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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: Mann, P. (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: Mann, P. (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: Mann, P. (PI)

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4

MLA 200P: MLA Practicum: Thinking Like a Historian in Three Different Ways

This course is designed to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how historians think about various kinds of evidence. The past isn't made just off documents, but of all kinds of messy evidence that we need to think about carefully in order to make sound historical arguments. This class focuses on 3 areas that present interesting challenges: material culture (i.e., "things"); slaves and slavery; and environmental and disease history. In each class session, we'll think about the argument that each author is making about their evidence, and also challenge ourselves by looking at some primary sources together. Students should be prepared to tell the class what the argument of the author is for each secondary source reading, and what they think works and doesn't work about their argument. What would you do differently? What methods could you incorporate into your own MLA research, including your thesis? What is the argument of the author?
Terms: Aut | Units: 1
Instructors: Winterer, C. (PI)

MLA 201P: MLA Practicum: Film Form, Politics, and Analysis

This is a crash course in film analysis, intended to introduce students both to the key elements of film language (mise-en-scene, editing, cinematography, etc.) and to the socio-cultural and political functions of cinema. Emphasis will be placed on methods of close reading of film style and form, and dynamic intersections of aesthetic and ideological concerns in the register of the moving image. Narrative, documentary, and experimental films from around the world will be screened and discussed in class.
Terms: Win | Units: 1
Instructors: Levi, P. (PI)

MLA 262: The Economics of Life and Death

This course is a survey of economic perspectives on issues of life and death. The central idea of economics is that scarcity and constraints are unavoidable facts of life. While economists traditionally focus on the role of scarcity in decisions that people make about work, saving, and spending (among other topics), the role of scarcity extends to a much broader range of decisions, including to fundamental decisions about health, life, and death. The analytic framework of economics helps to explain many puzzling facts about life and death decisions. In this course, we will apply this framework to a diverse set of topics, including the value of life, behavior under uncertainty, rationing healthcare, COVID-19, errors in medical training, smoking, and obesity. Though the language of the economics literature is often very mathematical, no mathematical sophistication is necessary to do well in the course.
Last offered: Autumn 2020

MLA 295: The American Enlightenment

Eighteenth-century America was like a laboratory for exciting new political, religious, scientific, and artistic theories that we collectively call "the Enlightenment." But to what extent were the major ideas and questions of the Enlightenment shaped by the specific conditions of North America? Was the new world of America fundamentally different or the same as Europe, and did animals, plants, and peoples improve or worsen there? Could a perfect new society and government, uncorrupted by European problems, be created in America? To what extent did the American Enlightenment lay the groundwork for modern American society and its ideal of continual improvement and progress? We will attempt to answer these questions in this class through short lectures, readings in original documents from the era, and in discussions together.
Last offered: Winter 2023

MLA 298: Heretics, Prostitutes, and Merchants: The Venetian Empire

Between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries the republic of Venice created a powerful empire that controlled much of the Mediterranean. Situated on the shifting boundary between East and West, the Venetians established a thriving merchant republic that allowed many social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist within its borders. This seminar explores some of the essential features of Venetian society, as a microcosm of early modern European society. We will examine the relationship between center and periphery, order and disorder, orthodoxy and heresy as well as the role of politics, art, and culture in Venice. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of the decline of Venice as a political and economic power and its reinvention as a tourist site and living museum for the modern era.
Last offered: Winter 2021

MLA 300: Oxford Summer Programme

Terms: Sum | Units: 2-4
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