Society for the Humanities (SHUM)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

SHUM 4506

This course offers an exploration of the European temporal imagination, or the ways that questions and concerns about time have been integral to both cultural self-understanding and philosophical reflection. ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 4506HIST 4503

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17474 SHUM 4506   SEM 101

SHUM 4507

The aim of this course is to present a map of theories and artistic strategies in order to better understand the validity of the anachronism and obsolescence in today's culture. During recent years, artists ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4577COML 4006VISST 4577

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17487 SHUM 4507   SEM 101

SHUM 4508

In The New Science, Vico posits that all nations are "poetic in their beginning." In this course we will read works of literature that imagine themselves at the beginning of a new nation or polity: such ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4708

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17495 SHUM 4508   SEM 101

SHUM 4509

This course asks how do racialization projects constitutive of modern European empire figure in the making of nation states? How in particular did anticipation of rights bearing European publics, enshrining ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 4509ANTHR 4109

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17481 SHUM 4509   SEM 101

SHUM 4510

In the seminar "Black in Time" we will explore temporally specific, yet often interconnected iterations of blackness, in an attempt to account for how blackness has been experienced, conceptualized, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4551HIST 4509

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17499 SHUM 4510   SEM 101

SHUM 4511

This seminar will draw on continental philosophy, critical theory, musicology and composers' writings, to investigate historical relationships between strategies of musical timekeeping (conductor, clock, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 4452

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17504 SHUM 4511   SEM 101

SHUM 4512

This course will explore time itself as an artistic material, concentrating on examples from French literature, architecture, and cinema of the last two centuries.  The first section concentrates on the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ROMS 4512

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17505 SHUM 4512   SEM 101

SHUM 6308

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARCH 6308ROMS 6682

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18588 SHUM 6308   SEM 101