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21L.003 Reading Fiction, Fall 2008
(2008-12)This course offers students ways to become more engaged and curious readers for life. By learning the language of selected short stories and novels, students learn the language of literary description. There will be a ... -
21L.004 Major Poets, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Emphasis on the analytical reading of lyric poetry in England and the United States. Syllabus usually includes Shakespeare's sonnets, Donne, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Marianne Moore, Lowell, Rich, and Bishop. From ... -
21L.005 Introduction to Drama, Fall 2008
(2008-12)Drama might be described as a game played with something sacred. It tells stories that go right to the heart of what people believe about themselves. And it is enacted in the moment, which means it has an added layer of ... -
21L.006 American Literature, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This is a HASS-D CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages of polished writing with careful attention to revision. It also ... -
21L.007 World Literatures: Contact Zone, Fall 2006
(2006-12)World Literatures will focus on the concept of the contact zone. What happens when cultures with different ideologies and norms come into contact with each other through exploration and colonization? We will examine how ... -
21L.010 / 21W.730-5 Writing About Literature, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This is a HASS –CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages of polished writing with careful attention to revision. It also ... -
21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2006
(2006-12)An introduction to narrative film, emphasizing the unique properties of the movie house and the motion-picture camera, the historical evolution of the film medium, and the intrinsic artistic qualities of individual films. ... -
21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2007
(2007-12)This course is an introduction to narrative film, emphasizing the unique properties of the movie house and the motion picture camera, the historical evolution of the film medium, and the intrinsic artistic qualities of ... -
21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2012
(2012-12)This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, including works from the early silent period, documentary and avant-garde films, European art cinema, and contemporary Hollywood fare. ... -
21L.016 / 21M.616 Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Moliere. It ... -
21L.421 Comedy, Fall 2001
(2001-12)Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, MoliSre, Austen, and Chaplin. From ... -
21L.421 Comedy, Spring 2001
(2001-06)Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Molière, Austen, and Chaplin. From ... -
21L.423 / 21M.223J Introduction to Anglo-American Folkmusic, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This subject will introduce students to scholarship about folk music of the British Isles and North America. We will define the qualities of "folk music" and "folk poetry," including the narrative qualities of ballads, and ... -
21L.448 / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2002
(2002-12)In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent agency. ... -
21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009
(2009-12)In the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent ... -
21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This subject focuses on the ways in which we read, providing an overview of some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century. The course is ... -
21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory, Spring 2010
(2010-06)This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century, paying special attention to ... -
21L.471 Major English Novels, Spring 2007
(2007-06)Subject studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the ... -
21L.472 Major European Novels, Fall 2001
(2001-12)A study of changing narrative forms in the nineteenth-century European novel. The changing fortunes of the heroic and romantic ideals. The motif of the outsider as a means for depicting social reality. Readings in Cervantes, ... -
21L.485 20th-Century Fiction, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Tradition and innovation in representative fiction of the early modern period. Recurring themes: the role of the artist in the modern period, the representation of psychological and sexual experience, the virtues (and ...