Courses of Special Relevance
Capstone Courses
DLCL 222
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
Classics with Philosophy and Literature
Comparative Literature and Philosophy
English and Philosophy
French and Philosophy
German Literature and Philosophy
Italian Literature and Philosophy
Philosophy and Literature
Russian Philosophy and Literature
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Research Workshop in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts
PhD Minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts
Capstone courses 2018-19:
• Ivan Lupic, "Shakespeare: The Ethical Challenge” (ENGLISH 163D), quarter TBA, 2018-19
• Laura Wittman, "Poetry and Philosophy" (FRENCH 284/ITALIAN 284), Winter 2018-19
• John Holliday, "Misanthropy and Literature" (PHIL 194), Spring 2018-19
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Capstone courses 2017-18:
• Willie Costello, "Literature and the Moral Imagination," PHIL 194W, Winter 2017-18.
• Robert Harrison, "Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso” (ITALIAN 236E), Spring 2017-18.
• Alvan Ikoku, "Literature and Human Experimentation" (AFRICAAM 223, COMPLIT 223, CSRE 123B, HUMBIO 175H, MED 220), Spring 2017-18.
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Past capstone courses:
• Laura Wittman, Mind and Body in French and Italian Fiction (French 246 / Italian 246), Fall 2016-17.
• Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, What was and what is Aesthetic Experience? (CompLit 153C), Winter 2016-17.
• Héctor Hoyos, Borges and Philosophy (ILAC 240E), Spring 2016-17.
• Michelle Karnes / Shane Duarte, Dante and Aristotle (English 106E / Phil 193D), Fall 2015-16.
• Lee Yearley, Dante's Spiritual Vision (Religst 271A), Fall 2015-16.
• Ivan Lupic, Desire, Identity, Modernity (English 113A), Winter 2015-16.
• Joan Ramon Resina, Existentialism, from Moral Quest to Novelistic Form (CompLit 258A), Winter 2015-16.
• Shane Duarte / Michelle Karnes, Dante and Aristotle (English 106E / Phil 193D), Fall 2014-15.
• Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, The Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin (CompLit 217), Fall 2014-15.
• Joshua Landy, Getting Through Proust (French 228E), Fall 2014-15.
• R. Lanier Anderson, Montaigne (Phil 194L), Spring 2014-15.
• Héctor Hóyos, Borges and Philosophy (ILAC 240E), Fall 2013-14.
• Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy (French 265, Polisci 338E), Winter 2013-14.
• David Hills, Metaphor (Phil 170B), Winter 2013-14.
• H. U. Gumbrecht, Martin Heidegger (COMPLIT 282/GERLIT 282), Autumn 2012-13.
• Blakey Vermeule, Irony (ENG 117A), Winter 2012-13.
• Amir Eshel, Narrative and Ethics (COMPLIT 199), Winter 2012-13.
• Alexis Burgess / Joshua Landy, Film and Philosophy (COMPLIT 154A, FRENCH 154, ITALIAN 154, PHIL 193C/ 293C), Spring 2012-13.*
• R. Lanier Anderson, Montaigne (PHIL 194), Winter 2011-12.
• Amir Eshel, Narrative and Ethics (COMPLIT 226/GERLIT 242), Spring 2011-12.
• Lee Yearley, Dante's Spiritual Vision (RELIGST 271A), Aut 2010-11.
• Laura Wittman, Poetry and Philosophy (FRENGEN 284/ITALGEN 284), Aut 2010-11.
• Amir Eshel, Narrative and Ethics (COMPLIT 226/GERLIT 242), Win 2010-11.
• David Hills, Beauty and Other Forms of Value (PHIL 194E), Win 2010-11.
• Hector Hoyos, Borges and Philosophy (ILAC 240E), Fall 2009-10.
• Lee Yearley, Chuang Tzu (RELIGST 212), Win 2009-10.
• Amir Eshel, Narrative and Ethics (COM 226), Win 2009-10.
• Seth Lerer, Confessions: Writing and Reading the Self (ENGL 184L), Autumn 2008-9.
• David Hills, Aesthetics: Metaphor across the Arts (PHIL 173A), Autumn 2008-9.
• Gregory Freidin,Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and the Social Thought of its Time (HUM 197F / SLAVGEN 190/290), Spring 2008-9.
• Michele Elam and R. Lanier Anderson, W.E.B. DuBois as Writer and Philosopher (ENGL 152D / PHIL 194L), Spring 2008-9.
• Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Heidegger on Hölderlin (COMPLIT 154/GERLIT 154), Autumn 2007-8.
• Allen Wood, Nietzsche, Doestoevsky, and Sartre (PHIL 193W/HUMNTIES 193W), Autumn 2007-8.
• David Hills, Aesthetics: Metaphor across the Arts (PHIL 173A), Spring 2007-8.
• R. Lanier Anderson, Montaigne (PHIL 194L), Autumn 2006-7.
• John Perry, Language, Metaphysics and Literature (PHIL 384), Autumn 2006-7.
• Joshua Landy, Getting Through Proust (French 228E), Autumn 2005-6.
*Instructor permission and special assignments required for capstone seminar credit.
