ISH Course Catalog:
Graduate Courses
HUMNTIES 275. Individual Work
Individual work supervised by a faculty advisor
HUMNTIES 298. Graduate Program in Humanities Symposium
Student-organized symposium; presentation of a paper informed by texts addressed in GPH seminars. Required of the GPH M.A. students and the GPH Ph.D. students who have completed their course work.
1-3 Units, Spring (G. Freidin)
HUMNTIES 301. GPH/DLCL Colloquium. Refractions & Adaptations: Revising the Cultural & Historical Canon
The faculty and graduate student colloquium for graduate students in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) and the Graduate Program in Humanities (GPH). This year's colloquium will explore a key problem in modernity and
modernization: articulating the new through familiar patterns in the
cultural and historical canon, renewal and transformation of the canon. Required of students in the GPH who have not yet completed the course requirements for the program. May be repeated for credit. The colloquium meets twice in the fall and winter, and one or two times in the spring quarter.
AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING | Units: 1
AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING | Units: 1
HUMNTIES 321. Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSHIS 133, CLASSHIS 333, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A)
Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.
Ober, J. | WINTER M,W 11-12:30 | Units: 5
Ober, J. | WINTER M,W 11-12:30 | Units: 5
5 Units, Winter (Joshua Ober, Classics and Political Science)
HUMNTIES 323. Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar
(Same as SPANLIT 323.) Focus is on how authors and readers from this period theorize various historical processes: the rise of European imperialism; religious conflicts and revolutions; new understandings of the self and the world; and the rise of the novel. Authors: Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Francisco Nunez Muley, Martorell, Rabelais, Camoens, Cervantes, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.
Barletta, V. | SPRING T 2:15-5:05 | Units: 3-5
Barletta, V. | SPRING T 2:15-5:05 | Units: 3-5
3-5 Units, Spring (Vincent Barletta, Spanish & Portuguese)
HUMNTIES 324. Enlightenment Seminar (HISTORY 334)
The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
Riskin, J. | WINTER T 11-12:50 | Units: 3-5
Riskin, J. | WINTER T 11-12:50 | Units: 3-5
3-5 Units, Winter (Jessica Riskin, History)
HUMNTIES 325. Modern Seminar (FRENGEN 325)
Modern anxieties about the place of human concerns within a disenchanted natural world, focusing on texts of philosophy, social theory, and imaginative literature. Cultural and psychological consequences of perceived decline in and threats to religious faith. Authors may include Schiller, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, Kierkegaard, Marx, Baudelaire, Darwin, Nietzsche, Weber, Eliot, Woolf, Sartre, and Camus.
Apostolides, J.-M. | AUTUMN M,W 10-11:50 | Units: 3-5
Apostolides, J.-M. | AUTUMN M,W 10-11:50 | Units: 3-5
3-5 Units, Spring (Jean-Marie Apostolides, Fr.&Ital.)