360.130 Introduction to Latin American Studies I Kurlat-Ares 3 credits 360.133 Great Books: Western Tradition or The Humanities: A Tradition of Classics Egginton/Patton/Talle/Valládares 3 credits 360.233 Feminist and Queer Theory This course is an introduction to theories of Feminism, gender, and sexuality. It examines classic and recent texts and considers problems and cases from a variety of cultures and historical periods in local, national and global contexts. Pahl 3 credits 360.323 Culture in Society in Modern Latin America (Cross-listed with History, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.) Castro-Klarén, Knight 3 credits 360.324 Modern Latin America II (Cross-listed with History.) Castro-Klarén, Knight 3 credits 360.391 (H) Manuscripts, Texts, Hypertexts: History of the Book This course will trace the history of the codex (the “book”) to its apparent dissolution in the age of television and the Internet. We will discuss the technology of the book as it interacts with the dissemination of knowledge and literature by examining topics such as orality and literacy, book manufacture and layout, intellectual property and reproducibility. (Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology.) Staff 3 credits 360.410 Light and Enlightenment: Newton’s Opticks and 18th-Century Culture This seminar will examine the Newtonian legacy for Enlightenment culture through a close study of his influential book, the Opticks. Special attention will be paid to the impact of this book on the sciences of electricity, heat, light, and chemistry and on the literature, philosophy, and painting of the Enlightenment. Open to upper division undergraduates and graduate students. (Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology.) Kargon, Anderson 3 credits 360.443 (H) Subverting the Text Seminar examines the process of subverting texts. Cases include Cartesian/Newtonian physics, phlogiston chemistry, Darwinian biology, Rousseau’s Botanical Letters, Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia, the Munich 1937 exhibit “Degenerate Art” and staging non-theatrical literature. (Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology.) Anderson, Kargon 3 credits 360.453 (H,S) Culture of Reasons This seminar is a close examination of how the changing understanding of Newtonianism (and its translation across language, disciplinary and cultural barriers) transformed the worlds of arts and letters. It will also discuss related 18th-century attempts to articulate social, moral, and political issues relating to gender and class and conclude with a close reading of the anti-Newtonian movement and a final discussion of the continuing relevance of issues of Newtonianism and cultural translation to modern humanistic research. A full description of the course, including the proposed syllabus can be found at http://www.wilda.org/Courses/CourseVault/Grad/Newtonianism. Taught with 360.653. (Cross-listed with History of Science and Technology.) Anderson, Kargon 3 credits
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