Post War Intellectual Crisis (short course)

University of Dundee

Short course

In Dundee

£ 150 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    Dundee (Scotland)

  • Duration

    11 Weeks

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This is an accredited course. On successful completion you will receive 10 credits at SHE 1, SCQF Level 7. Assessment will be by coursework (continuous assessment).
All accredited courses will use an opt-out arrangement: those enrolled on an accredited course will be assumed to be studying for credit unless they opt out. Students enrolled on the module can opt out up to and including week 5. Registering for credit and completing matriculation gives you access to the Library and Learning Centre and University facilities.

Facilities

Location

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Dundee (Dundee City)
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Fulton Building, DD1 4HN

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About this course

The aim of this module is to provide students with the tools to analyse and investigate how novelists, critics, intellectual historians, philosophers and theologians responded to the crisis of living, thinking and creating after World War II.

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Subjects

  • Credit
  • Accredited
  • Postcolonialism
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Feminism
  • Saul Bellow
  • F.R. Leavis
  • Albert Camus
  • Sysiphus
  • Second Sex
  • Abolition

Course programme

This course in intellectual and cultural history will cover morality and religion, existential philosophy, feminism and postcolonialism. Students should demonstrate an understanding of the theories outlined and be able to engage with the critical lexicon of the areas of engagement.

Introduction to the post-war era:

  • Saul Bellow Herzog (excerpts)
  • F.R. Leavis The Great Tradition (excerpts)
  • Albert Camus The Myth of Sysiphus (excerpts)
  • Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (excerpts)
  • Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks (excerpts)
  • Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing (excerpts)
  • Iris Murdoch The Bell (excerpts)
  • Paul Tillich The Courage to Be (excerpts)
  • C.S Lewis The Abolition of Man (excerpts)

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