| source Yale (X) |
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department Humanities (X) |
MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu, So Permission of instructor required
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Exploration of the ambiguous role of the Vikings in the history of the early Middle Ages. Focus both on the Vikings' impact in Europe (raids, trade, and settlement) and on developments in their Scandinavian homelands (Christianization and the creation of kingdoms).
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required
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MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The epic as it has been used in different times and countries to express ideas about the hero, the divine, nature, and art. Poets and poems include Homer, Vergil,
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A reading of Shakespeare?s histories, comedies, and poems, with an emphasis on their originality in regard to tradition and their influence on Western representation since the seventeenth century. Secondary readings included.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An inquiry into the role of music and thought about music at three critical junctures in the intellectual and cultural history of modern Europe: the birth of modernity and opera; the Enlightenment and the classical style; and German romanticism and Beethoven.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Selections from the entire procession of poetry in English from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A discussion of texts that address the transformation of visual culture and the act of seeing in modern industrial society. The dynamics such texts reveal in relationships between individuals and mass culture, authenticity and commodity, theory and ideology. Questions of imperialism, rationalism, industrialism, voyeurism, tourism, and realism as inscribed in landscape, architecture, painting, photography, theater, and cinema.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An introduction to the history, literature, music, and art of the Anglo-Norman world from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The tradition of the con artist in literature and film, from eighteenth-century German texts of Goethe and Schiller to Ben Stiller's
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M 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Literary plots involving social and erotic progress examined in works from the seventeenth century to the present. Topics include social ambition or decline, the marriage plot and its alternatives, the narrative role of family or social outsiders, and sexuality and narrative form.
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T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation History of the folktale from the late seventeenth through the late nineteenth centuries. Basic concepts, terminology, and interpretations of folktales, with some attention to twentieth-century theoretical approaches. Performance and audience, storytellers, and gender-related distinctions. Interconnections between oral and written traditions examined in narratives from western Europe and Greece.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Analysis of film practices such as adaptation, remake, prequel, sequel, quotation, formula, and genre that also operate in fiction, TV, painting, and other arts. Examination of repetition from the point of view of semiotics (Barthes, Eco), cultural history (Benjamin), and philosophy (Deleuze).
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation Theories of passion from Descartes and Hobbes to Baumgarten, Burke, and Kant. The relationship between passion and literary representation from Shakespeare and Racine to Richardson and Goethe. Theoretical questions concerning psychology, epistemology, aesthetics, and anthropology. Theatrical performance of passion in the seventeenth century; narrative representation in the eighteenth century.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Readings in translation Franz Kafka's writings viewed as a site for the radical questioning and dislocation of Western systems, institutions, and mores of the early twentieth century. Attention to the shorter fiction, the novels, the letters, and their strategic interrelations; examination of the fields of knowledge, ideological presumptions, and aesthetic and cultural experiments that Kafka touched, and to some degree deranged, with his writing.
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A study of rhetoric as an indispensable element of politics. Rhetorical perceptions of the sophist Gorgias and the philosophers Plato and Aristotle; foundations of modern rhetoric in Machiavelli, Jane Austen, and Abraham Lincoln; and contemporary rhetorics of gender, social science, natural science, and democratic theory.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s. Attention to social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis. Writers include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim.
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TTh 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu The origins of Western scientific culture and its connections with curiosity, ingenuity, and artisanal knowledge. Key topics in the historiography of early modern science, including the scientific revolution and the trial of Galileo.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Interchanges between German and Jewish cultures from 1750 to 1933. Contextual background for understanding the Holocaust. Primary texts, read in translation, debate enlightenment, civil rights, integration, anti-semitism, Zionism, and diaspora. Comparison with other cultural, religious, and ethnic conflicts.
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MW 4.00-5.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The origins, rise, and fall of Germany's first democratic experiment between 1919 and 1933 as a paradigmatic example of modernity. Topics include the relationship between culture and politics, social and political reform, the 'New Woman,' anti-Semitism, urban culture, and Americanization. Sources from literature, criticism, theater, architecture, fine arts, and film.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Exploration of major European figures associated with the Enlightenment and romanticism. Authors include Voltaire, Hume, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Burke, Hegel, Carlyle, Marx, J. S. Mill, and Nietzsche.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu A survey of important intellectual developments from the ?Innocent Rebellion? of the pre-World War I period through the 1960s. Topics include coming to terms with the European legacy; intellectuals and the Left in the Depression; the postwar ?end of ideology?; and the apocalyptic visions of the 1960s.
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F 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A broad investigation into purported evolutionary and biological explanations for such cultural phenomena as language, morals, politics, and art.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation The relationship between art and subjectivity in German literary texts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readings from Kant's first and third
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