Humanities Undergraduate Degrees in USA

...how Fermat's theorem, classical translation, and chaos theory become the stuff of stage comedy. Sessions: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Taking...

...arguments, and direct phrasings taken from someone else's work must be identified and properly footnoted. Quotations from other sources must be clearly... Learn about: IT Law...

...Among them: the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), the standard for historical study of words; the MLA (Modern Language Association) bibliography... Learn about: Communication Training...

..."doth bestride the narrow world" of the English Renaissance "like a colossus," leaving his contemporaries "walk under his large legs and peep about"...

...and to offer either a provocative articulation of what the poem is about, or a provocative question which the poem confronts, and which we should grapple...

...Thus, we will examine poems not only as literary artifacts but as cultural artifacts, looking at some of the ways in which poetry codes and shapes the world outside...

...and should ideally help to stimulate a discussion through arguments and questions. Finally, there will be one 20-page essay, a portion of which you...

...which they are thought to stand - and sometimes do genuinely stand - in opposition. Far from representing a mere departure from reason,...

...Around these sequences, we will develop several other contexts, using both Renaissance texts and modern accounts: the Petrarchan literary tradition...

...analysis of two or three specific poems. Don't show me this again This is one of over 2,200 courses on OCW. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the...

...þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon… Those are the first words of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them...

...chapter 32 Wilson. "Melville, Darwin, and the Great Chain of Being" Melville. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition, chapters 1-9 Library Workshop...

...of a critical bibliography and we will discuss how to do this earlier in the semester. (Improper use of sources, of course, may constitute plagiarism...

...Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Morrison's Love lay siege to the tragic mode through comic inversion, satire, or the fragmentation of literary form and textuality altogether...

...The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) and Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials ), as well as assorted criticism. Each week, one class meeting will focus on Milton...

...For some reason, American literature (like French, Irish, and Russian, among others) has been especially productive in major works in fictional forms shorter than the novel...

...only be to investigate narrative media but also to appreciate their artistic merits and the value of their conveyed view of life. The subject will...

...Nabu Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781293760000. [Preview with Google Books] Francatelli, Charles Elmé. A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes. Reprint edition...

...arguments, and direct phrasings taken from someone else's work must be identified and properly footnoted. Quotations from other sources must be clearly...

...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?...