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HH/PSYC 4010 3.00 Seminar in Developmental Psychology

Some major modern theories of child development are compared and their corresponding data and methodologies are analyzed.

AP/HUMA 4907 3.00 Modernism Across the Arts

Examines literary, musical, and visual arts of the modernist period to explore why there is an inter and multidisciplinary impetus during the period and how such crossovers between and among different cultural forms contributes to the generation of new modes of artistic material.

AP/HUMA 4906 6.00 Propaganda and Culture

Investigates the employment of the created environment and other expressions of culture for propagandistic purposes, meant to advance privileged ideologies in politics, religion, and social interchange. Discusses examples chosen from different eras and communities, including modern and contemporary applications.

AP/HUMA 4903 6.00 Architecture and Social Change

Probes the complex relationship between architecture and social/cultural change in the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on specific architectural ""visions"" and their intended/unintended consequences. Course credit exclusion: AP/CLTR 4810 3.00.

AP/HUMA 4825 6.00 Diversity in Early Christianity

This course explores diversity in early Christian thought and practice by investigating groups traditionally viewed as "heretical". This will include analysis of the New Testament Apocrypha, Nag Hammadi writings, and the opponents attacked in canonical and heresiological literature. Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HUMA 4825 6.00.

AP/HUMA 4824 3.00 Imagining Anne Frank: The Girl, the Diary, the Afterlives

Analyzes Anne Frank's World War II diary from literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Examines the evolution of Frank and the diary as cultural icons by analyzing representations of Frank as a figure in literature, including novels, poems, films, theatre, exhibitions, memoirs, and other people's diaries, with an eye to personal, collective, and historical memory.

AP/HUMA 4816 6.00 Women In Islamic Literature

The course focuses on the representation of Muslim women in modern Islamic literatures (novel and short stories) and other forms of Islamic cultural production, such as photography and film. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 4816 3.00.

AP/HUMA 4815 6.00 Studies in Islamic Mysticism

The course examines the development of Islamic mystical tradition (Sufism) in reference to two issues: one, the development of Sufism as a form of social organization institutionalized in the tarîqa orders, and two, the employment of different themes and symbols in Sufi thought that seek to personalize religious experience through esoteric interpretations of the sacred […]

AP/HUMA 4813 6.00 The Arabian Nights: Morality, Sexuality and Strategies of Interpretation

Provides the students with an opportunity to critically engage in analysis of the genesis of the myths claiming 'veracity' and 'historicity' of the selected tales from The Arabian Nights and a range of other sources that use themes from the Arabian Nights.

AP/HUMA 4803 6.00 Church, Mosque and Synagogue: Jews, Muslims and Christians in Medieval Spain

Explores the contours of Christian-Muslim-Jewish co-existence in medieval Spain, focusing on religious and social themes. Topics include conversion, cross-traditional intellectual stimuli, sacred violence and positive images of the religious other.