Humanities Signature Course Archive

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• Mind, Brain and Meaning
• Audience, Algorithms, and Ingenuity: Unexpected Encounters in Media Arts and Live Performance
• BIG: Monumental Buildings and Sculptures in the Past and Present
• Philosophy and Literature in India

• Queering the American Family Drama

• Major Trends in Islamic Mysticism, Yousef Casewit

• Hearing Popular Music, Jennifer Iverson

• The Novel Prize in Literature, Françoise Meltzer

• Ghosts and the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin
• The Age of Innovation: Mesopotamian Writing through Objects, Susanne Paulus
• Mesopotamian Law, Martha Roth
• Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings, Ada Palmer
• The Amazon: Literature, Culture, Environment, Victoria Saramago
• Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth
• Religion, Science, Naturalism: Is There a Problem?, Daniel Arnold
• South Asian Sensoriums, Tyler Williams
• Black in Colonial America: Three Women, SJ Zhang

• Sonic Cultures of Japan, Michael Bourdaghs

• Richer and Poorer: Income Inequality, Elaine Hadley

• The History of Iraq in the 20th Century, Orit Bashkin
• The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
• Europe's Intellectual Transformations, Renaissance through Enlightenment, Ida Palmer
• Opera Across Media, Martha Feldman and Anne Monique Pace
• Metaphysics, Morbidity & Modernity: Mann'sThe Magic Mountain, David Wellbery
• Languages of the Ancient World: Diversity and Survival, Sofía Torallas-Tovar

• The Future, Bill Brown

• American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari

• Nabokov: Lolita, Malynne Sternstein
• Critical Videogame Studies, Patrick Jagoda
• Jewish Graphic Narrative: Between Memory and Caricature, Na'ama Rokem
• Music and Mind, Lawrence Zbikowski
• Major Trends in Islamic Mysticism, Yousef Casewit
• Japanese Animation: The Making of a Global Media, Thomas Lamarre

• Ethics in the Digital Age, Daniel Moerner

• Self-Creation as a Literary and Philosophical Problem, Agnes Callard

• Topics in EALC: Ghosts and the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin
• Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings, Ada Palmer
• Myth and Its Critics, Clifford Ando
• Inventing Consciousness: Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Timothy Harrison
• Eurovision, Philip Bohlman
• Before Zodiac: Astronomy and Mathematics as Ancient Culture, John Wee
• Opera Across Media, Catrin Dowd and Martha Feldman
• Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth
• South Asian Sensoriums, Tyler Williams
• Deconstruction: Derrida and de Man, Haun Saussy

• Augustus: Republic to Empire, Michele Lowrie

• BIG: Monumental Buildings and Sculptures in the Past and Present, James Osborne

• Did Climate Doom the Ancients?, Hervé Reculeau
• The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
• Making and Meaning in the American Musical, Thomas Christensen
• Mesopotamian Law, Martha Roth
• Nietzsche: Culture, Critique, Self-Transcendence, David Wellbery
• Religious Autobiographies, Richard Rosengarten
• Theater about Theater, John Muse

• Witnessing Medieval Evil: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Observation, Benjamin Saltzman

• The Amazon: Literature, Culture, Environment, Victoria Saramago

• Critical Videogame Studies, Patrick Jagoda

• Queering the American Family Drama, Leslie Danzig

• Arab America, Ghenwa Hayek

• Before the Zodiac: Astronomy and Mathematics as Ancient Culture, John Wee
• Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth
• From Dostoevsky To Samurai To Spaghetti Western: Adaptation And Akira Kurosawa, Olga Solovieva
• Inventing Consciousness: Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Tim Harrison
• The Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings, Ada Palmer
• Media Wars, Jennifer Wild
• Nabokov: Lolita, Malynne Sternstein
• Opera Across Media, Martha Feldman
• Religion, Science and Naturalism: Is There a Problem? Dan Arnold
• South Asian Sensoriums, Tyler Williams
• Topics in EALC: Ghosts and the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin

• Truth, Chris Kennedy

• The Age of Innovation - Famous Firsts 5,000 Years Ago, Susanne Paulus

• American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari
• The Declaration of Independence, Eric Slauter
• Japanese Animation: The Making of a Global Media, Thomas Lamarre
• Mesopotamian Law, Martha Roth
• My Body, My Self: Asceticism and Subjectivity, Sarah Pierce-Taylor & Erin Walsh
• Philosophy and Literature in India, Anand Venkatkrishnan

• Some Versions of Apocalypse, Mark Miller

• Black in Colonial America: Three Women

• Ethics in the Digital Age
• Europe's Intellectual Transformations, Renaissance through Enlightenment
• Everyday Maoism: Revolution, Daily Life, and Material Culture in Socialist China
• History of Iraq in the 20th Century
• The Language of Deception and Humor
• Media & Power in the Age of Putin & Trump

• The World's a Stage: Performance in Politics, Culture, and Everyday Life

• The Amazon: Culture, History, Environment, Victoria Saramago

• The American Classics, Eric Slauter
• BIG: Monumental Buildings and Sculptures in the Past and Present, James Osborne
• Bioethics, Laurie Zoloth
• Civil War Literature, Michèle Lowrie
• The Eurovision Song Contest, Philip Bohlman
• The Jewish Graphic Novel, Na'ama Rokem
• Listening to Movies, Berthold Hoeckner
• Richer and Poorer: Income Inequality, Elaine Hadley
• Roman Law, Clifford Ando
• Versailles: Art, Power, Resistance and the Sun King's Palace, Larry Norman
• Vienna Around 1900 and the Making of the 20th Century, Ingrid Christian

• Witnessing Medieval Evil: Literature, Art and the Politics of Observation, Ben Saltzman

• American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari

• Literature and the Financial Crisis of 2008, Ken Warren

• Ancient Drama, Modern Theory, Sarah Nooter

• Code Making, Code Breaking, Chris Kennedy
• Critical Videogame Studies, Patrick Jagoda
• The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
• Major Trends in Islamic Mysticism, Yousef Casewit
• Markets Before Capitalism, Alain Bresson
• Music and Mind, Larry Zbikowski
• Opera Across Media, Martha Feldman
• Religious Autobiography, Richard Rosengarten
• The Rise of the Global New Right, Leah Feldman

• Witnessing War, Rachel Galvin

• The Age of Innovation: Famous Firsts 5,000 Years Ago, Susanne Paulus

• Before the Zodiac: Astronomy and Mathematics as Ancient Culture, John Wee
• Eurovision Song Contest, Phillip Bohlman
• History of the Present, Kathleen Belew
• Inventing Consciousness: Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Timothy Harrison
• Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings, Ada Palmer
• Listening to Movies, Berthold Hoeckner
• Memory and Identity in French Literature: Proust to the Present, Alison James
• Myth and Its Critics, Clifford Ando
• Reforming Religious Media: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, Christopher Wild
• Self-Creation as a Philosophical and Literary Problem, Agnes Callard
• Thinking with Race in Medieval England, Julie Orlemanski
• The Underground: Alienation, Mobilization, Resistance, Robert Bird

• Versailles: Art, Power, Resistance and the Sun King's Palace, Larry Norman

• American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari

• The Declaration of Independence, Eric Slauter
• Europe's Intellectual Transformations, Renaissance Through Enlightenment, Ada Palmer
• The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
• Making and Meaning in the American Musical, Thomas Christensen
• Media and Power in the Age of Putin and Trump, William Nickell
• Mesopotamian Law, Martha Roth
• The Rise of the Global New Right, Leah Feldman

• Some Versions of Apocalypse, Mark Miller

• Censorship, Information Control, and Revolutions in Information Technology from the Printing Press to Internet, Adrian Johns and Ada Palmer

• Climate Change in Literature, Art, and Film, Benjamin Morgan
• Critical Videogame Studies, Patrick Jagoda
• Everyday Maoism: Work, Daily Life, and Material Culture in Socialist China, Jacob Eyferth
• Ghosts & the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin

• Truth, Chris Kennedy

• Arab America, Ghenwa Hayek

• Grimm's Fairy Tales and the Construction of Childhood, Christopher Wild
• Introduction to the Middle East, Fred Donner
• Listening to Movies, Berthold Hoeckner
• Making and Meaning in the American Musical, Thomas Christensen
• Nabokov: Lolita, Malynne Sternstein
• Roman Law, Clifford Ando

• Theater About Theater, John Muse

• American Deaf Community: Language, Culture, and Society, Diane Brentari

• The Discovery of Egypt in the Age of European Enlightenment and its Aftermath, Nadine Moeller
• The History of Iraq in the 20th Century, Orit Bashkin
• History of Skepticism, Ada Palmer
• The Language of Deception and Humor, Jason Riggle
• Media and Power in the Age of Putin and Trump, William Nickell
• Mesopotamian Law, Martha T. Roth
• Nietzsche: Culture, Critique, Self-Transcendence, David E. Wellbery
• Psychoanalytic Thought: Freud and Lacan, Françoise Meltzer
• Richer & Poorer: Income Inequality, Elaine Hadley

• The Underground: Alienation, Mobilization, Resistance, Robert Bird

• Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present, Stuart McManus and Ada Palmer

• Code Making/Code Breaking, Chris Kennedy
• The First Great Transformation: The Economies of the Ancient World, Alain Bresson

• The Nuclear Age, Deborah Nelson

• Big: Monumental Buildings and Sculptures in the Past and Present, James F. Osborne

• Ghosts and the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Judith Zeitlin
• Introduction to the Middle East, Fred M. Donner
• Japanese History Through Film and Other Texts, James Ketelaar
• Making and Meaning in the American Musical, Thomas Christensen
• Richer & Poorer: Income Inequality, Elaine Hadley
• Science and Aesthetics, Robert J. Richards
• Self-Creation as a Literary and Philosophical Problem, Agnes Callard
• Truth, Chris Kennedy