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FREN 810 - Seminar in Medieval Literature
(a) Chansons de geste, chroniques, memories.
(b) Vies des saints, romans.
(c) Poesie non-narrative, theatre.
(d) Satire et humanisme. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: FREN 508.
Credits: 3
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FREN 820 - Seminar in Sixteenth-Century Literature
(a) Rabelais.
(b) Montaigne. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 830 - Seminar in Seventeenth-Century Literature
(a) Moliere.
(b) Racine.
(c) Corneille.
(d) The Moralists.
(e) The Lyric of the early seventeenth century.
(f) La Fontaine.
(g) Contes et Nouvelles. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 840 - Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Theater.
(d) Novel.
(e) Rousseau.
(f) Marivaux. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 850 - Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Zola.
(c) Balzac.
(d) Stendhal.
(e) Symbolist Theater.
(f) Naturalistic Novel.
(g) Musset.
(h) Hugo.
(i) Baudelaire and Nerval.
(j) La Decadence.
(k) Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarme.
(l) George Sand.
(m) Vigny. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 860 - Seminar in Twentieth-Century Literature
(a) Proust.
(b) Gide.
(c) Theater.
(d) Roman-fleuve.
(e) Existentialism.
(f) New Novel.
(g) Valery.
(h) Dada and Surrealism.
(i) Supervielle and St. John Perse. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 870 - Seminar in Francophone Literature
Studies the Francophone literature of Africa, with special emphasis on post-World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights. Examines the role of cultural and literary reviews in the historical and ideological development. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 880 - Selected Topics in French Civilization
In-depth studies of cultural topics and research methodologies in French civilization. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: FREN 580 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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FREN 893 - Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Credits: 3
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FREN 894 - Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Credits: 3
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FREN 897 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. (Y)
Credits: 3 to 12
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FREN 997 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. (Y)
Credits: 3 to 12
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FREN 999 - Dissertation Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. (Y)
Credits: 3 to 12
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French in Translation |
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FRTR 790 - Comparative Caribbean Culture
Comparative examination of contemporary culture in the Caribbean region with an emphasis on literature. Considers historical writing (essays), musical forms, and film as manifestations of the process of creolization in the area. Questions of ethnic diversity and nation-building are central to the course. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FRTR 791 - Comparative Caribbean Literature
A comparative examination of postcolonialism and postmodernism in the Caribbean region, emphasizing the dynamics of center and margin. Texts are taken from the anglophone, francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. (Y)
Credits: 3
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General |
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RELG 503 - Readings in Chinese Religion
Examines selected readings from a specific text, figure, or theme. Readings emphasize possible structures of religious language and their translation. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 506 - Interpretation of Myth
An interdisciplinary study of myth, focusing on structuralist, hermeneutical, and history of religion methodologies. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 507 - Interpretation Theory
Analyzes existentialist, phenomenological, structuralist, literary, historical, and psychological approaches to the interpretation of texts, especially narrative religious texts; and the interactions of language, history, and understanding. (O)
Credits: 3
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RELG 508 - Seminar on Religion and American Culture I
Historical examination of Americans’ religious identities in relation to the dominant values of American social and intellectual life, with particular attention to the concept of community. Subjects include Puritanism, the Mennonites, the Shakers, Mormonism, and the growth of Evangelicalism. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: A course in either American history or American religious history. Open to upper-level undergraduates.
Credits: 3
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RELG 514 - Seminar on a Major Religious Thinker
Studies the relationship between philosophical and religious thought as seen in a selected philosopher or theologian. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 515 - Issues in Religious Ethics
Studies selected issues such as mysticism and morality, conscience, natural law, nonviolence, and methodology in religious ethics. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 517 - Seminar in History of Religions
Introduces the basic thinkers in the field of history of religions and to fundamental problems in the study of religious sociology, mythology, and ritual. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 518 - Seminar in Philosophical Theology
Studies ideas of God in Western thought from Plato through Descartes. (O)
Credits: 3
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RELG 524 - Problems in Philosophy of Religion
Examines classic and contemporary discussions of problems in the philosophy of religion. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 541 - Seminar in Social and Political Thought
An examination of the social and political thought of selected religious thinkers. (O)
Credits: 3
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RELG 563 - Seminar: Issues in the Study of Religion and Literature
Analyzes, in terms of fundamental theory, the purposes, problems, and possibilities of interdisciplinary work in religion and literary criticism. (S)
Credits: 3
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RELG 569 - Contemporary Religious Movements
Studies the psychological, sociological, and political dimensions of conversion and ideological commitment in selected contemporary religious movements. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 571 - The Victorian Crisis of Faith: Its Religious and Literary Expressions
Studies the religious dilemmas at the center of English thought in the 19th century, from the time of Keble’s Assize sermon and the advent of the Oxford Movement into the period of Thomas Hardy. The focal figures include Newman, Tennyson, Clough, Arnold, Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 573 - Theology of Culture
Studies the relationship between religion and culture. Topics include a theological assessment of the value of culture; the impact of secularization; the critique of religion levied by various disciplines; and the problems of theology in a pluralistic context. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 575 - Myth and Ritual
Studies theories of myth and ritual from an interdisciplinary perspective, including selected mythological and ritual texts. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 578 - Human Genetics, Ethics, and Theology
Studies ethical problems in genetic screening, counseling, and prenatal diagnosis. Ideas of biological and theological determinism are explored critically. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: RELG 265 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 585 - Narrative in Ethics and Theology
Examines the nature of narrative modes of representation and argument, and how narrative theory has been employed in contemporary ethics and religious thought. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 590 - Ethics, Politics, and Rhetoric
Studies the perennial problems of politics and morals, considered primarily by the reading of plays, novels, speeches, and historical documents. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 592 - Theology and Politics
Investigates the relationship between theological reflection and political thought, focusing on how theological positions may have implications for political theory and vice-versa. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 705 - Myth and Modern Drama
Studies the religious and narrative elements of Greek, biblical, and other mythic traditions as they exist in the works of modern dramatists. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 714 - Comparative Indo-European Mythology
Studies structural parallels between myths of the Indo-European language family, based on the methods pioneered by Georges Dumezil. (IR)
Credits: 1
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RELG 720 - Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion
Studies several major works of Ludwig Wittgenstein as they bear on the problems raised by the philosophical study of religion. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 721 - Kant and Philosophy of Religion
Examines Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, with special attention to Kant’s view of the relation between the theoretical and practical employments of reason, and the implications for theistic belief. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 722 - Rationality, Justification, and Religious Belief
Examines several major contemporary approaches to the question of the justification of religious belief, involving issues of relativism and kinds of rationality. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 725 - Kierkegaard and Philosophy of Religion
Examines Søren Kierkegaard’s contribution to the philosophy of religion through his major philosophical works, Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Their bearing on the philosophical study of religion is highlighted by a prefatory examination of some works by Hume or Kant which provide useful contrast. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 800 - Negativity and Religious Imagination
Examines the ways in which imaginative literature, theological reflection, and hermeneutical inquiry interpret aspects of negativity in human experience and understanding. (E)
Credits: 3
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RELG 808 - Principles and Practice of Bioethics Services
Reviews the underlying principles, existing models, and literature in the practice of ethics consultation in health care. (Y)
Credits: 2
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RELG 809 - Proseminar on Current Controversies in Bioethics
Studies controversies regarding research with the embryo and fetus, issues in AIDS prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and requests for assistance with suicide or euthanasia. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 810 - Proseminar in Clinical Ethics
Explores ethical perspectives and clinical decisions, including situation ethics, casuistry, principlism, and feminist perspectives. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 812 - Figures and Traditions in Philosophical and Religious Ethics
A two-semester course that introduces the basic ethical works and
theories of central figures in the Western tradition: Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bentham,
Mill, Buber, Dewey, and Rawls. (Y)
Credits: 1 to 3
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RELG 813 - Figures and Traditions in Philosophical and Religious
A two-semester course that introduces the basic ethical works and
theories of central figures in the Western tradition: Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bentham,
Mill, Buber, Dewey, and Rawls. (Y)
Credits: 1 to 3
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RELG 814 - History of Bioethics via the Great Cases
Topics include Tuskegee, Jewish Hospital for Chronic Diseases, Philadelphia Head-Injury Studies, Quinlan and Cruzan, Jehovah’s Witness, Bouvia, Quill and Freud, Baby Jane Doe, Baby Theresa, Angela Carder, Wanglie, the Oregon Plan, etc. Concentrates on analysis of cases and turning points in the field of bioethics. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 833 - Comparative Religious Ethics
Examines the theoretical and methodological questions underlying comparative studies of religious ethics. Tests several methods in relation to materials from different religious traditions. (E)
Credits: 3
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RELG 834 - Contemporary Theological Ethics
Examines trends and controversies in contemporary theological ethics. (O)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 840 - Historiography Seminar in American Religion
Examines current historiographical issues in the interpretation of religion in American history. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 855 - Seminar in the Thought of Martin Heidegger
Examines the works of Heidegger (especially Being and Time) and their contribution to contemporary theology. (SI)
Credits: 3
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General History |
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HIST 501 - Documentary Editing: Procedures and Practice
The principles and methods of interpreting and editing historical
manuscripts, emphasizing the colonial and early national periods. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 502 - Documentary Editing: Procedures and Practice
The principles and methods of interpreting and editing historical
manuscripts, emphasizing the colonial and early national periods. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 503 - Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data
The social scientific approach to historical inquiry, the formulation of theories, and their testing with historical data. Includes extensive directed readings in quantitative history and training in quantitative methods, sampling, the organization of a data-set, and data analysis. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Introductory course in statistics or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 504 - Monticello Internship
Directed research, largely in primary source materials, on topics relating to Jefferson’s estate, life, and times. Directed by senior members of the Monticello staff. A maximum of two students each semester are admitted to the course. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission; graduate status or fourth-year undergraduate history majors.
Credits: 3
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HIST 505 - History, Memory, Subjectivity
Considers a portion of the very extensive, and growing, literature on issues of memory, subjectivity, and historical evidence. “Memory” is taken in a broad sense, to include not only the recall and narrativization of experience but also tradition and commemoration, since in the historical literature these different senses of memory are often mixed together. Students must find their own paper topics, and are encouraged to discuss the course with the instructor in advance. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 506 - Philosophy of History
Examines the theoretical presuppositions of historical research and writing. (SI)
Credits: 3
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HIST 507 - Internship in History: Interpreting African-American Life at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
This internship program, devised and presented by Monticello staff, and offered in conjunction with UVa, is designed for students interested in the interpretation of African-American history to the public. The interns are trained as historical interpreters and to present Monticello’s Plantation Community tour. This walking tour explores Mulberry Row, the center of plantation activity where enslaved African-American families lived and worked, and examines the philosophical issue of Thomas Jefferson and slavery. Lectures, discussions and readings cover the historical content and interpretive techniques that allow interns to develop their individualized Plantation Community tours. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 509 - Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire
Study of how a large empire governed a diverse population, between 1453 and 1981, from the perspective of concerns about recent nationalist, racial and ethnic conflicts in modern nation-states. Course first examines how the Ottomans managed relations between ethnic and religious groups to 1750. Course then examines reasons for increased communal conflict after 1750, and Ottoman efforts to re-engineer relations among groups along liberal, constitutional lines. (Y)
Credits: 3
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HIST 511 - Slavery in World History
Historical study of “slavery” from very early times through the nineteenth century, on a global scale (including ancient Mediterranean, Islamic world, Africa, Europe, and the Americas).(IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 513 - The Atlantic Slave Trade
Studies the growth and development of the international slave trade from Africa to the New World from the 15th to the 19th centuries. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 705 - Economic History
Extensive directed readings on selected topics, covering both substantive historical literature and relevant theoretical works. Students must write a minimum of two papers during the term. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 706 - Comparative Readings in British America and Latin America Before 1800
Graduate colloquium devoted to comparative readings in colonial Latin America and colonial British America, co-taught by specialists in each of the respective fields. Identifies broad areas of similarity and contrast in the settlement and development of the two colonial societies. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 707 - Methods in Social History
A colloquium open to students in all fields and periods. Examines new approaches, methods, and subject matter in the broad area of social history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 708 - Colloquium in Methodological Perspectives
Surveys different methodological perspectives currently exhibited in historical scholarship, such as social history, intellectual history, political history, feminist history, and economic history, as reflected in distinctive works of scholarship. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 711 - Modern French Imperialism
Topics in the study of France’s political, social, and cultural influence in Africa and Asia since 1798. Emphasis on indigenous perspectives of those who lived under French colonial rule in the Middle East and North Africa. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 720 - History of Environment and Technology
This seminar introduces graduate students to environmental history and the history of technology, with an emphasis on their overlap. Environmental historians study the role of nature in the human past. Historians of technology examine the role of tools in history. This course emphasizes the synthesis of ideas from both fields to help us understand environmental, technological, and social change. Students read, discuss, and write about classic and new works of scholarship. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 801 - Summer Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students needing to meet seminar requirements for the M.A. or Ph.D. degrees during the nine-week summer session. Not open to degree candidates enrolled during the regular academic session. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies or chair of the department.
Credits: 3
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HIST 805 - Economic History
In-depth exploration of selected problems in United States economic history. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Some background in economics, particularly micro-economics.
Credits: 3
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HIST 821 - English Legal Thought
Studies English legal thought in the nineteenth century, particularly the background, opinions, and conception of law held by Blackstone, Bentham, John Austin, Lord Eldon, Sir Henry Maine, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, A.V. Dicey, and F.W. Maitland. (See School of Law listing. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 822 - English Legal History
Research seminar on topics of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English legal history. Limited (if necessary) to 18, and preference is given (if necessary) to those who have taken English Legal Thought. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 842 - Writing Transnational History
This seminar will focus on ways of writing about the past that transcend the limitations of strictly national history. Students will be encouraged to develop substantial research projects concerning the movement of individuals, peoples, goods, or ideas across national boundaries or the establishment of transnational and/or colonial relationships, associations, or spaces. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 897 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. (IR)
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 898 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. (IR)
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 901 - Advanced Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students preparing for the oral qualifying examination and for the dissertation. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the graduate program, or permission of the graduate committee.
Credits: 3
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HIST 902 - Advanced Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students preparing for the oral qualifying examination and for the dissertation. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the graduate program, or permission of the graduate committee.
Credits: 3
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HIST 993 - Independent Research
Credits: 3
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HIST 995 - Supervised Research
Normally required of first-year graduate students in the second semester. Reading and/or research in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 996 - Independent Research
Credits: 3
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HIST 997 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. (IR)
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. (IR)
Credits: 3 to 12
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LNGS 701 - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
Credits: 3
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LNGS 702 - Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Studies linguistic change focusing on the methods of comparative and internal reconstruction. (O)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LNGS 701 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ENGN 831 - The Lyric Genre
Surveys English lyric poems from Chaucer to Auden; designed to isolate what is lyrical (i.e., unprosaic, musical, aesthetic, reflexive, egotistical, or sublime) in this body of literature. (SI)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 840 - Drama From 1660 to the Late Nineteenth Century
Studies drama in England, from Dryden and Congreve, to Wilde and Shaw. (SI)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 881 - Reason and Sensibility in the Novel
First of four courses, each of which may be taken independently, surveying major issues and terms in the history of the novel. Studies the relation between aesthetic and intellectual concerns of the period ca. 1750-1820 and the development of forms and techniques. Texts are drawn from English and Continental fiction. Authors include Diderot, Goethe, Richardson, Scott, and Sterne. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 882 - Realism
Authors studied include Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 883 - Naturalism and the Early Modern
Authors studied include Hardy, Zola, Chekhov, Mann, Proust, and D.H. Lawrence. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 884 - Elaborations of the Modern
Authors studied include Breton, Faulkner, Malraux, Mann, Svevo, and Woolf. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 981 - Seminar in Literary Genres I, II
Topics range from comedy as an art form to a study of various approaches to the novel. (SI)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 982 - Seminar in Literary Genres I, II
Topics range from comedy as an art form to a study of various approaches to the novel. (SI)
Credits: 3
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GERM 500 - Critical Writing and Bibliography
Supervised practice in the organization and writing of articles for scholarly journals. Includes introduction to bibliography. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 505 - Special Topics
Major figures, genres, or literary problems serve as the focus for an intensive course within any literary period. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 510 - Middle High German
Introduces Middle High German grammar and included readings in Middle High German literature. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 512 - Medieval German Lyric Poetry
Selections from the Minnesang in the context of the development of Middle High German poetry. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Middle High German.
Credits: 3
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GERM 514 - Arthurian Romance
Theory and analysis of the chief German Arthurian romances: Erec, Parzival, Iwain, and Tristan. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Middle High German.
Credits: 3
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GERM 521 - Reformation to Baroque, 1700
German literature from 1500 to 1680. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 523 - Weise to Wieland
Studies German literature from 1680 to 1750. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 525 - Age of Goethe I
Studies German ‘Storm and Stress’ and classicism, focusing on Goethe and Schiller. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 526 - Age of Goethe II
Studies representative romantic works against the background of German intellectual history, 1795-1830. (IR)
Credits: 3
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