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Tales of Modernity from Sophocles, Freud, Chekhov, Babel, and Woolf. Introduction to cross-disciplinary approach in humanities through foundational texts in the modern tradition. The main focus is on Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913), alongside his ancillary writings. Contemporary social thought and historical scholarship provide the context (Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, Karl Schorske, John Murray Cuddihy) while works of imaginative literature (Sophocles, Anton Chekhov, Isaac Babel, and Virginia Woolf) illuminate the significance of the Oedipus myth for understanding the inter-generational conflict in antiquity and modernity.

Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. Ancient texts situated in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Readings include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea, Thucydides Peloponnesian War,, Plato's Symposium, Aristotle's Poetics, Virgil's Aeneid, Seneca's Trojan Women and Agamemnon, and Augustine's On Christian Doctrine.

The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how such historical pressures along with developments in mathematical perspective and science challenged earlier conceptions of space, artistic form, the self, politics, the divine, and the physical universe on the threshold of the modern era. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle, Dante, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli, The Prince; Luther, Montaigne, Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; Wroth, Galileo, Donne, Shakespeare, Othello; and works of art and music.

Priority to students in the Humanities honors program and English majors. The relationship between intellectual, political, and cultural history, and imaginative literature in the modern period. Rousseau, Kant, Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marx, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Mill, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Beckett.

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.

The revival of ancient tragedy in the Baroque opera house. The central mysteries of tragedy: knowledge of suffering, necessity of sacrifice, pleasure of pathos. How tragic drama and opera used poetry, dance, and music to sway the passions and prompt reflection. Greek myths of Medea, Iphigenia, Alceste, Idomeneo. Plays by Euripides and Racine; operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Charpentier.

History of attempts to understand the nature of life and mind by comparing living creatures with artificial machines and material arrangements. Imitations of animal life and human thought and discussions of relations between creatures and contraptions from antiquity onward, with an eye toward providing historical depth to current attempts to simulate life and mind.

Can empire be justified with balance sheets of imperial crimes and boons, a calculus of racism versus railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Wal-mart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development.

The role of music in productions, adaptations, and interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as theater, opera, and film from the Elizabethan era through the present. Emphasis is on the role of songs, stage music, and music in operatic and film adaptations. Incidental music, orchestral tone poems, and art-song settings of lyrics from the plays. Plays include Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors): MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4- or 5-unit level only.)

The afterlives of mythological themes from the operas and music dramas of Richard Wagner (The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Ring Cycle, Parsifal) in literature, modernist aesthetics, fascist politics, film, philosophy, and contemporary media.

The globalization of the contemporary Anglophone novel. How the English language novel relates to recent models of archiving world literature. How novels from Nigeria, India, Guyana and Australia foreground the socio-political implications of colonialism and decolonization, the amorphous relationship of the public and private spheres, the contended fates of human rights and territorial sovereignty. Texts by Sinha, Kempadoo, Shangvi, Greenville, Moretti, Casanova, Slaughter and others.

Themes: institutions of the family and gender; debate about the female body, church, and religion; the decline of privilege and the rise of capital and industry; the meaning of art and the artist; conflicts of law and custom, country and city, andnationalism and cosmopolitanism; and the ascetic rejection of the world. Authors include Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Weber, and Freud.

Two quarter sequence. Students discuss progress on research and writing the senior honors essay. Required for seniors in the Humanities honors program.

Preliminary planning and study. Student drafts a proposal in Winter Quarter of the junior year to submit to the committee in charge for suggestions regarding focus and bibliography. After revisions, the student resubmits a fully developed proposal to the committee for additional comment and/or final approval. 60 hours over two quarters are expected of students developing their essay proposals for 2 units, usually 1 unit each in Winter and Spring of the junior year. Students usually make revisions of some kind in either scope or formulation of the topic. Students overseas submit proposals and receive feedback by fax or email. [WIM]

Regular meetings with tutor (thesis adviser). Prerequisite: 200A.

Regular meetings with tutor; submission of complete first draft at least two weeks before final deadline. Prerequisite: 200B.

Required of GPH doctoral and master's students. Participation in the student-organized symposium; presentation of a paper informed by texts addressed in GPH seminars.

For doctoral students in the GPH. Supervised interdisciplinary teaching to satisfy the program teaching requirement.

For graduate students in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) and the Graduate Program in Humanities (GPH). Required of students in the GPH who have not yet completed the course requirements for the program. May be repeated for credit.

Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.

The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.

Modern anxieties about the place of human concerns within a disenchanted natural world, focusing on texts of philosophy, social theory, and imaginative literature. Cultural and psychological consequences of perceived decline in and threats to religious faith. Authors may include Schiller, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, Kierkegaard, Marx, Baudelaire, Darwin, Nietzsche, Weber, Eliot, Woolf, Sartre, and Camus.

Two quarter sequence. Students discuss progress on research and writing the senior honors essay. Required for seniors in the Humanities honors program.

Colloquium focused on key primary sources that allow entry into Medieval European culture. Readings include: Augustine, On Christian Doctrine; Gregory the Great, Moralia on the Book of Job; Beowulf; the Song of Roland; and Aquinas, Summa Theologica.

Focus is on how authors and readers from this period theorize various historical processes: the rise of European imperialism; religious conflicts and revolutions; new understandings of the self and the world; and the rise of the novel. Authors: Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Núñez Muley, Martorell, Rabelais, Camões, Cervantes, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.