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    • 21L.001 Foundations of Western Culture I: Homer to Dante, Spring 2000 

      Kibel, Alvin C. (2000-06)
      Studies a broad range of texts essential to understanding the two great sources of Western conceptions of the world and humanity's place within it: the ancient world of Greece and Rome and the Judeo-Christian world that ...
    • 21L.003 Reading Fiction, Fall 2008 

      Vaeth, Kimberly (2008-12)
      This course offers students ways to become more engaged and curious readers for life. By learning the language of selected short stories and novels, students learn the language of literary description. There will be a ...
    • 21L.016 / 21M.616 Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance, Spring 2007 

      Henderson, Diana; Sonenberg, Janet (2007-06)
      This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Moliere. It ...
    • 21L.421 Comedy, Fall 2001 

      Kelley, Wyn (2001-12)
      Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, MoliSre, Austen, and Chaplin. From ...
    • 21L.421 Comedy, Spring 2001 

      Tapscott, Stephen, 1948- (2001-06)
      Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Molière, Austen, and Chaplin. From ...
    • 21L.448 / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2002 

      Paradis, James (2002-12)
      In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent agency. ...
    • 21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009 

      Paradis, James (2009-12)
      In the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent ...
    • 21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory, Spring 2004 

      Raman, Shankar (2004-06)
      This subject focuses on the ways in which we read, providing an overview of some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century. The course is ...
    • 21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory, Spring 2010 

      Raman, Shankar (2010-06)
      This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century, paying special attention to ...
    • 21L.472 Major European Novels, Fall 2001 

      Kibel, Alvin C. (2001-12)
      A study of changing narrative forms in the nineteenth-century European novel. The changing fortunes of the heroic and romantic ideals. The motif of the outsider as a means for depicting social reality. Readings in Cervantes, ...