printer friendly pageOSPOXFRD 57: The Rise of the Woman Writer 1660-1860
Emergence and rise of the professional woman writer from playwright and Royalist spy Aphra Behn (1640-89) to novelist and proto-feminist Charlotte Bronte (1816-55). How women writers dealt with criticism for writing publicly, placing each author and text in its historical and literary context. Range of poets, playwrights, and novelists including Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Topics: gender roles and proto-feminism, the public versus the private sphere, sexuality, courtship and marriage.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Plaskitt, E. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 60: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Study of Shakespeare's work alongside that of his contemporaries. Characteristics of his art as well as insight into this period of British history. Visits to performances of plays.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Beer, A. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 74: History and Architecture of Oxford
History of the city and university of Oxford through its physical fabric. Oxford's buildings within the context of British and European architectural history; growth and development of Oxford. Lectures paired with visits to buildings with additional discussion on site.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Tyack, G. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 76: The Meaning of Life
Close study and guided discussion of classic works of art, literature, religion and philosophy as a means of exploring existential questions about one's life. Texts include Shakespeare's Hamlet, Plato's The Republic, and Heidegger's What is Philosophy; works of art by Van Gogh, Monet, and Manet; Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman. Visit to London museums for works of art.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Sheehan, T. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 77: Solo Performance
Create original solo performance and theatre work. Skills to draw from the specificity of unique individual experiences, connecting with ideas, issues and questions that resonate with race, class, gender, environmental and global issues. Creative and critical tools to to connect the personal with the political and see the solo voice as a powerful and potent form of artistic expression. Focus on and hone individual creative talents in writing, devising, composing, producing and creating work. Examine the work of a range of solo artists practicing in the UK; attend live performances and if possible, meet and interview some of the artists. 15-minute solo performance culminates quarter.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE
Instructors:
Paris, H. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 83: Heidegger and the Philosophy of Religion
Exploration of the end of the metaphysical quest for God in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Seminal works of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, including Being and Time, What Is Metaphysics? Nietzsche's Saying "God is Dead." Phenomenological method and its application to traditional and contemporary philosophy of religion, including works by John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Sheehan, T. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 93: Collecting the World
The art, science, and culture of the creation, transmission and collection of valuable, useful and informative objects and texts before the twentieth century, and the associated theories, purposes, and methods for collecting `worldly' goods and other valuables. Means by which local academic practices engaged with global developments in the arts and sciences through examination of primarily early modern material and intellectual culture in and around Oxfordshire. Assessments of quality, meaning, usage, cultural significance and the reception of material ¿treasures¿ in the storage rooms, vaults, and on display in museums, galleries, and libraries.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Landrus, M. (PI)
OSPOXFRD 221Y: Art and Society in Britain
Themes in 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century British art. Painting, sculpture, and design. Comparisons between the British experience and that of continental Europe and the U.S. Readings address questions related to the role of art in modern society. Limited Enrollment.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Tyack, G. (PI)
OSPPARIS 6: Franco-Arab Encounters
Examination of the engagement of France with the Middle East and North Africa since the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in 1798 using primary documents, historical readings, novels, films, and field trips. Egyptian expedition and colonial occupation of Algeria; Morocco, Tunisia and the Levant also addressed. Persistence of French cultural model as the standard of modernity and culture in much of North Africa and the Levant. In France, contemporary political debate regarding Muslim¿s struggles over identity, social status and rights.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Beinin, J. (PI)
OSPPARIS 7: From Disenchantment to Re-Enchantment: The Literature of Modern Paris
Modernity as a gradual move from enchantment to disenchantment and then to re-enchantment: from the loss of wonder, order, purpose, unity, and depth to their triumphant rediscovery in new domains. Novels by Balzac and Claire de Duras; philosophical writings by Camus and Sartre; short selections from prose works by Aragon and Proust; poems by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Césaire, Eluard; a play by Beckett; field trip to the Musée d'Orsay.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Landy, J. (PI)
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