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department Humanities (X) |
Lecture—2 hours. Reading and discussion of a single work representative of a particular culture, historical period, or genre and significant for its ongoing cultural impact in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, technology, and popular arenas. Attention to provocative implications for contemporary society. May be repeated one time for credit if topic differs. GE credit with concurrent enrollment in HUM 1D.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 1 concurrently. Small group discussions and preparation of short papers for course 1. May be repeated once for credit if topic differs. GE credit with concurrent enrollment in course 1: ArtHum, Wrt.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. Evolution of the “medical arts” into the “science of medicine.” The culture of medicine in the context of society, medical ethics. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.—III.
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Lecture—2 hours. The meaning of human relations with animals studied across a variety of historical periods and culture and from a variety of humanistic perspectives. Offered in alternate years.—I.
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Discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in course 4. Small group discussions and preparation of short papers for course 4. Offered in alternate years. GE credit with concurrent enrollment in course 4: ArtHum, Wrt.—I.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: completion of Subject A requirement. The relationships among literature, film, and the law, from Greek tragedy to popular American fiction and films. Common themes in law and literature portraying human experience. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Wrt.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. Wagner’s Ring and Lucas’ Star Wars, as examples of 19th and 20th centuries approaches to the arts and their relationship with the society. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Wrt.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: Subject A requirement. History of travel from the age of exploration to the modern era. Contemporary trends in travel, including mass tourism, adventure travel, and ecotravel. Social, economic, and cultural issues related to modern trends in travel. Analysis of literary representations of travel. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—II.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: satisfaction of Subject A requirement. Interdisciplinary approach to the use of story across time, culture, and discipline. How the telling and retelling of particular stories reflect the values, concerns, and assumptions of their original audiences and genres. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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Lecture—2 hours. Reading Don Quixote as emblem of modernity in the West. Issues of reality versus illusion, heroism, freedom and self-fulfillment, racial tolerance and love. Don Quixote in other cultural and popular media: film, dance, art, musical drama, and television. Offered in alternate years. GE credit with concurrent enrollment in course 9D: ArtHum, Wrt.—I.
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Discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 9 concurrently. Small group discussions and preparation of short papers for course 9. Offered in alternate years.
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Reading, viewing, and discussion of one or two Shakespeare plays with focus on the relationship between text and performance (on stage and on film); analysis of the relationship between presentation of Shakespeare and cultural world view, meaning, and aesthetics. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. The invention and impact of writing systems on cultures, including the invention of paper, the introduction of the codex, illustrations, the book-buying client, and the history of censorship and book burning and their connection to the technology of the word. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Wrt.
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Lecture—3 hours; extensive writing. This course examines the historical construction of the witch. The four areas covered are: European pagan religions and the spread of christianity; the “Burning' Times” in early modern Europe; 17th-century New England and the Salem witch trials; and fairytales. GE Credit: ArtHum, Div, Wri.—II. (III.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. Introduction to topics related to the construction of identity through language use, including geographical and social factors affecting language groups. Language ideology affecting linguistic groups, including bilinguals and non-native speakers of English. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—II.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. Live performance and globalization in the twenty-first century. Consideration of the cultural context of performing arts and artists including their methods of creativity. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, SocSci, Wrt.
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Survey of current approaches to use of computers in such fields as language, literature, history, art, music, and drama. Laboratory in text creation and analysis.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: English A or the equivalent. Interdisciplinary approach to contemporary issues (abortion, AIDS, civil rights, war and peace, welfare state) around which individuals, communities and institutions define themselves in American society, by applying principles of narrative theory to the narratives where those issues are embedded. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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Internship—3-36 hours. Internships in fields where students can practice their skills. May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.)
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Discussion—3 hours; term paper. Knowledge of German not required. Intensive study of Goethe’s Faust in its entirety. Discussions and readings in English; reading the text in the original is encouraged. (Same course as German 113) Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—III.
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; research project. Prerequisite: course 40 or consent of instructor. The computer as support for the humanities. Topics include advanced textual analysis, editing, vocabulary control, and data base management (design, application and evaluation, and search strategies).
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Study of major texts of these thinkers, selected with an eye to their impact on 20th-century economics, ethics, and attitudes toward eros. Particular focus on conceptions of the self and the individual’s relation to society. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II.
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Close study of selected prose works of Mann, Hesse, and Kafka as representative of modernism’s fascination with social, sexual, and psychological alienation. Attention to the nuanced portrayal of deviance through formal innovations in fiction. Offered in alternate years.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Analysis of interdisciplinary issues in the Humanities. Topics will vary. May be repeated one time for credit. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
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Internship—3-36 hours. Internships in fields where students can practice their skills. May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.)
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