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Graduate Special Relevance Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

AMSTUD 255D
Identity in the American Imagination (AFRICAAM 255, CSRE 255D, HISTORY 255D, HISTORY 355D)

Hobbs, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

ARTHIST 287A
The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime (JAPAN 188, JAPAN 288)

Stilerman, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

ARTHIST 408
Hagia Sophia (ARTHIST 208, CLASSICS 173, CLASSICS 273)

Pentcheva, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

ARTHIST 417B
Architectural Design Theory (ARTHIST 217B)

2024 - 2025
Spring

ARTHIST 474
Wonder: The Event of Art and Literature (ARTHIST 274, COMPLIT 274, COMPLIT 374A, JEWISHST 274)

Eshel, A. (PI)
Nemerov, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

CHINA 371
Politics and Aesthetics of Critical Ecology in the Anthropocene (COMPLIT 371)

Wang, B. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

CLASSICS 279
Dancing in Ancient Greece and Rome (CLASSICS 179)

Peponi, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

CLASSICS 381
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSICS 181, ETHICSOC 130A, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A)

Tang, A. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

COMPLIT 338
Transatlantic Gothic (ENGLISH 338, FRENCH 338)

Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
Cohen, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday
12:00 PM
2:50 PM

COMPLIT 357A
Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero (COMPLIT 257, FEMGEN 257X, FEMGEN 357X, FRENCH 257, FRENCH 357, ITALIAN 257, ITALIAN 357)

Wittman, L. (PI)
Hazel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

COMPLIT 376
How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying (FRENCH 367, POLISCI 237R, POLISCI 337R, STS 200V)

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

DLCL 324
The Enlightenment (HISTORY 234, HISTORY 334, HISTORY 432A)

2024 - 2025
Winter

DLCL 333
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (ENGLISH 333, MUSIC 332, PHIL 333)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

DLCL 333
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (ENGLISH 333, MUSIC 332, PHIL 333)

Anderson, R. (PI)
Quayson, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

ENGLISH 218
Literature and the Brain (COMPLIT 138, COMPLIT 238, ENGLISH 118, FRENCH 118, FRENCH 218, PSYC 126, PSYCH 118F)

Choh, P. (TA)
Bahia, G. (TA)
Mehrish, D. (TA)
Gedik, M. (TA)
Zhan, M. (TA)
Landy, J. (PI)
Eagleman, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

ENGLISH 300A
Theories and Methods in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE 300)

Jaarte, M. (TA)
Moya, P. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

ENGLISH 313
Performance and Performativity (FEMGEN 313, TAPS 313)

Menon, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

ENGLISH 333
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (DLCL 333, MUSIC 332, PHIL 333)

Anderson, R. (PI)
Quayson, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

FEMGEN 313
Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, TAPS 313)

Menon, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

FEMGEN 314
Performing Identities (TAPS 314)

Brody, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday
9:00 AM
11:50 AM

FEMGEN 357X
Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero (COMPLIT 257, COMPLIT 357A, FEMGEN 257X, FRENCH 257, FRENCH 357, ITALIAN 257, ITALIAN 357)

Wittman, L. (PI)
Hazel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

FILMEDIA 302
Theories of the Moving Image: The Technologically Mediated Image (FILMEDIA 102)

Oeler, K. (PI)
Evans, B. (TA)
Dumitrescu, A. (TA)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM

FILMEDIA 306
Media and Mediums (FILMEDIA 6)

Denson, S. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

FILMEDIA 406
Montage

Levi, P. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Thursday
6:30 PM
9:20 PM

FRENCH 338
Transatlantic Gothic (COMPLIT 338, ENGLISH 338)

Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
Cohen, M. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Thursday
12:00 PM
2:50 PM

FRENCH 357
Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero (COMPLIT 257, COMPLIT 357A, FEMGEN 257X, FEMGEN 357X, FRENCH 257, ITALIAN 257, ITALIAN 357)

Wittman, L. (PI)
Hazel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

FRENCH 367
How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying (COMPLIT 376, POLISCI 237R, POLISCI 337R, STS 200V)

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

GERMAN 331
German Literature (1700-1900) (GERMAN 231)

Berman, R. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

GERMAN 332
German Literature 3: Modernity and the Unspeakable (GERMAN 232)

Pao, L. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

HISTORY 334
The Enlightenment (DLCL 324, HISTORY 234, HISTORY 432A)

Riskin, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM

HISTORY 355D
Identity in the American Imagination (AFRICAAM 255, AMSTUD 255D, CSRE 255D, HISTORY 255D)

Hobbs, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

ILAC 311
Existentialism, from Moral Quest to Novelistic Form (COMPLIT 258A, FRENCH 258A, ILAC 211)

Resina, J. (PI)
Naddaff, A. (TA)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

ITALIAN 357
Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero (COMPLIT 257, COMPLIT 357A, FEMGEN 257X, FEMGEN 357X, FRENCH 257, FRENCH 357, ITALIAN 257)

Wittman, L. (PI)
Hazel, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

JAPAN 288
The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime (ARTHIST 287A, JAPAN 188)

Stilerman, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

MTL 334A
Concepts of Modernity I: Methods and Debates

Lugli, E. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Wednesday
2:30 PM
5:20 PM

MTL 334B
Concepts of Modernity II: Media and the Environment

Denson, S. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

MUSIC 200A
Proseminar in Musicology and Music Bibliography

Hadlock, H. (PI)
Barzel, T. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Autumn

Friday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

MUSIC 300I
Aesthetics and Criticism of Music, Contemporaries: Heidegger to Today

Berger, K. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 276A
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSICS 181, CLASSICS 381, ETHICSOC 130A, PHIL 176A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A)

Tang, A. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

PHIL 333
Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (DLCL 333, ENGLISH 333, MUSIC 332)

Anderson, R. (PI)
Quayson, A. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

POLISCI 330A
Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSICS 181, CLASSICS 381, ETHICSOC 130A, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 230A)

Tang, A. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

POLISCI 337R
How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying (COMPLIT 376, FRENCH 367, POLISCI 237R, STS 200V)

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

SLAVIC 346
Russian Novel Decolonized (SLAVIC 146)

Ilchuk, Y. (PI)
Ovcharskaia, O. (TA)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

SLAVIC 347
Modern Russian Literature and Culture: The Age of War and Revolution (SLAVIC 147)

Ovcharskaia, O. (TA)
Lawton, D. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

TAPS 313
Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, FEMGEN 313)

Menon, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Winter

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

TAPS 314
Performing Identities (FEMGEN 314)

Brody, J. (PI)

2024 - 2025
Spring

Tuesday
9:00 AM
11:50 AM