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HUMN 1020听听 Introduction to Humanities II
Giulia Bernardini/Alexandra Eddy
This course provides an analytical, chronological, comparative and integrated study of works in literature, music and visual arts from the Baroque to contemporary eras.听 While students are reading Racine and Moliere, for example, the art and music lectures examine the architecture of Versailles and compositions of Lully and other court composers.听 In the appropriate context with the literature, such composers as Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky are studied, along with such artists as Fragonard, Goya, Monet, and Picasso.Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum.
HUMN 3104 Film Criticism
Jennifer Peterson
Surveys the range and function of film criticism, introduces major positions and concepts of film theory, and focuses on students鈥� abilities to write about film.听 Prerequisite FILM 1502.听听Same as FILM 3104.
HUMN 3211 The Craft of Mystery
Shirley Carnahan
Explores examples of and theories about the formation and growth of the genre of detective fiction, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Explores the social conditions of the times in which the texts were written and the possible resulting influences on style. Compares the texts and theories to examples from other genres and time periods.听Prereqs., HUMN 2000 or junior/senior standing.
HUMN 3640 Topics: Modernisms
Anthony Abiragi
This course will offer an introduction to Modernism in various media, emphasizing in particular the historical development of the visual arts from German Expressionism and Cubism to Neo-Dada and Pop Art. Readings in literature will include Proust, Artaud, Beckett, and Blanchot.听 We will also make room for two classics of modernist criticism听: Jean Paulhan鈥檚听The Flowers of Tarbes听(on literature) and Theodor Adorno鈥檚听Philosophy of New Music.
After a review of late 19th century painting, we will begin at the end, so to speak, with Fredric Jameson鈥檚 seminal article on postmodernism, 鈥淭he Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,鈥� from which we鈥檒l draw the central theme of our course: the fading of modernism鈥檚 critical relation to history and temporality, and the rise of a new form of aesthetic production 鈥� typified in the work of Warhol 鈥� itself inseparable from the emergence of 听鈥渓ate capitalism.鈥�
Following the authors of our art text,听Art Since 1900听(Thames and Hudson, 2011), we will also familiarize ourselves with four theoretical methods of interpretation: psychoanalysis; social history; formalism and structuralism; and deconstruction.
HUMN 3702 Dada and Surrealist Literature
Patrick Greaney
Surveys the major theoretical concepts and literary genres of the Dada and Surrealist movements.听 Topics include Dada performance and cabaret, the manifesto, montage, the readymade, the Surrealist novel, colonialism and the avant-garde, and literary and philosophical precursors to the avant-garde.听 Taught in English.听听Same as GRMN 3702. 听Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
HUMN 4004 Topics in Film Theory: National and Transnational Cinema
Reece Auguiste
This course will explore through lectures, film screenings, and seminars the diverse filmmaking practices grouped under the category of national and transnational cinema. Because notions of national cinema and transnational cinema are inextricably linked the course will examine the multiple contexts of film production, distribution, exhibition, film festival circuits, Art cinema and film reception practices. In doing so, students will be introduced to a broad range of debates pertaining to national cinema in Russia, China, Africa, Iran, Europe and their symbiotic relationships to the global circulation of cinematic images and film cultures.
HUMN 4050 Representations of People with Disabilities
Oliver Gerland
Examines the representation of people with disabilities in canonical and contemporary literature and drama, and introduces students to disability theory and the history of people with disabilities.
HONR 4055 Deconstructing Our Culture, Reconstructing Our Lives
(Official Course Title: Discourse Analysis and Cultural Criticism)
Cathy Comstock
How do we 鈥渞ead鈥� the world and the discourses around us, and how does that reading shape our considerations and our actions?听 Deconstruction explores the vested interests or hidden contradictions in an ideological system by looking at that which has been marginalized in the service of its preservation.听 In Western culture, for example, we have placed so much emphasis on high achievement and physical perfection that perhaps the great majority of us walk around feeling 鈥渄isabled鈥� in some way:听 not buff enough, not smart enough, not good-looking enough, not thin or rich enough . . .听 When our hierarchies are applied to other races and other species, to the very environment we rely on for life, the effects can be even more damaging.听 Hence, we may want to question our traditional power hierarchies and consider new kinds of relationship to the world, to other species and to the environment.听听听 This class also gives you the opportunity to earn from one-to-three hours of credit for doing outreach to communities in need, where we often can intimately experience what life is like on the margins.
READINGS INCLUDE: On Deconstruction; 鈥淔reaks As-At the Limit鈥�; Discipline And Punish; Gandhi; Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn鈥檛 Get It; Compassionate Communication; PLAN B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization; and others.
Fulfills: Honors Senior Seminar *and* Social Sciences or Humanities Honors credit, in addition to Peace and Conflict Studies certificate hours, Humanities Upper Division. Also offers up to 3 *extra* hours of upper division credit for service, through the optional co-practicum, HONR 4056.
HUMN 4120 听 Greek and Roman Tragedy
Jackie Elliott
We will be reading a selection of the surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (all works written at Athens in the 5th c. BCE) and Seneca (whose 1st c. CE tragedies represent the sole examples of the genre at Rome surviving in non-fragmentary form).听 There will also be substantial secondary or background reading to guide the development of an understanding of the religious and moral dimensions of tragic drama in context. In this course, the aim will be to develop skills and habits of close observation, analysis and argument, as well as respect for ideas, nuances and differences.听 As we read, we will attend to the importance of the texts in the literary historical tradition and their role in shaping cultural norms, habits of thought and the imaginative landscape of western civilization.听 We will also consider what they tell us of what it is to be human in a complex and ever-changing world.听 There is no formal prerequisite, but experience writing and talking about literature will be helpful.听 Same as CLAS 4120.听 Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
HUMN 4131 听 Greek and Roman Novel
Carole Newlands
This course will study the ancient novel of the Greeks and Romans.听 The course is reading intensive:听 during the semester we will read three Greek novels and two Roman novels.听 We will place the novels within their historical context and will study them not only for their literary qualities but also for the ways in which they reflect social issues and social change. Same as CLAS4140.
HUMN 4135 Art and Psychoanalysis
Paul Gordon
Explores psychoanalytic theory as it relates to our understanding of literature, film, and other arts.听 After becoming familiar with some essential Freudian notions (repression, narcissism, ego/libido, dream work, etc.), students apply these ideas to works by several artists (e.g., Flaubert, James, Kafka, Hoffmann, and Hitchcock).听听Same as FILM 4010.听Prerequisite, HUMN 2000 or junior/senior standing.听 Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
HUMN 4170 Fiction and Reality
Annjeanette Wiese
Reality television, fiction, metafiction, virtual reality, magical realism, documentary, propaganda, autobiography, testimonial, digital manipulation of images, robotics鈥揳ll are popular today for their ability to explore and question the line between fiction and reality. This issue is not a new phenomenon; throughout history humans have tried to understand the distinction between fiction and reality. But our contemporary culture seems particularly interested in both the differences and similarities between the two concepts. In this course we will explore the ramifications of the assumption that a recognizable distinction between reality and fiction exists or that there is no objective way to distinguish the two. With the aid of diverse theoretical sources, we will analyze a selection of literary, scientific, and cultural works in order to see how they define reality and fiction. At the same time, we will think deeply about the nuances involved in and the consequences of these definitions. The goal of this approach is twofold: 1) to arrive at an idea of what these often ambiguous concepts mean in our culture and 2) to be able to critically apply this idea to the problems posed by the questionable status of the separation between reality and fiction.
HUMN 4502 听 Nietzsche:Literature and Values
Henry Pickford
A study of Nietzsche鈥檚 major philosophical writings, with attention to his views on metaphysics, aesthetics and his critique of morality.听Restricted to sophomores/juniors/seniors.听听Same as GRMN 4502.听Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values.
HUMN 4555 Arts of Interpretation
Paul Gordon
Introduces various hermeneutical methodologies (literary/philosophical criticism, biblical exegesis, art history, etc.) with which to examine the question of interpretation.听 Methodologies are studied in close conjunction with particular works of art.听听Prerequisites, HUMN 2000 or junior/senior standing. 听Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: critical thinking.
HUMN 4821听听 20th Century Russian Literature and Art
Rimgaila Salys
Focuses on major works of 20th century Russian fiction and selective affinities with Russian art, from the syncretism of Russian Modernism to the formal parallels between postmodern literature and art. Follows the changing cultural landscape from the time when Russia was in the vanguard of modern European literature to the gradual cultural relaxation that culminated in perestroika and glasnost.Same as RUSS 4821.听 Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
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