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FSEM 101 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: SOCRATES: THE MAN AND HIS PHILOSOPHY Credits: 3 This discussion-style seminar will consider how Socrates practiced philosophy, how Plato represented Socrates and Socratic philosophy in writing, and what effect Socrates had on Athens and his fellow Athenians. Readings will consist mainly of Plato's Socratic dialogues, with emphasis on the Apology and Gorgias. In addition to papers, each participant will make one presentation and lead one discussion. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: CLAS 101. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 105 - LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY Credits: 3 This course examines the role that gender, biological sex, and sexuality play in the language varieties that people use. We will see that although all cultures have specified gender roles, and all cultures mark gender through language varieties, those differences are not, I promise, what you think they are. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: LING 105, SWGS 105. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 106 - IMAGES OF WAR AND PEACE Credits: 3 In conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, this course will examine images of war and peace in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. It will explore images of battles, the hero, peace, and the miseries of war, and how the past affects ideas about war and peace today. Cross listed with HART 106. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 111 - MUSICAL LIVES Credits: 3 Musical biography tends to follow stereotypical patterns that depict composers as heroes who rebel against authority and live on the margins of society. This seminar will focus on the life stories and music of selected 18th and 19th century composers. No musical background necessary. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: MUSI 111. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 112 - GREAT LITERATURE IN GREAT MUSIC Credits: 3 A study of six famous literary works, from classical civilization to expressionism, and their incarnation in famous musical compositions. Authors include Vergil, Shakespeare, Beaumarchais, Pushkin, Goethe, and Buchner; paired pieces include operas by Berlioz, Verdi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, and Berg. No technical or reading knowledge of music is required. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: MUSI 112. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 115 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR ON LOCAL BIOLOGY RESEARCH Credits: 1 Course URL: http://www.bioc.rice.edu/bios115/ A 5-week seminar course to introduce freshmen prospective biologists to the excitement of research at Rice and the Medical Center and to provide context with which to think about facts presented in biosciences textbooks. Small groups will meet weekly with a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher to explore a published research article by a local lab, gaining background information about the subject and exposure to the research techniques. In the final session, the group will tour the lab that produced the featured article. Additional tours and activities TBA. All first-year students are eligible to enroll in BIOS 115 regardless of AP credit. This course meets in the second half of the semester and is organized by Dereth Phillips and Bonnie Bartel. This course is limited to first year students only, any other students will be removed from this course. Cross-list: BIOS 115. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 116 - FRESHMAN BIOLOGY SEMINAR (EEB) Credits: 1 A 5-week seminar course to introduce freshmen prospective biologists to the excitement of research at Rice and the Medical Center and to provide context with which to think about facts presented in biosciences textbooks. Small groups will meet weekly with a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher to explore a published research article by a local lab, gaining background information about the subject and exposure to the research techniques. In the final session, the group will tour the lab that produced the featured article. Additional tours and activities TBA. All first-year, non-transfer students are eligible to enroll in FSEM 116 regardless of AP credit. This course meets in the second half of the semester and features research in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology. Course organizers: Strassmann, Phillips. This course is limited to first year students only, any other students will be removed from this course. Cross-list: BIOS 116. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 118 - CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Credits: 3 Following the 1917 Revolution, Soviet society initiated radical experiments not only in political and governmental structures but in all aspects of culture and everyday life. This class will examine these developments focusing on avant-garde experiments in cinema, literature and the visual arts, as well as philosophical and political debates around the meaning of revolution itself. This course is limited to first-year students only, any other students will be removed from this course. Cross-list: HART 118. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 121 - FROM KAFKA TO THE HOLOCAUST: DISCOURSE IN ALIENATION Credits: 3 The beginnings of modernity have to be seen in the context of the sociopolitical and intellectual upheavals at the end of the 19th century. Whereas extreme reactionism eventually led to fascism, progressive literature advocated artistic experimentation as manifested in a discourse of alienation (expressionism, dada, Kafka). Holocaust literature reflects the ultimate clash between progressiveness and reactionism. The primary readings will be from Wedekind, Trakl, Kaiser, Hesse, Remarque, Brecht, Celan, Werfel. Taught in English. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 121. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 122 - HISTORY THROUGH GERMAN CINEMA Credits: 3 The course presents an overview of German history via contemporary German feature films from World War I, through the Weimar and Nazi periods, the postwar years as a Divided Germany into East and West and finally a look at the new generation in Post-unification Germany. Taught in English. All films are subtitled in English. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 122. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 123 - THROUGH TIME AND SPACE: EUROPEAN TRAVEL STORIES Credits: 3 A travel story stands at the beginning of European Literature: Homer's Odyssey. Since ancient times, literary travel accounts of all sorts, to all destinations, by all means and undertaken with a wide range of different purposes have kept Europeans on the move. First attracted by the exotic and the unknown in the far distance, the interest moved ever closer to the self, and the exploration of the human mind became the most exotic and intriguing journey. Readings include Homer, Swift, Voltaire, Goethe, Heine, Twain, and Verne. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 123. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 124 - LAW, MORALITY, AND SOCIETY Credits: 3 A historical introduction to central themes of legal and political thought in the Western tradition from Immanuel Kant to John Rawls, this freshman seminar provides an overview of trends and controversies in modern political thought and society. Topics discussed include "civil rights", "morality", "liberalism", "natural law", "political theology", and "freedom". Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 124. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 125 - BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND COLLABORATION: INDIVIDUALS RESPONDING TO NATIONAL SOCIALISM Credits: 3 Focus on individuals' behavior in Nazi Germany/Austria. Issues of ideology and ethics as Germans and Austrians faced them between 1933-1945. Reflection on values such as courage, civil disobedience, and human rights in today's global society. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 125. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 126 - THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR IN THE MIDDLE AGES Credits: 3 In the 1100's people began writing down stories of Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin, and the Knights of the round table using sophisticated techniques of literary composition. Today, these stories count among the great writings of Europe. This course examines the spectrum of medieval stories and histories of Arthur that arose in England, France, and Germany from the beginning to the age of printing, plus some recent revivals. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 126, MDST 126. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 127 - IN THE MATRIX: ON HUMAN BONDAGE AND LIBERATION Credits: 3 Using the film "The Matrix" as a point of reference, this course presents celebrated explorations of servitude and emancipation -- from religious mysticism to Marxism and artistic modernism. Texts by Lao Tzu, Farid ud-Din Attar, Plato, Freud, Marx, Beaudelaire, J.S. Mill, Proust, de Beauvoir, Malcolm, Baudrillard. Course taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FREN 127. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 128 - THE CULTURE OF WAR: VIOLENCE, CONFLICT AND REPRESENTATION Credits: 3 Focusing on the experience and representation of war in German and European literature, theory, and visual arts. Covers the period from 17th-20th century. Special emphasis on the First World War. Not for the faint-hearted, topics included: destruction, ruins, refugees, massacres, terrorism, victims, spaces of battle, the logic of war. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 128. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 129 - LITERARY LOVE AFFAIRS: LOVE AND PASSION IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE Credits: 3 Love-stories are usually about a young man who seeks the ideal girl, finally gets her, and becomes as good a Philistine as others. Students examine this philosophical wisdom by reading stories and theoretical texts about love and passion by European authors from the time of Shakespeare to the present. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 129. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 130 - WOMEN AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM Credits: 3 Introduction to the Nazi idea of "womanhood" and the actual roles women played during National Socialism. Female perpetrators, Mitlaufer, a multiplicity of victims, and to resistance fighters. The course will be taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 130, SWGS 130. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 132 - NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND FILM Credits: 3 Freshman seminar. This course explores films made in Nazi Germany as well as films about Nazi Germany and the corresponding crisis of justice in the mid-twentieth century. We ill analyze cinematic responses to the rise of the fascist movement, World War II, the Holocaust, and the post-war years. Particular attention will be paid to the value of film as propagandistic tool, ways in which it can configure and contest our image of national identity, and the relation between mass manipulation and mass murder. The course will be taught in English. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 133 - AMERICA THROUGH FRENCH EYES Credits: 3 The United States has always been a source of fascination -- both attraction and revulsion -- for the French. This course aims to understand American culture and identity as revealed by transatlantic encounters with the French. We will study French intellectuals' observations from Tocqueville to Simone de Beauvoir as well as images of America in French popular culture. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FREN 133. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 136 - GERMAN FILM Credits: 3 "From Caligari to Hitler" -and beyond. In the vein of the title of a well-known study on German film during the Weimar Republic the course offers a cinematographic history of German and European politics and culture from the early Expressionist silent movies on the award winning "Life of Others." Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: GERM 136. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 144 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT Credits: 3 Seminar traces the history and politics of the Arab-Israeli conflict, delving into both Palestinian and Israeli understandings of the past and present using books, documentaries, and films. The course seeks to understand how and at what costs Israeli and Palestinian nationalism's have been constructed and analyzes U.S. involvement in the conflict. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: HIST 144. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 150 - LATIN AMERICAN SHORT FICTION (EMPHASIS ON BORGES AND CORTAZAR) Credits: 3 Readings of classic works of short fiction by modern Latin American masters, with special emphasis on the stories of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar. Close reading, interpretive essays. Taught in English. Open to first-year students only, any others will be removed. Cross-list: SPAN 150. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 151 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE HERO AND HIS COMPANION FROM GILGAMESH TO SAM SPADE Credits: 3 How does presentation of heroic action illustrate the basic values of society? Historical sources including ancient texts, modern mystery stories, and two "western" movies, show the development of a style of community service linking heroism with alienation. The extent to which women participate will be traced. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: HIST 151. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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FSEM 152 - THE HISPANIC ESSAY Credits: 3 Readings in English from major modern Spanish and Latin-American essayists, including Miguel de Unamuno, Jose Ortega y Gassset, Maria Zambrano, Jose Marti, Jose Enrique Rodo, Alfonso Reyes, Victoria Ocampo, Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, and Octavio Paz, et al. Close reading and appreciation of essays will be the focus of discussion, presentations, and short interpretive papers. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: SPAN 152. College: School of Humanities Department: Freshman Seminar
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