printer friendly pageHUMNTIES 100: Text and Context in Humanities
Required of students in the Humanities Honors Program. Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities through the study and application of theoretical approaches to major texts. Textual analysis and writing assignments to prepare students to write honors essays.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Staveley, A. (PI)
HUMNTIES 161: Texts in History: Classics from Greece to Rome (CLASSGEN 163, DRAMA 161R)
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
HUMNTIES 162: Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern (ENGLISH 184C)
Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how historical pressures challenged conceptions of artistic form, self, divine, and the physical universe. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle,
On the Soul; Attar,
The Conference of the Birds; Dante, nferno; Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan,
The Book of the City of Ladies; Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli,
The Prince; Luther,
The Bondage of the Will; Montaigne,
Essays; Marlowe,
Doctor Faustus; poems by John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth; Shakespeare,
Othello; and works of art.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Brooks, H. (PI)
HUMNTIES 163: Texts in History: Enlightenment to the Modern (ENGLISH 184D)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Staveley, A. (PI)
HUMNTIES 170: Media Studies Internship
Practical experience working with a film or media company for six to eight weeks. Students make arrangements with companies individually and receive the consent of the director of the Humanities honors program. Credit awarded for submitting a paper after completing the internship, focused on a topic relevant to the student's studies.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Freidin, G. (PI)
HUMNTIES 175: Individual Work
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Bojic, J. (PI)
;
Brooks, H. (PI)
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Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
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Bojic, J. (PI)
;
Brooks, H. (PI)
;
Edelstein, D. (PI)
;
Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Hadlock, H. (PI)
;
Obenzinger, H. (PI)
;
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
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Paulson, L. (PI)
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Rehm, R. (PI)
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Riskin, J. (PI)
;
Robinson, P. (PI)
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Sheehan, J. (PI)
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Sockness, B. (PI)
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Staveley, A. (PI)
;
Wood, R. (PI)
HUMNTIES 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENGEN 181, GERGEN 181, ITALGEN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVGEN 181)
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Anderson, R. (PI)
;
Vermeule, B. (PI)
HUMNTIES 191R: What is Life? The History of a Question (HISTORY 242A, HISTORY 342A)
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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HUMNTIES 191S: Capital and Empire (HISTORY 239D, HISTORY 339D)
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.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HUMNTIES 192G: Musical Shakespeare: Theater, Song, Opera, and Film (MUSIC 148, MUSIC 248)
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. May be repeated for credit. Pre- or corequisite: 23. WIM at 4- or 5-unit level only.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Grey, T. (PI)
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