Course Descriptions

Term:

Locating Europes and European Colonies

Winter Quarter (W18)

Dept/Description Course No., Title  Instructor
ART HIS (W18)134C  IMPRSSNSM TO FAUVESHERBERT, J.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

Paris, it is has been said, was the capital of the nineteenth century. Surely that claim stands true when it comes to painting. Over a handful of decades French painters produced some of the most stunning, complex, and beloved works in the history of art. We will attempt to grapple with the great richness of art in this period art by, paradoxically, focusing down on a mere handful canvases, paintings by the likes of Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet, and Seurat. In most cases, we will devote the full lecture period to a single work of art. This approach will allow us to view individual canvases from a wide variety of perspectives, placing paintings within their historical context, comparing them to other works, studying their formal properties, honing in on details with near-microscopic precision. In similar spirit, for your assignments you will select a single painting from the Norton Simon or the Getty, conduct a deep and varied analysis of your own, and then report on your findings in an oral presentation, a written essay, and an exhibition design or website.
Days: MO WE  10:00-11:20 AM

CLASSIC (W18)150  THE UNDERWORLDSNYDER, R.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

The Underworld: Ancient Literature on Life, Death, and Regeneration.

Taking a spatial or topographical approach to mythology, this course will explore the significance of “the underworld” to ancient Greek and Roman thought. We will explore the role of the underworld in ancient cosmologies, examine its importance to notions of (im)mortality and terrestrial fertility, and investigate the central role of “the descent” in the ancient hero’s quest. To explore these ideas, we will read such authors as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, and others. These readings will be supplemented with critical and theoretical texts, and the course will conclude with a look at more modern adaptations of these ideas in literature.
Days: TU TH  11:00-12:20 PM

CLASSIC (W18)160  ROMAN EPICSNYDER, R.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

This course will explore the amazing vitality of epic poetry in late republican and early imperial Rome. While a close reading of Virgil’s foundational Aeneid will be the centerpiece of this course, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and selections of Ovid’s Metamorphoses will offer evidence of the breadth and variety of Roman epic. The beginnings of the epic tradition in Rome will be examined through the fragments of archaic poets, such as Ennius, and Catullus’ epyllion, poem 64, will provide insight into later variations on epic tropes. These readings will be informed by critical texts that examine the historical and social context in which they appeared, as well as broader considerations of the genre’s relation to notions of gender, nature, and national identity.
Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

EURO ST (W18)101A  THE BODY AT THE RENAISSANCE: TEXT AND IMAGEFREI, P.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

The Renaissance not only rediscovered the artistic, literary and philosophical creations of the Ancients which still haunt our modernity, but it also revived our knowledge of the human body. It was the time of both decisive innovations in modern medicine – especially anatomy – and fantastic re-imaginations of the human form and the aesthetic, social and philosophical orders it represents. This course will focus on how early modern writers (namely Rabelais and Montaigne) as well as artists (Da Vinci, Bosch, Brueghel), thinkers (Erasmus) and physicians (Vesalius, Paré) recreated the human body and its forms in order to figure (out) the new world to which the Renaissance gave birth.
Course materials will be made available on Canvas at the beginning of the quarter.  
French 150/Euro St 101A





Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

FRENCH (W18)101C  INTRODUCTION TO 20TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATUREFARBMAN, H.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

An introduction to 20th-Century French literature through close readings in texts of Péguy, Apollinaire, Éluard, Bataille, Ponge, Sartre, Duras, and Fanon. Reading, writing, and class discussion in French. 
Days: TU TH  11:00-12:20 PM

FRENCH (W18)119  WOMEN OF PARISBURT, E.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

The 19th century in France saw the beginning of a literature focused on urban life. Discussion will focus on the new roles accorded women in the works. We will consider the characters as representations of real-life women, in their new cultural functions as laboring women, saleswomen, prostitutes, actresses, consumers, style-setters, etc. But we will also consider them as models for what is desirable about urban literature itself (as distinct, say, from a Romantic literature usually set in rural landscapes). Texts by Duras, Balzac, Zola, Maupassant and Baudelaire.
Days: TU TH  03:30-04:50 PM

FRENCH (W18)150  THE BODY AT THE RENAISSANCE: TEXT AND IMAGEFREI, P.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

The Renaissance not only rediscovered the artistic, literary and philosophical creations of the Ancients which still haunt our modernity, but it also revived our knowledge of the human body. It was the time of both decisive innovations in modern medicine – especially anatomy – and fantastic re-imaginations of the human form and the aesthetic, social and philosophical orders it represents. This course will focus on how early modern writers (namely Rabelais and Montaigne) as well as artists (Da Vinci, Bosch, Brueghel), thinkers (Erasmus) and physicians (Vesalius, Paré) recreated the human body and its forms in order to figure (out) the new world to which the Renaissance gave birth.  Course materials will be made available on Canvas at the beginning of the quarter. 

French 150/Euro St 101A


Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

FRENCH (W18)171  SELF-LOVE AND THE COMMON GOODLITWIN, C.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

“Self-love is more skillful than the most skillful man in the world”, writes La Rochefoucauld in his Maximes. Indeed no passion is more capable of disguising itself behind the mask of virtue, altruism or charity, than this opaque selfishness, which makes the human soul impenetrable to others as well as to oneself. However, beyond the critique of the moral ambiguity of this passion, there is also room for positive reappraisal, for if self-love is capable of such perfect disguise under the appearance of virtue or charity, although it is most contrary to virtue or charity by its nature, it may be very similar by its effects on moral, social and political life. Some moralistes suggested provocatively, after La Rochefoucauld that encouraging men to be unrelentingly selfish in a free-market society might be better than educating them to be virtuous. These reflections directly influenced Bernard Mandeville’s controversial and paradoxical motto “Private vices. Public benefits” and they paved the way for Adam Smith’s metaphor of an “Invisible Hand”: the greed of the rich may result in creating more wealth, and more distribution of this wealth to the poor, than charity will have been able to. In this course we will examine the genealogy of such claims and the important moral, political, theological, and aesthetic debates that they raised in 17th-and-18th-Century France and in Europe.

(cross-listed with Euro St 103)

Days: TU TH  12:30-01:50 PM

GERMAN (W18)102  GERMAN CONTROVERSIES 1945 – 2018EVERS, K.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

This course looks at German culture and politics from the end of the Second World War to today by retracing major debates, scandals, and controversies that shaped the two Germanys and that continue to reverberate in today’s Germany.  How did the two new German states deal differently after 1945 the loss and the destructions of the Second World War II? How did they reckon with a past of war crimes and genocide? What was the impact of the 1960s student movement on German culture and society? How were the protection of civil liberties debated during the times of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s? What debates and controversies surrounded the German unification 1989/90? What has been Germany’s changing role in the EU under Chancellor Merkel? How are the German-American relations changing with President Trump? These are just some of the questions we will address in analyzing non-fictional and fictional texts, films, German TV broadcasts. The course will pay particular attention to contemporary debates on the environment, social justice, and the current political crises by reading current newspaper articles and watching German news programs.
Days: TU TH  09:30-10:50 AM

GERMAN (W18)150  REPRESENTING THE HOLOCAUSTSTAFF
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

Representing the Holocaust: The Limits of Representation in Literature, Film, and Theory

Since the end of World War II, historians, social scientists, and psychologists have researched origins and causes of the Holocaust. But their explanations have never been fully satisfactory. Can autobiographical reflections, fictional narratives, art, film and other
mass media illuminate dimensions of the Shoah that have remained unanswered by historical, sociological, and psychological approaches? By examining survivors' testimonies, political, historical, and philosophical reflections, film and TV shows, fictional texts, and graphic novels from across Europe and the United States, this course asks what role art and literature have played in shaping our image of Auschwitz. How and why did the representations of the Holocaust change during the last seven decades in different national cultures? What aesthetic, political, and cultural limits and taboos have these representations transgressed or shied away from since the Second World War? What does it mean to be human after Auschwitz? How Americanized has the Holocaust become today? Does the Shoah still shape our contemporary understanding of modernity?

Lectures and readings in English.
Days: TU TH  01:00-02:20 PM

GREEK (W18)103  THE THIRTYCLAXTON, C.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

After the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE, Athens was ruled by a brief and brutal oligarchy known as "The Thirty Tyrants" which lasted about eight months. The main sources for this event are Xenophan, Hellenica 2.1-4; Ath. Pol. 34-40; Diodorus 14.3-6, 32-3; Lysias XII and XIII; and Plutarch's Life of Lysander. In this class, we will explore some of the primary sources for this time period in Athenian history by reading Lysias XII. Against Eratosthenese. in Greek and a selection of the other sources in English. If time permits, we will read selections from additional sources in Greek as well. When reading Lysias' speech, special attention will be paid to accurate grammatical understanding, increasing vocabulary and the speed of reading as well as to the historical details of these events. 
Days: MO WE  12:00-12:50 PM

HISTORY (W18)190  FRANCE UNDR OCCPATNFARMER, S.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies

Description availanle soon.

Specialized courses dealing primarily with close reading and analysis of primary and secondary works; required reports and papers. Each colloquium reflects the instructor's intellectual interests and is conducted as a discussion group.
Days: TU  04:00-06:50 PM

Courses Offered by Global Cultures or other Schools at UCI

Locating Europes and European Colonies

Winter Quarter (W18)

Dept Course No., Title   Instructor
GLBLCLT (W18)105  LANGUAGE ORIGINSSCHWEGLER, A.

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
No description is currently available.