printer friendly pageSLAVIC 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81)
What, if anything, does reading literature do for our lives? What can literature offer that other forms of writing cannot? Can fictions teach us anything? Can they make people more moral? Why do we take pleasure in tragic stories? This course introduces students to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. It addresses key questions about the value of literature, philosophical puzzles about the nature of fiction and literary language, and ways that philosophy and literature interact. Readings span literature, film, and philosophical theories of art. Authors may include Sophocles, Dickinson, Toni Morrison, Proust, Woolf, Walton, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Students master close reading techniques and philosophical analysis, and write papers combining the two. This is the required gateway course for the Philosophy and Literature major tracks. Majors should register in their home department.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Landy, J. (PI)
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Peacocke, A. (PI)
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D'aguanno, D. (TA)
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Landy, J. (PI)
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Peacocke, A. (PI)
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D'aguanno, D. (TA)
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Friesacher, A. (TA)
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McDonald, T. (TA)
SLAVIC 183: Jews in the Contemporary World: The American Jewish Present & Past in Popular Culture, Film, & TV (CSRE 185B, HISTORY 185B, HISTORY 385C, JEWISHST 185B, REES 185B)
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HISTORY 185B is 5 units;
HISTORY 85B IS 3 units.) Who are American Jews as depicted in popular media -- film, television, etc. -- since the Second World War? How are their religion, politics, mores, and practices represented and what ways, if at all, do such portraits reflect historical trends among Jews and society in general? What can be learned from film or tv about Jewish identity, notions of Jewish power and powerlessness, communal cohesiveness and assimilation, sexuality and the wages of intermarriage or race?
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
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Schimmel, A. (TA)
SLAVIC 195: Russian and East European Theater (SLAVIC 395)
Evolution of modernist Russian/Eur. dramaturgy, theatrical practices, landmark productions from Chekhov-Meyerhold-Grotowski to present; re-performance of classics; techniques of embodiment. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
SLAVIC 198: Writing Between Languages: The Case of Eastern European Jewish Literature (JEWISHST 148, JEWISHST 348, SLAVIC 398)
Eastern European Jews spoke and read Hebrew, Yiddish, and their co-territorial languages (Russian, Polish, etc.). In the modern period they developed secular literatures in all of them, and their writing reflected their own multilinguality and evolving language ideologies. We focus on major literary and sociolinguistic texts. Reading and discussion in English; students should have some reading knowledge of at least one relevant language as well. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for WAYS credit. In 2020-21, a 'letter' or 'CR' grade will satisfy the WAYS requirement.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLE 91: Structured Liberal Education
Focusing on great works of philosophy, religion, literature, painting, and film drawn largely from the Western tradition, the SLE curriculum places particular emphasis on artists and intellectuals who brought new ways of thinking and new ways of creating into the world, often overthrowing prior traditions in the process. These are the works that redefined beauty, challenged the authority of conventional wisdom, raised questions of continuing importance to us today, and¿for good or ill¿created the world we still live in. Texts may include: Homer, Sappho, Greek tragedy, Plato, Aristotle, Zhuangzi, Confucius, the Heart Sutra, Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and the Aeneid.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 8
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:IHUM-1, THINK, WAY-A-II, Writing SLE
Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
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Garcia, M. (PI)
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Hossainzadeh, N. (PI)
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Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
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Garcia, M. (PI)
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Hossainzadeh, N. (PI)
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Osgood, M. (PI)
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Sabol, J. (PI)
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Watkins, G. (PI)
SLE 92: Structured Liberal Education
Focusing on great works of philosophy, religion, literature, painting, and film drawn largely from the Western tradition, the SLE curriculum places particular emphasis on artists and intellectuals who brought new ways of thinking and new ways of creating into the world, often overthrowing prior traditions in the process. These are the works that redefined beauty, challenged the authority of conventional wisdom, raised questions of continuing importance to us today, and¿for good or ill¿created the world we still live in. Texts may include: Augustine, the Qur'an, Dante, Rumi, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Las Casas, Descartes, Locke, Mill, Schleiermacher, and Flaubert.
Terms: Win
| Units: 8
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:IHUM-2, THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER, Writing SLE
Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
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Garcia, M. (PI)
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Hossainzadeh, N. (PI)
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Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
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Garcia, M. (PI)
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Hossainzadeh, N. (PI)
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Osgood, M. (PI)
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Sabol, J. (PI)
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Watkins, G. (PI)
SLE 93: Structured Liberal Education
Focusing on great works of philosophy, religion, literature, painting, and film drawn largely from the Western tradition, the SLE curriculum places particular emphasis on artists and intellectuals who brought new ways of thinking and new ways of creating into the world, often overthrowing prior traditions in the process. These are the works that redefined beauty, challenged the authority of conventional wisdom, raised questions of continuing importance to us today, and¿for good or ill¿created the world we still live in. Texts may include: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Du Bois, Eliot, Woolf, Kafka, Brecht, Vertov, Beauvoir, Sartre, Fanon, Gandhi, and Morrison.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5-8
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:IHUM-3, THINK, WAY-ED, Writing SLE
Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
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Garcia, M. (PI)
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Hossainzadeh, N. (PI)
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more instructors for SLE 93 »
Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
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Garcia, M. (PI)
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Hossainzadeh, N. (PI)
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Osgood, M. (PI)
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Sabol, J. (PI)
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Watkins, G. (PI)
SPANLIT 204: Second Language and Second Dialect Acquisition
Spanish-language teaching and learning in tutored environments. In Spanish.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
SPECLANG 75: Greek Culture, Ideals, and Themes
Introduction to Greek culture and its global influence in a social historical context, through images from its past and institutions in contemporary Greek society. Limited enrollment.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
| Repeatable
for credit
(up to 99 units total)
SPECLANG 198Q: Modern Greece in Film and Literature
Preference to sophomores. Cultural and literary highlights. Filmmakers include Kakoyannis, Dassen, Boulmetis, Angelopoulos, and Scorsese; readings from Eugenides, Gage, Kavafis, Kazantzakis, Samarakis, Seferis, and Elytis.
Last offered: Autumn 2016
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
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