printer friendly pageDLCL 11: Great Books, Big Ideas from Ancient Greece and Rome (CLASSICS 37, HUMCORE 112)
This course will journey through ancient Greek and Roman literature from Homer's Iliad to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, in constant conversation with the other HumCore travelers in the Ancient Middle East, Africa and South Asia, and Early China. It will introduce participants to some of its fascinating features and big ideas (such as the idea of history); and it will reflect on questions including: What is an honorable life? Who is the Other? How does a society fall apart? Where does human subjectivity fit into a world of matter, cause and effect? Should art serve an exterior purpose? Do we have any duties to the past? This course is part of the Humanities Core, a collaborative set of global humanities seminars that brings all of its students and faculty into conversation. On Mondays you meet in your own course, and on Wednesdays all the HumCore seminars (in session that quarter) meet together:
https://humanitiescore.stanford.edu/.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
DLCL 99: Inter-Cultural Communication and Studying Abroad
This course will cultivate a sense of cultural curiosity that has self-awareness and humility as key attributes. The course is designed to facilitate students' active engagement with their host communities during study abroad and to direct thoughtful and impactful intellectual analysis and discussion of concepts of cultural identity, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism. The course will be aimed at students preparing for stints of study or internships abroad under BOSP and the SEED program. It will create opportunities for intercultural engagement and offer tools for intercultural analysis and strategy development through an exploration of various political, social, cultural, and artistic features of the host community. It will also encourage students to engage with the communities in which they will be living and question their own and others' perspectives, while learning to interact purposefully and respectfully with intercultural differences to achieve meaningful cross-cultural understanding.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
DLCL 120: Introduction to the Medical Humanities (ANTHRO 120H, FRENCH 120E, ITALIAN 120)
Medical Humanities is a humanistic and interdisciplinary approach to the topic of medicine. It explores the experience of health and illness as captured through the expressive arts (painting, music and literature), across historical periods and in different cultures, and as interpreted by humanistic scholars in the humanities and social sciences as well as in medicine and policy. Its goal is to give students and scholars an opportunity to explore a more holistic and meaning- centered perspective on medical issues. It draws attention not only to diagnosis, but to the meaning and experience of illness and healing, to the way that medicine is an art form as well as a science, and to the way institutions and culture shape illness.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Wittman, L. (PI)
DLCL 153: Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Workshop (DLCL 253)
Digital inclusion is a major issue for linguistic justice: languages are shut out of the digital sphere when their script is not formally encoded in the Unicode standard, and when fonts and keyboards and other input methods do not exist. In this workshop, students will learn about the challenges faced by digitally-disadvantaged languages, and will engage in hands-on work on a project with the Unicode Consortium that takes concrete steps towards improving digital support for one or more languages, or improves the tools, workflows, and processes used by the consortium for improving digital inclusion.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Dombrowski, Q. (PI)
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Mullaney, T. (PI)
DLCL 170: Where the Wild Things Are: The Ecology and Ethics of Conserving Megafauna (BIO 185, EALC 170, EARTHSYS 170, GLOBAL 170)
Under conditions of global environmental change and mass extinction, how will humanity share the planet with wildlife? This course invites undergraduate students to consider this question under the guidance of two biologists and a literary scholar. We will engage with a range of interdisciplinary scholarship on how humans seek to study, understand, exploit, protect, and empathize with charismatic megafauna. We ask how regional differences in culture, political economy, and ecology shape conservation efforts.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA, WAY-ER
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)
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Berman, R. (PI)
;
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
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Alduy, C. (PI)
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Berman, R. (PI)
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Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
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Briceno, X. (PI)
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Daub, A. (PI)
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Dupuy, J. (PI)
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Edelstein, D. (PI)
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Fleishman, L. (PI)
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Galvez, M. (PI)
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Greene, R. (PI)
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Harrison, R. (PI)
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Hoyos, H. (PI)
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Huber, M. (PI)
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Hughes, N. (PI)
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Ilchuk, Y. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
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Lawton, D. (PI)
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Lee, H. (PI)
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Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
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Pao, L. (PI)
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Parker, P. (PI)
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Pesic, A. (PI)
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Prodan, S. (PI)
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Resina, J. (PI)
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Safran, G. (PI)
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Saldivar, J. (PI)
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Saldivar, R. (PI)
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Seck, F. (PI)
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Smith, M. (PI)
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Starkey, K. (PI)
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Surwillo, L. (PI)
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Wittman, L. (PI)
DLCL 201: Digital Humanities Practicum
Interested in applying digital tools and methods to text, images, or other humanities research materials? This hands-on course will support you in planning and implementing your own digital project, using materials in any language. Working directly with a digital humanities expert, you will identify your own research question that can be addressed by digital methods, define a reasonable scope, and learn how to implement the methods you need to answer your research question. The course will include workshops on topics including data management, project management, and how to talk about your work both in academic contexts, and as part of your portfolio for applying to jobs in other fields.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 5 units total)
Instructors:
Dombrowski, Q. (PI)
DLCL 221: Materia
Materia is a focal group on post-anthropocentrism, Latin Americanist and otherwise. Building on and expanding the theoretical framework offered by thinkers such as Fernando Ortiz, Bruno Latour, and Jane Bennett, we engage with works of literature and criticism that de-center the human as object of study. To earn the unit, undergraduate and graduate students should attend the workshops held by the focal group, prepare the pre-circulated readings, and actively contribute to discussion throughout the year. The latter can take place during plenary, over office hours with faculty coordinators, or via contributions to the focal group's online platforms. A short quarterly response paper that relates group discussions with the student's ongoing research is recommended. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors:
Hoyos, H. (PI)
DLCL 222: Philosophy and Literature
The Focal Group in Philosophy and Literature brings together scholars and students from eight departments to investigate questions in aesthetics and literary theory, philosophically-inflected literary texts, and the form of philosophical writings. Fields of interest include both continental and analytic philosophy, as well as cognitive science, political philosophy, rational choice theory, and related fields. Students may sign up for a unit of credit each quarter via
DLCL 222. To earn the unit, students must secure written permission in advance from one of the instructors, before the final study list deadline. They must then do one of the following three things: (a) attend an event hosted by the Philosophy and Literature group (including events hosted by the graduate workshop) and write up a reaction paper of 2-5 pages; (b) present a paper of their own to the graduate workshop; (c) agree with one of the
DLCL 222 instructors on a reading related to the year's activities, and meet with
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The Focal Group in Philosophy and Literature brings together scholars and students from eight departments to investigate questions in aesthetics and literary theory, philosophically-inflected literary texts, and the form of philosophical writings. Fields of interest include both continental and analytic philosophy, as well as cognitive science, political philosophy, rational choice theory, and related fields. Students may sign up for a unit of credit each quarter via
DLCL 222. To earn the unit, students must secure written permission in advance from one of the instructors, before the final study list deadline. They must then do one of the following three things: (a) attend an event hosted by the Philosophy and Literature group (including events hosted by the graduate workshop) and write up a reaction paper of 2-5 pages; (b) present a paper of their own to the graduate workshop; (c) agree with one of the
DLCL 222 instructors on a reading related to the year's activities, and meet with him/her for a discussion of that reading. Normally, students should register for the CR/NC option; only students planning to use
DLCL 222 for the Ph.D. minor in Philosophy and Literature should enroll for a letter grade. Prerequisite for undergraduates: undergraduate students wishing to take
DLCL 222 must previously have taken the philosophy and literature gateway course
PHIL 81 (
CLASSICS 42,
COMPLIT 181,
ENGLISH 81,
FRENCH 181,
GERMAN 181,
ITALIAN 181,
SLAVIC 181) or a class taught by one of the instructors of
DLCL 222.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
DLCL 223: Renaissances
The Renaissances Group brings together faculty members and students from several departments at Stanford to consider the present and future of early modern literary studies (a period spanning the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries). Taking seriously the plural form of the group's name, we seek to explore the early modern period from a wide range of disciplinary, cultural, linguistic, and geographical perspectives.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Greene, R. (PI)
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