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2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Humanities Courses
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Humanities
Humanities
Special Topics-Fall
Special Topics-Spring
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HUM 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Introduction to Sound Studies 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: FMS 195-01 . Although we live in a moment of hypervisuality, sound has been in the limelight through a resurgence of interest in radio, podcasts, and social media. This course will trace the different ways that sound emerges, works and circulates in our current moment through a study of the history of sound. We will explore
oral culture, cultural noise, technology, slam poetry, sound art, and sound in film.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Sutaria -
HUM 295-01 - Special Topic: Digital Journal Publishing: A New Approach 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: SST 295-02 . Course covers all aspects of Rootstalk: A Prairie Journal of Culture, Science, and the Arts. Students expand the idea of a journal, shaping content for the Spring 2023 issue in traditional forms (text and images) but also learning to create online digital content including podcasts, video essays, short films, and audio files. Special focus for this class: In a publishing landscape transformed by the internet, how are journalism and storytelling different, and how are they the same? Discussion will include attention to audience-building, including discussion and study of analytics, social media, and outreach to special populations. Students who have taken other publishing courses taught by these instructors may also take this course.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Andelson, Baechtel -
HUM 295-02 - Special Topic: Miscegenation Nation: Representations of Mixed-Race Relationships in Film and TV 2 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: ENG 295-01 . Representations of Mixed-race Relationships in Film and TV. Over the last thirty years, there has been an increase in interracial relationships in film and television, creating the appearance of a happily multicultural America. Together, we will explore and research how these contemporary media representations relate to histories of “anti-miscegenation” laws in the United States preventing “interbreeding among the races” as well as contemporary realities of racial terror, racialized cultural appropriation, and the drive for true representation in media.
Prerequisite: Second year standing.
Note: Dates: January 24 to March 16. Half-semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Lavan -
HUM 295-03 - Special Topic: Social Change in Middle East Cinema 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: ARB 295-01 . This course invites students to explore how modern aesthetic forms such as cinema coming from the East critiques rigid social realities as it strives to imagine modern social experiences, thereby pushing boundaries towards social change. By chronologically examining selected Arabic, Turkish, Persians, and Hebrew films in colonial and post-colonial contexts, we will explore how film as art reveals the nature of social myth and the role public intellectuals play in perpetuating or challenging that myth. Course is taught in English.
Prerequisite: Second-semester standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Abdelfattah -
HUM 295-04 - Special Topic: On Animals, Jinn and Humans: Arabic Tales and Falsafa 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: ARB 295-02 or GLS 295-01 . Examining Arabic philosophical literature of falsafa, students learn about the significant developments in falsafa, its main achievements, essential arguments, and influence on Arabic and Islamic thought. Readings include Kalila wa Dimna, a collection of fables whose heroes are animals; Hay lbn Yaqzan, a novella on which many jungle book stories are based; and The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn/Demons, and works of philosophers of illumination, such as al-Suhrawardi. Course is taught in English.
Prerequisite: Second-semester standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Abdelfattah -
HUM 295-05 - Special Topic: Juggling and Egg and a Stone: Popular Arabic Film 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: ARB 295-03 . In this course, we explore intersections between cinema and politics. Focusing on Egyptian cinema, students will learn about how filmmakers participated in the production of normative ideas and ideologies. We will examine how films dealt with issues of social inequity, colonial and feudal exploitation, changing gender roles, familial relationships, patriarchy and love, religious and cultural traditions, and, finally, the disappointments of the Nasser and Sadat projects. Course is taught in English.
Prerequisite: Second-semester standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Abdelfattah -
HUM 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Culture, Media, and Social Justice 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: FMS 395-02 . Culture and media are often a part of conversations about what we value, critique, or want to change in society. How are these texts in conversations with our recent questions about social justice? In this course we will explore work by independent podcasts, diverse musical artists, visual media, and online
platforms that speak to matters of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability and more. While texts cannot be perfect, we will examine what role they play in shaping popular perception and instigating change.
Prerequisite: ART 155 , FMS 155 , ART 255 , or FMS 255 .
Instructor: Sutaria
Special Topic - Fall and Spring
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HUM 195-01 & 03 - Introductory Special Topic: Representing Difference: Jewish Literature and the Arts in France 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 195-02 . This course examines the place of Jews in France during the long nineteenth century, a historical period in which French Jewish citizens negotiated the right to difference amidst a dominant universalist rhetoric. We will study the representation of the Jewish people in popular literature and the visual and performing arts, authored by both Jews and Gentiles. We will also trace the evolution of antisemitism in France throughout the nineteenth century.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Fall - section 03
Spring - section 01
Instructor: Lee
Variable Topics- Spring
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GLS 251-01 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature 4 credits (Spring)
See HUM 251-01 .
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HUM 251-01 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 251-01 . This course takes a theoretical approach to canonical and contemporary children’s literature. This section will focus primarily on the history of constructions of race and sexuality in American children’s literature, primarily picture books.
Prerequisite: A course in English or another course in literature.
Instructor: Greene
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