Humanities Undergraduate Degrees

...of his most compelling contemporaries (including Caryl Churchill, Anna Deveare Smith and Howard Barker) will allow us to time-travel and explore other cultures...

...and who decides whether a play is too dangerous to see or to teach? Are plays dangerous? Sinful? Even demonic? In our seminar, we will study plays that have been censored... Learn about: IT Law...

...art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images... Learn about: Communication Training...

...whose names have largely been eclipsed by their more luminous compatriot: Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Ford, among others. Reading Shakespeare as...

...special emphasis on student involvement and control. I will ask you to submit one ten-twelve page essay, two shorter (five page) essays, and to accept the role...

...of the contexts of English verse. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course aims to introduce students to some of the most important...

...A list of topics covered in the course is provided in the calendar. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Can the ability to recognize beauty...

...the most elementary processes of mind, and have frequently drawn for these representations on the very sciences to which they are thought to stand...

...These poems cover an enormous amount of aesthetic and psychological ground: ranging from the utterly subjective to the entirely public or conventional...

...1 hour / session Extensive reading of works by major poets, including Lowell, Levertov, Rich, Heaney, Pinsky, and Dove. Emphasis on the evolution of...

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...Expedition to Antarctica and the Pacific inspired new endeavors in cartography, ethnography, zoology, and evolutionary theory, replacing rigid models...

...These are some of the key questions that engaged the poet John Milton, and that continue to engage readers of his work. Lectures: 2 sessions /...

...Students will get an opportunity to research an author in depth, as well as making broader comparisons across the syllabus. Lectures: 2 sessions /...

...Paradise Lost was almost immediately recognized as a classic, and one fate of a classic is to be rewritten, both by admirers and by antagonists...

...Since the death of Spaulding Grey, Garrison Keillor is the best living practitioner of the American story-telling (not story-writing) tradition...

...political and aesthetic boundaries. It includes some attention to theory of narrative. Films to be studied include works by Akira Kurosawa, John...

...writing and performances and the roles people played in writing and cooking recipes. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Two subjects in Literature...

...both in their dictionary definitions and in their social consequences. How did people constitute their identities in early America, and how did they speak about these identities?...

...and nuances of what we might call an ethnic subjectivity? What could it mean to harbor fugitives within the self: transgressive thoughts or a “foreign” identity?...