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ISH Course Schedule:
Autumn Quarter

HUMNTIES  163.  Texts in History: Enlightenment to the Modern

(Same as ENGLISH 184D.) Priority to students in the Humanities honors program and English majors. The relationship between intellectual, political, and cultural history, and imaginative literature in the modern period. Rousseau, Kant, Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marx, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Mill, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Beckett. GER:DB-Hum

5 Units,  Autumn (Alice Staveley) 

HUMNTIES  170.  Media Studies Internship

Practical experience working with a film or media company for six to eight weeks. Students make arrangements with companies individually and receive the consent of the director of the Humanities honors program. Credit awarded for submitting a paper after completing the internship, focused on a topic relevant to the student's studies

2-3 Units,  Autumn (Gregory Freidin, ISH and Slavic )  Winter (Freidin)  Spring (Freidin)  Summer (Staff) 

HUMNTIES  175.  Individual Work

Individual work for students actively involved in research and writing of their honors essay (consent of the tutor required).

1-5 Units,  Autumn (Staff)  Winter (Staff)  Spring (Staff)  Summer (Staff) 

HUMNTIES  185.  Sex, Sacrifice, and Civilization: Baroque Opera and Tragedy (ENGLISH 185, MUSIC 190H)

The revival of ancient tragedy in the Baroque opera house. The central mysteries of tragedy: knowledge of suffering, necessity of sacrifice, pleasure of pathos. How tragic drama and opera used poetry, dance, and music to sway the passions and prompt reflection. Greek myths of Medea, Iphigenia, Alceste, Idomeneo. Plays by Euripides and Racine; operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Charpentier.
Hadlock, H.; Hoxby, B | AUTUMN M,W 2:15-4:05 | Units: 4-5

4-5 Units,  Autumn (Heather Hadlock, Music, and Blair Hoxby, English &) 

HUMNTIES  199A.  Honors Essay Writing Workshop

Two quarter sequence. Students discuss progress on research and writing the senior honors essay. Required for seniors in the Humanities honors program.
Batuman, E. | AUTUMN, WINTER  |  Units: 1-2

1 Units,  Autumn (Elif Batuman, ISH)  Winter (Elif Batuman, ISH) 

HUMNTIES  200A.  Research Proposal

Preliminary planning and study. Student drafts a proposal in Winter Quarter of the junior year to submit to the committee in charge for suggestions regarding focus and bibliography. After revisions, the student resubmits a fully developed proposal to the committee for additional comment and/or final approval. 60 hours over two quarters are expected of students developing their essay proposals for 2 units, usually 1 unit each in Winter and Spring of the junior year. Students usually make revisions of some kind in either scope or formulation of the topic. Students overseas submit proposals and receive feedback by fax or email. [WIM]

1-2 Units,  Autumn (Staff)  Winter (Staff)  Spring (Staff) 

HUMNTIES  200B.  Senior Research

Regular meetings with tutor (thesis adviser). Prerequisite: 200A. WIM

1-5 Units,  Autumn (Staff)  Winter (Staff)  Spring (Staff) 

HUMNTIES  200C.  Senior Research

Regular meetings with tutor; submission of complete first draft at least two weeks before final deadline. Prerequisite: 200B

1-5 Units,  Autumn (Staff)  Winter (Staff)  Spring (Staff)  Summer (Staff) 

HUMNTIES  201.  Digital Humanities Practicum

For Humanities majors concentrating in digital humanities. Work related to the honors thesis under the supervision of a Stanford faculty or staff member usually affiliated with the Stanford Humanities Lab. Must be approved by the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

2-5 Units,  Autumn (Staff)  Winter (Staff)  Spring (Staff) 

HUMNTIES  275.  Individual Work

Individual work supervised by a faculty advisor

1-5 Units,  Autumn (Staff)  Winter (Staff)  Spring (Staff) 

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

1 Units,  Autumn (Gregory Freidin, Slav., and Roland Greene, CL&Eng.)  Winter (Gregory Freidin, Slav., and Roland Greene, CL&Eng.)  Spring (Gregory Freidin, Slav., and Roland Greene, CL&Eng.) 

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  HUMNTIS 18.  Sex, Sacrifice, and Civilization: Baroque Opera and Tragedy (ENGLISH 185, MUSIC 190H)

HUMNTIES 185: Sex, Sacrifice, and Civilization: Baroque Opera and Tragedy (ENGLISH 185, MUSIC 190H)
The revival of ancient tragedy in the Baroque opera house. The central mysteries of tragedy: knowledge of suffering, necessity of sacrifice, pleasure of pathos. How tragic drama and opera used poetry, dance, and music to sway the passions and prompt reflection. Greek myths of Medea, Iphigenia, Alceste, Idomeneo. Plays by Euripides and Racine; operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Charpentier.
Hadlock, H.; Hoxby, B  | AUTUMN M,W 2:15-4:05 | Units: 4-5

4-5 Units,  Autumn (Hadlock, H.; Hoxby, B)