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U98 MLA 5477Optimal Plans3.0 Units
Description:"Optimal plans" refers to an ideal functioning, a "best-case scenario" for literary, artistic, and political projects. Between the initial conceptualization of a plan and its actualization, however, much can go awry. We will also be concerned with the implications of failed plans for those in power and for their subjects, as well as for us as readers and viewers. The course will take students from the Renaissance through the present and back again in order to highlight the goals and the actual flow of ideas that have shaped our thinking. In the first week Michael Sherberg will present the classic treatise about political planning, Machiavelli's Prince, followed by The Mandrake, in which Machiavelli comically demonstrates key aspects of his political theories. In the second week the class will test Machiavelli's theories by applying them to Tomasi di Lampedusa's brilliant historical novel, The Leopard, which traces the decline of the Sicilian aristocracy at the time of Italian unification. Leonardo Sciascia's novel, The Day of the Owl, will then allow the class to consider what happens when two sets of orders, state and mafia, vie for supremacy. In week three Harriet Stone will explore the art of celebrated 17th-century Dutch artist Vermeer, taking into account both the painterly perfection of his intimate scenes and the ambiguous moral message conveyed by his paintings. The class will compare the use of perspective in Vermeer's works to the brilliant strategies executed by the nefarious heroes of Laclos's Dangerous Liaisons. The following week students will examine the tragic complexities of birthright, inheritance, and family structure in Maupassant's Pierre and Jean and in Coetzee's Disgrace. During the final week of the course Stephanie Kirk will identify strategic goals, both personal and political, underlying the great exploration of Christopher Columbus. Reading his Diary and Letters, the class will measure what Columbus (as inspired by Marco Polo) hop
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Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Tuition:$1,890.00 Fees:
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