MLA 9:
European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century
Major European thinkers and writers and their intellectual significance from the Enlightenment to modernism. Works by Voltaire, Austen, Wordsworth, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 4
MLA 100E:
MLA Natural Science Elective
Last offered: Summer 2013
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
MLA 101A:
Foundations I
Required of and limited to first-year MLA students. First of three quarter foundation course. Introduction to the main political, philosophical, literary, and artistic trends that inform the liberal arts vision of the world and that underlie the MLA curriculum.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
MLA 101B:
Foundations II: the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Required of and limited to first-year MLA students. Second of three quarter foundation course. Introduction to the main political, philosophical, literary, and artistic trends that inform the liberal arts vision of the world and that underlie the MLA curriculum.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
MLA 101C:
Foundations III: the Enlightenment through Modernism
Required of and limited to first-year MLA students. First of three quarter foundation course. Introduction to the main political, philosophical, literary, and artistic trends that inform the liberal arts vision of the world and that underlie the MLA curriculum.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
MLA 102:
An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Graduate Study
Limited to and required of second-year MLA students. Historical, literary, artistic, medical, and theological issues are covered. Focus is on skills and information needed to pursue MLA graduate work at Stanford: writing a critical, argumentative graduate paper; conducting library research; expectations of seminar participation. Readings include Homer, Thucydides, Camus, Mann, Kushner, and sacred, scientific, and historical writings.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
MLA 262:
The Economics of Life and Death
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 4
MLA 268:
Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
The cultural and political life of fin-de-siècle Vienna with particular attention to revolutionary ideas that came to expression in its art, architecture, music, and political ideologies.
| Units: 4
MLA 269:
The Meaning of Life: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry through Literature
Last offered: Autumn 2013
| Units: 4
MLA 274:
From Slavery to Obama
Last offered: Autumn 2011
| Units: 4
MLA 275:
Shakespeare in Performance
Last offered: Summer 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 278:
James Joyce's Ulysses
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4
MLA 279:
When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4
MLA 280:
British and American Fiction in the 19th and early 20th Century
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4
MLA 281:
The Arts as History: Britain 1900-1956
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 4
MLA 282:
Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Problems
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 4
MLA 283:
Three 20th-century Minds: Eliot, Pound, and Yeats
This course considers three revolutionary thinkers as they each came to terms with what they saw as the encroaching chaos of the early 20th century.
Last offered: Summer 2011
| Units: 4
MLA 284:
Problems in American Foreign Policy
This seminar examines in depth the problems facing American diplomacy. These include the several crises in the Middle East and relations with the Muslim World; the recent world economic recession; nuclear proliferation; problems and prospects in the relationship(s) with America's allies; persistent difficulties with and the possible promise of relations with China and Russia.
Last offered: Summer 2011
| Units: 4
MLA 285:
The Age of Enlightenment
Last offered: Winter 2012
| Units: 4
MLA 286:
Evolutionary Theories of Music
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 287:
Ancients vs Moderns
Last offered: Winter 2012
| Units: 4
MLA 288:
Who Was Shakespeare?
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 290:
Conservation and Development Dilemmas in Latin America: Microcosm of the Galapagos
Last offered: Spring 2012
| Units: 4
MLA 291:
The Politics of International Humanitarian Action
Last offered: Summer 2012
| Units: 4
MLA 292:
The Bloomsbury Group
Last offered: Autumn 2012
| Units: 4
MLA 293:
Darwin, Marx, and Freud
Last offered: Autumn 2012
| Units: 4
MLA 294:
Text and Context: Art, Music, Poetry
Last offered: Autumn 2012
| Units: 4
MLA 295:
The American Enlightenment
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
MLA 296:
Reflections on the American Condition
Last offered: Winter 2013
| Units: 4
MLA 297:
Islands as Model Systems: Geology, Evolution, Ecology, and Human Societies
Last offered: Winter 2013
| Units: 4
MLA 298:
Heretics, Prostitutes, and Merchants: The Venetian Empire
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
MLA 299:
Evolution and Conservation in Galapagos
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 4
MLA 300:
Oxford Summer Programme
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2-4
MLA 301:
Mary Magdalene: The Feminine Principle in Scripture, Literature, and Legend
Last offered: Summer 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 302:
Paris: Capital of the Modern World
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4
MLA 303:
CULTURES OF COLLECTING
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 304:
The Colorado River: A Case Study of the History and Future of Western Water
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 305:
Russia Encounters the Enlightenment: The Art, Culture, and Politics
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
MLA 306:
The Young Romantics: Mythmaking, Monstrosity, and Representation
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 307:
What Do We Mean When We Speak of Evil?
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 308:
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man, the Movement, and the Legacy
Last offered: Summer 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 309:
Fairly Tales: Culture's Underground Rivers
Last offered: Summer 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 310:
Modern Chinese History, Part I: Master Class in History and Historiography
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4
MLA 311:
Paleography: Study of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 312:
The Visual and Literary Culture of the American Civil War
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 313:
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 314:
Social and Environmental Sustainability: The Costa Rican Case
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 315:
Vital Issues in American Foreign Policy
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 316:
Latin@ Literatures
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 317:
James Joyce: The Early Years
Last offered: Summer 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 318:
Early English Literature: Manuscripts and Texts
Last offered: Summer 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 319:
Modern Chinese History through Literature and Film
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 320:
Racial Identity in the American Imagination
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4
MLA 321:
Great Ideas in Computer Science
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4
MLA 322:
Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History. 120--1800
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4
MLA 323:
What can Literature Tell Us About Human Rights?
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4
MLA 325:
From Manuscript to Printed Edition: Early Works of Great English Authors
Last offered: Summer 2016
| Units: 4
MLA 326:
Nature through Photography
Last offered: Summer 2016
| Units: 4
MLA 327:
Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
MLA 328:
The Scientific Revolution
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
MLA 329:
International Women's Health
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
MLA 330:
History of the African American Experience
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
MLA 332:
London: 101 Years in Fiction
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
MLA 333:
Brexit and the Rise of Nationalist Politics
Terms: Sum
| Units: 4
MLA 398:
MLA Thesis in Progress
Group meetings provide peer critiques, motivations, and advice under the direction of the Associate Dean.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
8 times
(up to 0 units total)
MLA 399:
MLA Thesis Final Quarter
Students write a 75-100 page thesis that evolves out of work they pursued during their MLA studies.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 6
Instructors: ;
Allen, B. (PI);
Berger, J. (PI);
Berman, R. (PI);
Bhattacharya, J. (PI);
Carnochan, B. (PI);
Carson, C. (PI);
Chace, W. (PI);
Chang, G. (PI);
Dorfman, G. (PI);
Findlen, P. (PI);
Fishkin, S. (PI);
Gelpi, A. (PI);
Gelpi, B. (PI);
Grey, T. (PI);
Harvey, V. (PI);
Hobbs, A. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Jones, C. (PI);
Jones, G. (PI);
Junkerman, C. (PI);
Kennedy, D. (PI);
Kumar, A. (PI);
Lindenberger, H. (PI);
Nanji, A. (PI);
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI);
Parker, G. (PI);
Paulson, L. (PI);
Phillips, D. (PI);
Rayner, A. (PI);
Rehm, R. (PI);
Riggs, D. (PI);
Robinson, P. (PI);
Saldivar, R. (PI);
Samoff, J. (PI);
Schupbach, R. (PI);
Stansky, P. (PI);
Stokes, L. (PI);
Thompson, B. (PI);
Treharne, E. (PI);
Vitousek, P. (PI);
Wara, M. (PI);
Wilcox, M. (PI);
Winterer, C. (PI)
