printer friendly pageAFRICAAM 223: Literature and Human Experimentation (COMPLIT 223, CSRE 123B, HUMBIO 175H, MED 220)
This course introduces students to the ways literature has been used to think through the ethics of human subjects research and experimental medicine. We will focus primarily on readings that imaginatively revisit experiments conducted on vulnerable populations: namely groups placed at risk by their classification according to perceived human and cultural differences. We will begin with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), and continue our study via later works of fiction, drama and literary journalism, including Toni Morrison's Beloved, David Feldshuh's Miss Evers Boys, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann and Vivien Spitz's Doctors from Hell, Rebecca Skloot's Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Each literary reading will be paired with medical, philosophical and policy writings of the period; and our ultimate goal will be to understand modes of ethics deliberation that are possible via creative uses of the imagination, and literature's place in a history of ethical thinking about humane research and care. Note: This course must be taken for a letter grade to be eligible for WAYS credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Ikoku, A. (PI)
;
Jayasinghe, D. (TA)
COMPLIT 100: CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)
This course takes students on a trip to eight capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin, Modernist Vienna, and bustling Buenos Aires. While exploring each place in a particular historical moment, we will also consider the relations between culture, power, and social life. How does the cultural life of a country intersect with the political activity of a capital? How do large cities shape our everyday experience, our aesthetic preferences, and our sense of history? Why do some cities become cultural capitals? Primary materials for this course will consist of literary, visual, sociological, and historical documents (in translation); authors we will read include Boccaccio, Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Montesquieu, Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Irmgard Keun, Freud, and Borges. Note: To be eligible for WAYS credit, you must take the course for a minimum of 3 Units and a Letter Grade.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
COMPLIT 223: Literature and Human Experimentation (AFRICAAM 223, CSRE 123B, HUMBIO 175H, MED 220)
This course introduces students to the ways literature has been used to think through the ethics of human subjects research and experimental medicine. We will focus primarily on readings that imaginatively revisit experiments conducted on vulnerable populations: namely groups placed at risk by their classification according to perceived human and cultural differences. We will begin with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), and continue our study via later works of fiction, drama and literary journalism, including Toni Morrison's Beloved, David Feldshuh's Miss Evers Boys, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann and Vivien Spitz's Doctors from Hell, Rebecca Skloot's Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Each literary reading will be paired with medical, philosophical and policy writings of the period; and our ultimate goal will be to understand modes of ethics deliberation that are possible via creative uses of the imagination, and literature's place in a history of ethical thinking about humane research and care. Note: This course must be taken for a letter grade to be eligible for WAYS credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Ikoku, A. (PI)
;
Jayasinghe, D. (TA)
CSRE 123B: Literature and Human Experimentation (AFRICAAM 223, COMPLIT 223, HUMBIO 175H, MED 220)
This course introduces students to the ways literature has been used to think through the ethics of human subjects research and experimental medicine. We will focus primarily on readings that imaginatively revisit experiments conducted on vulnerable populations: namely groups placed at risk by their classification according to perceived human and cultural differences. We will begin with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), and continue our study via later works of fiction, drama and literary journalism, including Toni Morrison's Beloved, David Feldshuh's Miss Evers Boys, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann and Vivien Spitz's Doctors from Hell, Rebecca Skloot's Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Each literary reading will be paired with medical, philosophical and policy writings of the period; and our ultimate goal will be to understand modes of ethics deliberation that are possible via creative uses of the imagination, and literature's place in a history of ethical thinking about humane research and care. Note: This course must be taken for a letter grade to be eligible for WAYS credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Ikoku, A. (PI)
;
Jayasinghe, D. (TA)
DLCL 13: Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern (FRENCH 13, HISTORY 239C, HUMCORE 13, PHIL 13)
This three-quarter sequence asks big questions of major texts in the European and American tradition. What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? What duty do we owe to the past and future? This third and final quarter focuses on the modern period, from the rise of revolutionary ideas to the experiences of totalitarianism and decolonization in the twentieth century. Authors include Locke, Mary Shelley, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Primo Levi, and Frantz Fanon.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-ER, WAY-A-II
DLCL 100: CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)
This course takes students on a trip to eight capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin, Modernist Vienna, and bustling Buenos Aires. While exploring each place in a particular historical moment, we will also consider the relations between culture, power, and social life. How does the cultural life of a country intersect with the political activity of a capital? How do large cities shape our everyday experience, our aesthetic preferences, and our sense of history? Why do some cities become cultural capitals? Primary materials for this course will consist of literary, visual, sociological, and historical documents (in translation); authors we will read include Boccaccio, Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Montesquieu, Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Irmgard Keun, Freud, and Borges. Note: To be eligible for WAYS credit, you must take the course for a minimum of 3 Units and a Letter Grade.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
DLCL 189B: Honors Thesis Seminar
For undergraduate majors in DLCL departments; required for honors students. Planning, researching, and writing an honors thesis. Oral presentations and peer workshops. Research and writing methodologies, and larger critical issues in literary studies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
;
Barletta, V. (PI)
;
Berman, R. (PI)
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Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
;
Barletta, V. (PI)
;
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
;
Edelstein, D. (PI)
;
Eshel, A. (PI)
;
Fleishman, L. (PI)
;
Galvez, M. (PI)
;
Greene, R. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
;
Harrison, R. (PI)
;
Ikoku, A. (PI)
;
Key, A. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Lummus, D. (PI)
;
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
;
Resina, J. (PI)
;
Ruffinelli, J. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Saldivar, J. (PI)
DLCL 189C: Honors Thesis Seminar
For undergraduate majors in DLCL departments; required for honors students. Planning, researching, and writing an honors thesis. Oral presentations and peer workshops. Research and writing methodologies, and larger critical issues in literary studies.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
;
Apostolides, J. (PI)
;
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
;
Apostolides, J. (PI)
;
Barletta, V. (PI)
;
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Brookshaw, D. (PI)
;
Edelstein, D. (PI)
;
Eshel, A. (PI)
;
Fleishman, L. (PI)
;
Galvez, M. (PI)
;
Greene, R. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
;
Harrison, R. (PI)
;
Hoyos, H. (PI)
;
Ikoku, A. (PI)
;
Key, A. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Lummus, D. (PI)
;
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
;
Resina, J. (PI)
;
Ruffinelli, J. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Saldivar, J. (PI)
;
Saldivar, R. (PI)
;
Surwillo, L. (PI)
;
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
DLCL 199: Honors Thesis Oral Presentation
For undergraduate majors in DLCL departments; required for honors students. Oral presentations and peer workshops. Regular advisory meetings required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
;
Apostolides, J. (PI)
;
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
;
Apostolides, J. (PI)
;
Barletta, V. (PI)
;
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Edelstein, D. (PI)
;
Eshel, A. (PI)
;
Fleishman, L. (PI)
;
Galvez, M. (PI)
;
Greene, R. (PI)
;
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
;
Harrison, R. (PI)
;
Ikoku, A. (PI)
;
Key, A. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Lummus, D. (PI)
;
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
;
Resina, J. (PI)
;
Ruffinelli, J. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
;
Saldivar, J. (PI)
;
Surwillo, L. (PI)
;
Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI)
ESF 3: Education as Self-Fashioning: How to be a Public Intellectual
Can education impart more than bookish learning? This is the question that critics have posed since the European Renaissance. Through their reflections, these critics posited an alternative ideal of education that prepared the student for life outside the academy. Over the centuries, this ideal would evolve into what we would today call an 'intellectual' - but this modern concept only captures a part of what earlier writers thought learning could achieve. In this course, we will focus on how education can prepare students to engage in public debates and the role that the university can play in public learning.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 7
| UG Reqs: College, THINK, WAY-A-II, Writing 1
Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
;
Kassabova, B. (PI)
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