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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