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Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Humanities (HUMA)

Rice Course Schedule as of 03/24/2000. This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar (reg@rice.edu).

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HUMA   102 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANTIES IN THE WESTERN Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Continued study, in discussion and occasional lectures, of
representative works in the Western tradition, from Michelangelo to
Martin Luther King.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM GRB*212W TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM PL*119   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM PL*118   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM GRB*212W TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
005 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM PL*122   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
006 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM SH*562   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
007 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM PL*120   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
008 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM RH*107   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
009 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM RH*107   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
010 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM RH*105   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
011 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM SH*462   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
012 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM SH*560   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
013 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM SH*207B  TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
014 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM RH*107   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
015 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM GRB*211W TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   104 SELF IN TEXT AND IMAGE                   Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course will explore representations of the self in Western culture
from late antiquity to the present.  We will examine film,
autobiography, the novel, and visual portraits, as well as the
relationships among these genres.  Works to the studied may include
Augustine's Confessions, John Singleton Copley's portraits, Virginia
Woolf's A Room of One's Own, and Spike Lee's Malcolm X.
A FOUNDATION COURSE
Enrollment is limited to 18 per section.
002 TTH     01:00PM-02:15PM RH*111   Derrick, Scott                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 TTH     09:25AM-10:45AM RH*109   Quillen, Carol                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   109 LITERATURE & SOCIETY:DEV OF  DRAMA & HIS Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Will present an introduction to drama and historiography of classical
Greece. Many of the plays of the great tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles,
and Euripides and by the comic genius Aristophanes are put on stage
until today, and have a deep influence on our modern culture. Herodotus
and Thucydides present two different models of writing history that are
still valid. Reading will consist mainly of primary sources. Two
lectures and one discussion per week.
001 TTH     10:40AM-12:05PM          Brockmann, Christian           *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   115 PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT RELIGION            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Inquiry into the ways which selected Western and Asian philosophers have
interpreted God, reality, the moral life and religious experience.
Plato, Augustine, Hume and Kant will be compared with thinkers of the
Vedic, Jain, Saukhya, and Buddhist traditions.
Enrollment is limited.
Also offered as RELI 293.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*207B  Wyschogrod, Edith              *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   201 PUBLIC SPEAKING                          Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
There will be a sign-up for the sixteen places in Dennis Huston's HUMA
201 course, Public Speaking, at 7:30a.m. Tuesday, November 16, in 324
Rayzor Hall. Students will be assigned to these spaces on a first-come,
first-served basis; "But you must be there at 7:30am on THURSDAY to
participate. ( This class will meet on Thruday afternoons from
2:30-5:30 in the spring semester.) Freshmen are not eligible for this
course.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SS*337   West, Dan                      *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 T       02:30PM-05:30PM RH*111   Hescht, Wade                   *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 TH      02:30PM-05:30PM RH*111   Huston, Dennis                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   295 CURRENT ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE          Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Prereq- prior acceptance to Joint Venture Internship program or
permission of instructor.  Limited to juniors and seniors.  Preference
given to humanities majors.
001 M       07:00PM-10:00PM RH*105   Matherly , Cheryl              *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   308 BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING       Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Practical application of communication theory with emphasis on oral
presentations, interviewing and small group dynamics.
Prereq- Huma 201, junior students, or consent of instructor.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM GRB*212W West, Dan                      *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   318 CONSULTING W/STUDENT WRITERS             Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
Excellent student writers prepare for working with other
student writers by studying writing processes, writing problems, texts,
and exercises and by role-playing.
001 TBA     TBA                      Driskill, Linda                *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   332 CHINESE FILMS & MODERN                   Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
This course is designed to approach modern Chinese literature through
visual images (Chinese films, subtitled in English).  All films shown
for this course will be adaptations from modern Chinese fiction;
therefore, our analysis of the films will be connected to the original
texts.  The discussion will be conducted on the basis of literary
history and narrative structure, with explicit attention given to
narratology and movie theory.  Films will be shown outside of class;
in-class time will be devoted to lectures and discussions on the films.
All readings are in English translation.  No previous knowledge of
Chinese literature or the Chinese language is required.
Also offered as Chin 332.
001 W       03:00PM-06:00PM PL*117   Qian, Nanxiu                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   372 GERMAN FAIRY TALE-OLD AND NEW            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Discussion of several prototypes from the fairy-tale collection of the
Brothers Grimm and the subsequent development of the "literay" fairy
tale from Goethe and the Romantics of the 20th century.  Non-majors read
the texts in English. Also offered as GMAN	392.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM RH*319   Weissenberger, Klaus           *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   373 ADAPTATIONS:FROM TEXT TO FILM            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course will focus on works by Kafka, Doeblin, Mann, Grass, Boell,
Frisch, Bachmann and others. Questions will assessed such as what have
the two media in common, how do they express differently, and how should
the literary author versus the film director be perceived. German majors
may read and write in German. Non-majors read texts in English. Also
offered as GMAN 406.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM RH*320   Eifler, Margaret               *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   380 CONTEMP CENTRAL EUROPEAN POLITICS AND CU Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
In 1989 the history of Europe changed. The domination of the Soviet
Empire over the Central Part of Eurpoe ended. During our course we will
try to understand why it happened; we will talk about the most important
ideas in the intellectual life of Central and East Europe. Also offered
as RUSS 320 and SLAV 320.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM FL*517   Koehler, Krzysztof             *CURRENT ENR: 0

HUMA   382 TOLSTOY                                  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Study of major works of Tolstoy. Non-majors read the tests in English.
Also offered as Russ 351.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM FL*412   Thompson, Ewa                  *CURRENT ENR: 0



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