Graduate Special Relevance Courses

Title

Instructor

Quarter

Day, Time, Location

ARTHIST 287A

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

Stilerman, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Tuesday Thursday

9:45 AM

11:15 AM

ARTHIST 306

Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 106, CLASSICS 171)

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 342A

The Architecture of Thought: Artists and Thinkers Design for Themselves (ARTHIST 142A)

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 347

Modernism and Modernity (ARTHIST 147)

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 407

The Resurrected Body: Animacy in Medieval Art (ARTHIST 207)

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 417B

Architectural Design Theory (ARTHIST 217B)

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 420

Art and Invisibility: The Dissemblance of Labour.

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 430

Cinema and Ideology (FILMEDIA 430)

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 446

Duchamp Then and Now (ARTHIST 246)

Troy, N. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Wednesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

ARTHIST 460

Meta-Pictures

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 465

Media Technology Theory (COMM 384, FILMEDIA 465A)

2021 - 2022

ARTHIST 497

American Mystics

2021 - 2022

CHINA 278

Lives of Confucius (CHINA 178)

2021 - 2022

CLASSICS 201G

Greek Core 1: Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle on Poetry and Education

Nightingale, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Wednesday Friday

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

CLASSICS 209L

Advanced Latin: Horace, Odes (CLASSICS 102L)

Pickel, D. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Tuesday Thursday

3:15 PM

4:45 PM

CLASSICS 258

Theories of the Image: Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West (ARTHIST 209C, ARTHIST 409, CLASSICS 158, REES 409)

2021 - 2022

CLASSICS 324

Plato on the Soul: Phaedo, Republic, and Phaedrus

Nightingale, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Wednesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

CLASSICS 348

Philodemus: An Epicurean Thinker on Poetry and Music

2021 - 2022

CLASSICS 349

Classical Aesthetics and the Shaping of Modern Aesthetic Thought

2021 - 2022

CLASSICS 364

Longinus On the Sublime

2021 - 2022

CLASSICS 381

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

Abolafia, J. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday Wednesday

9:45 AM

11:15 AM

CLASSICS 395

Ancient Greek Rationality, Public and Private (PHIL 338R, POLISCI 238R, POLISCI 438R)

Ober, J. (PI)
Bobonich, C. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Tuesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

COMM 384

Media Technology Theory (ARTHIST 465, FILMEDIA 465A)

2021 - 2022

COMPLIT 263

A History of Silence in Literature

2021 - 2022

COMPLIT 307

Proust and His World (FRENCH 307A)

2021 - 2022

COMPLIT 334A

Concepts of Modernity I: Philosophical Foundations (ILAC 334A, MTL 334A)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

COMPLIT 334A

Concepts of Modernity I: Philosophical Foundations (ILAC 334A, MTL 334A)

Hoyos, H. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Wednesday

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

COMPLIT 334B

Concepts of Modernity II: Culture, Aesthetics, and Society in the Age of Globalization (ENGLISH 334B, MTL 334B)

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Thursday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

COMPLIT 338

The Gothic in Literature and Culture (ENGLISH 338, FRENCH 338)

Cohen, M. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Monday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

COMPLIT 353B

Hannah Arendt: Facing Totalitarianism (GERMAN 253, GERMAN 353, JEWISHST 243A)

2021 - 2022

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)

2021 - 2022

COMPLIT 371

Critical Theory and Ecology: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (CHINA 371)

2021 - 2022

COMPLIT 381E

Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett (COMPLIT 281E, FRENCH 214, FRENCH 314, ITALIAN 214, ITALIAN 314)

2021 - 2022

COMPLIT 383A

Modern Notions of 'The Holy' (COMPLIT 283A, GERMAN 283A, GERMAN 383A, JEWISHST 283A, RELIGST 283A, RELIGST 383A)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Wednesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

DLCL 333

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

Landy, J. (PI)
Holliday, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Thursday

5:30 PM

8:30 PM

ENGLISH 218

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

2021 - 2022

Spring

ENGLISH 218

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

Ramswick, G. (GP)
Doody, J. (GP)
Theisen, E. (GP)
McDonald, T. (GP)
Bingul, D. (GP)
Landy, J. (PI)
Eagleman, D. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Tuesday Thursday

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

ENGLISH 250A

Character: Studies in Fictional Being

Ruttenburg, N. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Wednesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

ENGLISH 305A

Aesthetics: Reception Theory, Audiences, and Literature as Media

Greif, M. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Thursday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

ENGLISH 313

Performance and Performativity (FEMGEN 313, TAPS 313)

Menon, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday

9:45 AM

12:45 PM

ENGLISH 333

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

Landy, J. (PI)
Holliday, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Thursday

5:30 PM

8:30 PM

ENGLISH 334B

Concepts of Modernity II: Culture, Aesthetics, and Society in the Age of Globalization (COMPLIT 334B, MTL 334B)

2021 - 2022

Winter

ENGLISH 366F

Media Theory for Literary Studies

McGurl, M. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Tuesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

FEMGEN 203

Feminist and Queer Theories and Methods Across the Disciplines (FEMGEN 103)

2021 - 2022

Winter

FEMGEN 203

Feminist and Queer Theories and Methods Across the Disciplines (FEMGEN 103)

Daub, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Tuesday Thursday

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

FEMGEN 313

Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, TAPS 313)

Menon, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday

9:45 AM

12:45 PM

FEMGEN 314

Performing Identities (TAPS 314)

Phelan, P. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Tuesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

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)

2021 - 2022

FILMEDIA 414

Methods and Theories in Film and Media Studies

Ma, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday

6:45 PM

8:45 PM

FRENCH 307A

Proust and His World (COMPLIT 307)

2021 - 2022

FRENCH 319

The Renaissance Body in French Literature and Medicine (FRENCH 219)

2021 - 2022

FRENCH 351

Writing, Memory, and the Self (FRENCH 251, ITALIAN 251, ITALIAN 351)

Wittman, L. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Tuesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

GERMAN 322

Myth and Modernity (COMPLIT 222A, GERMAN 222, JEWISHST 242G, JEWISHST 342)

2021 - 2022

GERMAN 325

Nietzsche: Life as Performance (GERMAN 125, TAPS 152L, TAPS 325)

2021 - 2022

GERMAN 331

German Literature (1700-1900) (GERMAN 231)

2021 - 2022

GERMAN 332

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

2021 - 2022

GERMAN 344

German Media Theory (FILMEDIA 270, FILMEDIA 470, GERMAN 144)

Denson, S. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Monday Wednesday

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

GERMAN 353

Hannah Arendt: Facing Totalitarianism (COMPLIT 353B, GERMAN 253, JEWISHST 243A)

2021 - 2022

GERMAN 363

Paul Celan: The Poetic Event (COMPLIT 263B, GERMAN 263, JEWISHST 263)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Thursday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

GERMAN 383A

Modern Notions of 'The Holy' (COMPLIT 283A, COMPLIT 383A, GERMAN 283A, JEWISHST 283A, RELIGST 283A, RELIGST 383A)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Wednesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

ILAC 311

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

Resina, J. (PI)
Wainberg, R. (TA)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday Wednesday

3:15 PM

4:45 PM

ILAC 334A

Concepts of Modernity I: Philosophical Foundations (COMPLIT 334A, MTL 334A)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

ILAC 334A

Concepts of Modernity I: Philosophical Foundations (COMPLIT 334A, MTL 334A)

Hoyos, H. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Wednesday

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

ITALIAN 314

Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett (COMPLIT 281E, COMPLIT 381E, FRENCH 214, FRENCH 314, ITALIAN 214)

2021 - 2022

ITALIAN 321

Giambattista Vico (FRENCH 321)

2021 - 2022

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)

2021 - 2022

ITALIAN 386

Poetry and Philosophy (FRENCH 286, FRENCH 386, ITALIAN 286)

2021 - 2022

ITALIAN 390

Magic, Science, and Religion (COMPLIT 290A, COMPLIT 390A, FRENCH 290, FRENCH 390, ITALIAN 290)

2021 - 2022

JAPAN 288

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

Stilerman, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Tuesday Thursday

9:45 AM

11:15 AM

JEWISHST 227D

Readings in Talmudic Literature (JEWISHST 127D, RELIGST 170D)

2021 - 2022

JEWISHST 342

Myth and Modernity (COMPLIT 222A, GERMAN 222, GERMAN 322, JEWISHST 242G)

2021 - 2022

MTL 334A

Concepts of Modernity I: Philosophical Foundations (COMPLIT 334A, ILAC 334A)

Hoyos, H. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Wednesday

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

MTL 334B

Concepts of Modernity II: Culture, Aesthetics, and Society in the Age of Globalization (COMPLIT 334B, ENGLISH 334B)

Saldivar, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Thursday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

MUSIC 200A

Proseminar in Musicology and Music Bibliography

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

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Monday

12:15 PM

3:15 PM

MUSIC 300H

Aesthetics and Criticism of Music, Ancients and Moderns: Plato to Nietzsche

2021 - 2022

MUSIC 300I

Aesthetics and Criticism of Music, Contemporaries: Heidegger to Today

Berger, K. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

MUSIC 332

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

Landy, J. (PI)
Holliday, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Thursday

5:30 PM

8:30 PM

PHIL 194P

Capstone Seminar: The Meaning of Life

Holliday, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Tuesday Thursday

11:30 AM

1:00 PM

PHIL 237

Wittgenstein (PHIL 137)

Hills, D. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Tuesday Thursday

9:45 AM

11:15 AM

PHIL 270B

Metaphor (PHIL 170B)

Hills, D. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Tuesday Thursday

3:15 PM

4:45 PM

PHIL 276A

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

Abolafia, J. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday Wednesday

9:45 AM

11:15 AM

PHIL 293C

Film & Philosophy (COMPLIT 154A, ENGLISH 154F, FRENCH 154, ITALIAN 154, PHIL 193C)

Gottlieb, D. (TA)
Dannenberg, J. (PI)
Dowling, G. (TA)
Murphy, L. (TA)
Shiva, S. (TA)
Jaarte, M. (TA)
Landy, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Thursday

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

PHIL 325

Kant's Third Critique

2021 - 2022

PHIL 329

Plotinus and Augustine (PHIL 229, RELIGST 269, RELIGST 369)

2021 - 2022

PHIL 333

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

Landy, J. (PI)
Holliday, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Thursday

5:30 PM

8:30 PM

PHIL 335

Topics in Aesthetics

2021 - 2022

POLISCI 330A

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

Abolafia, J. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday Wednesday

9:45 AM

11:15 AM

POLISCI 330A

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

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday

12:15 PM

2:15 PM

POLISCI 338E

The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy (FRENCH 265)

Dupuy, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Tuesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

REES 409

Theories of the Image: Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West (ARTHIST 209C, ARTHIST 409, CLASSICS 158, CLASSICS 258)

2021 - 2022

RELIGST 333

Comparative Mysticism (JEWISHST 333, RELIGST 233)

Mayse, E. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Wednesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

RELIGST 369

Plotinus and Augustine (PHIL 229, PHIL 329, RELIGST 269)

2021 - 2022

RELIGST 378

Religion and James Joyce's Ulysses (COMPLIT 278A, COMPLIT 378A, ENGLISH 285B, ENGLISH 385B, RELIGST 278)

Sheehan, T. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Thursday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

RELIGST 383A

Modern Notions of 'The Holy' (COMPLIT 283A, COMPLIT 383A, GERMAN 283A, GERMAN 383A, JEWISHST 283A, RELIGST 283A)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Wednesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

SLAVIC 251

Dostoevsky: Narrative Performance and Literary Theory

Greenleaf, M. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Autumn

Monday Wednesday

3:15 PM

4:45 PM

SLAVIC 346

The Great Russian Novel: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Anna Karenina/ The Brothers Karamazov (SLAVIC 146)

Kim, E. (TA)
Greenleaf, M. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Tuesday Thursday

11:30 AM

1:00 PM

SLAVIC 347

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

2021 - 2022

TAPS 252

Objects and Things: Theater, Performance, and Material Culture

2021 - 2022

TAPS 313

Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, FEMGEN 313)

Menon, J. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Monday

9:45 AM

12:45 PM

TAPS 314

Performing Identities (FEMGEN 314)

Phelan, P. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Spring

Tuesday

1:30 PM

4:30 PM

TAPS 325

Nietzsche: Life as Performance (GERMAN 125, GERMAN 325, TAPS 152L)

Smith, M. (PI)

2021 - 2022

Winter

Friday

9:45 AM

12:45 PM

TAPS 342

Counter-Institution: Performance and Institutional Critique (ARTHIST 444)

2021 - 2022

Spring

TAPS 360

Greek Tragedy

2021 - 2022