In any given year, a limited number of faculty members may be available to supervise a special program of study (for a limited number of students) equal in credit to one full or half course. Note: Enquiries should be directed to the office of the department. Please consult the Enrolment and Registration section, Faculty of […]
Introduces students to the canon of European utopian fiction in historical context. Emphasis will be on literary utopias and their social, cultural, and philosophical backgrounds.
This course examines a collage of complex relationships and emergent cultural identities in Israel. Readings relate to Israel's roots, cultural milieu, contemporary and classical literary canon. Readings, subtitles, and analysis are in English, peppered with selected translations of Hebrew terminology.
Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the values and cultures of Israel and their evolution, expression, and reflection in cultural production, social structures, politics and history.
Shiism is the oldest self-identified movement in Islam, defined by the belief that Muhammad appointed Ali as his successor and transmitted to the Imams his charismatic authority. The course explores the imprint of these beliefs on Shi'a Quranic exegesis, theology, and jurisprudence; on gender, popular practices, pilgrimage sites; and the expression of Shi'i piety in […]
This course explores the concept of self as it is expressed through the works of major writers and poets in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
This course examines how the body, in contrast to the soul or mind, was "redeemed" after 1900 so as to make it the immanent source of new values that transformed a range of social attitudes.
This course examines the nature and function of the imagination and its relationship to reality through an analysis of the highly influential "first modern novel," Don Quixote, and subsequent representations of Don Quixote in literature, film and art. Course credit exclusion: AP/SP 4350 6.00.
This course examines rhetoric and its social function from the classical cultures of Greece and Rome to our own time. Topics include the technical handbooks; oratory; rhetoric in literature; philosophy and rhetoric; and the role of rhetoric in modern life.
Explores concepts of soul from early Greek Civilization to the early Christian era. It examines a cluster of related concepts -- soul, spirit, shade, consciousness, will, and mind - that express the self or "inner person". Entailed are soul as a thing separate from body; sensation and perception; relation of soul to body; conflict within […]