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Humanities Honors Program

COURSES 2007-2008

  • HUMNTIES 100. Text and Context in Humanities-Required of students in the Humanities Honors Program.
    Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities through the study and application of theoretical approaches to major texts. Textual analysis and writing assignments to prepare students to write honors essays. GER:DB-Hum 3 units, Win (Freidin, G)

  • HUMNTIES 181. Philosophy and Literature-(Same as CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENGEN 181, ITALGEN 181, GERGEN 181.)
    Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, Win (Anderson, L; Landy, J)

HONORS SEMINARS
(160 Series courses can count toward the Intellectual/Cultural History Requirement)

  • HUMNTIES 162. Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern-(Same as ENGLISH 184C.)
    Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how historical pressures challenged conceptions of artistic form, self, divine, and the physical universe. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle, On the Soul; Attar, The Conference of the Birds; Dante, Inferno; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies; Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli, The Prince; Luther, The Bondage of the Will; Montaigne, Essays; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; poems by John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth; Shakespeare, Othello; and works of art. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, Win (Brooks, H)

  • HUMNTIES 163. Texts in History: Enlightenment to the Present-(Same as FRENGEN 163.)
    Priority to students in the Humanities honors program and French majors. The relationship between intellectual, political, and cultural history, and literary creativity in the modern period. Texts include Voltaire, Philosophical Letters; Rousseau, second Discourse; Kant, What is Enlightenment? and the Critique of Judgment; documents and speeches from the French Revolution; Hlderlin, The Rhein; Schlegel, Dialogue on Poesy; Balzac, Pre Goriot; Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground; Sorel, Reflections on Violence; T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Artaud, Theater and its Double; and Kane, Ambiguous Adventure. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, Spr (Edelstein, D)

  • HUMNTIES 191S. Capital and Empire-(Same as HISTORY 239D/339D.) Can empire be justified with balance sheets of imperial crimes and boons, a calculus of racism versus railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Walmart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development. GER:DB-SocSci 4-5 units, Spr (Satia, P)

  • HUMNTIES 193W. Nietzsche, Doestoevsky, and Sartre-(Same as PHIL 193W.) Literary works in which philosophical ideas and issues are put forward, such as prose poems, novels, and plays. Ideas and issues and the dramatic or narrative structures through which they are presented. Texts include: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov; and Sartre, Nausea and No Exit. 4 units, Aut (Wood, A)

  • HUMNTIES 194G. William Blake: Poet and Painter-(Same as ENGLISH 135E.) Introduction to the illuminated poetry of William Blake, romantic visionary, poet, artist, religious renegade, political revolutionary, philosopher, mythological historiographer, social misfit, and critic. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, Win (Gigante, D)

  • HUMNTIES 196B. Religion, Reason, and Romanticism-(Same as RELIGST 245.) The late 18th-century European cultural shift from rationalist to romantic modes of thought and sensibility. Debates about religion as catalysts for the new Zeitgeist. Readings include: the Jewish metaphysician, Mendelssohn; the dramatist, Lessing; the philosopher of language and history, Herder; the critical idealist, Kant; and the transcendental idealist, Fichte. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, Aut (Sockness, B)

  • HUMNTIES 198J. Digital Humanities: Literature and Technology-(Same as ENGLISH 153H.) How electronic texts, literary databases, computers, and digital corpora offer unique ways of reading, analyzing, and understanding literature. Intellectual and philosophical problems associated with an objective methodology within a traditionally subjective discipline. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, Aut (Jockers, M)

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