Undergraduate courses in Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Required of students in the Humanities Honors Program. Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities through the study and application of theoretical approaches to major texts. Textual analysis and writing assignments to prepare students to write honors essays. GER:DB-Hum

3 units, Win (Freidin, G; Staveley, A)

HUMNTIES 161. Texts in History: Classics from Greece to Rome

(Same as CLASSGEN 163, DRAMA 161R.) Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. Ancient texts situated in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Readings include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea, Thucydides Peloponnesian War, Plato's Symposium, Aristotle's Poetics, Virgil's Aeneid, Seneca's Trojan Women and Agamemnon, and Augustine's On Christian Doctrine. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Win (Rehm, R)

HUMNTIES 162. Texts in History: Medieval to Early Modern

(Same as ENGLISH 184C.) Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. The impact of change from the Middle Ages to the early modern world; how historical pressures challenged conceptions of artistic form, self, divine, and the physical universe. Interdisciplinary methods of interpretation. Texts include: Aristotle, On the Soul; Attar,The Conference of the Birds; Dante, nferno; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies; Letters of Columbus; Machiavelli, The Prince; Luther, The Bondage of the Will; Montaigne, Essays; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; poems by John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth; Shakespeare, Othello; and works of art. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Brooks, H)

HUMNTIES 163. Texts in History: Enlightenment to the Modern

(Same as ENGLISH 184D.) Priority to students in the Humanities honors program and English majors. The relationship between intellectual, political, and cultural history, and imaginative literature in the modern period. Rousseau, Kant, Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marx, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Mill, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Beckett. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Staveley, A)

HUMNTIES 170. Media Studies Internship

Practical experience working with a film or media company for six to eight weeks. Students make arrangements with companies individually and receive the consent of the director of the Humanities honors program. Credit awarded for submitting a paper after completing the internship, focused on a topic relevant to the student's studies.

2-3 units, Aut (Freidin, G), Win (Freidin, G), Spr (Freidin, G), Sum (Staff)

HUMNTIES 175. Individual Work

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

HUMNTIES 181. Philosophy and Literature

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, Win (Anderson, L; Vermeule, B)

HUMNTIES 191R. What is Life? The History of a Question

(Same as HISTORY 242A, HISTORY 342A.) History of attempts to understand the nature of life and mind by comparing living creatures with artificial machines and material arrangements. Imitations of animal life and human thought and discussions of relations between creatures and contraptions from antiquity onward, with an eye toward providing historical depth to current attempts to simulate life and mind. GER:DB-Hum

4-5 units, not given this year

HUMNTIES 191S. Capital and Empire

(Same as HISTORY 239D, HISTORY 339D.) Can empire be justified with balance sheets of imperial crimes and boons, a calculus of racism versus railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Wal-mart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, not given this year

HUMNTIES 193W. Nietzsche, Doestoevsky, and Sartre

(Same as PHIL 193W.) Literary works in which philosophical ideas and issues are put forward, such as prose poems, novels, and plays. Ideas and issues and the dramatic or narrative structures through which they are presented. Texts include: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov; and Sartre, Nausea and No Exit. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, not given this year

HUMNTIES 196S. Contemporary Religious Reflection

(Same as RELIGST 240, RELIGST 340.) Focus is on normative and prescriptive proposals by recent and contemporary philosophers and theologians, as opposed to the domination of Religious Studies by textual, historical, cultural, and other largely descriptive and interpretive approaches. Do such normative and prescriptive proposals belong in the academy? Has Religious Studies exorcised its theological nimbus only to find contemporary religious reflection reappearing elsewhere in the university?

3-5 units, Aut (Sockness, B)

HUMNTIES 197F. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in Dialogue with Contemporary Philosophical, Social, and Ethical Thought

(Same as SLAVGEN 190, SLAVGEN 290.) Themes: institutions of the family and gender; debate about the female body, church, and religion; the decline of privilege and the rise of capital and industry; the meaning of art and the artist; conflicts of law and custom, country and city, andnationalism and cosmopolitanism; and the ascetic rejection of the world. Authors include Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Weber, and Freud. GER:DB-Hum, DB-Hum, EC-EthicReas

3-4 units, Spr (Freidin, G)

HUMNTIES 198J. Digital Humanities: Beyond the Book

(Same as ENGLISH 153H.) How electronic texts, literary databases, computers, and digital corpora offer unique ways of reading, analyzing, and understanding literature. Intellectual and philosophical problems associated with an objective methodology within a traditionally subjective discipline. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Aut (Jockers, M)

HUMNTIES 198W. Digital Humanities Workshop

(Same as COMPLIT 198.) Post-print models of research and scholarship in humanities fields. Toolkits being employed in such work from wikis to interactive media to virtual worlds; and theories and practices in the digital humanities field. Focus is on student projects.

4 units, Spr (Schnapp, J)

HUMNTIES 199A. Honors Essay Writing Workshop

Two quarter sequence. Students discuss progress on research and writing the senior honors essay. Required for seniors in the Humanities honors program.

1 unit, Aut (Batuman, E)

HUMNTIES 199B. Honors Essay Writing Workshop

Two quarter sequence. Students discuss progress on research and writing the senior honors essay. Required for seniors in the Humanities honors program.

1 unit, Win (Batuman, E)

HUMNTIES 200A. Research Proposal

Preliminary planning and study. Student drafts a proposal in Winter Quarter of the junior year to submit to the committee in charge for suggestions regarding focus and bibliography. After revisions, the student resubmits a fully developed proposal to the committee for additional comment and/or final approval. 60 hours over two quarters are expected of students developing their essay proposals for 2 units, usually 1 unit each in Winter and Spring of the junior year. Students usually make revisions of some kind in either scope or formulation of the topic. Students overseas submit proposals and receive feedback by fax or email. [WIM]

1-2 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

HUMNTIES 200B. Senior Research

Regular meetings with tutor (thesis adviser). Prerequisite: 200A. WIM

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

HUMNTIES 200C. Senior Research

Regular meetings with tutor; submission of complete first draft at least two weeks before final deadline. Prerequisite: 200B.

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

HUMNTIES 201. Digital Humanities Practicum

For Humanities majors concentrating in digital humanities. Work related to the honors thesis under the supervision of a Stanford faculty or staff member usually affiliated with the Stanford Humanities Lab. Must be approved by the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities.

2-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

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Undergraduate courses in Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities