Past Capstone Courses

• Laura Wittman/Quinn Dombrowski, “Future Text: AI and Literatures, Cultures, and Languages” (DLCL 103 / ITALIAN 103), Autumn 2023-24

• Joshua Landy, "Getting Through Proust" (FRENCH 228E), Winter 2023-24

• Shane Denson, "Aesthetics & Phenomenology” (FILMEDIA 253), Spring 2023-24

• Héctor Hóyos, Borges and Philosophy (ILAC 240E), Autumn 2022-23

• Amir Eshel, Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetry and the Meaning of Life (COMPLIT 240/GERMAN 130/GERMAN 233), Spring 2022-23

• Joshua Landy, Transfigurative Lyric: Baudelaire and Mallarmé (FRENCH 269), Spring 2022-23

• Ato Quayson, Postcolonial Tragedy (ENGLISH 225), Autumn 2021-22

• Amir Eshel, Hannah Arendt: Facing Totalitarianism (COMPLIT 353B, GERMAN 253, GERMAN 353, JEWISHST 243A), Autumn 2021-22

• Joshua Landy, "Getting Through Proust" (FRENCH 228E), Winter 2021-22

• Ivan Lupic, "Shakespeare: The Ethical Challenge” (ENGLISH 163D), Autumn 2019-20

• Tom Sheehan and Amir Eshel, “Modern Notions of ‘The Holy’: Hölderlin, Heidegger, Celan” (COMPLIT 383A, GERMAN 283A/383A, RELIGST 283A/383A), Winter 2019-20

• Antonia Peacocke, "Imagination in Fiction and Philosophy" (PHIL 194W), Winter 2019-20

• Matthew Smith, "Nietzsche: Life as Performance" (GERMAN 125/325, TAPS 152L/325), Spring 2019-20

• John Holliday, "Living a Meaningful Literary Life" (PHIL 194Z), Spring 2019-20

• Ivan Lupic, "Shakespeare: The Ethical Challenge” (ENGLISH 163D), Autumn 2018-19

• Laura Wittman, "Poetry and Philosophy" (FRENCH 286, ITALIAN 286), Winter 2018-19

• John Holliday, "Misanthropy and Literature" (PHIL 194Z), Spring 2018-19

• Amir Eshel, "Hannah Arendt: Facing Totalitarianism" (COMPLIT 253, GERMAN 253, JEWISHST 243A), Spring 2018-19

• 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

• 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 Hóyos, "Borges and Philosophy" (ILAC 240E), Spring 2016-17

• Michelle Karnes and 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 and 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 Hoyos, "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 and Joshua Landy, "Film and Philosophy" (COMPLIT 154A, FRENCH 154, ITALIAN 154, PHIL 193C/ 293C), Spring 2012-13 [subject to additional requirements]

• 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