printer friendly pageHUMNTIES 100: Text and Context in Humanities: Oedipus and His Vicissitudes (ENGLISH 184B)
Tales of Modernity from Sophocles, Freud, Chekhov, Babel, and Woolf. Introduction to cross-disciplinary approach in humanities through foundational texts in the modern tradition. The main focus is on Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913), alongside his ancillary writings. Contemporary social thought and historical scholarship provide the context (Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, Karl Schorske, John Murray Cuddihy) while works of imaginative literature (Sophocles, Anton Chekhov, Isaac Babel, and Virginia Woolf) illuminate the significance of the Oedipus myth for understanding the inter-generational conflict in antiquity and modernity.
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: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
HUMNTIES 162: Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern (ENGLISH 184C)
The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how such historical pressures along with developments in mathematical perspective and science challenged earlier conceptions of space, artistic form, the self, politics, the divine, and the physical universe on the threshold of the modern era. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle, Dante, Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli,
The Prince; Luther, Montaigne, Marlowe,
Doctor Faustus; Wroth, Galileo, Donne, Shakespeare,
Othello; and works of art and music.
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: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Staveley, A. (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)
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Brooks, H. (PI)
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Edelstein, D. (PI)
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Freidin, G. (PI)
;
Hadlock, H. (PI)
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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)
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Robinson, P. (PI)
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Sheehan, J. (PI)
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Sockness, B. (PI)
;
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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
HUMNTIES 185: Sex, Sacrifice, and Civilization: Baroque Opera and Tragedy (ENGLISH 185, MUSIC 190H)
The revival of ancient tragedy in the Baroque opera house. The central mysteries of tragedy: knowledge of suffering, necessity of sacrifice, pleasure of pathos. How tragic drama and opera used poetry, dance, and music to sway the passions and prompt reflection. Greek myths of Medea, Iphigenia, Alceste, Idomeneo. Plays by Euripides and Racine; operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Charpentier.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Hadlock, H. (PI)
;
Hoxby, 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Satia, P. (PI)
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. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors):
MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4- or 5-unit level only.)
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
| Repeatable
for credit
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