First-Year Courses in Comparative Literature This page was created at 12:10 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21) Open courses in Comparative Literature (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for COMPLIT Fall Term '01Time Schedule for Comparative Literature. COMPLIT 140. First-Year Literary Seminar. Section 001 – Visible and the Invisible: Science and Imagination in the 19th Century. Instructor(s): Tomoko Masuzawa (masuzawa@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits. First-year seminar, Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The 19th century saw the rise of new sciences claiming to reveal the truths and secrets of things near and far, visible and invisible. In this course we will read several novels and scientific treatises dating from the period between the late 18th century and the early 20th century with an eye to understanding something of the excitement, hope, fear, and anxiety that the possibility of such new knowledge presented to the people of the time. We will pay particular attention to their views and speculations on the phenomena supposedly caused or influenced by some invisible material entities, such as electricity, psychical forces, and wealth and economic value. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. COMPLIT 240. Introduction to Comparative Literature. Section 001 – Reading to Live. Instructor(s): Santiago Colas (scolas@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Why Read? Why Live? Do the two questions have the same answers? What does reading have to do with living? In this course, we will take these questions as a framework through which to approach comparative literature as something people study and as a way they study it. But wait, there’s more! The books you read, the thoughts you think, and the words you hear, speak, and write will slip under your skin with excruciating sweetness. They might make you feel itchy and uncomfortable. It may be difficult to walk and talk normally. You may begin to hear voices and to tell stories. I promise… But only if you do the reading (which will include work by authors such as McCullers, Kafka, Puig, Achebe, Shelley, Cortazar, Freud, Nietzsche, Marx, and Deleuze), writing (weekly short papers, one or two longer essays,) talking, and thinking (constantly). Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. This page was created at 12:10 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. University of Michigan | College of LS&A | Student Academic Affairs | First-Year Handbook | First-Year Information | Parent Handbook | LS&A Bulletin This page maintained by LS&A Academic Information and Publications, 1228 Angell Hall Copyright © 2001 The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA +1 734 764-1817 Trademarks of the University of Michigan may not be electronically or otherwise altered or separated from this document or used for any non-University purpose.