Required course for first-year PhD Students in the Art History Department.
Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year
Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year
This is a course is oriented to graduate students who are thinking about issues in teaching in the near and distant future and want to explore forms of pedagogy. The course will ask what it means to teach “as a feminist” and will explore how to create a classroom receptive to feminist and queer methodologies and theories regardless of course theme/content. Topics include: participatory pedagogy, the role of political engagement, the gender dynamics of the classroom, modes of critical thought and disagreement. Discussions will be oriented around student interest. The course will meet 4-5 times per SEMESTER (dates TBD) and the final assignment is to develop and workshop a syllabus for a new gender/sexuality course in your field. Because this course is required for graduate students choosing to fulfill Option 2 for the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies at IRWGS, priority will be given to graduate students completing the certificate.
The dissertation colloquium is a non-credit course open to MESAAS doctoral students who have completed the M.Phil. degree. It provides a forum in which the entire community of dissertation writers meets, bridging the departments different fields and regions of research. It complements workshops outside the department focused on one area or theme. Through an encounter with the diversity of research underway in MESAAS, participants learn to engage with work anchored in different regions and disciplines and discover or develop what is common in the departments post-disciplinary methods of inquiry. Since the community is relatively small, it is expected that all post-M.Phil. students in residence will join the colloquium. Post M.Phil. students from other departments may request permission to join the colloquium, but places for non-MESAAS students will be limited. The colloquium convenes every semester, meeting once every two weeks. Each meeting is devoted to the discussion of one or two pre-circulated pieces of work (a draft prospectus or dissertation chapter). Every participant contributes at least one piece of work each year.
Prerequisite: instructors permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
This course is designed to provide both M.A. and Ph.D. students in Korean studies with the necessary skills for reading and understanding Korean mixed script and to provide them with reading materials focusing on period from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century. Readings from this period feature a strong mixture of Chinese and Korean characters, so a wide choice of materials is available which represents all subject areas. This course will be part of the graduate program in Korean studies.
Prerequisites: JPNS W4017-W4018 and the instructors permission. Selected works in modern Japanese fiction and criticism.
A reading of Homer’s Odyssey with a focus on seminal episodes having to do with the
construction of the plot, and the intricate relationship between the Homeric narrator, his
characters, and internal and external audiences.
The Odyssey famously contains comparisons of its polytropos character (var.
reading polykrotos) to a poet, both explicitly (11.363ff.) and implicitly (19.203 with Hesiod,
Theogony 26-9). We will consider how the quality of being polytropos (including a tendency
towards ambiguity and indirection) factors into the ethics of narration in the poem, at every level
of the narrative. We will also consider the ethics of narration in the poem in relation to its
importance in the subsequent Greek rhetorical tradition. Archaic poetry, and the Homeric
poems, often suffer from the implicit bias associated with being the earliest extant Greek
literature, leading to the view that their content is naïve when compared against the literary
developments of the fifth century and the Hellenistic period. This seminar will approach
the Odyssey as a foundational text for Greek rhetorical culture, with particular attention to what it
offered the rhetorical culture of classical Athens.
This seminar aims to introduce students to the range and complexity of the tragedies composed by the eminent philosopher-politician, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (
c
. 2 BCE-65 CE). The course will combine intensive linguistic analysis of individual dramas with a focus on their political, philosophical and cultural meanings in the 1st century CE. Beyond our shared study of these highly allusive texts, a main goal will be to demonstrate that Seneca does not just write within a received tradition, but also uses remarkable artistic strategies by which to give new life to that tradition.