We examine novels and essays by writers who have chosen French as their literary language in the 20th and 21st century. Works by Nemirovsky, Makine, Kundera, Kristeva, Cheng, others.
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Examines how the 1001 Nights is transformed and adapted for different media and genres. Focuses on a variety of films, (e.g., The Thief of Baghdad, Chu Chin Chow, Aladdin), illustrations/images (eg., Dore, Chagall, Matisse), musical and balletic renditions (e.g., Rimsky-Korsakov, Fokine), translations (e.g., Galland, Lane, Burton, Haddawy), and re-tellings of stories (e.g., Poe, Barth, Mahfouz, Sebbar, Zimmerman). Also considers the role of the 1001 Nights in contemporary popular culture.
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A history of alternatives to commercial movies, focusing on surrealist and Dadaist film, visual music, psychodrama, direct cinema, the film society movement, personal cinema, the New American Cinema, structuralism, Queer cinema, feminist cinema, minor cinema, recycled cinema and devotional cinema. While conventional entertainment films use the novel, the short story and the stage drama as their primary instigations, experimental and avant-garde films are analogous to music, poetry, painting, sculpture and collage.
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Subjectivity as it emerges in the rich traditions of Romance vernacular poetry, first in the Iberian Peninsula and Southern France, later in Northern France and Italy. Works studied include love songs, political poems, death laments, female-voiced poems, meta-poetry. Authors include Alfonso X, Guilhem de Peitieu, Contessa de Dia, Berceo, Rutebeuf, Petrarca, Christine de Pizan, Manrique, Encina, Villon, Gil Vicente, Ausias March, Garcilaso de la Vega, Labbe.
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An introduction to risks in the environment. Different types of hazards are analyzed and compared: natural disasters, such as tornados, earthquakes, and meteorite impacts; adverse health effects caused by exposure to radiation and toxic substances such as radon, asbestos, and arsenic; long-term effects due to environmental change, such as sea level rise and global warming. Emphasizes the basic physical principles controlling the hazardous phenomena and develops simple quantitative methods for making scientifically reasoned assessments of the threats posed by hazardous events, processes, and exposures. Discusses methods of risk mitigation and sociological, psychological, and economic aspects of risk control and management.
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In the event of the absence of God, can one still have belief? In the face of nothingness, how is one to live? Can beauty still be encountered in the aftermath of war and genocide? This course discusses various responses to these questions in philosophy, theology, literature, and film, focusing on the ideas emerging out of WWII and the Holocaust. Thinkers considered include Dostoyevsky, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Marcel, Arendt, and filmmakers, Bergman, Kurosawa, and Tarkovsky.
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Heresy, orthodoxy, and religious identity from the early to the late Middle Ages. Focus on western European persons and movements that were deemed heretical. Readings in Latin; discussion of current research and methodological issues.
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A complete first year course in one term. Provides an introduction to Hindi and Devanagari script, encompassing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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An intensive survey of Western music from the middle ages to ca. 1750, providing methods of further study of music in historical and cultural contexts as well as knowledge of repertory.
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This class will look at China's most famous traditional tales, such as Mulan, Meng Jiangnu, The White Snake and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. We will study both the richness and variety of these tales in premodern times, and the way in which modern and contemporary artists and intellectuals have reflected on these tales in their essays and novels, and adapted them for the stage and the screen in their search continuity between the Chinese past and the Chinese present.
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Analyzes the foundation, development, and exercise of chief executive power at the national, state, and local levels of government in the United States. Examines the applicability of different political science theories of presidential power to the broader exercise of chief executive power. Explores the sources and limits of executive authority, the roles and responsibilities of political chief executives at different levels of government, and the way in which institutions affect the exercise of chief executive power.
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Even before the formal establishment of the United States, assumptions about sex have helped determine who is entitled to - and not entitled to - the privileges and protections of full citizenship. This course investigates the roles that sex, gender, and sexuality have played in configuring notions of citizenship over time as well as the ways in which sexual rights remain a site of contestation and struggle in the modern United States.
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This course is a survey of the social and cultural history of China from the Song to the mid-Qing (roughly from 1000 to 1800). The main topics discussed include urbanization and commerce; gender; family and kinship; education and the examination system, and religion and ritual. The main goal of the course will be to explore the relationship between social and cultural changes and political and intellectual developments.
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This course provides an introduction to the physical principles describing the formation and evolution of stars and their planetary companions. Topics include thermal radiation and stellar spectra; telescopes; energy generation in stars; stellar evolution; orbital dynamics; the Solar system; and exoplanets. This course includes an observational component: Students will determine the distance to the Sun, and use the Clay Telescope atop the Science Center to study stellar evolution and detect exoplanets.
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A tour of symplectic and contact topology. Hamiltonian and Reeb dynamics. Symplectomorphism groups. Symplectic fibrations and Lefschetz pencils. Open books. Surgery fillings. Holomorphic curves, Floer homology, and symplectic field theory.
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