ISH Course Schedule:
Spring Quarter
HUMNTIES 162. Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern
(Same as ENGLISH 184C.) Priority to
students in the Humanities honors program. The impact of change from
the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how historical pressures
challenged conceptions of artistic form, self, divine, and the physical
universe. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include:
Aristotle, On the Soul; Attar,The Conference of the Birds; Dante,
nferno; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, The Book of the
City of Ladies; Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli, The Prince; Luther,
The Bondage of the Will; Montaigne, Essays; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus;
poems by John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth; Shakespeare, Othello; and
works of art. GER:DB-Hum
5 Units, Spring (Helen Brooks, English)
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
HUMNTIES 175. Individual Work
Individual work for students actively involved in research and writing of their honors essay (consent of the tutor required).
HUMNTIES 191S. Capital and Empire (HISTORY 239D, HISTORY 339D)
Can empire be justified with balance sheets of imperial crimes and boons, a calculus of racism versus
railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Walmart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development.
Satia, P. | SPRING M 2:15-4:05 | Units: 4-5
railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Walmart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development.
Satia, P. | SPRING M 2:15-4:05 | Units: 4-5
4-5 Units, Spring (Priya Satia, Hist.)
HUMNTIES 192T. Wagnerian Echos: A Cultural History from Modernism to Popular Culture (GERGEN 161, MUSIC 150G)
The afterlives of mythological themes from the operas and music dramas of Richard Wagner (The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Ring cycle, Parsifal) in literature, modernist aesthetics, fascist politics, film, philosophy, and contemporary media.
Grey, T.; Daub, M. | SPRING M,W 2:15-3:45 | Units: 3-5
Grey, T.; Daub, M. | SPRING M,W 2:15-3:45 | Units: 3-5
3-5 Units, Spring (Thomas Grey, Mus., and Adrian Daub, Ger.)
HUMNTIES 194M. Globalization and Contemporary Fiction (English 261D)
The globalization of the contemporary Anglophone novel. How the English language novel relates to recent models of archiving world literature. How novels from Nigeria, India, Guyana and Australia foreground the socio-political implications of colonialism and decolonization, the amorphous relationship of the public and private spheres, the contended fates of human rights and territorial sovereignty. Texts by Sinha, Kempadoo, Shangvi, Greenville, Moretti, Casanova, Slaughter and others.
Majumdar, S. | SPRING T,Th 3:15-5:05 | Units: 5
Majumdar, S. | SPRING T,Th 3:15-5:05 | Units: 5
5 Units, Spring (Siakat Majumdar, Eng.)
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]
HUMNTIES 200B. Senior Research
Regular meetings with tutor (thesis adviser). Prerequisite: 200A. WIM
HUMNTIES 200C. Senior Research
Regular meetings with tutor; submission of complete first draft at least two weeks before final deadline. Prerequisite: 200B
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
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 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 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.)