CMLT-C 200 HONORS SEMINAR (3 CR.)
Selected authors and topics, ranging from traditional to modern; for example, Athens and Jerusalem: The Origins of Western Literature. Traditional or current debates and issues of a critical, theoretical, or historical nature. Comparative methodology, interdisciplinary approach.
2 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 14245 | Open | 4:10 p.m.–6:40 p.m. | W | GY 1042 | Marks H |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 14245: Total Seats: 14 / Available: 8 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
- Above class meets with HON-H 234
Topic: The agnostic bible
There is arguably no book of world literature that has been more embroidered, distorted, and misread than the Hebrew Bible. As the ultimate source of Jewish law and the foundation of Christian theology, it is held up even today as a moral and metaphysical guide. But there is a significant strain in the Bible that is impatient with piety and suspicious of dogmatic wisdom, particularly the wisdom of those who presume on their knowledge of the uncanny central figure it calls God or Yahweh. Indeed, if one reads against the grain of tradition, the Bible is a book that revels in contradiction, invites questions but frustrates answers, views human and divine morality with skepticism, and treats its characters, legendary or historical, with irreverent license. The course will explore this skeptical strain in biblical literature through close analysis of a range of texts from Genesis to Job. This class will be conducted as a seminar with weekly meetings and limited enrollment. Students will be expected to share their ideas through regular formal presentations and active discussion.
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 33480 | Open | 9:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | TR | SY 137 | Hertz D; Penha Dinis de Lima e Almeida I |
Eight Week - Second / In Person
LEC 33480: Total Seats: 22 / Available: 7 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- Above class meets second eight weeks only
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Topic: Love and the epic
Love and the Epic A special guest seminar to be taught by Professor Isabel Almeida from the University of Lisbon. Love can be a crucial theme, both in the plot of an epic poem and in the characterization of its figures. Indeed, the theme of love can be developed in many keys ¿ cultural, philosophical, spiritual. But what happens when love is declared by the poets themselves as the guiding strength of their entire work? Is the character of the speaker inseparable from the emotion of their words? How do ethos and pathos coexist? What vision of the world and what concept of poetry result from this relation? Comparing The Lusiads (1572), by Luís de Camões, and Orlando Furioso (1516), by Ludovico Ariosto, offers us different answers to these questions. Moreover, this comparison will give us an opportunity to understand a different time ¿ the Renaissance ¿, so far and yet, as the beginning of globalization, so close to us.