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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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