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U98 MLA 581DLA Interdisciplinary Proseminar:3.0 Units
Description:This gateway course to the DLA Program provides training in analytic thinking and writing through critical examination, discussion, research, and progressive writing on interdisciplinary topics such as historical narrative, text and image, the life of the mind, the creative impulse, the good life, and other major themes that have guided scholarly investigation and research in many fields. Students will analyze works from at least four disciplines (e.g. literature, art history, film, history, philosophy, women and gender studies, religion, political science, anthropology, history of science) and write a progressive research paper, submitted and reviewed incrementally, that demonstrates comparative, analytic, and critical thinking. Section 01. Topic for Fall, 2012: Combating Cruelty. This seminar focuses on large-scale acts of violence such as war, torture, and genocide as they are expressed through "ordinary" acts of cruelty that degrade, isolate, exploit, and terrorize individuals. The class will analyze individual instances of envy, greed, anger, and brutality in novels depicting the early modern through the present, including Dunant, Birth of Venus; Racine, Phèdre; Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons; Zola, Thérèse Raquin; Faulkner, Sound and the Fury; Schlink, The Reader; Coetzee, Disgrace; and Barnes, Sense of an Ending, as well as examples contemporary cinema by Kassovitz (Hate) and Haneke (The White Ribbon). Our goal is to consider the causes and effect of violence in order to appreciate aesthetic and ethical responses that combat the destructive effects of cruelty.
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Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Tuition:$2,085.00 Fees:
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