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Courses in Great Books (Division 382)

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GTBOOKS 157 / PHIL 157. Great Books in Philosophy.: Students are strongly advised not to take more than two Philosophy Introductions. (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; This course is intended to be an introduction to philosophy through analysis and discussion of some of the great works in the western philosophical tradition. Students learn important approaches to central philosophical questions through reading influential works which continue to inform and shape philosophy today. In addition to the analysis of texts, the identification and understanding of philosophical questions, and the evaluation of proposed answers, the course emphasizes development of student skills, particularly skills of argumentation, and of student understanding of the nature of intellectual inquiry.
GTBOOKS 191. Great Books.: Open to Honors first-year students only. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in Gt. Bks. 201 or Classical Civ. 101. (4). (HU).; An introduction to the major literary, philosophical, and historical masterpieces of ancient Greece. Completion of Great Books 191 meets the English Composition degree requirement; completion of both Great Books 191 and 192 also gives eight credits toward the humanities distribution requirement. There are two lecture and two discussion periods each week. Readings include Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato.
GTBOOKS 192. Great Books.: Open to Honors first-year students only. (4). (HU).; An introduction to masterpieces of the Roman period through the Renaissance. Completion of both Great Books 191 and 192 gives eight credits toward the humanities distribution requirement. There are two lecture and two discussion periods each week. Readings include further works of Plato, Vergil, selections from the Bible, St. Augustine, and Dante.
GTBOOKS 201. Great Books of the Ancient World.: No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in Gt. Bks. 191 or Classical Civ. 101. (4). (HU).; Readings in the major works of Western civilization from the Greek and Roman period. Readings typically include works by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato.
GTBOOKS 202. Great Books of the Medieval and Modern World.: (4). (HU).; Readings in the major works of Western civilization from the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods. Readings typically include works by Dante, Goethe, and Cervantes.
GTBOOKS 204 / PHYSICS 204. Great Books in Physics.: (4). (NS).; Study of selected works of Galileo, Newton, and Faraday.
GTBOOKS 221 / ASIAN 221 / CHIN 221. Great Books of China.: A knowledge of Chinese is not required. II (in even years). (4). (HU).; Introduction in translation to the great works of literature which have influenced the lives and culture of the Chinese people from ancient times to the present.
GTBOOKS 222 / ASIAN 222 / JAPANESE 222. Great Books of Japan.: A knowledge of Japanese is not required. II (in odd years). (3). (HU).; Introduction in translation to books which have influenced the Japanese people through the ages.
GTBOOKS 291. Great Books of Modern Literature.: Sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the College Honors Program. (4). (HU).; A continuation of Great Books 192 studying works from the Renaissance to the present, including Don Quixote, Faust, Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, and Huckleberry Finn.
GTBOOKS 320. Great Books on the Hopes and Fears of Modernity.: (3). (HU).; This course debates whether the modern individual is self-determining, compassionate and free of comforting myths, or rather part of a “lonely crowd,” without grand passion, and disenchanted. Readings include Hobbes’ Leviathan, Rosseau’s Confessions, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, and Aristotle’s Ethics.
GTBOOKS 331 / SPANISH 331. Great Books of Spain and Latin America.: Open to students at all levels. A knowledge of Spanish is not required. (3). (HU).; From the Cid through the Golden Age: Discussion of selected masterpieces of Spanish and Portuguese literature read in English translation.
GTBOOKS 350 / AMCULT 360 / HISTORY 350. Debates of the Founding Fathers.: Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (3). (Excl).; Explores the writings of the founding generation of the American Republic.
GTBOOKS 394 / WOMENSTD 394. Great Books by Women Writers.: Sophomore standing. (4). (HU).; This course is designed to introduce students to women writers from a variety of traditions. A theoretical ground is laid with Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Authors read are Hildegard von Bingen, St. Teresa of Avila or Sor Juana de la Cruz, Madame de Lafayette, George Sand, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison. the several lecturers come from various departments and use differing critical approaches. The course aims to examine differences in women's writing in specific contexts, and to explore basic constructs of feminist literary theory.

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