# Humanities Signature Course Archive

**Source**: https://college.uchicago.edu/academics/humanities-signature-course-archive
**Parent**: https://college.uchicago.edu/academics/humanities-signature-courses

- *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's*The 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