CLST1602 - World Literature

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
World Literature
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
401
Section ID
CLST1602401
Course number integer
1602
Meeting times
TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Meeting location
COHN 203
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Apurva Ashok Prasad
Description
How do we think 'the world' as such? Globalizing economic paradigms encourage one model that, while it connects distant regions with the ease of a finger-tap, also homogenizes the world, manufacturing patterns of sameness behind simulations of diversity. Our current world-political situation encourages another model, in which fundamental differences are held to warrant the consolidation of borders between Us and Them, "our world" and "theirs." This course begins with the proposal that there are other ways to encounter the world, that are politically compelling, ethically important, and personally enriching--and that the study of literature can help tease out these new paths. Through the idea of World Literature, this course introduces students to the appreciation and critical analysis of literary texts, with the aim of navigating calls for universality or particularity (and perhaps both) in fiction and film. "World literature" here refers not merely to the usual definition of "books written in places other than the US and Europe, "but any form of cultural production that explores and pushes at the limits of a particular world, that steps between and beyond worlds, or that heralds the coming of new worlds still within us, waiting to be born. And though, as we read and discuss our texts, we will glide about in space and time from the inner landscape of a private mind to the reaches of the farthest galaxies, knowledge of languages other than English will not be required, and neither will any prior familiary with the literary humanities. In the company of drunken kings, botanical witches, ambisexual alien lifeforms, and storytellers who've lost their voice, we will reflect on, and collectively navigate, our encounters with the faraway and the familiar--and thus train to think through the challenges of concepts such as translation, narrative, and ideology. Texts include Kazuo Ishiguro, Ursula K. LeGuin, Salman Rushdie, Werner Herzog, Jamaica Kincaid, Russell Hoban, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Arundhathi Roy, and Abbas Kiarostami.
Course number only
1602
Cross listings
COML1191401, ENGL1179401
Use local description
No

CLST1600 - Dangerous Books of Antiquity

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Dangerous Books of Antiquity
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
001
Section ID
CLST1600001
Course number integer
1600
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Meeting location
COHN 392
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Joseph A Farrell Jr
Scheherazade Jehan Khan
Description
All books, even those regarded by some as "classics", are potentially dangerous. This course will survey a selection of ancient books that got their authors in trouble, were censored, inspired rebellion, or enabled social (and antisocial) movements, down to the present moment. Most of the books read will come from ancient Greece or Rome, but some will come from other ancient cultures, such as Egypt, the Near East, and China. Issues involved will include atheism, race and ethnicity, sex and gender, nationalism, magic, and mysticism. The course will make use of brief lectures and presentations but leave as much time as possible for seminar-style discussion.
Course number only
1600
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No

CLST1503 - Ancient Political Thought

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
405
Title (text only)
Ancient Political Thought
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
405
Section ID
CLST1503405
Course number integer
1503
Meeting times
F 10:15 AM-11:14 AM
Meeting location
MCNB 410
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Jeffrey E. Green
Thomas Andrew Pattiz
Description
This course aims to provide a broad survey of some of the most influential political thinkers and ideas from classical antiquity. Among the central figures to be examined are: Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Jesus, and Augustine. Major themes include: ancient theories of justice (with special attention to the relation between the just state and the just person), the emergence of political philosophy as a distinct pursuit, the Athenian polis, the Roman republic and its demise, and the rise of Christianity.
Course number only
1503
Cross listings
PSCI0600405
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No

CLST1503 - Ancient Political Thought

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
404
Title (text only)
Ancient Political Thought
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
404
Section ID
CLST1503404
Course number integer
1503
Meeting times
F 1:45 PM-2:44 PM
Meeting location
PCPE 202
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Jeffrey E. Green
Thomas Andrew Pattiz
Description
This course aims to provide a broad survey of some of the most influential political thinkers and ideas from classical antiquity. Among the central figures to be examined are: Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Jesus, and Augustine. Major themes include: ancient theories of justice (with special attention to the relation between the just state and the just person), the emergence of political philosophy as a distinct pursuit, the Athenian polis, the Roman republic and its demise, and the rise of Christianity.
Course number only
1503
Cross listings
PSCI0600404
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No

CLST1503 - Ancient Political Thought

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
403
Title (text only)
Ancient Political Thought
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
403
Section ID
CLST1503403
Course number integer
1503
Meeting times
W 7:00 PM-7:59 PM
Meeting location
WILL 25
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Abdulaziz M M A Alotaibi
Jeffrey E. Green
Description
This course aims to provide a broad survey of some of the most influential political thinkers and ideas from classical antiquity. Among the central figures to be examined are: Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Jesus, and Augustine. Major themes include: ancient theories of justice (with special attention to the relation between the just state and the just person), the emergence of political philosophy as a distinct pursuit, the Athenian polis, the Roman republic and its demise, and the rise of Christianity.
Course number only
1503
Cross listings
PSCI0600403
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No

CLST1503 - Ancient Political Thought

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
Ancient Political Thought
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
402
Section ID
CLST1503402
Course number integer
1503
Meeting times
W 5:15 PM-6:14 PM
Meeting location
PCPE 203
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Abdulaziz M M A Alotaibi
Jeffrey E. Green
Description
This course aims to provide a broad survey of some of the most influential political thinkers and ideas from classical antiquity. Among the central figures to be examined are: Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Jesus, and Augustine. Major themes include: ancient theories of justice (with special attention to the relation between the just state and the just person), the emergence of political philosophy as a distinct pursuit, the Athenian polis, the Roman republic and its demise, and the rise of Christianity.
Course number only
1503
Cross listings
PSCI0600402
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No

CLST1503 - Ancient Political Thought

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Ancient Political Thought
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
401
Section ID
CLST1503401
Course number integer
1503
Meeting times
MW 3:30 PM-4:29 PM
Meeting location
BENN 401
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Jeffrey E. Green
Description
This course aims to provide a broad survey of some of the most influential political thinkers and ideas from classical antiquity. Among the central figures to be examined are: Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Jesus, and Augustine. Major themes include: ancient theories of justice (with special attention to the relation between the just state and the just person), the emergence of political philosophy as a distinct pursuit, the Athenian polis, the Roman republic and its demise, and the rise of Christianity.
Course number only
1503
Cross listings
PSCI0600401
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No

CLST1501 - Ancient Greek Philosophy

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
403
Title (text only)
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
403
Section ID
CLST1501403
Course number integer
1501
Meeting times
F 12:00 PM-12:59 PM
Meeting location
WILL 27
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Sukaina Hirji
Gwendalynn Carlene Roebke
Description
What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, literature, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy as a discipline in the Western tradition, looking to thinkers of Ancient Greece and Rome. We will examine how natural philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, and Heraclitus distinguished their inquiries from the teachings of poets such as Homer and Hesiod; how ancient atomism had its origins in a response to Parmenides' challenge to the assumption that things change in the world; how Socrates reoriented the focus of philosophy away from the natural world and toward the fundamental ethical question, how shall I live? We will also examine how his pupil, Plato, and subsequently Aristotle, developed elaborate philosophical systems that address the nature of reality, knowledge, and human happiness. Finally, we will examine the ways in which later thinkers such as the Epicureans and Stoics transformed and extended the earlier tradition.
Course number only
1501
Cross listings
PHIL1110403
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No

CLST1501 - Ancient Greek Philosophy

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
402
Section ID
CLST1501402
Course number integer
1501
Meeting times
F 10:15 AM-11:14 AM
Meeting location
WILL 218
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Sukaina Hirji
Gwendalynn Carlene Roebke
Description
What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, literature, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy as a discipline in the Western tradition, looking to thinkers of Ancient Greece and Rome. We will examine how natural philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, and Heraclitus distinguished their inquiries from the teachings of poets such as Homer and Hesiod; how ancient atomism had its origins in a response to Parmenides' challenge to the assumption that things change in the world; how Socrates reoriented the focus of philosophy away from the natural world and toward the fundamental ethical question, how shall I live? We will also examine how his pupil, Plato, and subsequently Aristotle, developed elaborate philosophical systems that address the nature of reality, knowledge, and human happiness. Finally, we will examine the ways in which later thinkers such as the Epicureans and Stoics transformed and extended the earlier tradition.
Course number only
1501
Cross listings
PHIL1110402
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No

CLST1501 - Ancient Greek Philosophy

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Term
2024C
Subject area
CLST
Section number only
401
Section ID
CLST1501401
Course number integer
1501
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-12:59 PM
Meeting location
MCNB 286-7
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Sukaina Hirji
Description
What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, literature, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy as a discipline in the Western tradition, looking to thinkers of Ancient Greece and Rome. We will examine how natural philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, and Heraclitus distinguished their inquiries from the teachings of poets such as Homer and Hesiod; how ancient atomism had its origins in a response to Parmenides' challenge to the assumption that things change in the world; how Socrates reoriented the focus of philosophy away from the natural world and toward the fundamental ethical question, how shall I live? We will also examine how his pupil, Plato, and subsequently Aristotle, developed elaborate philosophical systems that address the nature of reality, knowledge, and human happiness. Finally, we will examine the ways in which later thinkers such as the Epicureans and Stoics transformed and extended the earlier tradition.
Course number only
1501
Cross listings
PHIL1110401
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No