Course Descriptions
Locating Europes and European Colonies
Fall Quarter (F18)
Dept/Description | Course No., Title | Instructor |
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ITALIAN (F18) | 150 HOLOCAUST IN ITALY | CHIAMPI, J. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies This course will concern itself with the response to the Holocaust in the memoirs of Primo Levi and Liana Millu, and in the fiction of Giorgio Bassani. Framing their writings will be brief readings in the work of historians Liliana Picciotto Fargion, Michele Sarfatti and Susan Zuccotti. | ||
HISTORY (F18) | 21A WORLD:INNOVATIONS | DARYAEE, T. |
Emphasis/Category: Hispanic, US Latino/a and Luso-Brazilian Cultures, Locating Europes and European Colonies, Pacific Rim, Inter-Area Studies, Locating Asias (Nation, Culture, and Diaspora), Atlantic Rim, Locating Africas, Global Middle East How does the legacy of human evolution affect our world today? How have technological innovations shaped human societies? How have human societies explained the natural world and their place in it? Given the abundance of religious beliefs in the world, how have three evangelical faiths spread far beyond their original homelands? | ||
FRENCH (F18) | 170 POSTWAR GENRES | FARBMAN, H |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies This course will sample some of the exciting new combinations and permutations of prose genres that have emerged in French writing since 1945. Topics will include: the “New Novel”; the récit; hybrid genres; “autofiction;” and the relationship between writing and other media, especially film. Texts by Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux. | ||
ENGLISH (F18) | 102B 18C BRITISH CULTURE | HENDERSON, A. |
EURO ST (F18) | 103 CUSINE AS CULTUR | LEVINE, G. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies In our study of the history and culture of particular peoples or countries, we most often focus on political and historical events, such as wars, monarchial reigns, or on aspects of social, political and economic change. We also investigate cultural artifacts created by a people, such as music, the visual arts, and literature. Food and the act of nourishing the body are considered by many to be so fundamental that they require no conscious reflection or consideration, that they are somehow independent of culture or history, or perhaps just the (by-)products of those. With a focus on the regions and countries of Europe, in this course we will explore the many ways that culinary culture both relates to, reflects, and in fact manifests historical events, cultural norms, cultural identities, and belief and value systems. Though our primary focus will be on the period from the early modern period to the present, we’ll begin in the medieval period and eat our way through the centuries, stopping at various stations to consider how food and drink, the acts of eating and drinking, and of course the production and preparation of food and drink, related to the many wars in Europe, the maintenance or subversion of social systems, and the regulation of social roles, such as those of men and women, rich and poor etc. | ||
GERMAN (F18) | 150 CUSINE AS CULTUR | LEVINE, G. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies In our study of the history and culture of particular peoples or countries, we most often focus on political and historical events, such as wars, monarchial reigns, or on aspects of social, political and economic change. We also investigate cultural artifacts created by a people, such as music, the visual arts, and literature. Food and the act of nourishing the body are considered by many to be so fundamental that they require no conscious reflection or consideration, that they are somehow independent of culture or history, or perhaps just the (by-)products of those. With a focus on the regions and countries of Europe, in this course we will explore the many ways that culinary culture both relates to, reflects, and in fact manifests historical events, cultural norms, cultural identities, and belief and value systems. Though our primary focus will be on the period from the early modern period to the present, we’ll begin in the medieval period and eat our way through the centuries, stopping at various stations to consider how food and drink, the acts of eating and drinking, and of course the production and preparation of food and drink, related to the many wars in Europe, the maintenance or subversion of social systems, and the regulation of social roles, such as those of men and women, rich and poor etc. | ||
GERMAN (F18) | 105 GERMAN PROFESSIONS | LEVINE, G. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies This course is conducted entirely in German and intended for students who have completed at least German 2B with a grade of C or better, or the equivalent; it can be taken following German 2C, or concurrently with German 2C as co-requisite. The course is taught entirely in German. The main goals of the course are to advance your German at the high intermediate level, teach you some of the discourses and genres of German as part of professional life with a particular emphasis on German in the sciences and technology, particularly biological, physical, and environmental sciences and engineering. | ||
FRENCH (F18) | 117 FRENCH THEATER | LITWIN, C. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies Corneille, Molière and Racine are the three glorious playwrights of the French “Great Century.” This class sets out as an introduction to some of their most important tragic and/or comic works (Le Cid, Horace, Le misanthrope, Don Juan, Britannicus, Phèdre). While we will adopt a socio-political and historical contextualizing approach, we will also reflect directly on what makes those works live and resonate in different contexts as we watch and analyze videos of contemporary productions of these plays. Moreover, as we learn about the codes and the theory of French classical theater, we will also discuss its relationship to French “street” theater and “theater of cruelty”. | ||
SPANISH (F18) | 101A INTRO IBER LIT&CULT | MAHIEUX, V. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies An introduction to Spanish America’s principal texts and literary movements, with particular emphasis placed on the 19th and 20th centuries. The course aims to encourage reflection on the historical and political implications of literature and its role in defining, or questioning, a Latin American cultural identity. Includes workshops on developing skills for literary and cultural analysis. | ||
EURO ST (F18) | 102 MEDIEVAL TOWNS | MCLOUGHLIN, N. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies Beginning around the year 1050, medieval Europe experienced a rapid increase in trade, population and urbanization. As more and more people moved from the countryside to trade centers, new towns formed and existing towns outgrew their walls. Town governments evolved and people formed voluntary associations for the purpose of regulating the practice of their trades and/or organizing their religious devotions. This economic, political, and cultural experimentation had a profound affect upon European society as a whole. In this course we will investigate this exciting development in medieval history, paying careful attention to three aspects of medieval urban life: One; what is a medieval town and what caused the rapid increase in urbanization historians have observed for the eleventh and twelfth centuries? Two; what was the range of wealth and poverty in a medieval town and how did medieval townspeople grapple with economic disparities? And Three; what types of urban identities were available to medieval townspeople and what strategies did people employ to confirm their own position and status? | ||
HISTORY (F18) | 110D MEDIEVAL TOWNS | MCLOUGHLIN, N. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies Beginning around the year 1050, medieval Europe experienced a rapid increase in trade, population and urbanization. As more and more people moved from the countryside to trade centers, new towns formed and existing towns outgrew their walls. Town governments evolved and people formed voluntary associations for the purpose of regulating the practice of their trades and/or organizing their religious devotions. This economic, political, and cultural experimentation had a profound affect upon European society as a whole. In this course we will investigate this exciting development in medieval history, paying careful attention to three aspects of medieval urban life: One; what is a medieval town and what caused the rapid increase in urbanization historians have observed for the eleventh and twelfth centuries? Two; what was the range of wealth and poverty in a medieval town and how did medieval townspeople grapple with economic disparities? And Three; what types of urban identities were available to medieval townspeople and what strategies did people employ to confirm their own position and status? | ||
ART HIS (F18) | 103 ANCIENT ATHENS | MILES, M. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies The celebrated monuments of Athens, such as the Parthenon, the Propylaia and the Erechtheion—and some which are little known or even lost—will be our focus. We will see how the city developed, from a small village beneath the Akropolis into the seat of a far-flung empire, and the intellectual center of the Mediterranean world for many centuries. Special attention throughout the course will be given to the historical, social, political, literary and religious context of the monuments, art and artifacts we study: how people made them, and why; how the temples were used and what the public buildings were for; what the sculpture and vase-painting can tell us about Athenian values and attitudes. In addition, we will consider the history and ethics of the “rediscovery” of Greece and Greek art during the past two centuries. The architects and sculptors set a high standard against which all subsequent art in the Western tradition is inevitably compared, and their art serves as an inexhaustible source of inspiration. | ||
CLASSIC (F18) | 170 ANCIENT ATHENS | MILES, M. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies The celebrated monuments of Athens, such as the Parthenon, the Propylaia and the Erechtheion—and some which are little known or even lost—will be our focus. We will see how the city developed, from a small village beneath the Akropolis into the seat of a far-flung empire, and the intellectual center of the Mediterranean world for many centuries. Special attention throughout the course will be given to the historical, social, political, literary and religious context of the monuments, art and artifacts we study: how people made them, and why; how the temples were used and what the public buildings were for; what the sculpture and vase-painting can tell us about Athenian values and attitudes. In addition, we will consider the history and ethics of the “rediscovery” of Greece and Greek art during the past two centuries. The architects and sculptors set a high standard against which all subsequent art in the Western tradition is inevitably compared, and their art serves as an inexhaustible source of inspiration. | ||
ART HIS (F18) | 120 GLOBAL RENAISSANCE | POWELL, A. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies This class focuses on artistic, religious, material, and technological exchanges between European cultures and African, Asian, and American cultures in the early modern period (roughly 1400-1800). The emphasis will be on how these exchanges manifest themselves in visual culture from prints to paintings, sculptures, architecture, porcelain, textiles, and more. | ||
GREEK (F18) | 100 ANCIENT GREEK | STAFF |
RUSSIAN (F18) | 150 19TH C RUSSIAN LIT | ZLATINA, S. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies In this course, we will study major works, authors, genres and movements in 19th-century Russian literature, with emphasis on the classic works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. In addition to examining each author's distinctive style and contribution to Russian and world literature, we will explore a number of critical themes that have come to define the 19th-century Russian intellectual discourse: the rise of the Russian Empire and its encounter with East and West; the haunting duality of Russian urban and rural life; and the role of the Russian nobility and intelligentsia in Russia's cultural and socio-political transformation; the role of women; and others. |
Courses Offered by Global Cultures or other Schools at UCI
Locating Europes and European Colonies
Fall Quarter (F18)
Dept | Course No., Title | Instructor |
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GLBLCLT (F18) | 103A CULTR,MONY&GLOBLZTN | LE VINE, M. |
Emphasis/Category: Hispanic, US Latino/a and Luso-Brazilian Cultures, Locating Europes and European Colonies, Pacific Rim, Inter-Area Studies, Locating Asias (Nation, Culture, and Diaspora), Atlantic Rim, Locating Africas, Global Middle East |