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Courses of Special Relevance 2009-10:

AFRICAAM 144 African Women Writers Powell Win
AFRICAAM 145 Writing Race, Writing Faith Powell Win
AFRICAAM 152 DuBois and American Culture (ENGLISH 152D) M. Elam Spr
ARTHIST  287A The Japanese Tea Ceremony Takeuchi Spr
ARTHIST  476* Postmodernism and the Visual Arts Lee Aut
CHINLIT 371* Chinese Literary Criticism Wang Aut
CLASSGEN  163 Texts in History: Classics from Greece to Rome Rehm Aut
CLASSGEN 224 Sappho, Plato, Proust Peponi Win
CLASSGEN 22N Technologies of Civilization  Netz Aut
CLASSGEN 35 Becoming Like God:  An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics  Nightingale Spr
CLASSHIS 141/241 Trial and Judgment in Ancient Greece  Horky Aut
COMPLIT  371* Chinese Literary Criticism Wang Aut
COMPLIT 101 What is Literature? Palumbo-Liu Win
COMPLIT 119/219 Dostoevsky and his Times Frank Win
COMPLIT 11Q Shakespeare, Playing, Gender Parker Spr
COMPLIT 123 The Novel and the World Cohen Spr
COMPLIT 133 Salome, Modernity, & the Aesthetics of Transgression Dierkes-Thrun Aut
COMPLIT 152 Worlds (No Longer) Apart Palumbo-Liu Win
COMPLIT 153 Literature and Religion in Modernity Dierkes-Thrun Spr
COMPLIT 217 Hölderlin's Poetry Bohrer Spr
COMPLIT 223 Literary Diary of Classic Modernity Bohrer Spr
COMPLIT 226** Narrative and Ethics Eshel Win
COMPLIT 227 Literature and Metamorphoses Baumbach Win
COMPLIT 234 Conservative Revolution Berman Win
COMPLIT 247 Modernism and Jewish Voice in Europe Eshel Spr
COMPLIT 250 Literature, History and Representation Boyi Aut
COMPLIT 322A* Theories of the Novel Cohen Spr
COMPLIT 331C* Institutions of Enlightenment Bender Win
COMPLIT 358* Reading, Otherness, Language Palumbo-Liu Spr
COMPLIT 371* Seminar in Chinese Literary Criticism Wang Aut
COMPLIT 371 Aesthetics and Politics: East and West Wang Aut
COMPLIT 50Q Is God Dead? Berman Win
DRAMA  161R Texts in History: Classics from Greece to Rome Rehm Aut
DRAMA  24 Shared Experience and the Experimental Actor Scotland-Stewart Spr
ENGLISH 152D DuBois and American Culture (ENGLISH 152D) M. Elam Spr
ENGLISH 153F The Moment in Modernism Zumhagen-Yekple Win
ENGLISH 154F Question and Quest, Riddle and Resolution in Modernism Zumhagen-Yekple Aut
ENGLISH 183F Introduction to Critical Theory Majumdar Spr
ENGLISH 184B Oedipus and His Vicissitudes Freidin, Staveley Win
ENGLISH 280 Art, Religion, and the Quest for Faith Polhemus Win
MTL  334A* Concepts of Modernity 1 Moya Aut
MTL  334B* Concepts of Modernity 2 Heise Win
ENGLISH 365A* Forms of Selfhood and Subjectivity in Early America Ruttenburg Win
ENGLISH 370* Literature and Wisdom Karnes Aut
ENGLISH 389* Modernism's Everyday Majumdar Spr
FILMSTUD  102/302 Theories of the Moving Image Ma Spr
FRENGEN  228E Getting Through Proust Landy Aut
FRENGEN  242 Women Mystics Wittman Win
FRENGEN  265 The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy Dupuy Win
FRENGEN  273 Post-Revolutionary Passions Russo Aut
FRENGEN  325* Modern Seminar Apostolides Aut
FRENGEN  328 Literature, Narrative, and the Self Landy Spr
FRENGEN 267 French and Italian Literary Theory Apostolides Win
FRENLIT  167 The Essayistic Tradition in 20th-Century France Wampole Spr
FRENLIT  293A Topics in French Literature and Philosophy Serres Aut
FRENLIT  293B Topics in French Literature and Philosophy Serres Spr
FRENLIT 202 Inventing the Enlightenment Edelstein Spr
FRENLIT 252 Theater of the Absurd Wittman Win
GERGEN Theodor Adorno Daub  Aut
GERGEN Is God Dead? Berman Win
GERGEN 122Q The Culture of Pessimism Daub  Spr
GERGEN 125 Varieties of Freedom in German culture Dornbach  Aut
GERGEN 212 The Invention of Experience Dornbach  Spr
GERGEN 221 Memory in the Modernist Novel  Douvaldzi  Spr
GERGEN 221A Modernism and the Jewish Voice Eshel  Spr
GERGEN 246 Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment Dornbach  Aut
GERGEN 268A Freud and the Enterprise of Psychoanalysis  Douvaldzi  Aut
GERGEN 291A Oedipus, Hamlet, Moses Douvaldzi  Spr
GERLIT 201 Conservative Revolution Berman Win
GERLIT 217 Hölderlin's Poetry  Bohrer  Spr
GERLIT 219 German Utopias and Dystopias Daub Win
GERLIT 242 Narrative and Ethics Eshel Win
GERLIT 250C Postwars: German Culture and Thought 1945-present Eshel Spr
HISTORY  132A Enlightenment and the Arts Lougee Chappell Spr
HISTORY  207 Biography and History Zipperstein Spr
HISTORY  334 Enlightenment Seminar Riskin Win
HUMNTIES  100 Oedipus and His Vicissitudes Freidin, Stavely Win
HUMNTIES  161 Texts in History: Classics from Greece to Rome Rehm Aut
HUMNTIES  325* Modern Seminar Apostolides Aut
ILAC 114N Lyric Poetry Predmore Aut
ILAC 240E** Borges and Philosophy Hoyos Aut
ILAC 323* Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar Barletta Spr
ILAC 326* Philosophies of Otherness Antich Valero Aut
ILAC 330* Open Hostilities Resina Win
ILAC 380E* Critical Concepts in Chicana/o Literature Yarbro-Bejarano Aut
ITALGEN  242 Women Mystics Wittman Win
ITALGEN  328 Literature, Narrative, and the Self Landy Spr
ITALGEN 267 French and Italian Literary Theory  Apostolides Win
ITALGEN 321* Giambattista Vico  Harrison Spr
ITALLIT 239 Renaissance Foundations of Modernity  Mazzotta Win
JAPANGEN  287A The Japanese Tea Ceremony Takeuchi Spr
JAPANGEN  60 Asian Art and Culture Vinograd Win
MTL  334A* Concepts of Modernity 1 Moya Aut
MTL  334B* Concepts of Modernity 2 Heise Win
MUSIC  190H Sex, Sacrifice, and Civilization: Baroque Opera and Tragedy Hadlock, Hoxby Aut
OSPMADRD 50 Flirting with Spanish Metafiction Tejerina-Canal Spr
OSPPARIS  107Y The Age of Cathedrals Deremble Aut
OSPSANTG 10 Borges and Argentina Missana Win
PHIL  107 Plato's Early Dialogues Bobonich Spr
PHIL  135 Existentialism Anderson Spr
PHIL  138 Recent European Philosophy: Between Nature and History Hills Aut
PHIL  194E Beauty and Other Forms of Value Hills Aut
POLISCI  338E The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy Dupuy Win
RELIGST  174E Kierkegaard: Existentialism and Religion Kangas Aut
RELIGST  212** Chuang Tzu Yearley Win
RELIGST  221B The Talmud as Literature Fonrobert Spr
RELIGST  222C Debauchery and asceticism Cooperson Win
RELIGST  278 Heidegger: Confronting the Ultimate Sheehan Win
SLAVGEN 145/245 Age of Experiment: From Pushkin to Gogol Greenleaf Aut
SLAVGEN 146/246 The Great Russian Novel Greenleaf Win
SLAVGEN 148/248 Dissent and Disenchantment Staff Spr
SLAVGEN 151/251 Dostoevsky and his Times Frank Win
SLAVGEN 221 Modernism and the Jewish Voice Eshel/Safran Spr
SLAVLIT 167 Russian Cultural Studies Skakov Aut
SLAVLIT 200A Russian Formalism and Structuralism Fleishman Aut
SLAVLIT 226 Bakhtin and His Legacy Skakov Win
SLAVLIT 269 Pushkin and the Golden Age Greenleaf Aut
SLAVLIT 310* Civilizing Process: Paradigms of Society and Culture Freidin Spr


* Graduate seminar with limited enrollment; open to undergraduates only with permission of instructor.
** One of this year’s Capstone Courses.



Courses of Special Relevance are selected by the steering committee of the Initiative in Literature and Philosophy.


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