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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Robinson, P. (PI)
MLA 100E: MLA Natural Science Elective
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
Instructors:
Paulson, L. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Steidle, E. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Steidle, E. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Junkerman, C. (PI)
MLA 102: The Plague: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Graduate Study
Limited to and required of second-year MLA students. The historical, literary, artistic, medical, and theological issues raised by the plague in history and the present. 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
Instructors:
Paulson, L. (PI)
MLA 259: Terror and Terrorism
Terrorism as a defining topic in contemporary political debate; its history in the political and literary culture. Treatments of politicized violence and narratives organized around fear to explore the overlap between political and aesthetic elements. How does terror intrude into politics? What makes a narrative terrifying? Literary, philosophical, and cinematic works focused on key episodes: terror in the French Revolution, revolutionary movements around 1900, anticolonial violence, and 9/11 and its aftermath.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
MLA 260: Problems in 19th-Century British History, 1850-1918
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Stansky, P. (PI)
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