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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)

2025 - 2026
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)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

ARTHIST 401A
Soren Kierkegaard and the Visual Arts (ARTHIST 201A)

Nemerov, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

ARTHIST 409
Medieval Image Theory (ARTHIST 209C, CLASSICS 158, CLASSICS 258, REES 409)

Pentcheva, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

ARTHIST 413A
From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (ARTHIST 213A, GERMAN 213A)

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

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

CHINA 208
Advanced Classical Chinese: Philosophical Texts

Bartlett, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

CHINA 371
Posthumanism, Biopolitics, and the Anthropocene in Science Fiction: A Comparative Perspective (COMPLIT 371)

Wang, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday
11:30 AM
2:20 PM

CLASSICS 201G
Greek Core I: History of Literature

Martin, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
9:30 AM
11:20 AM

CLASSICS 202G
Greek Core II: Philosophy, Poetry, and the Arts

Peponi, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
9:30 AM
11:20 AM

CLASSICS 258
Medieval Image Theory (ARTHIST 209C, ARTHIST 409, CLASSICS 158, REES 409)

Pentcheva, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

CLASSICS 293
Archaeology and Environmental Aesthetics (ARCHLGY 193A, CLASSICS 193)

Shanks, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

CLASSICS 364
Longinus On the Sublime

Tennant, J. (PI)
Peponi, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Salamanca, E. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

COMPLIT 237T
Saved in Translation: An Intellectual Topography of the Mediterranean. Antiquity to the Present (ILAC 237)

Ponsati Murla, O. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

COMPLIT 371
Posthumanism, Biopolitics, and the Anthropocene in Science Fiction: A Comparative Perspective (CHINA 371)

Wang, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday
11:30 AM
2:20 PM

ENGLISH 234
Fact and Fiction

Madani, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

ENGLISH 305A
Aesthetics: Reception Theory, Audiences, and Literature as Media

Greif, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

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

Menon, J. (PI)
Dahal, Y. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

ENGLISH 345
Practices of Early Modern Writing

Yu, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Thursday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM

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

Menon, J. (PI)
Dahal, Y. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

FEMGEN 314
Performing Identities (TAPS 314)

Brody, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

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

Oeler, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

FILMEDIA 306
Media and Mediums (FILMEDIA 6)

Mckeown, M. (TA)
Denson, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
5:30 PM
8:20 PM

FILMEDIA 453
Aesthetics and Phenomenology (ARTHIST 253, ARTHIST 453, FILMEDIA 253)

Denson, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

FRENCH 317
Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West (FRENCH 217, HISTORY 217D, HISTORY 317D, ITALIAN 217, ITALIAN 317)

Phillips, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

GERMAN 262
Embodied Crisis: Reimagining Humanity through Philosophy & Performance

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

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

Pao, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

George, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

GERMAN 342C
Close Reading: History, Theory, Practice (COMPLIT 242C, COMPLIT 342C, ENGLISH 242C, GERMAN 242C)

Pao, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

GERMAN 379
Literature and the Practice of Freedom (COMPLIT 279, COMPLIT 379, GERMAN 279)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Friday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

HISTORY 317D
Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West (FRENCH 217, FRENCH 317, HISTORY 217D, ITALIAN 217, ITALIAN 317)

Phillips, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Hobbs, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

ILAC 245
Cervantes and the Novel

Gerli, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
12:30 PM
2:20 PM

ILAC 340E
Borges and Philosophy (ILAC 240E)

Hoyos, H. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

ITALIAN 317
Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West (FRENCH 217, FRENCH 317, HISTORY 217D, HISTORY 317D, ITALIAN 217)

Phillips, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

ITALIAN 375
Navigating Chaos: Literature, Prime Matter, and the Ocean (COMPLIT 375)

Berchi, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

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

Stilerman, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

JEWISHST 227D
Readings in Talmudic Literature (JEWISHST 127D, RELIGST 170D)

Fonrobert, C. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
6:30 PM
8:20 PM

JEWISHST 283
Modern Jewish Thought - Voices of Tradition and Transformation (COMPLIT 282)

Eshel, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Thursday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

MTL 334A
Concepts of Modernity I: CLOSE READING

Pao, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Denson, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

PHIL 237
Wittgenstein (PHIL 137)

Van Steertegem, C. (TA)
Hills, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

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

Salamanca, E. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

PHIL 325
Kant's Third Critique

Hills, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

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

Hills, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

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)

Salamanca, E. (PI)
Ober, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

REES 409
Medieval Image Theory (ARTHIST 209C, ARTHIST 409, CLASSICS 158, CLASSICS 258)

Pentcheva, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

SLAVIC 346
The Russian Novel: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and More (SLAVIC 146)

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

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

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

Menon, J. (PI)
Dahal, Y. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

TAPS 314
Performing Identities (FEMGEN 314)

Brody, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM