Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Humanities (HUMA)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some HUMA courses.
HUMA 102 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Continued study, in discussion and occasional lectures, of representative works in the Western tradition, from Michelangelo to Martin Luther King. A FOUNDATION COURSE. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA 002 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA 003 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA 004 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 005 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 006 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 007 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 008 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 009 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 010 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 011 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA 012 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 013 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 014 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA 015 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HUMA 104 SELF IN TEXT AND IMAGE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I This course will explore representations of the self in Western culture from late antiquity to the present. We will examine film, autobiography, the novel, and visual portraits, as well as the relationships among these genres. Works to the studied may include Augustine's Confessions, John Singleton Copley's portraits, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, and Spike Lee's Malcolm X. A FOUNDATION COURSE 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 18 002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 18 003 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 18 004 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 18 HUMA 108 ART & CULTURE: LATE MEDIEVAL RENAISSANCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Themes in the art, architecture and history of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, including individualism, the development of science and technology, the role of religion and philosophy in cultural life, and the revival of classical Greco-Roman culture. A FOUNDATION COURSE 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HUMA 109 LITERATURE & SOCIETY:DEV OF DRAMA & HIS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I This class will present an introduction to and overview of the great literary, artistic, and intellectual monuments of classical Greek civilization from Homer and the Bronze Age through the golden age of Classical Athens to the spread of Greek culture in the Hellenistic world. The historical background will be covered. Readings will consist mainly of primary sources. Two lectures and one discussion per week. Also offered as CLAS 207 001 TBA - TTH 10:40AM - 12:05PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HUMA 115 PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT RELIGION Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Inquiry into the ways which selected Western and Asian philosophers have interpreted God, reality, the moral life and religious experience. Plato, Augustine, Hume and Kant will be compared with thinkers of the Vedic, Jain, Saukhya, and Buddhist traditions. Also offered as RELI 293 001 TBA Wyschogrod, Edith Enr: 0 Max: NA HUMA 201 PUBLIC SPEAKING Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I No description Prereq- Permission of instructor. 001 TBA West, Daniel A. Enr: 0 Max: 16 002 TBA - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 16 003 TBA - TH 02:30AM - 05:30AM Huston, Dennis Enr: 0 Max: 16 HUMA 270 INTRO TO WOMEN'S STUDIES Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I An introductory survey of issues in the study of women, including women's social, political and legal status in the U.S. and around the world; feminist perspectives on sexuality, gender, family and reproduction; and the implications of these perspectives for social and critical theory. A foundation course. Also offered as WGST 101 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HUMA 295 CURRENT ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Limited to juniors and seniors. Preference given to humanities majors. Prereq- prior acceptance to Joint Venture Internship program or permission of instructor. 001 TBA - M 07:00PM - 10:00PM Matherly, Cheryl A. Enr: 0 Max: NA HUMA 308 BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Practical application of communication theory with emphasis on oral presentations, interviewing and small group dynamics. Prereq- Huma 201, junior students, or consent of instructor. 001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM West, Daniel A. Enr: 0 Max: 12 HUMA 310 SPECIAL PROBLEMS: ISSUES IN INTL CULTURE Credits 1.00 Spring 00 Instructor permision required. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HUMA 318 CONSULTING W/STUDENT WRITERS Credits 1.00 Spring 00 Excellent student writers prepare for working with other student writers by studying writing processes, writing problems, texts, and exercises and by role-playing. 001 TBA Driskill, Linda P. Enr: 0 Max: NA HUMA 332 CHINESE FILMS & MODERN Credits 3.00 Spring 00 This course is designed to approach modern Chinese literature through visual images (Chinese films, subtitled in English). All films shown for this course will be adaptations from modern Chinese fiction; therefore, our analysis of the films will be connected to the original texts. The discussion will be conducted on the basis of literary history and narrative structure, with explicit attention given to narratology and movie theory. Films will be shown outside of class; in-class time will be devoted to lectures and discussions on the films. All readings are in English translation. No previous knowledge of Chinese literature or the Chinese language is required. Also offered as CHIN 332 001 TBA Qian, Nanxiu Enr: 0 Max: HUMA 351 EPIC AND SAGA Credits 3.00 Spring 00 A COMPARISON OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TOPICS. ALL WORKS READ IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION. ALSO OFFERED AS CLAS 351. 001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Mackie, Hilary Susan Enr: 0 Max: 20 HUMA 371 MYTHS OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM:FAUST AND Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Critical examination of two literary myths and their cultural transformation since Marlow, resp. Tirso de Molina. Analysis of a small number of represtative works (by Goethe, Th. Mann; Moliere, Byron, Shaw, etc.) including non-literary representations, such as Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni, Comparative, cross-cultural approach; readings in translation discussions in English. Also offered as GMAN 351. 001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Winkler, Michael Enr: 0 Max: 20 HUMA 372 GERMAN FAIRY TALE:OLD AND NEW Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Discussion of several prototypes from the fairy-tale collection of the Brothers Grimm and the subsequent development of the "literay" fairy tale from Goethe and the Romantics of the 20th century. Non-majors read the texts in English. Also offered as GMAN 392. 001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Weissenberger, Klaus H. Enr: 0 Max: 20 HUMA 373 ADAPTATIONS: FROM TEXT TO FILM Credits 3.00 Spring 00 This course will focus on works by Kafka, Doeblin, Mann, Grass, Boell, Frisch, Bachmann and others. Questions will assessed such as what have the two media in common, how do they express differently, and how should the literary author versus the film director be perceived. German majors may read and write in German. Non-majors read texts in English. Also offered as GMAN 406. 001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Eifler, Margret E. Enr: 0 Max: 20 HUMA 380 CONTEMPORARY CENTRAL EUROPEAN POLITICS A Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I In 1989 the history of Europe changed. The domination of the Soviet Empire over the Central Part of Europe ended. During our course we will try to understand why it happened; we will talk about the most important ideas in the intellectual life of Central and East Europe. Also offered as RUSS 320 and HUMA 380 001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA HUMA 382 TOLSTOY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Study of major works of Tolstoy. Non-majors read the tests in English. Also offered as Russ 351. 001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Thompson, Ewa M. Enr: 0 Max: 20 HUMA 412 ADV READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE LITERA Credits 3.00 Spring 00 This seminar will focus on the translation of selections from traditional Chinese novels and poetry. Prereq- permission of instructor required. Also offered as ASIA 412 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: HUMA 420 INTEGRATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Senior seminar for students majoring in the study of women and gender. Topic varies yearly. Prereq- Huma 270 and four(4) additional courses in Women & Gender major. Also offered as SOCI 395 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: Hart 206 INTRODUCTION- HISTORY OF ART Credits 4.00 Spring 00 NO DESCRIPTION 004 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
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