printer friendly pageCHINGEN 70N: Marvelous Creatures: Animals and Humans in Chinese Literature
Preference to freshmen. Read novels and short stories as well as view films that feature an array of marvelous creatures from late imperial times to the contemporary era. What animal imageries and metaphors can reveal about the Chinese and how they relate to the natural, supernatural, and human worlds across the centuries.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ER, GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Lee, H. (PI)
CLASSGEN 6N: Antigone: From Ancient Democracy to Contemporary Dissent (DRAMA 12N)
Preference to freshmen. Tensions inherent in the democracy of ancient Athens; how the character of Antigone emerges in later drama, film, and political thought as a figure of resistance against illegitimate authority; and her relevance to contemporary struggles for women's and workers' rights and national liberation. Readings and screenings include versions of
Antigone by Sophocles, Anouilh, Brecht, Fugard/Kani/Ntshona, Paulin, Glowacki, Gurney, and von Trotta.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
CLASSGEN 35: Becoming Like God: An Introduction to Greek Ethical Philosophy
Why do Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle identify achieving wisdom as becoming like gods? How does godlike wisdom affect one's ethical choices? Sources includes Greek tragedies representing traditional Greek values. The Greek philosophers' rejection of this tradition and their radically new ethical theories arguing that people should imitate the gods, who are ethically perfect. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle offered different ethical theories, but they shared basic conceptions of goodness and happiness. Are their ethical philosophies operative in the modern day?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Nightingale, A. (PI)
CLASSHIS 133: Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSHIS 333, HUMNTIES 321, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A)
Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Ober, J. (PI)
;
Kierstead, J. (TA)
COMM 131: Media Ethics and Responsibility (COMM 231)
(Graduate students register for
COMM 231.) The development of professionalism among American journalists, emphasizing the emergence of objectivity as a professional and the epistemological norm. An applied ethics course where questions of power, freedom, and truth autonomy are treated normatively so as to foster critical thinking about the origins and implications of commonly accepted standards of responsible journalism.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ER
COMPLIT 199: Senior Seminar: Pleasures of Reading
Required of Comparative Literature seniors; others by consent of instructor. Different paradigms for the kind of enjoyment readers get from literature: entertainment, instruction; ideological comfort, critical distance; inspiration and incitation to their own creativity. Works read may include Aristotle, Hegel, and Brecht on tragedy; Longinus and Burke on the sublime; Roland Barthes
S/Z; sonnets by Mallarmé and Eliot's
Wasteland; Cixous on
écriture féminine; Bakthin's book on Rabelais and carnival, and Rabelais and the French
fabliaux; Adorno on kitsch and literature of entertainment; Benjamin's essay on
The Storyteller; Janice Radway's
Reading the Romance.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Cohen, M. (PI)
CS 181: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
(Formerly 201.) Primarily for majors entering computer-related fields. Ethical and social issues related to the development and use of computer technology. Ethical theory, and social, political, and legal considerations. Scenarios in problem areas: privacy, reliability and risks of complex systems, and responsibility of professionals for applications and consequences of their work. Prerequisite: 106B or X.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Johnson, M. (PI)
DRAMA 12N: Antigone: From Ancient Democracy to Contemporary Dissent (CLASSGEN 6N)
Preference to freshmen. Tensions inherent in the democracy of ancient Athens; how the character of Antigone emerges in later drama, film, and political thought as a figure of resistance against illegitimate authority; and her relevance to contemporary struggles for women's and workers' rights and national liberation. Readings and screenings include versions of
Antigone by Sophocles, Anouilh, Brecht, Fugard/Kani/Ntshona, Paulin, Glowacki, Gurney, and von Trotta.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
DRAMA 180Q: Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance
Preference to sophomores. Chomsky's ideas and work which challenge the political and economic paradigms governing the U.S. Topics include his model for linguistics; cold war U.S. involvements in S.E. Asia, the Middle East, Central and S. America, the Caribbean, and Indonesia and E. Timor; the media, terrorism, ideology, and culture; student and popular movements; and the role of resistance.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
ENGR 131: Ethical Issues in Engineering (STS 115)
Moral rights and responsibilities of engineers in relation to society, employers, colleagues, and clients; cost-benefit-risk analysis, safety, and informed consent; the ethics of whistle blowing; ethical conflicts of engineers as expert witnesses, consultants, and managers; ethical issues in engineering design, manufacturing, and operations; ethical issues arising from engineering work in foreign countries; and ethical implications of the social and environmental contexts of contemporary engineering. Case studies, guest practitioners, and field research. Limited enrollment.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER
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