ISH Course Schedule:
Winter Quarter
HUMNTIES 100. Text in Context: Oedipus and His Vicissitudes: Tales of Modernity from Sophocles, Freud, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Virginia Woolf
Tales of Modernity from Sophocles, Freud, Chekhov, Babel, and Woolf. Introduction to cross-disciplinary approach in humanities through foundational texts in the modern tradition. The main focus is on Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913), alongside his ancillary writings. Contemporary social thought and historical scholarship provide the context (Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, Karl Schorske, John Murray Cuddihy) while works of imaginative literature (Sophocles, Anton Chekhov, Isaac Babel, and Virginia Woolf) illuminate the significance of the Oedipus myth for understanding the inter-generational conflict in antiquity and modernity.
Freidin, G.; Staveley, A. | WINTER W,F 2:15-4:05 | Units: 3
Freidin, G.; Staveley, A. | WINTER W,F 2:15-4:05 | Units: 3
HUMNTIES 161. Texts in History: Classics from Greece to Rome (CLASSGEN 163, DRAMA 161R)
Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. Ancient texts situated in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Readings include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea, Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, Plato's Symposium, Aristotle's Poetics, Virgil's Aeneid, Seneca's Trojan Women and Agamemnon, and Augustine's On Christian Doctrine.
Rehm, M. | AUTUMN T,Th 3:15-5:05 | Units: 3-5
Rehm, M. | AUTUMN T,Th 3:15-5:05 | Units: 3-5
3-5 Units, Winter (Rush Rehm, Classics)
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 181. Philosophy and Literature
Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin. GER:DB-Hum
Anderson, L.; Landy, J. | WINTER M,W 3:15-5:05 | Units: 4
Anderson, L.; Landy, J. | WINTER M,W 3:15-5:05 | Units: 4
4 Units, Winter (Lanier Anderson, Phil., and Joshua Landy, Fr.&It.)
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
Batuman, E. | AUTUMN, WINTER | Units: 1-2
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 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 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)