L16 Comp Lit 1023 Beethoven in His Time and Ours

Ludwig van Beethoven not only composed some of the most significant works of Western classical music -- he continues to make his mark as the prototypical "troubled genius," symbol for a wide range of political causes, subject of numerous films, and classical music's main representative in American pop culture. We will begin with an exploration of Beethoven's life, music, and historical context and continue by tracing how, after his death, Beethoven became a cultural hero whose image took on a life of its own. Throughout, we will unravel the interaction of music, culture, and mythmaking. No previous musical experience required.
Same as L27 Music 1023

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 1024 Mozart: The Humor, Science, and Politics of Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most recognized composers of classical music and has come to symbolize beauty, "genius," and technical perfection. In this course, we'll peer behind this beauty and discover that Mozart speaks to some of our most complex present-day concerns. Mozart's music reflects the world of the Enlightenment, as well as challenges to its beliefs about reason and human nature. He also created musical comedies that make provocative, strikingly contemporary statements about power, gender, privilege, and sexuality. And, he delighted in musical engineering challenges and thought carefully about how we perceive music. Our focus works will range from symphonies and piano music to musical theatre. We'll also explore Mozart's afterlife: how his music has figured in film and popular culture. This course is open to all - no previous musical experience is required.
Same as L27 Music 1024

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 1115 First Year Seminar: Engaging the Classical Past in Modern Fiction

This course will explore the persistent -- but often camouflaged -- influence of classical antiquity on modern genre (popular) fiction. Students will read and discuss both texts from antiquity (e.g., Ovid's "Metamorphoses," Lucian's "A True History") and selections from the works of major 20th-century authors drawn from the canon of a specific genre. Although popular fiction embraces a wide range of authors and styles, genres that are particularly engaged with the classical past include science fiction (e.g., Jules Verne, Suzanne Collins), fantasy (e.g., J.R.R. Tolkien, Rick Riordan), horror (e.g., H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King), mystery (e.g., Elizabeth Peters, Steven Saylor), and adventure (e.g., Clive Cussler, David Gibbins). Discussion of these texts will include theorization about the nature of the genre and its origins as well as specific examples of allusions and intertexts to ancient Greek and Roman authors, focusing on the characters, artifacts, monsters, themes, legends, and plot devices drawn from Greco-Roman mythology or modern mythology about Classical antiquity. Course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.
Same as L08 Classics 115

Credit 3 units. A&S: FYS A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 115 First Year Seminar

A variety of topics in comparative literature, designed for first-year students--no special background is required--and to be conducive to the investigation and discussion format of a seminar. Previous topics include: Story Telling Through Sound, Banned Books, Imigrants and Exiles, Literature and Democracy, Literature and the Art of Apology, Hell on Earth: Crime, Conscience, and the Arts, Magical thinknig: Literature and Theory Engage the Occult

Credit 3 units. A&S: FYS A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 137A First Year Seminar

The destructive, scandal-ridden career of the Roman emperor Nero (mid-1st century CE) almost defies belief. From his assumption of power as a teenager to his suicide after a military revolt, Nero flouted political and cultural conventions left and right. His inspiring debut notwithstanding, he killed off his family and mentor, held wild parties, poured money into extravagant projects, and neglected state business to pursue a career on stage. He came to be labeled one of the "Bad Emperors," and seen as a symbol of the decline of Rome itself - especially by sympathizers of the Christians he persecuted. Yet Nero as an emperor and a literary character was also a creation of his time. The figure of Nero is examined in his context. The central text is the Life of Nero by Suetonius (2nd century CE), a dense and colorful text read first in its entirety and then more carefully in pieces. Supplementary readings are from the abundant other sources on and interpretations of Nero, both ancient and modern. Discussions and writing assignments are varied and designed to develop analytical and writing skills.
Same as L08 Classics 137

Credit 3 units. A&S: FYS A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 195C Images of Africa in Literature and Film

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 200C Sanity and Madness

We will consider explicit and implicit models of mental life, motivation, and action in works by authors studied in 201C. We will investigate how concepts related to madness are formulated and regulated in these literary texts and in the societies that produce them, and we will read scholarship from the 19th through 21st centuries that has debated the scale and scope of irrationality in ancient, medieval, and early modern cultures.
Same as L93 IPH 200C

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM BU: BA, HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 201A AMP: Classical to Renaissance Literature

Students enrolled in this course engage in close and sustained reading of a set of texts that are indispensable for an understanding of the European literary tradition, texts that continue to offer invaluable insights into humanity and the world around us. Homer's Iliad is the foundation of our class. We then go on to trace ways in which later poets and dramatists engage the work of predecessors who inspire and challenge them. Readings move from translations of Greek, Latin, and Italian, to poetry and drama composed in English. In addition to Homer, we will read works of Sappho, a Greek tragedian, Plato, Vergil, Ovid, Petrarch, and Shakespeare.
Same as L93 IPH 201C

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 211 World Literature

This course teaches ways of reading literature across eastern and western cultures, introducing students to works of great imaginative power from many different regions of the world. The course focuses on a given historical period, such as the modern period or antiquity (the latter including Near Eastern as well as European texts). Organizing themes may include cultural translation, cross-cultural encounter (e.g., orientalism), hybridity, and displacement.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 215C Introduction to Comparative Practice I

This course permits the close examination of a particular theme or question studied comparatively, that is, with a cross-cultural focus involving at least two national literatures. Topics are often interdisciplinary; they explore questions pertinent to literary study that also engage history, philosophy, and/or the visual arts. Although the majority of works studied are texts, the course frequently pursues comparisons of texts and images (painting, photography, film). Requirements may include frequent short papers, response papers, and/or exams.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 220 Literatures of the Indian Sub-Continent

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 226 Theatre Culture Studies I: Antiquity to Medieval

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 228B Thatre Culture Studies I: Antiquity to Renaissance

This course is a survey of ancient, medieval and Renaissance theater and performance: in both the West and in the East, as it both reflects and shapes culture. Coverage will include the following areas: ancient Greece, ancient Rome, classical Sanskrit theater, Yuan China, medieval Japan, medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, and Renaissance England. Both scripted theater and performance practices will be examined through the lenses of dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies, and dramatic theory. A continual emphasis will be on marginal and underrepresented figures, as we will attempt to excavate forgotten histories from the theatrical past.
Same as L15 Drama 228C

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 232C The Reformation and its Culture

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 251 Topics in Asian American Studies

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 300 Undergraduate Independent Study

Students pursue personalized projects not normally covered in standard courses at this level. Prerequisites: acceptance by an appropriate instructor of a proposed project and permission of the chair of the committee.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3003 Writing Intensive in Ancient Studies

This is a Writing Intensive course involving the study of selected topics in Classics. Recent topics include The Banquet in Antiquity; The Art of Reading and Writing an Ancient Greek Vase; and Golden Ages, Nostalgia, and the Idealized Past.
Same as L08 Classics 3003

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3019 Greek Mythology

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 301C Greek Mythology

The myths of ancient Greece are not only inherently interesting, but they are an incomparable starting point for the study of the ancient world, and they have offered numerous images and paradigms to poets, artists, and theorists. This course provides an introduction to the major Greek myths, their role in literature and art, their historical and social background, and ancient and modern approaches to their interpretation. Student work will include discussing course material in sections and online, taking two exams covering both the myths themselves and the ancient authors who represent our richest sources, and writing several essays interpreting or comparing ancient literary treatments. 3 units.
Same as L08 Classics 301C

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3023 Jazz in American Culture

This course will address the role of jazz within the context of twentieth-century African American and American cultural history, with particular emphasis on the ways in which jazz has shaped, and has been shaped by, ideas about race, gender, economics, and politics. We will make use of recordings and primary sources from the 1910s to the present in order to address the relationship between jazz performances and critical and historical thinking about jazz. This course in not a survey, and students should already be familiar with basic jazz history.
Same as L27 Music 3023

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3040 Introduction to Digital Humanities

It is a truism that computers have changed our lives and the way we think and interact. But in fact systematic efforts to apply current technologies to the study of history and culture have been rare. This course will enable students to consider how these technologies might transform the humanities. We will explore the various ways in which ideas and data in the humanities can be represented, analyzed, and communicated. We will also reflect on how the expansion of information technology has transformed and is continuing to transform the humanities, both with regard to their role in the university and in society at large. Readings and classwork will be supplemented by class presentations and a small assigned group project.
Same as L93 IPH 312

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3050 Literary Modernities in Europe and America: Text and Tradition

The course examines the various facets of modernity in major works of European, Eurasian, and, sometimes, American literature from the early 17th century to the 1920s, starting with "Don Quixote." We will explore, among other things, the eruption of the novel, the secularization of autobiography, the literary discovery of the city, and the rise of literary and aesthetic criticism that takes literature and art seriously as political and social institutions. In addition to literary works, the course will engage with two or three important models of critical practice (e.g., Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Women"; Marx's "German Ideology"; Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams"; Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent"; or perhaps that great work of fictionalized literary criticism, Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote").
Same as L93 IPH 3050

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 306 Modern Jewish Writers

What is Jewish literature? While we begin with -- and return to -- the traditional question of definitions, we will take an unorthodox approach to the course. Reading beyond Bellow, Ozick and Wiesel, we will look for enlightenment in unexpected places: Egypt, Latin America, and Australia. Recent works by Philip Roth, Andre Aciman, Simone Zelitch and Terri-ann White will be supplemented by guest lectures, film, short stories and significant essays. We will focus on issues of language, memory and place. Background knowledge is not required, though it is warmly welcomed.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 306C Voice, Language and Power: Late Medieval Religious Writing

In the later Middle Ages, there is a flowering throughout Christian Europe of religious writings that offer a new voice in which personal religious experience can be pursued and expressed. Their voices are mainly intended to be communal ones, to be contained within the Church and regulated by it. But in each case the fact that it is a voice may offer a mode of resistance, or of difference. Such writing is often aimed at lay people, sometimes exclusively at women; and sometimes the intended auditors become the authors, and propose a version of religious experience that claims a new and more intimate kind of power for its readers. This course looks at a wide range of such writing in vernacular languages read in translation (English, French and German), including the work of Meister Eckhart, Marguerite Porete, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Eleanor Hull, the anonymous writer of The Cloud of Unknowing and the perhaps pseudonymous William Langland, author of Piers Plowman. Whether such writing seeks to be orthodox or conducive to heresy, it presents a challenge to the power of clergy - a challenge that is written in the vernacular language of lay people, rather than clerical Latin, and in doing so offers distinctively new voices for religious experience. The course will also look at ways in which such work might have been influenced, if only oppositionally or at times indirectly, by contact with Muslim and Jewish writing (including Jewish exegesis of the Psalms).
Same as L23 Re St 3065

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3071 Caribbean Literature in English

Rum! Fun! Beaches! Sun! This is the image of the Caribbean in America today. This course will survey literature and culture from these islands, looking both at and beyond this tourists' paradise. It will aim to introduce students to the region's unmistakably vibrant tradition of multicultural mixture, while keeping an eye on the long history of slavery and rebellion out of which the islands' contemporary situation formed. Along the way we will encounter a wide variety of texts, from the earliest writing focused on life in urban slums, to the first novel ever to have a Rastafarian as its hero, to more contemporary considerations of the region's uncertain place in a U.S.-dominated world. Toward the end of the course, we will also look at important films like The Harder They Come as well as discussing the most globally famous cultural product of the contemporary Caribbean: reggae music. The course will involve readings from multiple genres, and will cover authors such as C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, and Caryl Phillips.
Same as L14 E Lit 3071

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 307B Literary Modernities in East Asia: The Interplay of Tradition, Modernity, & Empire: Text & Tradition

This course will explore the complex forces at work in the emergence of modern East Asia through a selection of literary texts spanning fiction, poetry, and personal narrative. Our readings-- by Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese writers and poets-- will point to the distinctively different and dramatically-shifting circumstances of modern East Asian nations and peoples, as well as to their shared values and aspirations.
Same as L93 IPH 307

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 308 Persona Idea in Anc Soc

Credit 0.3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 311A Topics in English and American Literature: The Environment Crisis Novel

Topics: themes, formal problems, literary genres, special subjects (e.g., the American West, science and literature, the modern short story). Consult Course Listings for offerings in any given semester.
Same as L14 E Lit 311

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Art: HUM BU: BA, HUM EN: H UColl: CD

L16 Comp Lit 311B Topics in English & American Literature: International Modernism

Topics: themes, formal problems, literary genres, special subjects (e.g., the American West, science and literature, the modern short story). Consult Course Listings for offerings in any given semester.
Same as L14 E Lit 311

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Art: HUM BU: BA, HUM EN: H UColl: CD

L16 Comp Lit 311E Practical Criticism

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3123 Introduction to Digital Humanities

It is a truism that computers have changed our lives and the way we think and interact. But in fact systematic efforts to apply current technologies to the study of history and culture have been rare. This course will enable students to consider how these technologies might transform the humanities. We will explore the various ways in which ideas and data in the humanities can be represented, analyzed, and communicated. We will also reflect on how the expansion of information technology has transformed and is continuing to transform the humanities, both with regard to their role in the university and in society at large. Readings and classwork will be supplemented by class presentations and a small assigned group project.
Same as L93 IPH 3123

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 312A Medieval Romance and Arthurian Legend

The romance grows out of the epic: how we get from the fall of Troy to the fall of Troilus. Readings from Vergil's Aeneid to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Same as L14 E Lit 3121

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 312C Topics in English and American Literature

Starting with Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, a book that helped re-ignite the Culture Wars, this course will consider the debates and problems that pervaded American culture during the 1990s. From the end of the Cold War to the sexual scandals that rocked Bill Clinton's presidency, from the emergence of the Internet to the rise of grunge and rap, the 1990s were a time of vast change in American culture. It was period when we, as a nation, reconsidered the legacy of the 1960s, the Reagan revolution, and the end of the Cold War, a time of economic expansion and cultural tension. In our consideration of this period, we will take a multidisciplinary approach when tackling a variety of materials-ranging from literary fiction (Philip Roth's The Human Stain, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections) and popular films (Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and The Cohen brothers' The Big Lebowski) to the music of Nirvana and Public Enemy-in an attempt to come to a better understanding of our recent history. Throughout the semester, we will pursue the vexed cultural, political, and historical questions that Americans faced in the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, and consider how literary texts imagined this period of American history.
Same as L14 E Lit 312W

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3132 Romantic Revolutions in European Music and Culture

The early nineteenth century in Europe witnessed sweeping changes in social, political, and cultural life, but some of the most fascinating happened in music. This course considers intersections between Romantic thinking about music--which inspired an idealistic vision of the art form as a source of quasi-spiritual experience-- and other contemporary "revolutions." To what extent was Romantic music a "holy art" that offered a refuge from the world? In what ways was it a worldly participant in larger currents in society and culture? By exploring these questions and more, students will develop the skills and framework needed to incorporate works of music into their investigation of enduring issues in history and the humanities. Although this course will require listening and viewing of musical works, it is designed for students with intellectual curiosity but without prior musical background. We will also require weekly readings, occasional presentations, three short papers, and spirited class discussion.
Same as L27 Music 3132

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 313A Topics in English Literature: Asian American Fictions: Space, Place, & the Makings of Asian America

Called the "Age of Revolution," the Romantic Age of British literature, 1770-1830, witnessed the birth of new lyric forms, the effacement of traditional strictures on style and taste, and produced through poetic voice (and its quaverings and multiplications) what might be called, over simply, the modern subject. Within a developing discourse of human rights and personal freedom, this growing assertion through poetry of individual expressivity allowed William Blake to construct in a single work a visual and verbal "Jerusalem. It encouraged William Wordsworth to write a pathbreaking investigation of the sources of his own creativity that challenged conventional restraints on what topics can, and cannot, be confessed in poetry. Beginning with these two poets, we will consider the historical contexts, and the sometimes competing histories of ideas, that shaped the five major British Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and John Keats. We will follow an anthology for much of the poetry, including the poems and prose of influential contemporaries (female as well as male) who included the political philosopher Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. Texts also to be assigned will include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Byron's Don Juan.
Same as L14 E Lit 313

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 313B Nordic Noir Adaptations

The past decade has seen an unprecedented passion for crime fiction, film and TV originating in the Nordic countries, such as Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and the TV series "The Killing" and "The Bridge." Before they are distributed in the United States, Scandinavian cultural products undergo a degree of adaptation via tactics ranging from translation to subtitling to the creation of complete remakes. Many of these works are also subject to transmedial adaptation (e.g., from the page to the screen). In this course, we will use Nordic noir as a vibrant case study to consider the theoretical implications of adaptations across media and across cultures. In workshops, students will also gain exposure to the practical side of adaptation. No knowledge of Scandinavian languages is required to enroll.

Credit 3 units. BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 313E Introduction to Comparative Arts

Intro to Comparative Arts is an interdisciplinary, multimedia course that explores the relationship among the arts in a given period. In their written work, students will venture beyond the course material, alternately assuming the roles of artist, critic, and consumer. Students will attend (virtual and/or in-person) performances and exhibits. Ability to read music is not required.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3153 The Women of Greek Tragedy

This course examines the role of women in Athenian drama. Students will read English translations of the works of the three major tragedians -- Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides -- and their near contemporary, the comedian Aristophanes. Direct engagement with ancient texts will encourage students to develop their own interpretations of and written responses to the political, social, and ethical manipulation that these mythological women were compelled to endure and the subtle ways in which they appear to exercise power themselves. Selected scholarly articles and book chapters will help students to contextualize these ancient dramas in their culture of origin. Because such issues continue to preoccupy both sexes today, students will see how Greek tragedy addresses perennial historical and cultural concerns through the examination of adaptations of Greek tragedies ranging from Seneca in ancient Rome to Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" and Luis Alfaro's "Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles." The final research paper will encourage students to consider how a specific female character from antiquity is transformed for a "modern" dramatic audience.
Same as L08 Classics 3153

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3161 Topics in English and American Lit: Island Stories

Same as L14 E Lit 3161

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 320A The Intellectual History of Race and Ethnicity

This course is designed to introduce students to a wide range of historical ideas, contexts, and texts that have shaped our understandings of race and ethnicity. We will examine the ways in which our definitions and categories of race and ethnicity have helped us to construct (and continuously reinvent) our sense of who counts as human, what counts as human behavior, the possibilities of artistic expression, the terms of political engagement, and our critical and analytical frameworks. Students should be prepared to do quite a bit of reading of some very challenging yet rewarding texts.
Same as L93 IPH 320

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, ETH, HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3231 Transatlantic Foreignisms, 1878-1946

Intensive study of one or more American writers. Consult Course Listings for offerings in any given semester.
Same as L14 E Lit 323

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 328 Topics in German Studies

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 328F Christian Mystical Texts

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3301 Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture

Topics course in Chinese literature and culture. Subject matter varies by semester; consult current semester listings for topic.
Same as L04 Chinese 330

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH, IS EN: H UColl: CD

L16 Comp Lit 331A Topics in Holocaust Studies

This course will approach the history, culture and literature of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust by focusing on one particular aspect of the period-the experience of children. Children as a whole were drastically affected by the policies of the Nazi regime and the war it conducted in Europe, yet different groups of children experienced the period in radically different ways, depending on who they were and where they lived. By reading key texts written for and about children, we will first take a look at how the Nazis made children-both those they considered "Aryan" and those they designated "enemies" of the German people, such as Jewish children - an important focus of their politics. We will then examine literary texts and films that depict different aspects of the experience of European children during this period: daily life in the Nazi state, the trials of war and bombardment in Germany and the experience of expulsion from the East and defeat, the increasingly restrictive sphere in which Jewish children were allowed to live, the particular difficulties children faced in the Holocaust, and the experience of children in the immediate postwar period. Readings include texts by Ruth Klüger, Harry Mulisch, Imre Kertész, Miriam Katin, David Grossman and others. Course conducted entirely in English. OPEN TO FRESHMEN. STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN BOTH MAIN SECTION AND A DISCUSSION SECTION.
Same as L21 German 331

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 336C The Novel: Textures and/of Salvation

Emphasis on understanding and enjoying individual novels by such writers as Dante, the Lazarillo-author, Mme de Lafayette, Goethe, Balzac, Laclos, Lady Murasaki, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoevsky.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3371 The Theatre of the Absurd

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 340B Israeli Women Writers

Study of selected novels and shorter fiction by women. Attention to the texts as women's writing and as products of Israeli literature. No knowledge of Hebrew necessary; all readings in English translation.
Same as L74 HBRW 340

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SD, WI Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 341 Russian Literature in Translation

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 343A Literature and Science: Two Cultures?

The relation between biology and literature as it has been examined and expressed in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of the past two centuries.
Same as L14 E Lit 343

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 350C Don Quixote and Madame Bovary as Readers

yThese two novels have as their main characters avid readers who fail to integrate books and other aspects of life. Detailed analysis of these interrelated texts illuminates the question of reading adequately in different cultures and periods. Both novels read in English translations, with frequent reference to the Spanish and French originals. Two short papers, midterm and final examinations.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 351 A World of Words

This seminar is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in literature, foreign languages, creative writing, and translating. In the course students will enrich their studies in foreign languages, cultures and literatures with creative work. Participants will read and discuss practical criticism, present their own creative projects and hone their skills as writers, translators, and readers. At the conclusion of the course, students will have the choice of presenting a polished work of translation or a piece of original writing. Besides myriad possibilities for translating into and from English, the course can accommodate creative writers in English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Chinese. Students who wish to enroll in the course should contact the Program in Comparative Literature for further information. There is a limit of 14 participants to this class.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3511 Global Surveillance Culture

Surveillance in its most basic definition is often understood as watching someone from above and has proven to be one of the most effective ways of exercising power in political communities since the Middle Ages. If it is true, as the surveillance scholar David Lyon writes, that cultures of surveillance develop differently depending on their political economies and post-authoritarian or colonial past, a focus on the global circulation of surveillance imaginaries then raises the question of how such local differences are narrated, visualized or imagined. In this course, we will focus on the narrated differences within artistic and cultural expressions from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America to explore how local surveillance practices shape, disrupt or create global imaginaries. Surveillance and the linkages between its diverging cultures, as one might argue, then become a part of the globalization processes themselves. Against this backdrop, a focus on the global imaginaries of surveillance promises a unique inquiry into how local attitudes towards information collection, beliefs in (mass) monitoring, or values and desires associated with social media surveillance translate, shape, and intervene with the global. In final projects students will have the opportunity to work on a (digital) humanities project that explores the themes of "Sharing is Caring," "Counter-Surveillance," and "(In)Visibility in Surveillance Capitalism."
Same as L97 GS 3511

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC EN: S

L16 Comp Lit 351B A World of Words

This seminar is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in literature, foreign languages, creative writing, and translating. In the course, students will enrich their studies in foreign languages, cultures, and literatures with creative work. Participants will read and discuss practical criticism, present their own creative projects, and hone their skills as writers, translators, and readers. At the conclusion of the course, students will have the choice between presenting a polished work of translation or a piece of original writing. In addition to myriad possibilities for translating into and from English, the course can accommodate creative writers in English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Chinese. Students who wish to enroll in the course should contact the Program in Comparative Literature for further information.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 351C The Singing Line I: Lyric Poetry from Antiquity to the 19th Century

The lyric impulse in western and nonwestern cultures in its most significant periods. Focuses on the short lyric closely tied to music. Poets include Pindar, Sappho, Vergil, Horace, poets from the T'ang dynasty in China and Heian Japan, French trouveres, troubadours, Villon, Ronsard, Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Keats, Goethe, Holderlin. Non-English poems read in translation, with accompanying texts in the original.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 352 Arts Reviewing

What does it mean to become writers and public intellectuals who combine their creative work as poiesis and praxis within a community of creative people? Writers will be asked to write about almost everything. Interviews, reviews, short essays, public speeches, radio plays, ekphrastic texts and staged works are among the many smaller forms with which an emerging writer has to engage. We will be writing in museums, writing in nature, performing on stage and exploring artistic collaboration. The course is designed for students who want to produce their own creative work and receive feedback, strengthening their personal writing skills as well as their creative and critical thinking. Throughout the course, students will discuss and analyze a variety of works, learn to read like writers, and deeply explore their senses, including reactions to and the incorporation of other forms of art. This experience and exposure to music, paintings architecture and nature e.g. can inspire writers to further their own expression via the multilayered genres of the written text. The course will engage with different professionals in the field of creative writing and investigate how to build a successful literary career. This course is open for first year students.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM, VC

L16 Comp Lit 3520 Introduction to Postcolonial Literature

At its zenith, the British Empire encompassed almost a quarter of the globe, allowing the diminutive island nation unprecedented economic, military, and political influence upon the rest of the world. This course will introduce some of the foundational responses to this dominance, both literary and theoretical, by the colonized and their descendants. We will examine important critiques of colonialism by theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, as well as literary works that reflect a postcolonial critique by authors such as V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Doris Lessing, and N'gugi wa Thiong'o. The course will interrogate how literature could be said to help consolidate Empire as well as ways in which it might function as rebellion against imperial power, with a view toward teasing out the problematics of race, gender, language, nationalism, and identity that postcolonial texts so urgently confront. This course may fulfill the global or minority literatures requirement for students who declare an English major in the fall 2021 semester and beyond.
Same as L14 E Lit 3520

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3522 7 Lamps of Literature

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 352A Topics in Literature

Topics course which varies by semester.
Same as L14 E Lit 3522

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 352C The Singing Line II: Lyric Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Focus on the extended lyric of romanticism, symbolism, and modernism and the sprawl of lyric into other genres ("lyric novel," "prose poem," "lyric drama"). Baudelaire, Mallarm, Bonnefoy, Rilke, Neruda, Blok, Eliot, Hart Crane, Dickinson, Whitman, the imagists. Non-English poems read in translation, with accompanying texts in the original.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3552 Introduction to Literary Theory

This course introduces students to some of the most influential theoretical approaches to interpretation applied to English-language literature; to significant conceptual and historical debates about literary and cultural theory; and to the keywords used in these debates. Students will learn how to write and speak about theoretical texts and how to recognize the theoretical assumptions that underlie acts of literary interpretation. Theoretical approaches to be featured may include formalism; Marxism; psychoanalysis; gender and sexuality studies; structuralism and post-structuralism; postcolonial studies; critical race studies; new historicism and cultural materialism; cultural studies; affect theory; neurocognitive approaches; and disability studies. This course fulfills the literary theory requirement for the English major; no substitutions will be permitted. In order to preserve necessary seats for English majors, the course will be enrolled through the wait list.
Same as L14 E Lit 3552

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H UColl: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3556 Exile in Global French & Francophone Cultures: Senegal, Algeria, & the Caribbean

French is the fifth most spoken language in the world, with an estimated 300 million speakers in 106 countries and territories. It is the only language aside from English to be spoken on five continents, according to the OIF. In the wake of decolonization and the rapid spread of globalization, the French language has been adopted, adapted and transformed in various locales and with widespread cultural implications. This course will aim to explore French culture through the specific case studies of Senegal, Algeria, the Caribbean and Francophone exiles worldwide. We will explore the history, literature, poetry and film of these regions and, in doing so, gain a more nuanced and complex understanding of global French cultures. In this course, we will study a range of works that will provide a window onto the issues of French cultural and national identity in the modern world. We will delve into the role of race, ethnicity, belonging and identity in global French and Francophone societies. Students will gain an understanding of French (post)colonial history and current French politics and culture through novels, poetry and film. Knowledge of French is not required for this class.
Same as L97 GS 3556

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3561 Exodus

We will investigate the biblical book of Exodus in both its original significance in the ancient Near East and its later meanings for Jews, Christians, and Muslims in societies around the world. Why did its narratives and ideas about law and justice and religion resonate so strongly both in biblical times and afterwards? Which assumptions did the biblical authors make about writing stories and poetry? What is the historical reality of the Exodus? How did the biblical Israelites conceive of their religious practices and institutions? We will also explore how Exodus and the celebration of Passover has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity in Jewish and Christian circles. How has Exodus been re-imagined and transfigured multiple times, and how has the Passover celebration reflected transformations in the understanding of the Exodus? We will analyze many types of expression influenced by Exodus: historical sources, liturgy, art, commentaries, theology, literature, film, mysticism, and music.
Same as L75 JIMES 3561

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 356C Islamic Literature in Translation 1200-1800

The literary cultures of later Islamic civilization, in various linguistic traditions (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu). Themes and topics include mystical literature, court patronage, love and wine poetry, social satire, popular literature, allegory, romance, and epic. Comparisons to medieval Western literatures. Readings in English.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 357 The Art of Poetry

Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 358C Modern Near Eastern Literatures

This course introduces literary expressions of the struggle for love, self-realization, and liberation. Genres include romanticism, realism, and the surreal. A comparative, team-taught approach is used to instruct students in selected genres, authors, or themes in two or more Near Eastern literatures (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish) in English translation.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 359 Travelers, Tricksters, and Storytellers: Jewish Travel Narratives and Autobiographies

Jewish literature includes highly fascinating travel accounts and autobiographies that are still awaiting their discovery by a broader readership. In this course, we will explore a broad range of texts originating from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. They were written by both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews hailing from countries as diverse as Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire. Among the authors were pilgrims, rabbis, merchants, and one savvy businesswoman. We will read their works as responses to historical circumstances and as expressions of Jewish identity, in its changing relationship to the Christian or Muslim environment in which the writers lived or traveled. Specifically, we will ask questions such as: How do travel accounts and autobiographies enable their authors and readers to reflect on issues of identity and difference? How do the writers produce representations of an "other," against which and through which they define a particular sense of self? This course is open to students of varying interests, including Jewish, Islamic, or Religious Studies, medieval and early modern history, European or Near Eastern literatures. All texts will be read in English translation. Please note: L75 559 is intended for graduate students only.
Same as L75 JIMES 359

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 359C The Art of Short Prose Fiction

A study of the short forms of prose fiction.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 362 African History and the African Novel

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 369A Reading Sex in Premodern England: Medieval Sexualities

This course introduces students to the literary representation of gender and sexuality in England from the medieval period to the eighteenth century. To understand a tradition that addressed the intractable problem of human sexuality in terms very different from ours, we will ask: how does pre-modern culture imagine gendered identities, sexual difference, and erotic desire? How do various contexts-medical, religious, social, private, public-inform the literary representation of gender and sexuality? What are the anatomies and economies of the body, the circuits of physical pleasure, and the disciplines of the self that characterize human sexuality? Students will have the opportunity to study romances, saints' lives, mystical writings, diaries, plays, sex guides, novels, and scientific treatises. By learning how to "read sex" in pre-modern literature, students will acquire a broad cultural and historical understanding of English sexualities before the descent of modern sensibilities.
Same as L14 E Lit 369

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SD BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3721 Topics in Renaissance Literature

Topics course in Renaissance Literature
Same as L14 E Lit 3725

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 375 Topics in Comparative Literature: Representation and Memory in St. Louis Museums

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 376 Reading Across the Disciplines: Introduction to the Theoretical Humanities

What does theory look like in an age like ours so sharply marked by interdisciplinarity and in which most humanities scholarship crosses disciplines-- for instance, combining literature or history with philosophyu or critical race studies? In this way all (or almost all) humanities scholars are comparatists in practice if not always in name. The course is designed to introduce this complex and exciting state of affairs to CompLit and English majors, yet any students in a humanities program, or with an interest in the humanities, will fit right in. Our main text is Futures of Comparative Literature, ed. Heise (2017), which contains short essays on topics like Queer Reading; Human Rights; Fundamentalism; Untranslatability; Big Data; Environmental HUmanities. We will supplement this material with relevant short texts from a variety of fields, including some that cross over into the social sciencs.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 376C Topics in Comparative Literature II

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 382 Existentialism

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 384 Romance

Romances tell how young lovers learn about the world and themselves by loving, suffering, and growing up. An exploration of the genre over time, space, and culture, including examples from elite and popular literatures.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 385 Topics in Comparative Literature: Narratives of Childhood

Topics in comparative literature. Subject matter will vary from semester to semester.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 385A Comedy, Ancient and Modern

In this course we will examine the nature of dramatic comedy and its role in society. We will read, discuss and write about comedies from ancient Greece and Rome and from various modern nations, paying particular attention to the following questions: Do comic plays reinforce or challenge the preconceptions of their audiences? How have comic playwrights responded to issues such as class, gender, religion, and politics? Why does comedy have such power both to unite and to divide people? This course has an extensive writing component, so much of our time will be spent writing about the comedies we will read, revising what we have written, and discussing how best to write about comedy.
Same as L08 Classics 385W

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, WI Art: CPSC BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 387 Black Literature to Early 1900

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 387C African-American Literature: Rebels, Sheroes, and Race Men

Same as L14 E Lit 387

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 389 Topics in Comparative Literature

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 3894 Topics in African Literature

Beginning with a survey of African oral narratives, then analyzing selected texts by such leading African authors as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi waThiongUo, Wole Soyinka, and Ousmane Sembene, this course will examine ways in which African narrators have represented the struggle to uphold African identity in the face of such insidious influences as individualism, colonialism and neo-colonialism. Translations from indigenous African languages will supplement the study of works originally written in English. Critical issues in African literature such as the role of literature in society and the issue of language and audience in multilingual African societies will be discussed. The course will help students understand and appreciate the distinctiveness of African culture and encourage them to explore the meaning and complexity of that experience through the eyes of African narrators.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 3895 Topics in African Literature

Beginning with a survey of African oral narratives, then analyzing selected texts by such leading African authors as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi waThiongUo, Wole Soyinka, and Ousmane Sembene, this course will examine ways in which African narrators have represented the struggle to uphold African identity in the face of such insidious influences as individualism, colonialism and neo-colonialism. Translations from indigenous African languages will supplement the study of works originally written in English. Critical issues in African literature such as the role of literature in society and the issue of language and audience in multilingual African societies will be discussed. The course will help students understand and appreciate the distinctiveness of African culture and encourage them to explore the meaning and complexity of that experience through the eyes of African narrators.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 394 Worldwide Translation: Language, Culture, Technology

This course considers the crucial role played by translation across the world today: from new technologies and digital media, to the global demands of professionals working in fields as diverse as literature, law, business, anthropology, and health care. We will begin our exploration of the concept of translation as a key mechanism of transmission between different languages by looking at works of literature, and film. Students will then examine how different cultures have historically required translation in their encounter with each other, studying how translation constitutes a necessary transcultural bridge both from a colonial and postcolonial point of view in different historical moments and parts of the world. The course also analyzes from practical and real-world perspectives whether concepts such as war, human rights, democracy or various illnesses have the same meaning in different societies by considering the diverse frames of reference used by linguists, lawyers, anthropologists, and medical doctors across the world. Finally, we will focus on translation from a technological perspective by examining various modes of transfer of information required for the functioning of digital tools such as Google Translate, Twitter, Duolingo, or various Iphone applications. Throughout the semester we will also examine a range of creative artworks, and various forms of digital technology and computing (AI, machine translation) related to the theory and practice of translation. Readings will include works by Jorge Luis Borges, Walter Benjamin, Gayatri Spivak, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Susan Basnett, Lawrence Venuti, Emily Apter, Gideon Lewis-Krauss, and Karen Emmerich among others. Prerequisite: None.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 395 Paris and New York: The Art of the City

The cultural icons Paris and New York exert a powerful hold on our imagination. We will explore how the French and Americans define themselves, and each other, through their premiere cities. The themes of integration and isolation, class and race, innovation and tradition, and commemoration and celebration will ground our discussions of writers Zola ("Therese Raquin"), Wharton ("The Age of Innocence"), Proust ("Swann's Way"), Foer ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"), Krauss ("The History of Love"), Truong ("The Book of Salt"), and Gopnik ("Paris to the Moon"); painters Vuillard, Caillebotte, and de Kooning; photographers Brassai, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Ronis, Abbott, Hine, and Stieglitz; and filmmakers Godard ("Breathless"), Allen ("Manhattan," "Midnight in Paris"); Jeunet ("Amelie Poulain"), and Kassovitz ("Hate").Through our study of public spaces (the Brooklyn Bridge, the Twin Towers, the Eiffel Tower, and the streets themselves), we will consider how each city functions as a site of memory even as it fashions the future.

Credit 3 units.

L16 Comp Lit 4012 Staging Atrocity: Theatre of the Holocaust

Responding to the Holocaust has challenged artists working in every medium. Nowhere are these challenges more extreme than in the theater, where the intimacy of the space, the close proximity of live actors and audience, and the subject matter itself may serve to intensify its effect. We will read a careful selection of modern and contemporary dramas and explore the range of responses. Underneath each weekly topic reverberate the nagging question of whether one can -- or should -- make art from the Holocaust, as well as a serious exploration of the uses and effectiveness of theater to communicate on this subject. We look at the ways in which the Holocaust has been used as a subject to raise moral dilemmas, examine the limits of humanity, elicit doubt or faith, and provide political commentary. We will also discuss the ways in which playwrights have stretched the limits of the theater to meet the challenge of staging the Holocaust. Topics considered include the nationalization and personalization of the Holocaust, the role of the second generation, issues of audience, and the use of experimental forms and obscenity. The plays on the syllabus are from North America, Israel and Europe. All readings are in English (original or translation).
Same as L15 Drama 4011

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 403 Poems, Poets, Poetics: Changing Lit. Conv.

Comparison of poems and poetics of European and American poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Writers include Schiller, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Poe, Baudelaire, ValÄry, T.S. Eliot, Brecht, and the concrete poets. The changing functions of the lyric genre and the history of its theory and practice. Prerequisite: 6 units of literature, or permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 403A Senior Thesis Turorial

A working group for thesis writers in the humanities. Permission of department required.
Same as L93 IPH 403

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 405A Theory and Methods in the Humanities

Same as L93 IPH 405

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 409C Beyond Geography: The Meaning of Place in the Middle East

This course considers the importance of place in the Middle East with particular reference to Jewish and Islamic traditions. Topics to cover include the creation of holy sites, the concept of sacred space, the practice of pilgrimages, and the tropes of exile and return. Texts will range from analytical essays to novels, memoirs, and films by authors such as Edward Said, Naguib Mahfouz, Taher Ben Jelloun, Elif Shafak, A. B. Yehoshua, Shulamit Hareven, and Hanan Al-Shaykh. Requirements include participation, short assignments, and a seminar paper. This course fulfills the capstone requirement for students majoring in Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, but is open to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Prerequisites: coursework in JINES and senior standing or permission of instructor.
Same as L75 JIMES 409

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 4100 Medieval Women's Writing

Topics course in Medieval English literature.
Same as L14 E Lit 4101

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 410A Medieval Women's Writing

L16 Comp Lit 411 The Empire Writes Back

Britannia did indeed once rule the waves, controlling an empire that encompassed a quarter of the globe. In the estimation of many, literature was a crucial component of its power. This course will examine the nature of Britain's cultural power, as well as the ways colonial authors answered back through an assertive rewriting of the British canon. We will read classic texts of British literature - Charlotte Brontë's JANE EYRE, E.M. Forster's HOWARD'S END, Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS - in tandem with later reworkings of them by authors such as Zadie Smith and Jean Rhys, in order to tease out the implications of literary emendation and adaptation. The course will also look at film versions of these works, as well as some critical theories of revision, hoping to shed light on both the opportunities and the pitfalls of attempting to critique a system of thought within the constraints of that very system.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 4111 Pastoral Literature

This course will open with a survey of the classical tradition in pastoral/bucolic. We will consider questions of genre, intertextuality and ideology, and we will ask how ´the lives and loves of herders´ became favored ground for literary meditation on issues of surface and depth, reality and illusion, artifice and sincerity. This portion will involve intensive reading in translation of Theocritus, Vergil and Longus. In the second half of the semester, we will consider the survival, adaptation and deformation of ancient pastoral themes, forms and modes of thought in British and American writing from the 19th and 20th centuries. We will read works of Mark Twain, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy and Tom Stoppard.
Same as L93 IPH 4111

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 4120 The Cultural Poetics of the Early Modern Book

Same as L14 E Lit 412

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 4130 Modernity & Historicity in the Renaissance

Introduction to a pivotal period in the emergence of the modern consciousness by an intensive, sustained study of a few major Renaissance or "early modern" writers such as Petrarch, Castiglione, More, Erasmus, and Montaigne. The relationship of these authors to their ancient and medieval past, their "modernity," and their historical otherness. Of central concern is the nature of "humanism," imitative and antagonistic relationships with ancient texts, the complex Renaissance "self" as integral and individual or as a product of its cultural and material relations, utopias and anti-utopias, the discovery of historicity, and the state as a work of art. The course does not assume that its students have already done substantial work in the Renaissance.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 4140 Topics in Embodied Communication: Listening

This course is about listening. We will begin by mediated and unmediated listening with the human auditory system and continue into an exploration of multi-modal listening, focusing on vibration and on somatic attention. We will work in the "studio," which will include a music studio, a dance studio, and the environment. Our investigation will include the study of sensing in more-than-human organisms as well as theoretical perspectives from sound studies, critical improvisation and history of science. The course will encourage the perspective that the practice of listening is a political act of tending to the invisible, the non-normative, and the incomplete.
Same as L15 Drama 4140

Credit variable, maximum 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 415A Music inthe Romantic Era: Aesthetics and Ideologies

This course explores pivotal developments in 19th-century thinking about music's cultural and aesthetic significance -- developments that reverberate well beyond that historical period. Rather than surveying repertoire, we will emphasize in-depth exploration of selected issues and music, reading important contemporary writings and grappling with challenging musical works. Our topics will include discourses about musical interiority, the post-Beethovenian symphony, the Lied tradition, performance aesthetics and the creative agency of the performer, intersections of music and literature, and canon formation and its consequences. Our topics will include, to cite but a few examples, discourses about musical interiority, the post-Beethovenian symphony, the Lied tradition, performance aesthetics and the creative agency of the performer, intersections of music and literature, and canon formation and its consequences.
Same as L27 Music 415

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 418A Victorian Literature and Post-Colonial Studies

Readings in such authors as Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Mill, Arnold, and Pater.
Same as L14 E Lit 418

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 4204 Film Theory

This course is an introduction to both classical and contemporary film theory. Beginning with the earliest attempts to treat cinema as a new and unique art form, the course will initially review the various ways in which film theory attempted to define cinema in terms of its most essential properties. The course will then examine more contemporary developments within film theory, more specifically its attempt to incorporate the insights of other critical and analytical paradigms, such as semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, and postmodernism. Throughout the course, we will consider questions regarding the ontology of cinema, its relation to spectators, and the various ways in which its formal properties create meaning. Readings for the course will include the major works of Sergei Eisenstein, Andre Bazin, Christian Metz, Laura Mulvey, and Fredric Jameson. Required screenings.
Same as L53 Film 420

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 420A Topics in English and American Literature

Comparing the literatures -- readings in the literature and theory of English and American Literature. Topics vary according to semester offerings.
Same as L14 E Lit 420

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 420B Topics in Literature: The Novel and Globalization

Comparing the literatures -- readings in the literature and theory of English and American Literature. Topics vary according to semester offerings.
Same as L14 E Lit 420

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 4210 Correlations Between East & West: Japan & the West

Investigations of the particular cultural moments when eastern and western literature and thought converge and provide a terrain for detailed comparison and contrast. Content varies.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 423A Topics in American Literature: Diaspora and the African American Literary Tradtion

Same as L14 E Lit 423

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 425A Humanities by the Numbers

To what extent can computational techniques that draw on statistical patterns and quantification assist us in literary analysis? Over the semester, we will juxtapose the close reading of historical documents or literary works with the "distant reading" of a large corpus of historical data or literary texts. We will ask how the typically "human" scale of reading that lets us respond to literary texts can be captured on the "inhuman" and massive scales at which computers can count, quantify and categorize texts.While this class will introduce you to basic statistical and computational techniques, no prior experience with technology is required. Prerequisites: two 200 level or one 300-level course in literature or history. This is a topics-type course and the specific documents and works examined will vary from semester to semester. Please see semester course listings for current offerings.
Same as L93 IPH 425

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 426 Seminar in Dramatic Theory

This course is an in-depth exploration of core works of dramatic theory from the ancient world to the present, and it will introduce texts that enunciate what theater is, has been, and should be. We will study authors' expressions of theater's role in society, their articulations of and responses to anti-theatrical prejudice, and their negotiations of the contradiction of putting "the real" on stage. Other significant themes include accounting for the aesthetic pleasures of drama and theater; theater as a means of educating the citizen; and the relationship between dramatic form and social and political revolution. Moving chronologically, we begin with foundational documents of the ancient world, including Aristotle's "Poetics," Bharata's "Natyasastra," and Horace's "Ars Poetica." The course then progresses through the Middle Ages, the Neoclassical and Romantic eras, and the explosion of fin de siecle avant-gardes. We will also read key texts from beyond the European tradition, including works of dramatic theory written in medieval Japan (Zeami), postcolonial Nigeria (Soyinka), and the millennial, multicultural United States (Parks). Along these same lines, we will also be attuned to transnational exchange and influence, particularly as it appears in the 20th-century theories of Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, and Konstantin Stanislavsky. Although the course will be focused on efforts to describe and prescribe theories of drama, dramatic genre, and theatrical pleasure, it will also position play scripts alongside the theoretical treatises that guide or are guided by them.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC EN: S

L16 Comp Lit 429 The Commedia Dell'arte

This course explores the history, style and dynamics of the commedia dell'arte: an originally Italian type of improvisational theater that has flourished from the time of Shakespeare to the present day. As we study, we will also put this theater on its feet. Students with a background and interest in improvisation are encouraged to take the class. (At the same time, no acting background is required to take the course--just a willingness to try.) We will examine primary and secondary texts regarding the Italian "golden age" of 1570-1625, and we will study the flowering of the commedia dell'arte in Paris during the seventeenth century. The influence of the commedia dell'arte on Shakespeare and Molière will be examined, and we will experiment with a new body of French scenarios from the time of Molière that have never before been translated into English. Questions of theater and performance history will be examined, as we consider various historical myths regarding this theater in the light of actual primary documents. We'll spend the final part of the course looking at political uses of this form of theater in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, considering things like the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the radical socialist theater of Dario Fo, and the international Theater Hotel Courage that uses commedia-style performance for social change.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 4300 Data Manipulation for the Humanities

The course will present basic data modeling concepts and will focus on their application to data clean-up and organization (text markup, Excel, and SQL). Aiming to give humanities students the tools they will need to assemble and manage large data sets relevant to their research, the course will teach fundamental skills in programming relevant to data management (using Python); it will also teach database design and querying (SQL). The course will cover a number of "basics": the difference between word processing files, plain text files, and structured XML; best practices for version control and software "hygiene"; methods for cleaning up data; regular expressions (and similar tools built into most word processors). It will proceed to data modeling: lists (Excel, Python); identifiers/keys and values (Excel, Python, SQL); tables/relations (SQL and/or data frames); joins (problem in Excel, solution in SQL, or data frames); hierarchies (problem in SQL/databases, solution in XML); and network graph structures (nodes and edges in CSV). It will entail basic scripting in Python, concentrating on using scripts to get data from the web, and the mastery of string handling.
Same as L93 IPH 430

Credit 1 unit. EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 432A Programming for Text Analysis

This course will introduce basic programming and text-analysis techniques to humanities students. Beginning with an introduction to programming using the Python programming language, the course will discuss the core concepts required for working with text corpora. We will cover the basics of acquiring data from the web, string manipulation, regular expressions, and the use of programming libraries for text analysis. Later in the course, students will be introduced to larger text corpora. They will learn to calculate simple corpus statistics as well as techniques such as tokenization, chunking, extraction of thematically significant words, stylometrics and authorship attribution. We will end with a brief survey of more advanced text-classification terminology and topics from natural language processing such as stemming, lemmatization, named-entity recognition, and part-of-speech tagging.
Same as L93 IPH 432

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 435A Expressionism in the Arts

A close study of expressionism as an international phenomenon in the arts, from the anti-naturalist movements of the 1890s to Hitler's condemnation of expressionism as decadent. The evolution of expressionist theatre from Wedekind to Toller and Kaiser; such composers as Schoenberg and Berg; in the visual arts, such groups as Der blaue Reiter and Die Brucke, such independents as Kokoschka; in cinema, such figures as Pabst, Murnau, Von Sternberg, Lang. Prerequisite: Drama 208E, Drama 336, or permission of instructor.
Same as L15 Drama 435

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 436 Seminar in Dramatic Theory

The course begins with Plato's critique of mimesis and Aristotle's defense, as we read THE POETICS as a response to Plato. We will take some of Aristotle's basic concepts, such as mimesis, plot, character, and thought, and attempt to apply them to drama up to the present day. We will also consider fundamental elements of both the dramatic text and the dramatic production, such as space, time, dialogue, narrative devices, and perspective. Brecht's theory of "epic drama" will form the other conceptual pole in the course, opposing Aristotle. Besides these two theorists, other figures will include Ben Jonson, Corneille, Dryden, Diderot, Schiller, Hegel, Zola, Artaud, and Grotowski. The course, then, will have both chronological and thematic axes. Three papers and one oral presentation. Credit 3 units.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 4372 Philosophy of Literature

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 440A James Joyces Ulysses

Same as L14 E Lit 440

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 441 Modern Symbolistic Lit

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 4471 Modern Poetry I: Modernisms

American and British poetry before, during, and after World War I. Readings include Hardy, Yeats, Frost, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Moore, Johnson, Pound, H.D. and Stevens, as well as selections from Wordsworth, Whitman and Dickinson. First half of two-course sequence; second half optional
Same as L14 E Lit 4471

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 449 Topics in Comparative Literature: Writing from the Periphery: The Question of Chineseness

In this course, we will read a broad range of literary works written by ethnic Chinese from various parts of the world. We will examine the notion of "Sinophone," primarily its implications to the challenge of cultural identity formation to those Chinese who are not traditionally identified as "Chinese" because of war, migration, immigration, colonialism, among others. We will also examine the meaning of being on the margins of geopolitical nation-states. Finally we will discuss the notions of hybridity and authenticity vis-a-vis literary representation. We will read works by ethnic Chinese writers from the United States, France, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Mongolia, Tibet, and so on. This course is limited to seniors and graduate students only. All readings will be in English. Active class participation is required.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 449A Seminar in Dramatic Theory

This course is an in-depth exploration of core works of dramatic theory from the ancient world to the present, and it will introduce texts that enunciate what theater is, has been, and should be. We will study authors' expressions of theater's role in society, their articulations of and responses to anti-theatrical prejudice, and their negotiations of the contradiction of putting "the real" on stage. Other significant themes include accounting for the aesthetic pleasures of drama and theater; theater as a means of educating the citizen; and the relationship between dramatic form and social and political revolution. Moving chronologically, we begin with foundational documents of the ancient world, including Aristotle's "Poetics," Bharata's "Natyasastra," and Horace's "Ars Poetica." The course then progresses through the Middle Ages, the Neoclassical and Romantic eras, and the explosion of fin de siecle avant-gardes. We will also read key texts from beyond the European tradition, including works of dramatic theory written in medieval Japan (Zeami), postcolonial Nigeria (Soyinka), and the millennial, multicultural United States (Parks). Along these same lines, we will also be attuned to transnational exchange and influence, particularly as it appears in the 20th-century theories of Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, and Konstantin Stanislavsky. Although the course will be focused on efforts to describe and prescribe theories of drama, dramatic genre, and theatrical pleasure, it will also position play scripts alongside the theoretical treatises that guide or are guided by them.
Same as L15 Drama 449

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC EN: S

L16 Comp Lit 450A Interdisciplinary Topics in the Humanities: Freedom | Information | Acts

Same as L93 IPH 450

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 450B Interdisciplinary Topics in the Humanities

Same as L93 IPH 450A

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 450C Interdisciplinary Topics in the Humanities: Romancing the Ruins

Same as L93 IPH 450A

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 450E Masterworks of Early Japanese Literature: The Tale of Genji and its Afterlives

This course is an intensive study of one of the central texts of classical Japanese literature. Selection of texts rotate among works including: The Tale of Genji, court diaries, poetry anthologies, Noh drama, The Tale of the Heike, setsuwa collections, and medieval memoirs. In addition to exploring the historical, literary, and cultural significance of the work from its genesis to the present age, students engage in a close reading of the text and an investigation of the primary theoretical issues and approaches associated with the work both in Japan and abroad. Prior knowledge of early Japanese literature or history is recommended. Texts will be read in English translation. Prerequisite: junior level or above or permission of instructor.
Same as L05 Japan 450

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 454 History of Literary Criticism II

Continuation of C Lit 453.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 455C Senior Colloquium

Team taught course designed for IPH Senior interests and thesis topics.
Same as L93 IPH 455

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 461 Topics in Literary History: Thematics

Extensive and intensive reading and discussion of a literary theme as it appears in the literatures of several languages.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 461A Topics in English Literature I

Studies in special subjects, e.g., allegory and symbolism in the medieval period, the sonnet in English literature, English poetry and politics. Consult Course Listings.
Same as L14 E Lit 461

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 462A Topics in Literature: Virtual Reality: Multimedia Stein

Credit 3 units. BU: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 4647 Ancient Madness

In this course we will ask what madness meant in Greek and Roman culture. We will find reading strategies that are sensitive both to ancient evidence and to the ethical demands of talking about, evaluating, and categorizing people treated as mad. While we will concentrate on literary (particularly tragic and epic), philosophical, and medical texts, we will also look at visual representations and evidence from ritual and cult. An important part of our project will involve tracing the afterlife of classical ideas: the history of melancholia will ground this aspect of the course. Finally, we will consider how antiquity informs psychoanalysis (Oedipus, Antigone, Narcissus), and how ancient madness might partake in a critique of contemporary understandings of mental illness.
Same as L08 Classics 4647

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 469 Special Topics in Comp Lit: Festivity, Folly

A variety of offerings in different aspects of comparative literature varying from year to year.

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 4692 Shakespeare and Performance

How were Shakespeare's plays performed in their own day--in the Globe theater, with boy actors, and with very short rehearsal times? How, for the actor, did performance work on the outdoor stage, with the Globe's wide and deep acting platform and its intimate relationship to the audience? How might one stage Shakespeare today in an outdoor environment without lighting and with minimal sets, and with the capacity to move easily from one outdoor venue to another? From what social types in Renaissance England-such as merchants, prostitutes, aristocrats, constables, beggars, and princes-did Shakespeare draw? How can evolving ideas about race, gender, and sexuality inform the way we perform Shakespeare today? Addressing these questions and others, the course weaves together performance and literary, critical, and historical study. Topics include blank verse, performing Shakespeare's prose, playing with figures of speech, working the Globe stage, engaging an outdoor audience, acting from a written "part" rather than an entire script, performing types, exploring Shakespeare's sources as performance alternatives, making Shakespeare new-and more. Students will rehearse and perform sonnets, scenes, and monologues based on social figures from Shakespeare's England. The course assumes a willingness to perform but not specialized acting training.
Same as L15 Drama 4692

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 470A Interdisciplinary Topics: Data Signs-A Literary History of Information

Various interdisciplinary topics are explored that may includes around the humanities, social sciences and data sciences.
Same as L93 IPH 470

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 471 Contemporary Philosophy

Credit 3 units.

L16 Comp Lit 471A Topics in Modern Arabic Literature

Modern Arabic narratives read in English translation foregrounding themes such as the conflict between tradition and modernity, civil war, poverty, alienation, religion and politics, and changing gender roles.
Same as L49 Arab 471

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 475 Intellectual History of Feminism

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 4750 Worldviews, World-Building, and World Literature: New Approaches to Chinese Literature (1500-1900)

This course explores how the multivalent notion of "world" creates new approaches for studying Chinese literature from the 16th century up to the early 20th century. It will consider the following questions: How did the Chinese people perceive, map, and write about the world prior to modernity? What are the strategies to construct fictional, virtual, or gameful worlds through literature and other media? How and why should we position Chinese literature as world literature? Issues covered in this course include premodern worldviews, literary and transmedia world-building, multilingualism, adaptation, and translation. One primary goal of this course for students is to learn how to critically apply theories from narratology, media studies, and comparative literature to study Chinese literature. To this end, the first session will focus on a particular piece of theoretical work or relevant secondary scholarship, and in the second session students will conduct a case study with selected primary sources to practice employing, questioning, and complicating those theories and methods. All readings will be provided in English. Students with classical and modern Chinese skills will be encouraged to read materials in the original to the extent possible. Undergraduates enroll in the 400-level section; 500-level section is for graduate students only. Prerequisites: junior level or above or permission of instructor.
Same as L81 EALC 4750

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 486 The Business of Books

Book publishing shapes our literary and intellectual landscape in defining ways, yet only with the recent rise of Publishing Studies has the theory and practice of publishing become a serious subject of attention within the academy. This course offers a broad introduction to publishing, with a practical emphasis on contemporary literary publishing. We will explore how publishing communities form in relation to aesthetics, demographics, and technologies, and will consider how ethics and business practices are defined within these communities. On the applied side, we will study editing, contracts, marketing, sales & distribution, infrastructure, and media, and students will write reader's reports, marketing plans, and a final paper analyzing a contemporary publishing project and placing its work in relation to the historical and cultural context, demonstrating how each particular publishing practice is adapted to its own cultural ecosystem. Industry professionals will visit to speak with the class by Zoom, and Professor Riker brings two decades of experience as a book publisher, author, and reviewer. Alongside these other activities, over the course of the semester students will follow the progression of a book published by the nationally acclaimed publishing house Dorothy, a Publishing Project, of which Professor Riker is the publisher.
Same as L14 E Lit 486

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 488 Seminar in Comparative Arts I

Credit 3 units. Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 4905 Lyrics of Mystical Love, East and West

Art: HUM

L16 Comp Lit 493 The Unmaking and Remaking of Europe: The Literature and History of the Great War of 1914-1918

The Great War of 1914-1918 is one of the most momentous events in history. We can approach its broad European import by reading its literatures comparatively. Far wider than the concerns of any one national ideology, the literature of record represents a profound crisis in the European cultural imaginary. A number of critical and interpretive issues will be in play in our readings, which will move through three major phases. We begin with the powerful immediacy of trench poetry (1914-1919), develop into the constructed narratives of the great postwar novels and memoirs (1920-1931), and then turn toward the retrospect of the 1930s, which is also the prospect on the next, now inevitable, war. The authors featured include combatant and civilian writers, names well-known and not so famous: Mann, Apollinaire, Owen, Pound, Cocteau, H.D., Woolf, Maurois, West, Celine, Joyce, Musil, Eliot, Rosenberg, Sassoon, Graves, Hardy, Trakl, Stramm, Lichtenstein, Péguy, Barbusse, Manning, Jünger, Zweig, Brittain, and Kroner. All readings for class will be in English translation. Our secondary literature will provide approaches to specific texts and models of literary and cultural history that represent the longer-range importance of the war.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 494 Seminar: Diverse Topics in Literature

This course may offer a variety of topics. Semester sub-title will vary. In Fall 2008, it was offered as an in depth study of the individual through autobiographies. At other times before, it has been offered as a course on visual poetics from antiquity to the present. See department for further details.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 495 The 19th-Century Novel: Ambition and Desire

Seminar in Comparative Literature Studies. Topics Vary. See course listings for current semester's offering.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 497 Independent Work for Senior Honors

One or more long papers on a topic chosen in conjunction with the adviser and an examination. A committee determines whether the student will receive credit only or Honors. Prerequisites: senior standing and permission of chair of the committee. FALL SEMESTER ONLY.

Credit 3 units.

L16 Comp Lit 4970 Performance Theory

This course introduces students to contemporary theories of performance, with "performance" understood as both metaphor and event. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, students will consider how cultures produce meanings-and, indeed, perform those meanings-to create and/or disrupt their own social coherence. Theories likely to be studied include: J. L. Austin's speech-act theory and its engagement by John Searle and Jacques Derrida; Victor Turner's analysis of ritual as social process and Richard Schechner's use of it to transform "theater studies" into "performance studies;" Erving Goffman's sociology of the self and its relation to a post-structuralist model of subjectivity; Michael Fried's screed against minimalist art and its relation to Happenings, Body Art, Fluxus, and other mid- to late-20th century examples of "performance art;" and Judith Butler's influential revision of Austin's performative in her theory of queer "performativity."
Same as L15 Drama 497

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 498 Independent Work for Senior Honors

Advanced work as indicated in C Lit 497. Prerequisites: senior standing and permission of chair of the committee.

Credit 3 units.

L16 Comp Lit 4980 Spenser

This course involves graduate and undergraduate students in the ongoing work of the Spenser Project, an inter-institutional effort to produce a traditional print edition of the Complete Works of Edmund Spenser.
Same as L14 E Lit 498

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L16 Comp Lit 498A Spenser Lab

In this Writing Intensive course, the students will be given a variety of writing tasks: writing commentaries, introductions, software manuals, grant proposals, software requirements, and design documents (SRDDs).
Same as L14 E Lit 498W

Credit 4 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI EN: H

L21 German 101D Basic German: Core Course I

Introductory program; no previous German required. Students will develop their competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing German by means of interpersonal, interpretive and presentational communicative practice. This first course serves as an introduction to German grammar and culture; goals range from developing the communicative skills necessary to find an apartment to being able to read modern German poetry. Students will learn how to apply their knowledge of basic cases and tenses in order to hold a conversation or write a letter describing their interests, family, goals, routines, etc. and to discover personal information about others. Students who complete this course successfully should enter German 102D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 102D Basic German: Core Course II

Continuation of German 100D or 101D. In preparation for more advanced academic study in German, this second course will further introduce students to fundamental German grammar, culture and history. It is comprised of a combination of situational lessons and tasks which will challenge their critical thinking abilities. Students in 102D will familiarize themselves with the language necessary to understand and give directions, apply for a job, and speak with a doctor; students will also read more advanced content such as Grimm's fairy tales and a text from Franz Kafka. Prerequisite: German 100D, 101D, the equivalent, or placement by examination. Students who complete this course successfully should enter German 201D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 201D Intermediate German: Core Course III

Continuation of German 102D. This course is designed to expand and deepen students' understanding of modern German society and culture and to help them improve their skills in all four key areas of foreign-language learning: reading, speaking, listening and writing. All class discussions and assignments will be in German in order to provide students with an opportunity to expand their active and passive vocabulary and gain confidence in their ability to communicate in the language. Prerequisite: German 102D, the equivalent, or placement by examination. Students who complete this course successfully should enroll in German 202D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 202D Intermediate German: Core Course IV

Continuation of German 201D. In preparation for study at the advanced level, this fourth-semester course will continue the four-skills based approach of 201D, focusing on a range of cultural topics relevant to the German-speaking lands, including diversity in modern German society, the media, local and national politics, and transatlantic relations. The course also includes additional review of grammatical structures that will enable you to express yourself more fluently and idiomatically in German. All class discussion and assignments will be in German, in order to provide you with an opportunity to expand your active and passive vocabulary and gain confidence in your ability to communicate in the language. Prerequisite: German 201D, the equivalent, or placement by examination. Students who complete this course successfully should enroll in German 301D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 301D Advanced German: Core Course V

Discussion of literary and non-literary texts combined with an intensive grammar review. Systematic introduction to the expressive functions of German with an emphasis on spoken and written communication. In addition to the regular class meetings, students should sign up for a twice-weekly subsection. Prerequisite: German 202D, German 210D, the equivalent, or placement by examination. Students who complete this course successfully should enter German 302D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 302D Advanced German: Core Course VI

Continuation of Ger 301D. Refinement and expansion of German communication skills (speaking, listening, writing, reading), deepening understanding of German grammatical structures, acquisition of more sophisticated and varied vocabulary, introduction to stylistics through discussion and analysis of literary and non-literary texts. In addition to the regular class meetings, students should sign up for a twice-weekly subsection. Prerequisite: Ger 301D or equivalent, or placement by examination. Students completing this course successfully may enter the 400-level. Note that Ger 340C/340D, Ger 341/341D, or Ger 342/342D are a prerequisite for most 400-level courses.

Credit 4 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 313 Conversational German

Practice in speaking and vocabulary development in cultural contexts. Prerequisite: Ger 210D, equivalent, or placement by examination. May be repeated for credit.

Credit 1 unit. A&S IQ: LCD EN: H

L21 German 331 Topics in Holocaust Studies: Children in the Shadow of the Swastika

This course will approach the history, culture and literature of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust by focusing on one particular aspect of the period-the experience of children. Children as a whole were drastically affected by the policies of the Nazi regime and the war it conducted in Europe, yet different groups of children experienced the period in radically different ways, depending on who they were and where they lived. By reading key texts written for and about children, we will first take a look at how the Nazis made children-both those they considered "Aryan" and those they designated "enemies" of the German people, such as Jewish children - an important focus of their politics. We will then examine literary texts and films that depict different aspects of the experience of European children during this period: daily life in the Nazi state, the trials of war and bombardment in Germany and the experience of expulsion from the East and defeat, the increasingly restrictive sphere in which Jewish children were allowed to live, the particular difficulties children faced in the Holocaust, and the experience of children in the immediate postwar period. Readings include texts by Ruth Klüger, Harry Mulisch, Imre Kertész, Miriam Katin, David Grossman and others. Course conducted entirely in English. OPEN TO FRESHMEN. STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN BOTH MAIN SECTION AND A DISCUSSION SECTION.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 3400 Topics in German Studies

Course description TBA

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD EN: H

L21 German 3401 Topics in German Studies: German Language Subsection

Description to be added

Credit 1 unit.

L21 German 340C German Literature and the Modern Era

Introduction in English to German writers from 1750 to the present. Discussion focuses on questions like the role of outsiders in society, the human psyche, technology, war, gender, the individual and mass culture, modern and postmodern sensibilities as they are posed in predominantly literary texts and in relation to the changing political and cultural faces of Germany over the past 250 years. Readings include works in translation by some of the most influential figures of the German tradition, such as Goethe, Nietzsche, Freud, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Brecht, and Christa Wolf. Open to first-year students, non-majors and majors. Admission to 400-level courses (except 402, 403D, 404, and 408D) is contingent on completion of this course or 341/341D. The main course is conducted in English, so this will only qualify for major or minor credit when taken in conjunction with one-hour discussion section in German (L21 340D).

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH, IS EN: H

L21 German 340D German Literature and the Modern Era

This course must be taken concurrently with 340C for major/minor credit. The discussion section provides an introduction to critical German vocabulary and is open to students with prior knowledge of German (210D or equivalent, or placement by examination.)

Credit 1 unit.

L21 German 341 German Thought and the Modern Era

In this introduction to the intellectual history of the German-speaking world from roughly 1750 to the present, we will read English translations of works by some of the most influential figures in the German tradition, including Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Heidegger, Arendt, Habermas, and others. Our discussions will focus on topics such as secularization, what it means to be modern, the possibility of progress, the role of art and culture in social life, the critique of mass society, and the intrepretation of the Nazi past. We will consider the arguments of these thinkers both on their own terms and against the backdrop of the historical contexts in which they were written. Open to first-year students, non-majors and majors. Admission to 400-level courses (except 402, 403D, 404, and 408D) is contingent on completion of this course or 340C/340D. The main course is conducted in English, so this will only qualify for major or minor credit when taken in conjunction with one-hour discussion section in German (L21 341D).

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L21 German 341D German Thought and the Modern Era

This course must be taken concurrently with 341 for major/minor credit. The discussion section provides an introduction to critical German vocabulary and is open to students with prior knowledge of German (210D or equivalent, or placement by examination.)

Credit 1 unit.

L21 German 342 German Literature and the Premodern Era

In this introduction to the literary and intellectual history of the German-speaking world from roughly 800 C..E to the 17th century, we will read English translations of some of the most influential authors and works in the medieval and early modern German tradition, including the "Heroic Age" (e.g., "Nibelungenlied"), the classical period of the 12th and 13th centuries (e.g., Walther von der Vogelweide, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gottfried von Straßburg), late-medieval philosophy and mysticism (e.g., Mechthild von Magdeburg, Meister Eckhart), and early modern humanism and the Reformation (e.g., Martin Luther). Students enrolled in this course engage in close and sustained reading of a set of texts that are indispensable for an understanding of the German and European literary tradition; these are texts that continue to offer invaluable insights into humanity and the world around us. Our discussions will focus on concepts such as heroism, chivalry, and courtly love and on questions regarding the relationship between the individual and society, the role of religion in society, and the emergence of modern mass media (e.g., the Gutenberg revolution). We will consider the texts both on their own terms and against the backdrop of the historical contexts in which they were written.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 342D German Literature and the Premodern Era

This course must be taken concurrently with L41 342 for major or minor credit. The discussion section provides an introduction to critical German vocabulary and is open to students with prior knowledge of German (L41 210D or equivalent or placement by examination.)

Credit 1 unit. BU: HUM

L21 German 351 A World of Words

This seminar is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in literature, foreign languages, creative writing, and translating. In the course students will enrich their studies in foreign languages, cultures and literatures with creative work. Participants will read and discuss practical criticism, present their own creative projects and hone their skills as writers, translators, and readers. At the conclusion of the course, students will have the choice of presenting a polished work of translation or a piece of original writing. Besides myriad possibilities for translating into and from English, the course can accommodate creative writers in English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Chinese. Students who wish to enroll in the course should contact the Program in Comparative Literature for further information. There is a limit of 14 participants to this class.
Same as L16 Comp Lit 351

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 402 Advanced Grammar and Style Lab

Take your German skills to the next level! This 1-unit lab is designed for advanced students seeking to master the finer points of German grammar and style through targeted exercises and discussion. Students will learn to construct sophisticated, elegant, and accurate sentences, with the goal of improving their effectiveness as writers and speakers of German. A rotating weekly focus will cover such topics as: complex sentence structures; advanced passive and subjunctive forms; idiomatic prepositional and verb phrases; and infinitive constructions. Prerequisite: German 302 or the equivalent.

Credit 1 unit.

L21 German 403D Advanced Vocabulary and Usage

This one-unit workshop is designed for advanced undergraduate students wishing develop advanced communication skills by improving their grasp of German vocabulary and usage. Over the course of the semester, students will discuss a wide variety of texts related to German art, philosophy, literature and contemporary culture, focusing on specific aspects of the language that pose challenges for non-native speakers. Assignments (not to exceed 1.5 hours per week) will include short written responses and exercises aimed to help students speak and write more elegantly and idiomatically. Prerequisite: German 302 or the equivalent or permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Credit 1 unit.

L21 German 404 Germany Today

Introduction to the history, politics, and culture of contemporary Germany (1945 to the present). Topics include the cultural construction of identity in post-unified Germany; European integration and post-wall economy; the German constitution, electoral system and current elections; current debates and controversies; political parties and leading political figures; the role of literature, film, music, the visual arts, media and popular culture; the role of universities. Discussion, readings, and papers in German. Required for candidates planning to attend the overseas program in Tübingen, Germany. Prerequisite: Ger 302D (may be taken concurrently with Ger 404), or permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

L21 German 408D German as a Language of Business

This course introduces students to concepts and issues relevant to German business and economics and helps them to develop the language skills necessary to succeed in the German business world. We will concentrate on the basic elements of the German economic system, looking at Germany as a site of production and exchange, the legal structure of German firms, the relations between labor and management, and strategies for product development and marketing in national and international contexts. Students will also be introduced to specific German business practices, including forms of communication, management styles, and general corporate culture. Students will learn business vocabulary, writing skills for business correspondence, oral presentation techniques, and reading and comprehension strategies for German newspapers and news reports. All discussions, readings, and assignments will be in German. Prerequisite: German 302D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, LS BU: IS EN: H

L21 German 4100 German Literature and Culture, 1150-1750

Exploration of medieval and early modern literature and culture within sociohistorical contexts. Genres and themes vary and may include visual culture, representation, the development of fictionality and historical writing, questions of race, gender, and class, courtly culture, law, magic and marvels, medical and scientific epistemologies. Readings may include such genres as the heroic epic, drama, "Minnesang," the courtly novel, the Arthurian epic, fables, the novella, religious or devotional literature, witch tracts, pamphlets, political writings, the "Volksbuch," the picaresque novel, and the essay. Discussion, readings, and papers in German. Prerequisite: German 302D and German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR German 342/342D

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS, WI BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L21 German 4101 German Literature and Culture, 1750-1830

Exploration of the literature and culture of the Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, Weimar Classicism, and Romanticism within sociohistorical contexts. Genres and themes vary and may include the representation of history, absolutism and rebellion, the formation of bourgeois society, questions of national identity, aesthetics, gender, romantic love, and the fantastic. Reading and discussion of texts by authors such as Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Novalis, Günderode, the Brothers Grimm, Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Eichendorff, Bettina von Arnim. Discussion, readings, and papers in German. Prerequisites: German 302D and German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR German 342/342D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS, WI Art: HUM

L21 German 4102 German Literature and Culture, 1830-1914

Exploration of 19th-century literature and culture within sociohistorical contexts. Genres and themes vary and may include the representation of history, liberalism and restoration, nationalism, industrialization, colonialism, class, race and gender conflicts, materialism, secularization, and fin-de-siècle. Reading and discussion of texts by authors such as Büchner, Heine, Marx, Storm, Keller, Meyer, Fontane, Droste-Hülshoff, Nietzsche, Ebner-Eschenbach, Schnitzler, Rilke. Discussion, readings, and papers in German. Prerequisites: German 302D and German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR German 342/342D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L21 German 4103 German Literature and Culture, 1914 to the Present

Exploration of modern and contemporary literature within sociohistorical contexts. Genres and themes vary and may include the representation of history, the crisis of modernity, the two World Wars, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, generational conflicts, the women's movement, and postmodern society. Reading and discussion of texts by authors such as Wedekind, Freud, Mann, Kafka, Brecht, Seghers, Boell, Bachmann, Grass, Wolf. Discussion, readings, and papers in German. Prerequisites: German 302D and German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR German 342/342D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS, WI Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L21 German 4104 Studies in Genre

Exploration of the definition, style, form, and content that characterize a specific genre. Investigation of the social, cultural, political, and economic forces that lead to the formation and transformation of a particular genre. Examination of generic differences and of the effectiveness of a given genre in articulating the concerns of a writer or period. Topics and periods vary from semester to semester. Discussion, readings, and papers in German; some theoretical readings in English. Prerequisites: German 302D and German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR German 342/342D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L21 German 4105 Topics in German Studies

Focus on particular cultural forms such as literature, film, historiography, social institutions, philosophy, the arts, or on relationships between them. Course examines how cultural meanings are produced, interpreted, and employed. Topics vary and may include national identity, anti-semitism, cultural diversity, construction of values, questions of tradition, the magical, the erotic, symbolic narrative, and the city. Course may address issues across a narrow or broad time frame. Discussion, readings, and papers in German. Prerequisite: German 302D and German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR Ger 342/342D

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L21 German 4106 Studies in Gender

Investigation of the constructions of gender in literary and other texts and their sociohistorical contexts. Particular attention to the gendered conditions of writing and reading, engendering of the subject, and indicators of gender. Topics and periods vary from semester to semester and include gender and genre, education, religion, politics, cultural and state institutions, science, sexuality, and human reproduction. Discussion, readings, and papers in German; some theoretical readings in English. May be repeated with different content. Prerequisite: German 302D and German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR Ger 342/342D

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LS, SD, WI EN: H

L21 German 432 Undergrad Seminar: What Dreams May Come: Explorations of the Psyche in Viennese Modernism

This course investigates the relationship of the burgeoning field of psychoanalysis to modernist art and literature in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. Examining literary texts and artworks alongside theories of dreams and the unconscious by thinkers such as Ernst Mach and Sigmund Freud, we will analyze the ways that visual artists, composers, and poets sought to divulge the inner workings of the psyche. Our discussion will focus on key questions: What forms and what visual, aural, and verbal languages were developed to represent subjective experience? How did theories of memory and trauma and ideas about gendered psyches shape the depiction of individual agency in these works? What can these works tell us about the larger societal forces at play in this cultural moment? Readings will include the drama, poetry, and novellas of Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; musical works by Mahler and Schoenberg; and the visual art of Gustav Klimt, Helene Funke, and Oskar Kokoschka. Readings and discussion in German. Prerequisites: German 302D; German 340C/340D, German 341/341D, or German 342/342D.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L21 German 4381 Contemporary German Literature

Taught by the Max Kade writer and critic in residence, the course deals with the most recent trends and developments in contemporary German literature, including its multicultural, feminist, and postcolonial aspects. In all, the writer and critic will deal with approximately eight literary texts during the semester. The writers generally include a work of their own and give an idea of their personal poetics. Admission for undergraduate senior German majors is allowed only with permission of the Director of Graduate Studies.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L21 German 457 Introduction to Linguistics and the Structure of German

Introduction to the structure of the German language and to linguistic theory: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, as well as semiotic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistical theories. Prerequisite: Undergraduates may only take this course with permission of the Director of Graduate Studies.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD EN: H

L21 German 490 Undergraduate Topics in German Film: Introduction to German Cinema

In this undergraduate course, we will watch and discuss some of the great highlights of German film history. The course will provide students with a visual and linguistic foundation for discussing German film from the early days of cinema to the present. To cover such an extensive time span and range of cinematographic output, we will view representative works from various periods, genres, and authors that deal with a wide variety of themes. Class discussions will address the social and cultural significance of cinematic production in 20th- and 21st-century German culture as well as historical moments in German culture that are viewed through film. Certain themes will reoccur throughout the semester, including gender, the city, technology, violence, and social crisis. This course will also help students to improve their reading, writing, listening and speaking proficiency in German. Classroom discussions and readings will be entirely in German. The films will have English subtitles. This class will accommodate a range of levels of German proficiency. The reading and writing assignments will be adjusted accordingly. All instruction and all discussion will be in German. Note: There will be required weekly screenings. Prerequisite: successful completion of German 302D AND German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR German 342/342D or permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Credit 3 units. Art: AH BU: HUM

L21 German 493 The Task of the Translator

This course offers an introduction to the theory and practice of translation, consisting of three main components. First, students will have the opportunity to translate a wide range of fictional and non-fictional texts from a variety of genres (short stories, philosophy, journalism, academic prose). The focus will be on translation from German to English, but we will also translate from English to German. Next, we will read selections from key works on the theory of translation, from Martin Luther's sixteenth-century treatise on his Bible translation to twentieth-century essays by philosophers like Walter Benjamin. Finally, we will read and discuss excerpts from some of the most celebrated literary and philosophical translations of the past 200 years, including German translations of authors ranging from Shakespeare to J.K. Rowling as well as English translations of authors such as Goethe and Kafka. The course aims to give students a sense of the challenges and rewards of translation as well as a deeper understanding of the relationship between language, thought, and culture. Prerequisite: German 302D and German 340C/340D OR German 341/341D OR German 342/342D

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L21 German 497 Independent Work for Senior Honors

Research for an Honors thesis, on a topic chosen in conjunction with the adviser. Emphasis on independent study and writing. Open to students with previous course work in German at the 400 level, an overall 3.0 grade-point average, and at least a B+ average in advanced work in German. Prerequisites: senior standing and permission of the undergraduate adviser.

Credit 3 units.

L21 German 498 Independent Work for Senior Honors

Continuation of Ger 497. Completion of thesis. Quality of the thesis determines whether the student receives credit only or Honors in German. Prerequisite: Ger 497.

Credit 3 units.

L93 IPH 150 First-Year Seminar: Topics in Interdisciplinary Inquiry

For first-year, non-transfer students. Past topics include: Research Methodologies in Cognitive Science, Fictions of Financial Crisis, The Good Life, Speculative Worlds & Technological Futures, and Fictions of Chance.

Credit 3 units. A&S: FYS A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L93 IPH 200C Sanity and Madness in Literature from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance

We will consider explicit and implicit models of mental life, motivation, and action in works by authors studied in 201C. We will investigate how concepts related to madness are formulated and regulated in these literary texts and in the societies that produce them, and we will read scholarship from the 19th through 21st centuries that has debated the scale and scope of irrationality in ancient, medieval, and early modern cultures.

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM BU: BA, HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 201A Puzzles and Revolutions: Text & Traditions

One major force in human history has been inquiry into the natural world. Especially after 1550, natural science, by virtue of its role in the development of technology and the improvement of health, has brought about great changes on all scales of human existence, first in Western Europe and then globally. In this course, the changing character of inquiry into the natural world, from antiquity forward, will be the object of study. Does natural science enable us, for example, to study nature as it is in itself, or are culturally-determined perspectives or frameworks inescapable? How is it that natural science has, especially since 1800, proved so useful in the development of technology? How has it impinged on the arts? The requirements will include writing several short papers and brief responses to the readings.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 201B The Great Economists: Text & Traditions

Examination of the great economic thinkers, the problems they sought to solve, the historically-conditioned assumptions that they bring to their work, and the moral issues they raise. The class will read from the works of Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Marx, Veblen, Keynes, Schumpeter, Galbraith, and others as well as commentary from Heilbronner. These readings will be paired with selected texts on the social and moral issues of their times.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 201C Classical to Renaissance Literature: Text & Traditions

Students enrolled in this course engage in close and sustained reading of a set of texts that are indispensable for an understanding of the European literary tradition, texts that continue to offer invaluable insights into humanity and the world around us. Homer's Iliad is the foundation of our class. We then go on to trace ways in which later poets and dramatists engage the work of predecessors who inspire and challenge them. Readings move from translations of Greek, Latin, and Italian, to poetry and drama composed in English. In addition to Homer, we will read works of Sappho, a Greek tragedian, Plato, Vergil, Ovid, Petrarch, and Shakespeare.

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 203C Early Political Thought: Text & Traditions

A selected survey of the political and moral thought of Europe from the rise of Athenian democracy to the Renaissance, with emphasis on analysis and discussion of writers such as Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Castiglione, and Machiavelli. The course aims to introduce students to basic texts in the intellectual history of Western Europe, understood both as products of a particular time and place and as self-contained arguments that strive to instruct and persuade. The texts are simultaneously used to chart the careers of such fundamental notions as liberty, virtue, and justice.

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 207C Modern Political Thought: Text & Traditions

What is power? Why are societies divided along lines of race, class, and gender? When did politics become split between the right and the left? Can religion be reconciled with the demands of modern life? Can democracy? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this survey of modern political thought. Thinkers covered will include Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, WEB Du Bois, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault.

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L93 IPH 209 Scriptures and Cultural Traditions: Text & Traditions

When we think of the word "scripture" in antiquity, we might think of the texts that have been compiled in the different holy books that we currently have today. Yet the function of "scriptures" within a community, and the status given to different texts treated as "scriptural," has changed in different times and places. In this course, we will consider texts that would eventually come to be part of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and the Qu'ran as well as several of the exegetes and reading communities that shaped their various interpretations. We will explore how non-canonical sources played a role in the formation of the various canons we have today, comparing the authoritative status given to these texts to that given to other works from antiquity, such as the epics of Homer. Special attention will be played to the role of the receiving community in the development of "scripture," and the variety of the contexts in which scripture can function in the construction of and opposition to religious authority.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L93 IPH 211A Digital Humanities: Information Representation, Analysis, and Modeling

It is a truism that computers have changed our lives, the way we think, but in fact systematic efforts to apply current technologies to the thinking about history and culture have been rare. This course will enable students to consider how these technologies might transform the humanities. Students will explore the various ways that ideas and data in the humanities can be represented, analyzed, and communicated. Topics include forms of information, modeling and simulation, geospatial (GIS) and temporal representations of data, and ways of creating and using audio and visual information. Readings and classwork will be supplemented by small assigned digital projects culminating in a project chosen by the students themselves. Students should be comfortable with using the Internet and a word processor. No other special computing skills are required.

Credit 3 units.

L93 IPH 260 From Literature to Opera

Much operatic repertoire is based on classics of literature, from the very first operas of 1598-1600 to the present day. From Literature to Opera will introduce students to the world of opera through a close study of a few select works based on major literary subjects, beginning with the literary works themselves and proceeding to the ways the texts are adapted for the musical stage and then transformed into another genre through their dramatic musical settings. For 2018 the works studied will be Virgil's and Ovid's versions of the Orpheus myth set to music by Claudio Monteverdi in 1607 as one of the earliest operas. Next we will move on to Carlo Goldoni's play, "Don Juan" which was composed by Mozart as "Don Giovanni" in 1787. Shakespeare will be represented by the ultimate tragedy of words, "Othello," and Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello" of 1887. The course will conclude with Claude Debussy's "Pélleas et Mélisande" of 1902, based on Maurice Maeterlinck's 1892 symbolist play of the same name. No previous musical experience required. The class will be conducted as a seminar focused on student participation. Each student will also choose an opera based on a literary work as the subject of two 10-page papers. The first, due at midterm, will study the literary source and the way it is adapted as an operatic text (libretto). The second, due at the end of finals week, will analyze how the libretto is dramatized through the music. One of the important purposes of class discussion will be to develop a usable vocabulary for describing music and its dramatic effects.

Credit 3 units. A&S: FYS A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 299 Research Internship in the Humanities

Credit variable, maximum 3 units.

L93 IPH 301 Sophomore Research Tutorial

A practical introduction to research in the humanities. Students develop and complete a project in a research area of possible long-term interest.

Credit 2 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 3050 Literary Modernities in Europe and America: Text & Traditions

The course examines the various facets of modernity in major works of European, Eurasian, and, sometimes, American literature from the early 17th century to the 1920s, starting with "Don Quixote." We will explore, among other things, the eruption of the novel, the secularization of autobiography, the literary discovery of the city, and the rise of literary and aesthetic criticism that takes literature and art seriously as political and social institutions. In addition to literary works, the course will engage with two or three important models of critical practice (e.g., Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Women"; Marx's "German Ideology"; Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams"; Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent"; or perhaps that great work of fictionalized literary criticism, Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote").

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 307 Literary Modernities in East Asia: Text & Traditions

This course will explore the complex forces at work in the emergence of modern East Asia through a selection of literary texts spanning fiction, poetry, and personal narrative. Our readings-- by Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese writers and poets-- will point to the distinctively different and dramatically-shifting circumstances of modern East Asian nations and peoples, as well as to their shared values and aspirations.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

L93 IPH 310 An Intellectual History of Sex and Gender: Text & Traditions

When did sexuality begin? Is it safe to assume that gender constructions are universal and timeless? In this course, we will engage with a broad range of readings that serve as primary texts in the history of sexuality and gender. Our aims are threefold: (1) to analyze the literary evidence we have for sexuality and gender identity in Western culture; (2) to survey modern scholarly approaches to those same texts; and (3) to consider the ways in which these modern theoretical frameworks have become the most recent set of primary texts on sexuality and gender.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA EN: H

L93 IPH 312 Introduction to Digital Humanities

It is a truism that computers have changed our lives and the way we think and interact. But in fact systematic efforts to apply current technologies to the study of history and culture have been rare. This course will enable students to consider how these technologies might transform the humanities. We will explore the various ways in which ideas and data in the humanities can be represented, analyzed, and communicated. We will also reflect on how the expansion of information technology has transformed and is continuing to transform the humanities, both with regard to their role in the university and in society at large. Readings and classwork will be supplemented by class presentations and a small assigned group project.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 3123 Introduction to Digital Humanities

It is a truism that computers have changed our lives and the way we think and interact. But in fact systematic efforts to apply current technologies to the study of history and culture have been rare. This course will enable students to consider how these technologies might transform the humanities. We will explore the various ways in which ideas and data in the humanities can be represented, analyzed, and communicated. We will also reflect on how the expansion of information technology has transformed and is continuing to transform the humanities, both with regard to their role in the university and in society at large. Readings and classwork will be supplemented by class presentations and a small assigned group project.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 315 Independent Study in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities

Credit 3 units.

L93 IPH 3191 The European Avant Garde: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 20th Century

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of Artistic movements characterized by revolt against tradition, emphasis on radical experimentation, and redefinition of the art work. This course will familiarize students with the avant-garde's main currents: Italian Futurism, English Vorticism, Russian Constructivism, "stateless" Dadaism, and French Surrealism. We will ask ourselves how to define the avant-garde, how it is related to modernity, and whether its aesthetic is necessarily political. Texts include "Futurist Manifestos", Cendrars's "Trans-Siberian Prose," Stein's "Tender Buttons", Breton's "Nadja". We will also examine artworks such as Duchamp's "Large Glass" and films Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou".

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 320 An Intellectual History of Race and Ethnicity: Text & Traditions

This course is designed to introduce students to a wide range of historical ideas, contexts, and texts that have shaped our understandings of race and ethnicity. We will examine the ways in which our definitions and categories of race and ethnicity have helped us to construct (and continuously reinvent) our sense of who counts as human, what counts as human behavior, the possibilities of artistic expression, the terms of political engagement, and our critical and analytical frameworks. Students should be prepared to do quite a bit of reading of some very challenging yet rewarding texts.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, ETH, HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 332 Visual Culture

In this interdisciplinary course, we explore this long history of vision and visual representation from antiquity to the present so as to shed light on how people at different moments have understood vision, have seen their own seeing and have encoded this seeing in different artifacts and media. More specifically, we explore the role of the visual in the historical production of subjectivity and collectivity; the political, religious, and ideological uses and abuses of vision; the relation of images to words and stories; the implication of sight in competing systems of truth, enlightenment, and scientific progress; and the function of seeing within different media of art, entertainment, and virtualization-from ancient cave painting, medieval icons and early modern church designs to modernist paintings and motion pictures.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L93 IPH 3451 Histories of Intelligence: Topics in Science and Society

The use of data, computing, and quantitative methods has become central to politics, economics, and daily life. This course uses the concept of "intelligence" to survey the history of technoscientific efforts to understand and represent the intersections of minds, machines, and society. The course title has a deliberate double meaning; it is about both the people who seek to study and measure humans and their knowledge capacities as well as the knowledge or information that is increasingly collected, measured, and automated by machines. Organized topically and chronologically, this discussion-based seminar will examine the changing meanings and significance of intelligence, their impact on politics and social organization, and the questions raised about the relationship between specific technologies and specific models of human reasoning. We will consider these questions from diverse perspectives, including race, gender, class, ability, and materiality from the 19th century to the present. Topics covered include histories of artificial intelligence, racial dynamics, meritocracy, informational labor, state secrecy, and the self as data.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM

L93 IPH 3473 Race, Rights, and Humanity in European History

This course explores discourses of human rights as natural rights in Europe from the Enlightenment to the present. While Europe -- and particularly France -- has been quick to declare itself the birthplace of human rights, a closer look reveals a broad continuum of conceptions of political, social, and economic rights. The course functions as a kind of survey of Modern European history, touching on the Age of Revolutions, the rise of European overseas empires, international anti-slavery movements, totalitarianism, and postwar development. It focuses on how political, social, and economic rights have always been articulated incompletely, to the benefit of some and to the detriment of others.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS

L93 IPH 351 A World of Words

This seminar is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in literature, foreign languages, creative writing, and translating. In the course students will enrich their studies in foreign languages, cultures and literatures with creative work. Participants will read and discuss practical criticism, present their own creative projects and hone their skills as writers, translators, and readers. At the conclusion of the course, students will have the choice of presenting a polished work of translation or a piece of original writing. Besides myriad possibilities for translating into and from English, the course can accommodate creative writers in English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Chinese. Students who wish to enroll in the course should contact the Program in Comparative Literature for further information. There is a limit of 14 participants to this class.
Same as L16 Comp Lit 351

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 3587 From Genghis Khan to the Taliban: War and Peace in Central Asia

From romantic invocations of the Silk Road and isolated nomads to medieval barbarisms of the Taliban, Western media and popular culture often portray Central Asia as a region out of step with time. However, Central Asia has long been a center for culture, innovation, and political power, and it has a history that is hard to reconcile with popular images of a place stuck in the past. This course, which is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, traces the transformation of Central Asia from Genghis Khan's 13th-century conquests to the present, covering the territories of former Soviet Central Asia, Western China (Xinjiang), and Afghanistan. Although the course covers nearly 1000 years, the primary emphasis is on the imperial schemes and transformations of the past 300 years. All readings will be in English, and no prior knowledge in Central Asian history is expected or required.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L93 IPH 3951 Shakespeare's Sonnets: Framing the Sequence

We will begin by exploring ways of reading a small number of individual sonnets, proceeding thereafter to think about patterns of meaning in language and image across broader groupings and the sequence as a whole. We will investigate the influence of earlier sonnet tradition, especially Petrarch's sonnets, and the relationship of the poems to modes of sexuality and selfhood. Finally, we will ask how some of Shakespeare's most creative readers--including Wilde, Booth, and Vendler--have responded to the challenges of the Sonnets. Students will work on writing their own commentary on a group of poems.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 399 Internship in Digital Humanities

A practicum in digital humanities. Students will work on one or more faculty research projects sponsored by the Humanities Digital Workshop. While we will try to assign students to projects that align with their research interests, we will also aim for assignments that will help students extend their skills.

Credit variable, maximum 6 units.

L93 IPH 401 IPH Thesis Prospectus Workshop

Students will assist each other in developing viable thesis topics, compiling bibliographies, and preparing research plans. Students will give formal and informal oral presentations of their proposed topics. Prospectuses and, if possible, drafts of first chapters will be peer-edited.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI EN: H

L93 IPH 403 IPH Thesis Tutorial

A working group for thesis writers in the humanities. Permission of department required.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI EN: H

L93 IPH 405 Theory and Methods in the Humanities

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 4052 Citizenship: Historical, Cross-Cultural, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Although some have posited that citizenship may become obsolete in an increasingly globalizing and interconnected world, citizenship has never been more relevant. Discussions of migration, statelessness, naturalization policies, borders, and so many other contemporary topics hinge on questions of citizenship. In this course, we will be taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study of citizenship, drawing on a wide range of work from historians, social scientists, journalists, and writers. This is an interdisciplinary and transnational course intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Examples will draw from around the world and from a variety of disciplines. Assigned materials include the work of historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and journalists as well as novels, films, and audio and visual sources.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA EN: H

L93 IPH 4111 Pastoral Literature: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Antiquity

This course will open with a survey of the classical tradition in pastoral/bucolic. We will consider questions of genre, intertextuality and ideology, and we will ask how ´the lives and loves of herders´ became favored ground for literary meditation on issues of surface and depth, reality and illusion, artifice and sincerity. This portion will involve intensive reading in translation of Theocritus, Vergil and Longus. In the second half of the semester, we will consider the survival, adaptation and deformation of ancient pastoral themes, forms and modes of thought in British and American writing from the 19th and 20th centuries. We will read works of Mark Twain, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy and Tom Stoppard.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD EN: H

L93 IPH 4171 Roman Remains: Traces of Classical Rome in Modern British Literature

This course will examine the use of the Roman textual and material inheritance in poets, novelists and critics of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries working in Britain, and will ask how modernity addresses the claims of the classical tradition. We will place Thomas Hardy's "Poems of 1912-13" next to Vergil's Aeneid, then survey Hardy's relationship to the visible remainders of Rome and the people it conquered -- roads, barrows, forts -- in the landscape of Dorset. After examining the representation of the Celtic hill-fort in fiction, and the legacy of Vergilian representations of the countryside in poetry, we will consider representations of Rome in light of modern imperialism (Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius) and examine the place of Vergil in T. S. Eliot's critical and poetic practice.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 419A Economic Life in Modern Social and Cultural Theory

Social and cultural theorists have developed many perspectives on economic life, ranging from actor-network theory to new institutionalism. Yet recent ethnographic work, for instance in consumption studies and in the anthropology of financial markets, has raised all sorts of problems for theorists. Our course will ask whether we really can generalize about economic life and, if so, how far such generalizations might extend into fields such as intimate relations or artistic production. Readings will include work by Bourdieu, Callon, Geertz, Hochschild, Mauss and Zelizer.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC EN: S

L93 IPH 425 Humanities by the Numbers: Essential Readings in Digital Humanities

To what extent can computational techniques that draw on statistical patterns and quantification assist us in literary analysis? Over the semester, we will juxtapose the close reading of historical documents or literary works with the "distant reading" of a large corpus of historical data or literary texts. We will ask how the typically "human" scale of reading that lets us respond to literary texts can be captured on the "inhuman" and massive scales at which computers can count, quantify and categorize texts.While this class will introduce you to basic statistical and computational techniques, no prior experience with technology is required. Prerequisites: two 200 level or one 300-level course in literature or history. This is a topics-type course and the specific documents and works examined will vary from semester to semester. Please see semester course listings for current offerings.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 426 Imagining the City: Crime and Commerce in Early Modern London

The astonishing demographic and economic growth of early modern London, and the rapid increase in spatial and social mobility that accompanied this growth seemed to harbinger, in the eyes of many contemporaries, a society in crisis and perhaps on the brink of collapse. As increasing numbers of vagrants or masterless men flocked to the metropolis and a growing number of people - apprentices, domestic labor, street vendors etc - lived on the fringes of legitimacy and at risk of lapsing into vagrancy, policing early modern London provided unique challenges for authorities. At the same time, the very notion of the social - a shared space of kinship and community could often seem to be under threat as an emerging market and a burgeoning commodity culture reshaped the traditional underpinnings of social and economic transactions. Yet, late Tudor and early Stuart London remained by far England's most prosperous metropolis, its primary market, home to a burgeoning print culture and nourishing theater and emerged, eventually, as the epicenter of a global economy. This course will consider the topographic, social and institutional configuration of early modern London and the ways in which these were reimagined and negotiated in the literature of the period. Drawing on the drama of the period and a wide array of pamphlet literature, we will discuss how civic institutions handled the growing influx of the poor and adapted to the increasing power of an emerging bourgeoisie who asserted themselves in unprecedented ways. In addition we will consider secondary sources ranging from maps, theories of urban space and social and economic historiography as well as digital archives and computational techniques that allow us to "scale up" our thinking about early modern London to a vast corpus of texts and documents.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 427 Technology and Feminist Practice: Gender Violence Prevention Tools

How can we best use technology, and the tools and insights of the Digital Humanities in particular, to promote effective approaches to addressing gender-based violence? What are the most effective ways to bridge the innovations of the research university with the everyday work of practitioners seeking to prevent violence or intervene in its aftermath? What are the ethics involved in constructing tools for public and professional use? Which interests should govern the choices in content, design, and dissemination of information? This course will introduce students to the strategies and challenges of devising technological tools for violence prevention for use beyond the classroom. Class readings and discussions will be supplemented by hands-on project work with Washington University's Gender Violence Database and lab sessions that focus on skill-building in digital project construction. Prerequisite: For undergraduate students, L77 393 01 or previous work experience with the Gender Violence Database. Graduate students by permission of instructor.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, ETH EN: H

L93 IPH 430 Data Manipulation for the Humanities

The course will present basic data modeling concepts and will focus on their application to data clean-up and organization (text markup, Excel, and SQL). Aiming to give humanities students the tools they will need to assemble and manage large data sets relevant to their research, the course will teach fundamental skills in programming relevant to data management (using Python); it will also teach database design and querying (SQL). The course will cover a number of "basics": the difference between word processing files, plain text files, and structured XML; best practices for version control and software "hygiene"; methods for cleaning up data; regular expressions (and similar tools built into most word processors). It will proceed to data modeling: lists (Excel, Python); identifiers/keys and values (Excel, Python, SQL); tables/relations (SQL and/or data frames); joins (problem in Excel, solution in SQL, or data frames); hierarchies (problem in SQL/databases, solution in XML); and network graph structures (nodes and edges in CSV). It will entail basic scripting in Python, concentrating on using scripts to get data from the web, and the mastery of string handling.

Credit 1 unit. EN: H

L93 IPH 431 Statistics for Humanities Scholars: Data Science for the Humanities

A survey of statistical ideas and principles. The course will expose students to tools and techniques useful for quantitative research in the humanities, many of which will be addressed more extensively in other courses: tools for text-processing and information extraction, natural language processing techniques, clustering & classification, and graphics. The course will consider how to use qualitative data and media as input for modeling and will address the use of statistics and data visualization in academic and public discourse. By the end of the course students should be able to evaluate statistical arguments and visualizations in the humanities with appropriate appreciation and skepticism. Details. Core topics include: sampling, experimentation, chance phenomena, distributions, exploration of data, measures of central tendency and variability, and methods of statistical testing and inference. In the early weeks, students will develop some facility in the use of Excel; thereafter, students will learn how to use Python or R for statistical analyses.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, AN EN: H

L93 IPH 432 Programming for Text Analysis

This course will introduce basic programming and text-analysis techniques to humanities students. Beginning with an introduction to programming using the Python programming language, the course will discuss the core concepts required for working with text corpora. We will cover the basics of acquiring data from the web, string manipulation, regular expressions, and the use of programming libraries for text analysis. Later in the course, students will be introduced to larger text corpora. They will learn to calculate simple corpus statistics as well as techniques such as tokenization, chunking, extraction of thematically significant words, stylometrics and authorship attribution. We will end with a brief survey of more advanced text-classification terminology and topics from natural language processing such as stemming, lemmatization, named-entity recognition, and part-of-speech tagging.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 435 Practicum in Digital Humanities: Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies

This is a variable topics course, and content will change from semester to semester.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 440 The Ethics, Politics, and Law of Big Data

This course will explore the phenomenon of "big data" -- the use of very large datasets that make new predictive algorithms and other advanced data analytics possible -- and provide students with an opportunity to think critically about the applications of new information technologies and to develop an awareness of their ethical and political context. We will begin by addressing the philosophical question of what, if anything, is special about big data -- what makes today's digital data ecosystems different from the ways in which scholars, governments, and businesses have used data and statistics for centuries. We will then examine questions about the ethics, politics, and law of contemporary information technology. Topics will include the moral philosophy of privacy; the theoretical foundations of American and European privacy law pertaining to big data; the ethics of using predictive algorithms in criminal sentencing and marketing; the ethical considerations that bear on academic research using "big data"; and differences and similarities between the ways in which computer code ("West Coast Code") and laws ("East Coast Code") regulate conduct. Readings will include excerpts from Ian Hacking's "The Taming of Chance"; Safiya Umoja Noble's "Algorithms of Oppression"; Cathy O'Neil's "Weapons of Math Destruction"; Evgeny Morozov's "To Save Everything, Click Here"; and Frank Pasquale's "The Black Box Society." Assignments for the course will include both academic papers and practical exercises, such as drafting a mock privacy policy for a tech company accumulating large quantities of personal data about its consumers.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: BA, ETH EN: H

L93 IPH 450 Interdisciplinary Topics in the Humanities

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 450A Interdisciplinary Topics in the Humanities

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 455 IPH Senior Colloquium: Interdisciplinary Topics in the Humanities

Team taught course designed for IPH Senior interests and thesis topics.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 460 Independent Studies in the Humanities

Credit variable, maximum 3 units.

L93 IPH 465 The Pre-History of Blogging: Social Media of the Enlightenment

This course will explore the ways in which the Enlightenment-in France, England, Germany and the US-was shaped by the emergence of new literary forms, media, and technologies of communication. Like our blogs, Facebook, and e-mail, the eighteenth-century had its new social media-newspapers and literary journals, letters that surged through the national postal systems-as well as new social institutions-salons and coffeehouses-that served as forums for public debate. We will examine these novelties in order to investigate the often ambivalent heritage of the Enlightenment: the use of media to exchange knowledge and express dissent; the use of media for surveillance and State control.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 470 Interdisciplinary Topics: Data Signs-A Literary History of Information

Various interdisciplinary topics are explored that may includes around the humanities, social sciences and data sciences.

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 494 Milton and the Trials of Conscience: Poetry, Poetics, and Polemics

Major poems and prose works in relation to literary and intellectual currents of the 17th century.
Same as L14 E Lit 494

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 498 The Spenser Lab

This course involves graduate and undergraduate students in the ongoing work of the Spenser Project, an inter-institutional effort to produce a traditional print edition of the Complete Works of Edmund Spenser.
Same as L14 E Lit 498

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM EN: H

L93 IPH 498W The Spenser Lab

In this Writing Intensive course, the students will be given a variety of writing tasks: writing commentaries, introductions, software manuals, grant proposals, software requirements, and design documents (SRDDs).
Same as L14 E Lit 498W

Credit 4 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI EN: H

L84 Lw St 117 Amp:Global Population on the Move: Language + Resettlement w/Legal, Healthcare + Educational Systems

Today, the number of displaced people is as its highest: one out of every 113 people on Earth. In this course, we begin with an understanding of what it means to be a refugee, and we discuss readings that lead us to an understanding of the modern refugee as we contextualize the significance of such terms as 'refugee,' 'asylum,' 'sanctuary,' 'non-refoulement,' or 'forced displacement.' With this foundation, we move to the role that language plays with resettlement into society and examine factors in the legal, healthcare and educational systems. We examine global work done through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and more, and we concentrate on the current state of refugees and New Americans in St. Louis and the USA. The course fosters critical thinking across academic disciplines, encourages practical implications of research on resettlement and language policy, and includes invited guest lectures by local practitioners and other Washington University scholars. This course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.
Same as L61 FYP 117

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: LCD, SSC, SC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA, IS EN: S

L84 Lw St 120A Religious Freedom in America

The intersection of religion and law in American society has sparked some of the fiercest cultural engagements in recent memory: Should a for-profit religious corporation have a right not to fund birth control for its employees? Can a public college expel campus religious groups whose membership is not open to all students? May a Muslim in prison grow a beard for religious reasons? Should a cake baker or a florist be permitted to refuse services for a gay wedding? Can a church hire and fire its ministers for any reason? These current debates and the issues that frame them are interwoven in the American story. This course introduces students to the major texts and historical arguments underlying that story. Drawing from the respective expertise of the instructors, the course will expose students to a variety of scholarly methods related to the issue: legal history and case law, intellectual history and canonical texts, social history and narrative accounts, and political philosophy and contemporary analyses. This course is for first-year (non-transfer) students only.
Same as I60 BEYOND 120

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH, HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 126 Ampersand: Law and Society

This course considers the basic aspects of the American legal system: its foundations, processes, institutions and rights. We will also study some specific substantive areas of the law. The course consists of two 90-minute Socratic lectures per week. Upon completion of this course, students should have a basic knowledge of the American legal system, which is an important part of a general education. The hope is that such knowledge will enable students to better understand and assess current legal events and to develop an increased interest in those events. This course should also enable students to consider law as a future area of study and career. Interested students may continue their study in the spring semester with an optional 1-credit seminar focusing on contemporary Supreme Court cases. Course is for first-year students in the Law and Society Program only.
Same as L61 FYP 1261

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 131F Present Moral Problems

An investigation of a range of contemporary moral issues and controversies that draws on philosophical ethics and culturewide moral considerations. Topics may include: racism, world hunger, war and terrorism, the distribution of income and wealth, gender discrimination, pornography, lesbian and gay rights, abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment. The aim of the course is to present diverse points of view regarding these topics and to provide conceptual and theoretical tools that enable the student to make headway in thinking carefully and critically about the issues.
Same as L30 Phil 131F

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM, SEM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L84 Lw St 2020 The Immigrant Experience

This course explores the history and politics of immigrant groups in the 19th and 20th century United States. Topics include legislation, patterns of migration, comparisons of different waves of immigration, and changing social attitudes.
Same as L98 AMCS 202

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA, HUM EN: S

L84 Lw St 203B Introduction to Education: Disability Law, Policy, and Institutional Implications

This seminar is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the laws and policies governing disabilities and how they impact governmental, social, economic, political, and educational institutions. This introduction to disabilities is provided from a legal perspective and will appeal to self-motivated students interested in learning more about how disability awareness might impact their everyday lives. Topics for discussion include IDEA, ADA, and Section 504 accommodations and how these laws apply to K-12 schools, higher education, immigration, housing, substance abuse, courts, employment, and access to public transit and public accommodations.
Same as L12 Educ 203B

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 203C Early Political Thought: Text and Tradition

A selected survey of the political and moral thought of Europe from the rise of Athenian democracy to the Renaissance, with emphasis on analysis and discussion of writers such as Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Castiglione, and Machiavelli. The course aims to introduce students to basic texts in the intellectual history of Western Europe, understood both as products of a particular time and place and as self-contained arguments that strive to instruct and persuade. The texts are simultaneously used to chart the careers of such fundamental notions as liberty, virtue, and justice.
Same as L93 IPH 203C

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 2062 Sophomore Seminar in History

This course is a sophomore seminar in history; topics vary per semester. Prerequisite: sophomore standing.
Same as L22 History 2062

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, IS EN: H

L84 Lw St 207 Crossing Borders: An Introduction to Institutions and Concepts in Global Studies

This course provides an overview of the emergence of international governing institutions, the ideologies that shaped them, and concepts helpful for understanding them. Identifying the systems that have emerged to govern modern human societies at the national and international levels provides the means to consider how human beings are categorized within those systems, as citizens, subjects, asylum seekers, refugees, and the stateless. We engage a few classic works -- including "The Communist Manifesto," "Imagined Communities," and "Orientalism" -- and consider how they have transformed knowledge. The goal is for students to gain an empirical grasp of world institutions and a critical vocabulary that will provide the means for an informed engagement with international issues across different world regions and academic approaches.
Same as L97 GS 207

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, SSC, SC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: IS EN: S

L84 Lw St 207C Modern Political Thought: Text and Traditions

What is power? Why are societies divided along lines of race, class, and gender? When did politics become split between the right and the left? Can religion be reconciled with the demands of modern life? Can democracy? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this survey of modern political thought. Thinkers covered will include Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, WEB Du Bois, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault.
Same as L93 IPH 207C

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L84 Lw St 2110 Social Inequality in America

Americans face different challenges and opportunities that depend on a variety of characteristics, including race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. This class examines these intersecting categories from a sociological perspective - not simply as ways to classify people, but as social constructions that help to explain social inequality. Students will examine these systems in a variety of institutional contexts, such as popular culture, family life, education, the criminal justice system, and the labor force. No prerequisite.
Same as L40 SOC 2110

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 221 Ampersand: Law and Society

This course will be a continuation of the seminar Ampersand: Law and Society. The course will apply knowledge learned in the first semester to analyze current and recent Supreme Course cases. Prerequisites: L61 1261 and admission to the Ampersand: Law and Society course.
Same as L61 FYP 221

Credit 3 units. A&S: AMP A&S IQ: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA, HUM EN: S

L84 Lw St 225 Religion and Politics in American History

In a famous 2004 article, historian Jon Butler once remarked that US history textbooks and survey courses tend to pay significant attention to religion during the Colonial Era and early Republic, yet after the Civil War "religion more often appears as a jack-in-the-box" that pops up in historical accounts somewhat randomly and without much elaboration or analysis. To address the gaps in historical understandings that these absences may create, this course will provide a survey of the ways theological ideas and religiously-motivated social movements have shaped US politics and civic life from the Civil War to the present. With a particular emphasis placed on how religion intersects with other social categories such as race, gender, and class, it will examine the complex role that religious beliefs, practices, and identities have played in major political events and debates from the 1860s to today. In doing so, it will also inquire into what it means to study religion as a historical phenomenon, the theoretical and methodological tools that best assist in this work, and the historiographic implications of better attending to religion in historical analyses. No prior coursework in US history or religious studies is required.
Same as L57 RelPol 225

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA EN: H

L84 Lw St 233F Biomedical Ethics

A critical examination, in the light of contemporary moral disagreements and traditional ethical theories, of some of the moral issues arising out of medical practice and experimentation in our society. Issues that might be discussed include euthanasia, genetic engineering, organ transplants, medical malpractice, the allocation of medical resources, and the rights of the patient.
Same as L30 Phil 233F

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L84 Lw St 235F Introduction to Environmental Ethics

A general survey of current issues in environmental ethics, focusing on problems such as the obligation to future generations, protection of endangered species, animal rights, problems of energy and pollution, wilderness, global justice, and business obligations. Students will also learn some ethical and political theory.
Same as L30 Phil 235F

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L84 Lw St 2443 First-Year Seminar: The Nuremberg Trials and International Justice

This course is an exercise in understanding how professional historians and the general public discover and use the past. The main goals of this course are to understand the many different methods and standards applied to the past; to understand how and why each generation changes the past as it seeks to make it "usable"; and to develop the skills of exposition and argumentation necessary to describe and analyze complex historical issues and to express critical ideas effectively. The subject of this inquiry will be the Nuremberg trials - the innovations and critiques around the law and politics of the trials themselves, as well as the trials' legacies for ideas about international justice in postwar America and the world. Course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.
Same as L22 History 2443

Credit 3 units. A&S: FYS A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L84 Lw St 251 Juvenile Justice in the Black Experience

This course examines the sociolegal past, present, and future of American juvenile justice, with a focus on the Black American experience. The course is organized in three parts. Part I surveys the late 19th- and early 20th-century development of the "parental state," including its institutional centerpiece (the juvenile court), its principle legal subjects ("dependents" and "delinquents"), and how these took shape alongside the contemporaneous rise of American Apartheid. Part II examines several key changes and challenges in contemporary juvenile justice, including the transformation of this institution in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement and the endurance of racialized juvenile social control in the post-Civil Rights period. Finally, Part III considers possible futures of youth justice in the United States and beyond as well as practical strategies for achieving equal protection within and beyond the law. For AFAS majors, this course counts as Area Requirement 2.
Same as L90 AFAS 251

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 263 Linguistics for Legal Purposes

This course exposes students to an array of legal matters in which forensic linguistic science can play a key role. It simultaneously introduces them to linguistic concepts, theories, and methods that can be differentially applied for a combination of forensic and legal purposes. Topics include trademark disputes, defamation suits, civil litigation, authorship identification, and linguistic evaluations of testimony presented during murder trials. Assignments will include the formulation of affidavits and the production of legal opinions derived from diverse linguistic analyses.
Same as L44 Ling 263

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 299 Undergraduate Internship in Legal Studies

Students receive credit for a faculty-directed and approved internship. Registration requires completion of the Learning Agreement which the student obtains from the Career Center and which must be filled out and signed by the Career Center and the faculty sponsor prior to beginning internship work. Credit should correspond to actual time spent in work activities, e.g., 8-10 hours a week for 13 or 14 weeks to receive 3 units of credit; 1 or 2 credits for fewer hours. Students may not receive credit for work done for pay but are encouraged to obtain written evaluations about such work for the student's academic advisor and career placement file.

Credit variable, maximum 3 units.

L84 Lw St 3001 Social Theory

This course provides an overview of major theoretical frameworks used by sociologists to understand social behavior and group patterns. This course explores classical theories, including those developed by Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, along with contemporary perspectives such as functionalist, interactionist, and conflict theories. Class discussions and writing assignments emphasize students' application of theory to understand current social experiences and structures. The course has no specific prerequisites, but students should be prepared for intensive study of challenging ideas and the application of these ideas in new contexts relevant to modern society. This course counts toward the program's Theory component which Sociology majors and minors must complete to fulfill degree requirements.
Same as L40 SOC 3001

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 3012 Biblical Law and the Origins of Western Justice

This course will explore how law developed from the earliest periods of human history and how religious ideas and social institutions shaped law. The course will also illuminate how biblical law was influenced by earlier cultures and how the ancient Israelites reshaped the law they inherited. It will further analyze the impact of biblical law on Western culture and will investigate how the law dealt with those of different social classes and ethnic groups, and we will probe how women were treated by the law.
Same as L75 JIMES 3012

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD BU: ETH, HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 301U Historical Methods: United States History

This is a small-group reading course in which students are introduced to the skills essential to the historian's craft. Emphasis will be on acquiring research skills, learning to read historical works critically, and learning to use primary and secondary sources to make a persuasive and original argument. Required for history majors. Preference given to History majors; other interested students welcome.
Same as L22 History 301U

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 312 Argumentation

This upper-level writing course considers the strategies of argumentation emphasizing audience awareness, reflective thinking and strategic presentation. We will explore elements of argument such as enthymeme, the three appeals, claim types, and fallacies. Students will learn to evaluate a wide range of arguments (including their own), considering the rhetorical strategies that make for effective argumentative performance in a given situation. The course will involve regular practice in both written and oral argument. Prereq: Writing 1 (L13 100) and junior standing. A note for students and advisors: when registering refer to WebStac for updated information on section times and available seats.
Same as L13 Writing 312

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 314W Topics in Composition

An advanced writing course focusing on selected topics related to writing. Topics to be chosen by department/instructor. See section description for details about specific class emphases. (Note: In some cases, this course may be cross-listed with other programs/departments and may satisfy the writing-intensive requirement.) PREREQ: Writing 1 (L13 100) and junior standing.
Same as L13 Writing 314

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, WI Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 315 Introduction to Social Psychology

An introduction to the scientific study of social influence. Topics include person perception, social cognition, attitudes, conformity, group behavior, aggression, altruism, prejudice and psychology's interface with law, health, and climate change. PREREQ: Psych 100B/1000
Same as L33 Psych 315

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SEM, SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 3255 The Development of the American Constitution

The U.S. Constitution has been so long maintained because it has adapted to new circumstances. Contrary to common mythology, this adaptation goes far beyond formal amendment and court interpretation. But past performance is no guarantee of future results. The course examines the processes through which American constitutional democracy has developed, considers its successes and failures, and assesses some of its most pressing challenges. In doing so the course treats topics such as: the Electoral College; the justice system; executive powers in war and peace; Congress versus the president; reuglation and taxation; civil rights and Reconstructions; amendment politics; and constitutional rhetoric and beliefs.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 3255

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 3313 Theories of Social Justice

This course overviews the leading contemporary conceptions of social justice, including utilitarian, liberal, libertarian, communitarian, and deliberative-democratic theories, and their implications for the design of political, economic, and social institutions. In addition, this course will examine special topics such as justice between generations, global justice, and the rights of resistance or disobedience.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 3313

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC EN: S

L84 Lw St 331F Classical Ethical Theories

Intensive readings of great works in the history of ethics, especially by Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill. Topics may include: the sources of moral knowledge, the nature of practical moral judgment, the moral role of emotion and desire, weakness of will, moral autonomy, and the universality of moral norms. Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 100 or 200-level, or permission of the instructor.
Same as L30 Phil 331F

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH, HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 335S Poverty and the New American City

This course explores structural changes that are transforming the American urban landscape, especially for low-income populations. The course begins with a review of classic theories of urban poverty and consider their relevance in the modern context. Students will then analyze key political, economic, demographic, and geographic shifts in how urban poverty is organized and reproduced, including gentrification, immigration, social policy reform, and the credit crisis. Special attention will be devoted to exploring the social and political implications of changing urban policy approaches, as well as the "suburbanization" of poverty. The course will conclude by discussing how urban poverty interfaces with broader social structures, including law, markets, and the state. Prerequisite: successful completion of an introductory sociology course or consent of the instructor.
Same as L40 SOC 3350

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 3373 Law and Culture

We live in an age when social policy is increasingly displaced into the realm of law, when justice and equality are matters of courtroom debate rather than public discussion. Legal language has become a key resource in all kinds of struggles over livelihood and ways of life. In this course, we study the cultural dimensions of law and law's changing relationship to state power, the global economy, social movements, and everyday life. We approach law as a system of rules, obligations, and procedures, but also a cultural practice, moral regime, and disciplinary technique. How are relationships between legal, political, and economic realms structured and with what consequences? How does law provide tools for both social struggle and social control? What does anthropology contribute to research on these issues? In exploring these questions, we combine readings from classical legal anthropology with recent ethnographic work from around the globe.
Same as L48 Anthro 3373

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, SSC Art: SSC BU: ETH EN: S

L84 Lw St 340F Social and Political Philosophy

Study of certain fundamental issues concerning government, society, and culture. For example: what are the nature and limits of legitimate political authority? Are ordinary human beings capable of governing themselves justly? Do citizens have a duty to obey the state? If so, to what extent, if at all, is that duty grounded in consent or contract? Should the state limit or regulate the personal relationships of citizens, such as marriage, family, and sexuality? How should social institutions rectify a history of political or social injustice against oppressed groups? Readings from historical and contemporary sources. Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 100 or 200-level, or permission of the instructor. Priority given to majors in Philosophy & PNP.
Same as L30 Phil 340F

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH, HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 3431 Constitutional Law: Institutional Powers and Constraints

Introduction to constitutional law and practice in the United States. Emphasis on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court as an interpreter of the Constitution.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 3431

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 344 Courts and Civil Liberties

This course focuses on constitutional law principles in the Bill of Rights, and examines how Supreme Court decisions influence these principles in everyday life. We explore how the courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, have interpreted these rights in light of changing times and emerging issues. Topics include the First Amendment; free exercise of religion and the establishment clause; freedom of speech, assembly and association; freedom of the press; the Fourth Amendment and the rights of those accused and convicted of crimes; the right to privacy, including reproductive freedom and the right to die; equal protection and civil rights, including race, gender, sexual orientation; immigrants' rights and voting rights; and civil liberties after September 11. Recommended for the Liberal Arts and Business (LAB) Certificate.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 344

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA, ETH, HUM

L84 Lw St 3441 Defendant's Rights

This course explores the operations of the American criminal justice system. Substantial emphasis on the constitutional rights accorded to the criminally accused. Readings consist primarily, but not exclusively, of Supreme Court cases.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 3441

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA, ETH EN: S

L84 Lw St 345 Issues in Applied Ethics

Advanced study of a selected topic in applied ethics. Abstract ethical theories and methods are brought to bear on the moral problems that arise in an area of social and professional practice such as medicine, business, law, journalism, engineering, or scientific and humanistic research. Possible topics include: reproductive healthcare and policy, the just distribution of medical resources, the social responsibilities of corporations, accountability in the media and public office, and the ethics of research on or affecting human subjects. Prerequisites: one course at the 100 or 200-level in applied ethics; or permission of the instructor.
Same as L30 Phil 345F

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L84 Lw St 3450 The Legislative Process

Structure and behavioral patterns of American legislative bodies. Primary emphasis on the U.S. Congress, with attention to state legislatures for comparative purposes. Representation, internal patterns of influence, and policy-making processes. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 345

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 346 Philosophy of Law

This course will first focus on the philosophical foundations of law, examining both the relationship between law and rules, as well as the types of legal reasoning. Second, the course will focus on philosophical issues that arise in the key substantive areas of law: contracts, torts, property, criminal law, and constitutional law, as well in specialized areas such as family and employment law. The course will end with a brief discussion of several problems in legal ethics. Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 100 or 200-level, or permission of the instructor. Priority given to majors in Philosophy & PNP.
Same as L30 Phil 346

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L84 Lw St 3462 The Politics of Privacy in the Digital Age

This course explores the changing nature of privacy in contemporary society.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 3462

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: ETH EN: S UColl: PSA, PSC

L84 Lw St 346J Islamic Law

This course will present a general overview of Islamic law and an introduction to the study of religious legal authority, which values consensus. It will then explore the formation of the major schools of law. Next, it will debate the notions of "ijtihad" and "taqlid" and discuss how open and independent legal decisions have been in the Islamic world. It will also trace the transmission of legal knowledge in religious institutions across time and place by focusing on medieval Muslim societies and by closely examining the education of a modern-day Ayatollah. Note: L75 546 is intended for graduate students only.
Same as L75 JIMES 346

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH EN: H

L84 Lw St 347 Environmental Justice

Environmental quality varies widely across race, class, gender and other forms of social difference. This course explores how and why these differences exist. It provides an overview of the history and foundations of the environmental justice movement in the United States while covering classic environmental justice issues, such as toxic waste and pollution, along with more recent issues such as food access, urban green space, transportation and climate change. Environmental justice concerns in St. Louis are featured as part of the course. Class time will be devoted to lectures, case studies, group activities and discussion. Student learning will be assessed through exams, reflection, online assignments, a policy brief on an environmental justice issue and a group presentation. This is an advanced elective targeted toward third and fourth year students.
Same as L82 EnSt 346

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: CPSC, SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 3507 Legal Conflict in Modern American Society

Thousands of lawsuits are filed daily in the state and federal courts of the United States. The disputes underlying those lawsuits are as messy and complex as the human, commercial, cultural and political dynamics that trigger them, and the legal processes for resolving those disputes are expensive, time-consuming and, for most citizens, seemingly impenetrable. At the same time law and legal conflict permeate public discourse in the United States to a degree that is unique in the world, even among the community of long-established democracies. The overarching objective of the course is to prepare our undergraduate students to participate constructively in that discourse by providing them with a conceptual framework for understanding both the conduct and resolution of legal conflict by American legal institutions, and the evolution of - - and values underlying - - the substantive law American courts apply to those conflicts. This is, at core, a course in the kind of legal or litigation "literacy" that should be expected of the graduates of first-tier American universities. Some of the legal controversies that will be used to help develop that "literacy" include those surrounding the permissible use of lethal force in self-defense, the constitutionality of affirmative action in university admissions, contracts that are unconscionably one-sided, sexual harassment in the workplace, the duty of landlords to prevent criminal assaults on their tenants, groundwater pollution alleged to cause pediatric cancers, and warrantless searches of cellphone locator data by police.
Same as L98 AMCS 3507

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: ETH, HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 3510 The Supreme Court

This course is intended primarily for sophomores and juniors. The topic of this course varies by semester, dependent on faculty and student interests.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 3510

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA

L84 Lw St 3521 Anthropology of Human Rights

This course draws on anthropological scholarship to examine doctrines, practices, and institutions associated with international human rights law. Topics to be covered include: (1) colonialism and the history of international human rights low; (2) the complex theoretical issues raised by attempts to define and apply human rights concepts in different cultural contexts; (3) the role of governments, NGOs, and other international institutions in promoting human rights and humanitarianism; (4) key human rights issues such as freedom of religion, cultural rights, women's rights, and economic rights in different cultural contexts.
Same as L48 Anthro 3521

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 3522 Topics in Literature

Topics course which varies by semester.
Same as L14 E Lit 3522

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

L84 Lw St 3561 Women and the Law

This course explores how social constructions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have shaped traditional legal reasoning and American legal concepts, including women's legal rights. We will begin by placing our current legal framework, and its gender, race, sexuality, and other societal assumptions, in an historical and Constitutional context. We will then examine many of the questions raised by feminist theory, feminist jurisprudence, and other critical perspectives. For example, is the legal subject gendered male, and, if so, how can advocates (for women and men) use the law to gain greater equality? What paradoxes have emerged in areas such as employment discrimination, family law, or reproductive rights, as women and others have sought liberal equality? What is the equality/difference debate about and why is it important for feminists? How do intersectionality and various schools of feminist thought affect our concepts of discrimination, equality, and justice? The course is thematic, but we will spend time on key cases that have influenced law and policy, examining how they affect the everyday lives of women. Over the years, this course has attracted WGSS students and pre-law students. This course is taught by law students under the supervision of a member of the School of Law faculty.
Same as L77 WGSS 3561

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S UColl: ML, SSC

L84 Lw St 358 Law, Politics, and Society

This course is an introduction to the functions of law and the legal system in American society. The course material will stress the realities of the operation of the legal system (in contrast to legal mythology) as well as the continuous interaction and feedback between the legal and political systems. There are four specific objectives of this course: (1) to introduce students to legal concepts and legal theories; (2) to analyze the operation of the appellate courts, with particular emphasis on the U.S. Supreme Court; (3) to analyze the operation of American trial courts, especially juries and the criminal courts; and (4) to examine the linkages between culture and law.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 358

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 364 Anarchism: History, Theory and Praxis

This course analyzes the genesis, historical evolution, and current iterations of global anarchism. It examines anarchist beliefs, ethics, aims, countercultural expressions, organizations, emancipatory practices, and intersectional modes of struggle in different temporal, geographic, and cultural contexts. Special attention will be given to anarchism in the global south, cross-fertilization and relations between anarchists and the Marxist Left, anarcho-feminism, green anarchism, and anarcho-pacifism.
Same as L97 GS 364

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, SSC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 3670 The Long Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement is known as a southern movement, led by church leaders and college students, fought through sit-ins and marches, dealing primarily with non-economic objectives, framed by a black and white paradigm, and limited to a single tumultuous decade. This course seeks to broaden our understanding of the movement geographically, chronologically, and thematically. It pays special attention to struggles fought in the North, West and Southwest; it seeks to question binaries constructed around "confrontational" and "accommodationist" leaders; it reveals how Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans impacted and were impacted by the movement; and it seeks to link the public memory of this movement with contemporary racial politics.
Same as L22 History 3670

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SD BU: BA, HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 3710 Sociology of Immigration

This course reviews theoretical and empirical research on how and why people migrate across international borders, and the consequences of international migration for immigrants and natives in the United States. While immigration is one of the most controversial issues in the contemporary United States, these contentious debates are not new. Americans once voiced the same concerns about the economic and social impact of Southern and Eastern European immigrants that today are aimed at immigrants from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. In this course, students will compare historical (1880-1920) and contemporary (1965-present) waves of immigration to the United States. In this, students will explore why and how people migrate; immigrant integration; the impact of immigration on native-born Americans; and how government policies - at the national, state, and local level - shape immigrant assimilation and what it means to be considered truly "American" in a social as well as a legal sense. Prerequisite: successful completion of an introductory Sociology course or consent of the instructor.
Same as L40 SOC 3710

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 3713 Law in American Life I: English and Colonial Foundations to 1776

Credit 3 units. BU: ETH

L84 Lw St 373 History of U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914

This course explores the major diplomatic, political, legal, and economic issues shaping U.S. Foreign Relations in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, up until the U.S. entry into the First World War.
Same as L22 History 373

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM, IS EN: H

L84 Lw St 3744 Law and History: Colonial Era to Reconstruction

This course analyzes the development of American law and the constitutional system from the colonial era through the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, beginning with a general theoretical background on the study of legal history. The course concludes with an analysis of the role of law in controversies around the commemoration of the Civil War era.
Same as L22 History 3744

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 3866 Interrogating "Crime and Punishment"

Whether read as psychological thriller, spiritual journey, or social polemic, Dostoevsky's 1866 novel CRIME AND PUNISHMENT has inspired diverse artistic responses around the world. From the nineteenth century to the present day, writers and filmmakers have revisited (and often subverted) questions that Dostoevsky's novel poses: What internal and external forces cause someone to "step over" into crime? What are the implications of a confession? To what extent can the legal system provide a just punishment? Are forgiveness and redemption possible, or even relevant? What role does grace--or luck--play in the entire process? This course begins with our close reading of Dostoevsky's novel and then moves on to short stories, novels, literary essays, and movies that engage in dialogue with the Russian predecessor. A central concern of our intertextual approach is to explore the interplay between specific socio-historical contexts and universal questions. All readings are in English. No prerequisites.
Same as L97 GS 3866

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA EN: H

L84 Lw St 389 Power, Justice, and the City

This course examines normative theoretical questions of power and justice through the lens of the contemporary city, with a particular focus on American urban life. It explores urban political economic problems, questions of racial hierarchy and racial injustice in the modern metropolis, and the normative and practical dilemmas posed by "privatism" in cities and their suburbs. In addition, the course devotes considerable attention to honing students' writing skills, through class assignments that stress rewriting and revising, and also through four in-class writing workshops devoted to formulating a thesis and making an argument, revising and rewriting, writing with style, and peer consultation.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 389

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SD, WI Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 389A Power, Justice, and the City

This course examines normative theoretical questions of power and justice through the lens of the contemporary city, with a particular focus on American urban life. It explores urban political economic problems, questions of racial hierarchy and racial injustice in the modern metropolis, and the normative and practical dilemmas posed by "privatism" in cities and their suburbs.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 389A

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 390 Gender Violence

This course explores the issue of violence against women within families, by strangers in the workplace, and within the context on international and domestic political activity. In each area, issues of race, class, culture, and sexuality are examined as well as legal, medical and sociological responses. Readings cover current statistical data, research, and theory as well as information on the history of the battered women's movement, the rape crisis center movement, violent repression of women's political expressions internationally, and the effect of violence on immigrant and indigenous women in the U.S. and abroad. NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN U92 363 WoSt. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
Same as L77 WGSS 393

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 391 History of Political Thought I: Justice, Virtue and the Soul

This course offers a critical introduction to the main issues and debates in western political theory, including but not limited to the topics of justice, legitimacy, equality, democracy, liberty, sovereignty, and the role of history in the political and social world. This course is designed to be the first in a three-semester sequence on the history of political thought, and students are encouraged, but not required, to take the courses in chronological sequence. The first semester begins with ancient Greek political thought, and follows its development up to the early 16th century.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 391

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S UColl: ML

L84 Lw St 392 History of Political Thought II: Legitimacy, Equality, and the Social Contract

Government is often justified as legitimate on the grounds that it is based on the consent of the governed. In History of Political Thought II, "Legitimacy, Equality, and the Social Contract," we examine the origins of this view, focusing our attention on canonical works in the social contract tradition, by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), John Locke (1632-1704), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), David Hume (1711-1776), and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). This course is the second in a three-semester sequence on the history of political thought. Students are encouraged but not required to take all three courses. Prerequisite: One previous course in political theory or political philosophy.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 392

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 393 History of Political Thought III: Liberty, Democracy and Revolution

How, if at all, should the political institutions of the modern state express and secure the liberty and equality of citizens? What is the political significance of private property? Is world history to be understood as progress towards one best form of government - capitalist democracy, perhaps, or communism? What forces drive history? We shall address these and other timeless political questions through close reading and rigorous analysis of classic texts in the history of Western political thought. Authors to be studied will include Kant, Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and Nietzsche. Prerequisite: one previous course in political theory or political philosophy. The course is designed to be the third in a three-semester sequence on the history of political thought, and students are encouraged but not required to take the courses in chronological sequence.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 393

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 399 Topics in Politics: American Judicial Politics

This course is intended primarily for sophomores and juniors. The topic of this course varies by semester, dependent on faculty and student interests.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 399

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA, ETH EN: S

L84 Lw St 4002 Directed Fieldwork in Legal Research

A fieldwork project in empirical and/or archival legal research under the direction of a member of the Washington University faculty. The fieldwork may be planned and undertaken individually or as part of a formal project. Permission of supervising faculty member and director of the program is required.

Credit variable, maximum 6 units. EN: H

L84 Lw St 4013 Negotiating Major Legislation in Congress

This course examines the outcomes of the legislative process in the United States. The first third of the course will examine key concepts and major determinants of the negotiation process: majority rule instability, agenda control, political parties, the amendment process, and the uncovered set. The rest of the course will examine the negotiations that led to some of the most significant legislation in the past 100 years, from the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 through the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the immigration bill of 2006. Along with other assignments, each student will write several drafts of a major research project on a major piece of legislation. Each research project will examine the amedments offered, the strategic intentions of the amendments' sponsors, the agenda process, and the role of party. Prerequisite: Poli Sci 101B.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 4013

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, WI EN: S

L84 Lw St 4030 Political Theory of Education

This course explores issues of authority, legitimacy, citizenship, freedom, and equality through contemporary readings in the political theory of education. What is to be done when parents, citizens, and educational experts make conflicting judgments about the proper education of children? When should the state defer to parental judgments and what are the grounds for legitimately refusing to do so? How should public schools aim to equip their students for the responsibilities of citizenship in a diverse liberal democratic state? What do the concepts of equality and equality of opportunity mean in the context of education, and (how) should governments pursue these values through education policy? We shall explore these issues through contemporary works of political theory as well as through considering a number of important U.S. court cases, including those dealing with the schooling of children from minority religious and cultural groups, affirmative action in university admissions, and school desegregation plans. Prerequisite: one previous course in political theory or political philosophy.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 4030

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC BU: ETH EN: S

L84 Lw St 4070 Global Justice

This course examines contemporary debates and controversies regarding global justice. Seminar discussions will be arranged around significant issues in the current literature. for example: What (if anything) do we owe to the distantly needy? Do we have special obligations to our compatriots? Do political borders have normative significance? And so on. This course will be of interest not only to political theorists, but also students in other fields interested in social justice or international relations generally.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 4070

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC EN: S

L84 Lw St 4080 Voting Rights

This course will study legal concepts of voting rights and election law that impact the ability of citizens to access and participate in the democratic process. It will include the opportunity for students to directly engage in observing, monitoring, or advancing the right to vote during the 2008 elections. Election law changes rapidly and is the subject of legal and political dispute in a number of areas that will affect the franchise during the 2008 elections. This course will examine federal constitutional and statutory law governing the right of suffrage and assess current controversies in these areas. While there is no specific "right to vote" explicitly stated in the U.S. Constitution, over time, it has been amended or interpreted to protect the right of franchise from being abridged based on race, gender, property ownership, age and other qualifications. Legislative enactments have also established rights with respect to voting. Each extension of voting rights has been a product of and resulted in social and political change. This course will examine the interplay of law and politics in the right to vote. The course will begin with the study of constitutional foundations, statutory protections and case law. We will then apply these principles to current issues in voting rights, including voter registration, voter identification, provisional ballots, voting machines, access for people with disabilities, felony disenfranchisement, voter suppression and voter fraud. Students will apply this knowledge to voting rights during the 2008 elections through hands-on involvement in voter education, monitoring or advocacy. The course will conclude with an assessment of the current issues in light of observations made by students during the 2008 elections, with an eye toward the advancement of election law and full enfranchisement in the future. The course involves the study of fundamental Supreme Court cases, interactive discussion of contemporary debates, and review of current litigation and legislative proposals. The course will be supplemented by occasional guest visits by election officials, lawyers, legislators, voting rights advocates or others.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 4080

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 425A Law, Religion, and Politics

What is the role of religious argument in politics and law? What kinds of arguments are advanced, and how do they differ from one another? Are some of these arguments more acceptable than others in a liberal democracy? This course will explore these questions through the work of legal scholars, theologians, and political theorists. Our topics include the nature of violence and coercion in the law, constraints on public reason, the relationship between religion and government, and the nature of religious practice and tradition.
Same as L57 RelPol 425

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA, ETH EN: H

L84 Lw St 429 Feminist Political Theory

This course asks how feminist thinkers from various political and intellectual traditions critique,adopt and transform political theories of justice, citizenship, property and the state. To uncover how different feminist theories have been adopted in the struggle for political transformation and social justice, we will pursue two main lines of inquiry. The first asks how feminist thinkers from various traditions critique and engage the history of political thought within the social contract tradition. We will ask, in particular, how gender, race, slavery, colonialism and empire shape conceptions of citizenship and property. We will also examine transnational feminist critiques of the public/private division in the Western political theory canon as it impacts the role of women and the social construction of women's bodies. During the second half of the semester, we will ask how various transnational social movements have engaged and adopted feminist theories in efforts to resist state violence, colonialism, labor exploitation and resource extraction. In following these lines of inquiry we will draw from postcolonial, decolonial, liberal, Black, radical, Marxist and Chicana feminist perspectives. Part of our goal will be to uncover how various feminist theories treat the relationship between politics and embodied experience, how gendered conceptions of family life affect notions of political power and how ideas about sexuality and sexual conquest intersect with empire-building. Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows.
Same as L77 WGSS 429

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: BA EN: H

L84 Lw St 4300 Topics in Ethics

Selected advanced topics in ethics. Prerequisite: 6 units of philosophy, or permission of instructor.
Same as L30 Phil 430

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 440 Religion, Politics, and the University

This course explores in depth current issues related to pluralism, difference, and belonging in matters pertaining to religion and other important issues, with a particular focus on how these play out in the university context. The instructors, John Inazu and Eboo Patel, are two of the leading national commentators on these issues. Prerequisite: Students enrolling in this class must submit a brief statement of interest to Professor John Inazu. Details on how and where to submit this statement can be found at http://law.wustl.edu/COURSES/INAZU/seminar1/summaries/.
Same as L57 RelPol 440

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 4400 Advanced Social and Political Philosophy

A selective investigation of one or two advanced topics in the philosophical understanding of society, government, and culture. Readings may include both historical and contemporary materials. Possible topics include: liberalism, socialism, communitarianism, citizenship, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, social contract theory, anarchism, and the rights of cultural minorities. Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 300-level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.
Same as L30 Phil 4400

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 4402 Topics in Political and Social Theory: Constitutionalism

This course is intended primarily for sophomores and juniors. The topic of this course varies by semester, dependent on faculty and student interests.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 4402

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 4510 Race, Ethnicity, and Migration

This course will explore theoretical and empirical analyses of race, ethnicity and migration through a sociological lens, focusing on children of immigrants and later-generation descendants of migrants in the United States. Students will compare the experiences and outcomes of various racial and ethnic "groups," including whites/Europeans, Blacks/African-Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Asians, investigating how migration processes and patterns shape racial/ethnic group formations and inequalities. Examples of specific topics related to these issues include: assimilation; ethnic and racial identities; multiraciality; language; legality; intergroup relations; and education. This course will be taught in a seminar style where student engagement within class discussions is required and one's participation is central to the learning process. Prerequisite: successful completion of an introductory-level Sociology course or consent of the instructor. Graduate students should enroll in the 500-level offering.
Same as L40 SOC 4510

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: LCD, SSC, SC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA, IS EN: S

L84 Lw St 461A Intro to Environmental Law

Survey of the most prominent federal laws designed to control pollution and protect human health and the environment. Examines laws applicable to environmental impact statements, biodiversity, air pollution, water pollution, and hazardous waste. Discusses the role of state law and cooperative federalism, as well as the roles of the courts, the legislature, and the administrative state in protecting the environment.
Same as L82 EnSt 461

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC BU: BA EN: S

L84 Lw St 4646 Democracy: Theory And Practice

What does it mean to govern democratically? Why value democratic government? What role, if any, should notions of rights, representation, and deliberation play in theorizing about and empirical research into problems of democratic governance? What lessons can we learn about democracy from scholars writing in the traditions of feminist theory and critical race theory? What is the relation between democracy and knowledge? Should democracy extend beyond the boundaries that define the nation-state? Should (some aspects of) the economy be democratized? During the fall of 2018, we will have the opportunity to ask these and related questions in the context of the U.S. midterm election. We will engage in debates about contemporary democratic theory while we follow developments in the campaigns leading up to the November election.
Same as L32 Pol Sci 4646

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC EN: S

L84 Lw St 470 Interdisciplinary Topics: The Idea of the Law: Text & Traditions

Various interdisciplinary topics are explored that may includes around the humanities, social sciences and data sciences.
Same as L93 IPH 470

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 472 Social Theory and Anthropology

A seminar on social theory and its ethnographic implications. Course combines major works of modern social theory, including Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, with current work by contemporary anthropologists, such as Clifford Geertz, Eric Wolf, Marshall Sahlins, and Fredrik Barth, and ethnographers from related disciplines, such as Pierre Bourdieu and Paul Willis. Prerequisite: Previous anthropology coursework or permission of instructor.
Same as L48 Anthro 472

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: SSC, SC, SD Arch: SSC Art: SSC EN: S

L84 Lw St 487 Topics in American History: Race and Drugs in American History

This course explores the racial construction of the use of legal and illegal substances in American history from the mid-19th century to the present. We will spend time engaging in a historical analysis of the social, economic, and racial dynamics that defined drug addiction in popular imagination, and examine how these factors contributed to discussions about legality, access to substances, one's ability to be rehabilitated, and criminal status. Regarding criminality we will particularly explore sociological and theoretical perspectives of labeling, habitual and occasional offenders, and moral panic in order to understand how racial minority groups were targeted for different rhetorical, legislative, and economic purposes. One major goal of the course will be to outline the early 20th century beginnings of the war on drugs and connect it to the century long growth of a militarized police system and prison industrial complex. We will secondly work to understand the role of local and national political actors, law enforcement, and the media in manufacturing and maintaining connections between race, crime and drugs. Ultimately, we will use our study of drugs to contextualize 21st century issues of police violence, increases in homicide in minority communities, mass incarceration, poverty, segregation, and mass movements of protest.
Same as L22 History 487

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM BU: HUM EN: H

L84 Lw St 4981 Advanced Seminar: Historical Perspectives on Human Rights

This course offers a historical perspective on the modern international human rights regime, using materials drawn from diplomatic, legal, political, and cultural studies. Successful completion of this seminar involves designing, researching, and writing a 25-30 page paper on a historically-oriented, human-rights-related topic of your choice.
Same as L22 History 4981

Credit 3 units. A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H