FRENCH 228: Science, technology and society and the humanities in the face of the looming disaster (ITALIAN 228, POLISCI 233F)
How STS and the Humanities can together help think out the looming catastrophes that put the future of humankind in jeopardy.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-ER
Instructors:
Dupuy, J. (PI)
FRENCH 228E: Getting Through Proust
Selections from all seven volumes of "In Search of Lost Time". Focus on issues of personal identity (perspective, memory, life-narrative); interpersonal relations (friendship, love, homosexuality, jealousy, indirect expression); knowledge (objective truth, subjective truth, necessary illusions); redemption (enchantment, disenchantment, re-enchantment); aesthetics (music, painting, fiction); and Proust's own style (narrative sequence, sentence structure, irony, metaphor, metonymy, metalepsis). Taught in English; readings in French or English.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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