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, German and Romance Languages, and English

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

213.352 (H)

FONTANE AND THE ADULTERY FILM (3) Kolarov   Limit 20 
Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality,  and German and Romance Languages

Sec. 01

F 2-4:30

214.371 (H)
 (W)

IMAGINING MEDIEVAL ITALIAN CULTURE: THE NAME OF THE ROSE (3) Stephens   Limit 20    
Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies, History, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, German and Romance Languages, and Englis

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

213.380 (H)

GHOST STORIES, HAUNTED HOUSES AND OTHER OCCULT PHENOMENA (3) Tobias   Limit 20 
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages

Sec. 01

MWF 10-10:50. F 11-11:50

213.419 (H)

CRITICAL LOVE: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3) Pahl   Limit 20  
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and German and Romance Languages

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

215.457 6 (H)

LITERATURE AND FILM: THE CASE OF MANUEL PUIG (3) E. Gonzalez   Limit 30 20  
Cross listed with Program in Latin American Studies, Film and Media Studies, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and German and Romance Languages

Sec. 01

Th 2-4:30

300.504 (H)
(W)

INDIVIDUAL HONORS WORK – JUNIORS Macksey and Sponsoring faculty (3) Open only to Juniors admitted to the Honors Program in Humanistic Studies

300.506 (H)
 (W)

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

300.508 (H)
(W)

HONORS SEMINAR: METHODS IN HUMANISTIC STUDIES   Macksey/Dechand   A workshop on Honors projects in progress and their relation to methods in humanistic scholarship. Readings will focus on Aristotle’s modes of inquiry.  Open only to members of the Honors Program in Humanistic Studies. Note: Seminar meets at instructor’s home

Sec. 01

Sunday 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

300.610
 (W)

RHETORIC OF FICTION II: NARRATIVE TEMPORALITY Macksey  Limit 15
Strategies of chronology, narrated time, and reading time in modern and post-modern fiction, with theoretical observations from the Russian Formalists, Weinrich, Poulet, Ricoeur, Genette, Derrida, et al.  Cross listed with Writing Seminars   Note: Seminar meets at instructor's home

Sec. 01

T 8-10:30pm

300.618

ETHICS, FILM, AND THE ORDINARY Staff   Limit 15 Course added 02/12/08

Sec. 01

M 1-3:30 (2/18, 2/25, & 3/03 only)

300.624

SECULARISM AND BEYOND THE SECULAR LIVES OF GRACE  de Vries Limit 15 This seminar will offer an extensive discussion of recent texts on the so-called deconstruction of Christianity by Jean-Luc Nancy and Ernesto Laclau, Marcel Gauchet and Charles Taylor, Giorgio Agamben, Connolly, and others. 
Cross listed with Philosophy, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Anthropology, and Political Science

Sec. 01

T 4-7pm 1-3:50

300.680

DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION CONTINUED    Marrati   Limit 15

Sec. 01

M 4-7pm

213.640

THE CONCEPT OF PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS Menke   Limit 15   Meets 2/11-3/7
Cross-listed German and Romance Languages and Philosophy

Sec. 01

W 4:30-6:30pm,
F 12-1:50

213.646

FANTASY NARRATIVES OF THE 19TH CENTURY M. Caplan   Limit 15  
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and English

Sec. 01

Th 12-1:50

215.686

ALL ABOUT ZIZEK Egginton  
Limit 15 
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Philosophy

Sec. 01

Th 12-1:50

214.748

VICO AND THE OLD SCIENCE Stephens   Limit 15    
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages, the English, and Philosophy

Sec. 01

W 12-1:50

300.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

300.802

INDEPENDENT STUDY -  FIELD EXAM

300.804

DISSERTATION RESEARCH Course added 11/06/07

300.806

LITERARY PEDAGOGICS Macksey