printer friendly pageMLA 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.
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 214: Romanticism and Modernism in 19th-Century Paris: Literature and the Arts
Political, social, and cultural events from the end of the Napoleonic era to the eve of WW I. Key literary texts and pictorial representations; the development of the main trends of this period, idealism and realism, as artistic and moral principles of a fecund cultural era.
Instructors:
Bertrand, M. (PI)
MLA 267: Wicked Witches of the West
Workshop-style seminar. How powerful women are depicted in classical Greek tragedy and Shakespeare. Comparisons of plays. Thematic, textual, and historical issues; theatrical practice. Sources include films if available. Scene and direction work.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Friedlander, L. (PI)
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