Department: French and Italian

Code Name Description
FRENCH100 The History of Pirates TBD
FRENCH103 Literature and Atheism France, the land of laïcité and the epicenter of the Enlightenment and of Existentialism, has played a central role in the development of modern western atheism. Its philosophical and literary traditions - traditions in which the line between philoso...
FRENCH110 French Painting from Watteau to Monet This course offers a survey of painting in France from 1700 to around 1900. It introduces major artists, artworks, and the concepts used by contemporary observers and later art historians to make sense of this extraordinarily rich period. Overarching...
FRENCH118 Literature and the Brain How does fiction make us better at reading minds? Why do some TV shows get us to believe two contradictory things at once? And can cognitive biases be a writer's best friend? We'll think about these and other questions in the light of contemporary ne...
FRENCH120 Coffee and Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture Examines a quintessential French figure "l'intellectuel" from a long-term historical perspective. We will observe how this figure was shaped over time by such other cultural types as the writer, the artist, the historian, the philosopher, and the mor...
FRENCH121 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, Philosophy, and Literature "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." This seminar explores the work of one of the most important and enigmatic thinkers about the problems of modern society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Students will read a selection of his most important w...
FRENCH129 Camus "The admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" for Sartre, "the ideal husband of contemporary letters" for Susan Sontag, reading "Camus's fiction as an element in France's methodically constructed political geography of Algeria" fo...
FRENCH12Q Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Middle Ages and Renaissance This three-quarter sequence asks big questions of major texts in the European and American tradition. What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? Wh...
FRENCH13 Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? What duty do we owe to the past and future? This course examines tcourse examines these questions in the mode...
FRENCH130 Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature In this introductory course, we will read some key texts of literature written in French between 1100 and 1600, paying special attention to how gender, cultural difference and love played a role in the doing and undoing of communities. What does it m...
FRENCH131 Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th- and 18th-Century France The literature, culture, and politics of France from Louis XIV to Olympe de Gouges. How this period produced the political and philosophical foundations of modernity. Readings may include Corneille, Molière, Racine, Lafayette, Voltaire, Diderot, Rous...
FRENCH132 Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France This course explores central texts of 19th- and 20th-Century French literature, following the evolution of important literary movements during those centuries of cultural and social transformation. We will study texts in all major genres (prose, poet...
FRENCH133 Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean This course provides students with an introductory survey of literature and cinema from Francophone Africa and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will be encouraged to consider the geographical, historical, and political connectio...
FRENCH140 Paris: Capital of the Modern World This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern his...
FRENCH148 Cinema and the Real: Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave Between the 1940s and 1960s, in Italy and France, a handful of movie directors revolutionized the art of cinema. In the wake of World War II they entirely re-defined the aesthetics of the 7th art in films such as "Bicycle Thieves," "400 Blows," "Rome...
FRENCH149 Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways...
FRENCH153 Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: French Political Myths and Concepts "Liberté, égalité, fraternité," but also "laïcité," "diversité," "parité," "universalisme" : the French have forged over the last two centuries key political concepts that are articulated together in a unique way and shape the political consciousness...
FRENCH154E Film & Philosophy CE Issues of authenticity, morality, personal identity, and the value of truth explored through film; philosophical investigation of the filmic medium itself. Screenings to include Blade Runner (Scott), Do The Right Thing (Lee), The Seventh Seal (Bergma...
FRENCH155 10 French Women Who Changed History In this class we'll explore the lives of 10 extraordinary French women who changed the course of French history. Eleanor of Aquitaine and Joan of Arc will teach us how to win wars and hearts to one's cause; Olympe de Gouges and George Sand will revol...
FRENCH159 French Kiss: The History of Love and the French Novel The history of the French novel is also the history of love. How did individuals experience love throughout history? How do novels reflect this evolution of love through the ages? And, most significantly, how have French novels shaped our own underst...
FRENCH173 Couture Culture Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted a...
FRENCH175 CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,...
FRENCH178 The Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Freedom, and the Atlantic World How did the French colony of Saint-Domingue become Haiti, the world's first Black-led republic? What did Haiti symbolize for the African diaspora and the Americas at large? What sources and methods do scholars use to understand this history? To answe...
FRENCH181 Philosophy and Literature Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel...
FRENCH185 Texts and Contexts: French-English Translation This course introduces students to the ways in which translation has shaped the image of France and the Francophone world. What texts and concepts were translated, how, where, and to what effect? Students will work on a translation project throughout...
FRENCH186 The Art of Self-Portraits What is a self-portrait? The simple answer is that it is a portrait of the self. The complex answer is: anything that a person finds relevant to one's identity. Sometimes self-portraits are built around a positive idea, sometimes around a sense of lo...
FRENCH187 Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw...
FRENCH188 Women, Wheat, and Weather? Lessons from Italy and the Global South for the 21st Century The Global South - a symbolic Mediterranean stretching from the Caribbean to India - lures the civilized man with the promise of excellent weather, voluptuous women, and good food. Already in antiquity, Sicily, the southernmost province of what is to...
FRENCH192 Women in Contemporary French Cinema Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age...
FRENCH199 Individual Work Restricted to French majors with consent of department. Normally limited to 4-unit credit toward the major. May be repeated for credit.
FRENCH205 Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte...
FRENCH212 Giambattista Vico An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss,...
FRENCH214 Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Naus...
FRENCH217 Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante...
FRENCH218 Literature and the Brain How does fiction make us better at reading minds? Why do some TV shows get us to believe two contradictory things at once? And can cognitive biases be a writer's best friend? We'll think about these and other questions in the light of contemporary ne...
FRENCH219 The Renaissance Body in French Literature and Medicine If the Renaissance is famous for discovering unknown continents and ancient texts the body too was a new territory of conquest. How did literature respond to the rise of an anatomical gaze in the arts and in medicine and how did it stage the aestheti...
FRENCH220 Rethinking Francophonie in the 21st Century This course is a critical examination of literature from the Francophone world of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will travel through time and space with a selection of novels, poems, epics, memoirs, essays, manifestos and short stories. In thi...
FRENCH221A Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, Philosophy, and Literature "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." This seminar explores the work of one of the most important and enigmatic thinkers about the problems of modern society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Students will read a selection of his most important w...
FRENCH228 Science, Technology, and Society and the Humanities in the Face of Looming Disaster How STS and the Humanities can together help think out the looming catastrophes that put the future of humankind in jeopardy.
FRENCH228E Getting Through Proust Selections from all seven volumes of "In Search of Lost Time". Focus on issues of personal identity (perspective, memory, life-narrative); interpersonal relations (friendship, love, homosexuality, jealousy, indirect expression); knowledge (objective...
FRENCH236 Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Af...
FRENCH238 Art and the Market This course examines the relationship between art and the market, from Renaissance artisans to struggling Impressionist painters to the globalized commercial world of contemporary art and NFTs. Using examples drawn from France, this course explores t...
FRENCH239 The Afterlife of the Middle Ages Literary works that evoke a medieval past in contrast to a historical present, and critical texts that treat aspects of the medieval or medievalism. How does the concept of medievalism emerge and evolve through the ages? Topics include periodization,...
FRENCH243 Letter Writing in 17th - and 18th - Century France: A Media Revolution This interdisciplinary course examines the evolution of letter-writing practices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France through the lens of a media revolution, and highlights the historical roots of contemporary media issues. We will read prim...
FRENCH246 Body over Mind How does modern fiction, aided by modern philosophy, give the lie to Descartes' famous "I think therefore I am"? And how does writing convey the desire for a different, perhaps stronger, integration of mind and body? Does the body speak a particular...
FRENCH248 Cinema and the Real: Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave Between the 1940s and 1960s, in Italy and France, a handful of movie directors revolutionized the art of cinema. In the wake of World War II they entirely re-defined the aesthetics of the 7th art in films such as "Bicycle Thieves," "400 Blows," "Rome...
FRENCH249 The Algerian Wars From Algiers the White to Algiers the Red, Algiers, the Mecca of the Revolutionaries in the words of Amilcar Cabral, this course offers to study the Algerian Wars since the French conquest of Algeria (1830-) to the Algerian civil war of the 1990s. We...
FRENCH250 The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese This course will examine novels situated by, on, or in the sea. Its guiding questions: how do the immense breadth and depth of the sea relate to human interiority, self-discovery, and the shadow world of dreams? Does the sea mark a boundary, or a d...
FRENCH251 Writing, Memory, and the Self Recent work in psychology and neuroscience emphasizes the narrative quality of the self, as we create it and recreate it through language and writing, shaping memories both personal and historical. This process is circular: we grow into the stories w...
FRENCH252 Art and Power: From Royal Spectacle to Revolutionary Ritual From the Palace of Versailles to grand operas to Jacques-Louis David's portraits of revolutionary martyrs, rarely have the arts been so powerfully mobilized by the State as in early modern France. This course examines how the arts were used from Loui...
FRENCH254 Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest...
FRENCH257 Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso...
FRENCH260A Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts This course will explore the links between aspects of South-East Asian cultures and their influence on modern and contemporary Western art and literature, particularly in France; examples of this influence include Claude Debussy (Gamelan music), Jacq...
FRENCH261 War and Peace: Writings by and about Veterans in the 20th and 21st Centuries Since the aftermath of World War One, and with increasing urgency in contemporary America, stories about and by veterans are assigned a double role: that of exposing the horror of war yet also defending the possibility of a just war, and that of heal...
FRENCH262 Symbolism in Literature and the Arts This course will deal with the some of the 19th and 20th century authors and artists associated with Symbolism. We will focus on some key theoretical essays about the symbol, as well as on symbolist poetry, novels, visual arts, cinema, and music. In...
FRENCH264 Crossing the Atlantic: Race and Identity in the "Old" and "New" African Diasporas In this course, we will think critically about what we have come to call the African diaspora. We will travel the world virtually while exploring a selection of classic and understudied texts, in order to interrogate the relationship between culture,...
FRENCH265 The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy Conceptions of evil and its nature and source, distinctions between natural and moral evil, and what belongs to God versus to the human race have undergone transformations reflected in literature and film. Sources include Rousseau's response to the 1...
FRENCH269 Transfigurative Lyric: Baudelaire and Mallarmé What happens when injustice runs rampant, when democracy fails, and when it's no longer possible to believe in ancient forms of faith? Can lyric poetry console? Can it inspire? Can it re-enchant a disenchanted world? Together we'll read some of the m...
FRENCH272 Body Doubles: From the Fantastic Short Story to Science-Fiction How do we imagine our bodies through language, at times almost completely refashioning a physical double, be it idealized or abject? How do such body doubles intersect with our sense of self, defining or redefining sexual identity, spiritual aspirati...
FRENCH279 How the French Reinvented Cinema: The New Wave Focus on the French New Wave's cinematic revolution of 1959-1962. In a few years, the Nouvelle Vague delivered landmark works such as Truffaut's 400 Blows, Godard's Breathless, Chabrol's The Cousins or Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour, and changed foreve...
FRENCH281 Women in Africa and the Caribbean: Tales of Agency This course explores forms of women¿s agency in African and Caribbean cultural productions. Drawing on literature, visual art and feminist theory we will grapple with the concept of agency in different socio-historical and economic contexts while exa...
FRENCH285 Texts and Contexts: French-English Translation This course introduces students to the ways in which translation has shaped the image of France and the Francophone world. What texts and concepts were translated, how, where, and to what effect? Students will work on a translation project throughout...
FRENCH286 Poetry and Philosophy When and why do philosophers resort to poetry?What is the relationship between poetic metaphor and philosophical argumentation?Why is the poetic often associated with empathy - recently touted as an essential human characteristic - whereas philosoph...
FRENCH287 Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw...
FRENCH288 Women, Wheat, and Weather? Lessons from Italy and the Global South for the 21st Century The Global South - a symbolic Mediterranean stretching from the Caribbean to India - lures the civilized man with the promise of excellent weather, voluptuous women, and good food. Already in antiquity, Sicily, the southernmost province of what is to...
FRENCH290 Magic, Science, and Religion With the rise of the human sciences in the later nineteenth century, "magic," "science," and "religion" came to be understood as entirely separate domains, with different versions of truth and divergent methods of inquiry. But how has this division b...
FRENCH291 Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age...
FRENCH292 Romancing the Stone: Crystal Media from Babylon to Superman This seminar investigates the importance of rock crystal and its imitations as material, medium, and metaphor from antiquity until modernity. The objects examined include rings, reliquaries, lenses, and the Crystal Aesthetic in early twentieth-centur...
FRENCH305 Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte...
FRENCH307A Proust and His World This course is a chance to read together Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. This seven-volume novel is a stylistic tour de force, a brilliant meditation on defining elements of modernity, and an eccentric meander through art, history and the se...
FRENCH310 French Painting from Watteau to Monet This course offers a survey of painting in France from 1700 to around 1900. It introduces major artists, artworks, and the concepts used by contemporary observers and later art historians to make sense of this extraordinarily rich period. Overarching...
FRENCH314 Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Naus...
FRENCH317 Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante...
FRENCH319 The Renaissance Body in French Literature and Medicine If the Renaissance is famous for discovering unknown continents and ancient texts the body too was a new territory of conquest. How did literature respond to the rise of an anatomical gaze in the arts and in medicine and how did it stage the aestheti...
FRENCH321 Giambattista Vico An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss,...
FRENCH324 Before the Global South: The Avant-Garde and the Quest for New Knowledges in the Premodern Contemporary Brazilian, Caribbean, European, and American writers and artists who engage with media, forms, and temporalities of premodern cultures as they develop new epistemologies of the Global South. Readings include Augusto de Campos, Roberto Da...
FRENCH329 Rethinking Francophone Literature in the 21st Century This course is a critical examination of literature from the Francophone world of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will travel through time and space with a selection of novels, poems, essays, and short stories. In this historical and cultural j...
FRENCH336 Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis embody three territories, real and imaginary, which never cease to challenge the preconceptions of travelers setting sight on their shores. In this class, we will explore the myriad ways in which these cities of North Af...
FRENCH338 The Gothic in Literature and Culture This course examines the Gothic as a both a narrative subgenre and an aesthetic mode, since its 18th century invention. Starting with different narrative genres of Gothic expression such as the Gothic novel, the ghost tale, and the fantastic tale by...
FRENCH339 The Afterlife of the Middle Ages Literary works that evoke a medieval past in contrast to a historical present, and critical texts that treat aspects of the medieval or medievalism. How does the concept of medievalism emerge and evolve through the ages? Topics include periodization,...
FRENCH340 Paris: Capital of the Modern World This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern his...
FRENCH346 Body over Mind How does modern fiction, aided by modern philosophy, give the lie to Descartes' famous "I think therefore I am"? And how does writing convey the desire for a different, perhaps stronger, integration of mind and body? Does the body speak a particular...
FRENCH349 Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways...
FRENCH350 The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese This course will examine novels situated by, on, or in the sea. Its guiding questions: how do the immense breadth and depth of the sea relate to human interiority, self-discovery, and the shadow world of dreams? Does the sea mark a boundary, or a d...
FRENCH351 Writing, Memory, and the Self Recent work in psychology and neuroscience emphasizes the narrative quality of the self, as we create it and recreate it through language and writing, shaping memories both personal and historical. This process is circular: we grow into the stories w...
FRENCH353 Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: French Political Myths and Concepts "Liberté, égalité, fraternité," but also "laïcité," "diversité," "parité," "universalisme" : the French have forged over the last two centuries key political concepts that are articulated together in a unique way and shape the political consciousness...
FRENCH355 The French-Speaking World: Literature, Culture, and Translation A survey of literatures and cultures of the French-speaking world. We will examine a variety of literary genres as we explore works from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Indian Ocean. Topics include: the politics of language, the making o...
FRENCH357 Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso...
FRENCH36 Dangerous Ideas Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d...
FRENCH361 War and Peace: Writings by and about Veterans in the 20th and 21st Centuries Since the aftermath of World War One, and with increasing urgency in contemporary America, stories about and by veterans are assigned a double role: that of exposing the horror of war yet also defending the possibility of a just war, and that of heal...
FRENCH362 Symbolism in Literature and the Arts This course will deal with the some of the 19th and 20th century authors and artists associated with Symbolism. We will focus on some key theoretical essays about the symbol, as well as on symbolist poetry, novels, visual arts, cinema, and music. In...
FRENCH365 The Problem of Evil in Philosophy, Literature, and Film This workshop will explore how the existence of evil in the world has been perceived, felt, analyzed, conceptualized, and dealt with over time, from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami to our post-Auschwitz, post-Hiroshima era. We'll take it for g...
FRENCH367 Introduction to Apocalyptic Thinking At the time of the European Enlightenment, the talk about the end of the world was taken to be a remnant of religious beliefs or the domain of insane people. The rational mind knew how to eliminate those obstacles to continuous scientific and technol...
FRENCH368A Imagining the Oceans How has Western culture constructed the world's oceans since the beginning of global ocean exploration? How have imaginative visions of the ocean been shaped by marine science, technology, exploration, commerce and leisure? Primary authors read might...
FRENCH369 Introduction to the Profession of Literary Studies A survey of how literary theory and other methods have been made institutional since the nineteenth century. The readings and conversation are designed for entering Ph.D. students in the national literature departments and comparative literature.
FRENCH372 Body Doubles: From the Fantastic Short Story to Science-Fiction How do we imagine our bodies through language, at times almost completely refashioning a physical double, be it idealized or abject? How do such body doubles intersect with our sense of self, defining or redefining sexual identity, spiritual aspirati...
FRENCH373 Couture Culture Fashion, art, and representation in Europe and the US between 1860 and today. Beginning with Baudelaire, Impressionism, the rise of the department store and the emergence of haute couture, culminating in the spectacular fashion exhibitions mounted a...
FRENCH373A Concepts of Modernity I: Nihilism In the 1885 Preface to his unfinished work The Will to Power, Nietzsche declared: "For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that...
FRENCH377 Medieval Lyric: How Lyric Moves Through the study of various vernacular premodern traditions, this graduate level course examines the qualities that make texts "lyric" and place them into conversation with contemporary theories of lyric. The course will situate medieval lyric withi...
FRENCH379 How the French Reinvented Cinema: The New Wave Focus on the French New Wave's cinematic revolution of 1959-1962. In a few years, the Nouvelle Vague delivered landmark works such as Truffaut's 400 Blows, Godard's Breathless, Chabrol's The Cousins or Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour, and changed foreve...
FRENCH380 Critical Poetics After recent critiques of "close" methods of literary criticism and reading practices, what claims can we make today about the literary object? Can we ever return to broad and general categories of poetics that were formulated by the major syncretic...
FRENCH386 Poetry and Philosophy When and why do philosophers resort to poetry?What is the relationship between poetic metaphor and philosophical argumentation?Why is the poetic often associated with empathy - recently touted as an essential human characteristic - whereas philosoph...
FRENCH387 Sex, Gender, and Violence: French Women Writers Today Long before the 2017 #Metoo campaign, French women writers have explored through powerful fictions and autobiographies the different shades of economic, social, psychological, physical, or sexual violence that is exerted against, but also by and betw...
FRENCH390 Magic, Science, and Religion With the rise of the human sciences in the later nineteenth century, "magic," "science," and "religion" came to be understood as entirely separate domains, with different versions of truth and divergent methods of inquiry. But how has this division b...
FRENCH391 Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age...
FRENCH392 Romancing the Stone: Crystal Media from Babylon to Superman This seminar investigates the importance of rock crystal and its imitations as material, medium, and metaphor from antiquity until modernity. The objects examined include rings, reliquaries, lenses, and the Crystal Aesthetic in early twentieth-centur...
FRENCH392 Women in Contemporary French Cinema Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to #metoo. Women as archetypes, icones, images, or as age...
FRENCH395 Philosophical Reading Group Discussion of one contemporary or historical text from the Western philosophical tradition per quarter in a group of faculty and graduate students. For admission of new participants, a conversation with Professor Robert Harrison is required. May be r...
FRENCH398 Intensive Reading in French/Italian Enrollment is limited to French/Italian Ph.D. students. Course is designed for French/Italian Ph.D. students to prepare for department milestone exams.
FRENCH399 Individual Work For students in French working on special projects or engaged in predissertation research.
FRENCH62N Art and Healing in the Wake of Covid-19: A Health Humanities Perspective How have artists contributed to healing during the Covid-19 pandemic? How does art shape or express diverse cultural understandings of health and illness, medicine and the body, death and spirituality, in response to crisis? How do such understanding...
FRENCH680 Curricular Practical Training CPT course required for international students completing degree. Prerequisite: French Ph.D. candidate.
FRENCH75N Narrative Medicine and Near-Death Experiences Even if many of us don't fully believe in an afterlife, we remain fascinated by visions of it. This course focuses on Near-Death Experiences and the stories around them, investigating them from the many perspectives pertinent to the growing field of...
FRENCH801 TGR Project No Description Set
FRENCH802 TGR Dissertation No Description Set
FRENCH87N The New Wave: How The French Reinvented Cinema When the French New Wave burst onto the stage in 1959, it changed forever the way films are made and the ways we think about cinema. Shooting on location with small crews, light cameras, unknown actors and improvised scripts, a group of young film cr...
ITALIAN101 Italy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Renowned for its rich cultural tradition, Italy is also one of the most problematic nations in Europe. This course explores the contradictions at the heart of Italy by examining how art and literature provide a unique perspective onto modern Italian...
ITALIAN115 Virtual Italy Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s. Referring to their journey as the "Grand Tour," travelers pursued intellectual passions, promoted careers, and satisfied wanderlust, all while collecting antiquities to fill museu...
ITALIAN115A The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success How come that, even if you have never set foot in Italy, you have heard of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? What made them so incredibly famous, back then as well as today? This course examines the shooting of those, and other, artists to fame. I...
ITALIAN117 Is Horror (also) Italian? Horror haunts our world. We associate it with manmade and natural catastrophes. But horror is also a genre. And haven't we all experienced something horrible? In this class, we take up the task of understanding what horror means, why it fascinates us...
ITALIAN127 Inventing Italian Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca This course is both an introduction to medieval Italian literature and culture and a continuation of the study of the Italian language. In the literary sphere the course will focus primarily on the Italian lyric tradition of the Sicilian school, the...
ITALIAN128 The Italian Renaissance and the Path to Modernity Are humans free and self-determining agents possessed of infinite potential or limited beings subject to the vagaries of fortune? What is the relationship between love and beauty? Is it better for a leader to inspire love or fear? These are the kind...
ITALIAN129 Introduction to Modern Italian Literature and Culture Ancient, yet new; united, yet fractured; central, yet marginal; imperial subject, aspirant empire: what historical, political, and social dynamics have shaped the Italian nation over the course of the last two centuries? How do we make sense of this...
ITALIAN140 Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight...
ITALIAN141 The Pen and the Sword: A Gendered History As weapons, the pen and the sword have been used to wound, punish, and condemn as well as to protect, liberate, and elevate. Historically entangled with ideals of heroism, nobility, and civility, the pen and the sword have been the privileged instrum...
ITALIAN142 The Good Life: Renaissance Perspectives on Perennial Questions What constitutes a good life? What conditions and relationships enable one to live well, and what attitudes and activities, systems and structures bring them about or make them possible? Renaissance men and women asked such questions, turning to stud...
ITALIAN148 Cinema and the Real: Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave Between the 1940s and 1960s, in Italy and France, a handful of movie directors revolutionized the art of cinema. In the wake of World War II they entirely re-defined the aesthetics of the 7th art in films such as "Bicycle Thieves," "400 Blows," "Rome...
ITALIAN149 Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways...
ITALIAN152 Boccaccio's Decameron: The Ethics of Storytelling This course involves an in-depth study of Boccaccio's Decameron in the context of medieval theories of poetry and interpretation. The goal is to understand more fully the relationship between literature and lived experience implied by Boccaccio's fic...
ITALIAN154E Film & Philosophy CE Issues of authenticity, morality, personal identity, and the value of truth explored through film; philosophical investigation of the filmic medium itself. Screenings to include Blade Runner (Scott), Do The Right Thing (Lee), The Seventh Seal (Bergma...
ITALIAN155 The Mafia in Society, Film, and Fiction The mafia has become a global problem through its infiltration of international business, and its model of organized crime has spread all over the world from its origins in Sicily. At the same time, film and fiction remain fascinated by a romantic, h...
ITALIAN157 From Saint Francis to San Francisco This course focuses on the figure of Saint Francis and his impact on medieval literature and the contemporary world. The course will begin with extracts from several Franciscan biographies, analyzing the differences and the analogies. One of the main...
ITALIAN175 CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,...
ITALIAN179 Italian Art, Italian Food: Florence and the Banquet of Culture This class is being offered in collaboration with Stanford in Florence, Bing Overseas Studies Program. This online activity course transports students to three world-class Florentine museums - the Uffizi, the Accademia and the Museo dell'Opera del Du...
ITALIAN181 Philosophy and Literature Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel...
ITALIAN186 The Art of Self-Portraits What is a self-portrait? The simple answer is that it is a portrait of the self. The complex answer is: anything that a person finds relevant to one's identity. Sometimes self-portraits are built around a positive idea, sometimes around a sense of lo...
ITALIAN188 Women, Wheat, and Weather? Lessons from Italy and the Global South for the 21st Century The Global South - a symbolic Mediterranean stretching from the Caribbean to India - lures the civilized man with the promise of excellent weather, voluptuous women, and good food. Already in antiquity, Sicily, the southernmost province of what is to...
ITALIAN189 Writing About Italy Writing about various topics in Italian Studies. Topics based on student interests: current politics, economics, European affairs, or cultural and literary history, medieval to modern, in Italy. Intensive focus on writing. Students may write on their...
ITALIAN199 Individual Work No Description Set
ITALIAN200 Italian Modernities: Lecture Series and Course Lecture series and seminar on modern Italian literature, cinema, and culture. While we emphasize the 20th and 21st centuries, we will include medieval and renaissance topics also. We invite 3-6 speakers per year to address us about their recent work...
ITALIAN205 Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte...
ITALIAN213 Trauma and Disenchantment in Post-War Italy Italian Neorealism was a flourishing literary and film movement in post-war Italy. The first half ofthis course will deal with some of its major novels, including Italo Calvino's "The Path to the Nest of Spiders", Beppe Fenoglio's "A Private Matter",...
ITALIAN214 Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Naus...
ITALIAN217 Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante...
ITALIAN220 Madness, Magic, and Amor in L'Orlando Furioso This class is an in-depth reading of the Italian epic poem L'Orlando Furioso, written by Ludovico Ariosto in the early sixteenth century. Errant knights, magic, and unpredictable adventures are just a few of the themes that characterize this unique p...
ITALIAN221 Giambattista Vico An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss,...
ITALIAN228 Science, Technology, and Society and the Humanities in the Face of Looming Disaster How STS and the Humanities can together help think out the looming catastrophes that put the future of humankind in jeopardy.
ITALIAN231 Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...
ITALIAN233 When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that...
ITALIAN235E Dante's "Inferno" Intensive reading of Dante's "Inferno" (the first canticle of his three canticle poem The Divine Comedy). Main objective: to learn how to read the Inferno in detail and in depth, which entails both close textual analysis as well as a systematic reco...
ITALIAN237 Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...
ITALIAN240 Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World What enabled Leonardo da Vinci to excel in over a dozen fields from painting to engineering and to anticipate flight four hundred years before the first aircraft took off? How did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? What forces and insight...
ITALIAN244 Literature and Technology from Frankenstein to the Futurists Overview of defects and disorder across crystalline, amorphous, and glassy phases that are central to function and application, spanning metals, ceramics, and soft/biological matter. Structure and properties of simple 0D/1D/2D defects in crystalline...
ITALIAN247 Fantasy, Fables, Fiction: Italo Calvino We will read Italo Calvino¿s most widely recognized works [The Baron In The Trees, Invisible Cities, Cosmocomics, If on a Winter¿s Night a Traveler, to name a few]. Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian author at the time of his death....
ITALIAN248 Cinema and the Real: Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave Between the 1940s and 1960s, in Italy and France, a handful of movie directors revolutionized the art of cinema. In the wake of World War II they entirely re-defined the aesthetics of the 7th art in films such as "Bicycle Thieves," "400 Blows," "Rome...
ITALIAN250 The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese This course will examine novels situated by, on, or in the sea. Its guiding questions: how do the immense breadth and depth of the sea relate to human interiority, self-discovery, and the shadow world of dreams? Does the sea mark a boundary, or a d...
ITALIAN251 Writing, Memory, and the Self Recent work in psychology and neuroscience emphasizes the narrative quality of the self, as we create it and recreate it through language and writing, shaping memories both personal and historical. This process is circular: we grow into the stories w...
ITALIAN257 Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso...
ITALIAN261 War and Peace: Writings by and about Veterans in the 20th and 21st Centuries Since the aftermath of World War One, and with increasing urgency in contemporary America, stories about and by veterans are assigned a double role: that of exposing the horror of war yet also defending the possibility of a just war, and that of heal...
ITALIAN262 Symbolism in Literature and the Arts This course will deal with the some of the 19th and 20th century authors and artists associated with Symbolism. We will focus on some key theoretical essays about the symbol, as well as on symbolist poetry, novels, visual arts, cinema, and music. In...
ITALIAN265 Word and Image What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will...
ITALIAN272 Body Doubles: From the Fantastic Short Story to Science-Fiction How do we imagine our bodies through language, at times almost completely refashioning a physical double, be it idealized or abject? How do such body doubles intersect with our sense of self, defining or redefining sexual identity, spiritual aspirati...
ITALIAN286 Poetry and Philosophy When and why do philosophers resort to poetry?What is the relationship between poetic metaphor and philosophical argumentation?Why is the poetic often associated with empathy - recently touted as an essential human characteristic - whereas philosoph...
ITALIAN288 Women, Wheat, and Weather? Lessons from Italy and the Global South for the 21st Century The Global South - a symbolic Mediterranean stretching from the Caribbean to India - lures the civilized man with the promise of excellent weather, voluptuous women, and good food. Already in antiquity, Sicily, the southernmost province of what is to...
ITALIAN290 Magic, Science, and Religion With the rise of the human sciences in the later nineteenth century, "magic," "science," and "religion" came to be understood as entirely separate domains, with different versions of truth and divergent methods of inquiry. But how has this division b...
ITALIAN300 Italian Modernities: Lecture Series and Course Lecture series and seminar on modern Italian literature, cinema, and culture. While we emphasize the 20th and 21st centuries, we will include medieval and renaissance topics also. We invite 3-6 speakers per year to address us about their recent work...
ITALIAN302 The Interruption of the Machine: Introduction to Sound Studies through Literature This course will introduce students to the field of Sound Studies (methodology, vocabulary, main claims) with a focus on the various sonic articulations of human-machine interactions in literature. The world of fiction as a sonic machine that articul...
ITALIAN305 Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics The course examines the medieval love lyric tradition, including the troubadours, trouvères, and the Italian dolce stil nuovo. Focus on how to understand this tradition in the context of other non-Western lyric and its performative and material conte...
ITALIAN314 Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett In this course we will read the main novels and plays of Pirandello, Sartre, and Beckett, with special emphasis on the existentialist themes of their work. Readings include The Late Mattia Pascal, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV; Naus...
ITALIAN315A The Italian Renaissance, or the Art of Success How come that, even if you have never set foot in Italy, you have heard of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael? What made them so incredibly famous, back then as well as today? This course examines the shooting of those, and other, artists to fame. I...
ITALIAN317 Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West Romantic love, it is often claimed, is an invention of the High Middle Ages. The vocabulary of sexual desire that is still current in the twenty-first century was authored in the twelfth and thirteenth, by troubadours, court poets, writers like Dante...
ITALIAN320 Madness, Magic, and Amor in L'Orlando Furioso This class is an in-depth reading of the Italian epic poem L'Orlando Furioso, written by Ludovico Ariosto in the early sixteenth century. Errant knights, magic, and unpredictable adventures are just a few of the themes that characterize this unique p...
ITALIAN321 Giambattista Vico An intensive reading of Vico's book - New Science. Emphasis will be on Vico's philosophy of history and theories of poetic wisdom, myth, and language. Vico will be put in dialogue with René Descartes, Rousseau, Auguste Compte, Claude Lévi Strauss,...
ITALIAN325 Petrarch & Petrarchism: Fragments of the Self In this course we will examine Francis Petrarch's book of Italian lyric poems, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, and its reception in early modern France, England, and Spain. Readings from Petrarch's epistolary and ethical writings will contextualize histor...
ITALIAN331 Leonardo's World: Science, Technology, and Art Leonardo da Vinci is emblematic of creativity and innovation. His art is iconic, his inventions legendary. His understanding of nature, the human body, and machines made him a scientist and engineer as well as an artist. His fascination with drawing...
ITALIAN332B Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire Between 1200-1600, Venice created a powerful empire at the boundary between East and West that controlled much of the Mediterranean, with a merchant society that allowed social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist. Topics include the feature...
ITALIAN333 When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that...
ITALIAN337 Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti's extraordinarily long and prodigious existence (1475-1564) spanned the Renaissance and the Reformation in Italy. The celebrity artist left behind not only sculptures, paintin...
ITALIAN343 Deep Tech at the Intersection of Literature, Philosophy, and Society The Oxford English Dictionary defines "Deep Tech" as "the part of the World Wide Web that is not discoverable by means of standard search engines." When startups and companies around Silicon Valley describe themselves as "deep-tech," it means that th...
ITALIAN344 Literature and Technology from Frankenstein to the Futurists Overview of defects and disorder across crystalline, amorphous, and glassy phases that are central to function and application, spanning metals, ceramics, and soft/biological matter. Structure and properties of simple 0D/1D/2D defects in crystalline...
ITALIAN346 Body over Mind How does modern fiction, aided by modern philosophy, give the lie to Descartes' famous "I think therefore I am"? And how does writing convey the desire for a different, perhaps stronger, integration of mind and body? Does the body speak a particular...
ITALIAN349 Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art Why do dating sites rely on photographs? Why do we believe that love is above all a visual force? How is pleasure, even erotic pleasure, achieved through looking? While the psychology of impressions offers some answers, this course uncovers the ways...
ITALIAN350 The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese This course will examine novels situated by, on, or in the sea. Its guiding questions: how do the immense breadth and depth of the sea relate to human interiority, self-discovery, and the shadow world of dreams? Does the sea mark a boundary, or a d...
ITALIAN351 Writing, Memory, and the Self Recent work in psychology and neuroscience emphasizes the narrative quality of the self, as we create it and recreate it through language and writing, shaping memories both personal and historical. This process is circular: we grow into the stories w...
ITALIAN352 Boccaccio's Decameron: The Ethics of Storytelling This course involves an in-depth study of Boccaccio's Decameron in the context of medieval theories of poetry and interpretation. The goal is to understand more fully the relationship between literature and lived experience implied by Boccaccio's fic...
ITALIAN357 Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero What does it mean to say the personal is the political, or, in the case of Arendt, that the personal is not political, especially if you are a woman? This course explores how Weil, De Beauvoir, Arendt, and Caverero contend with the question of perso...
ITALIAN361 War and Peace: Writings by and about Veterans in the 20th and 21st Centuries Since the aftermath of World War One, and with increasing urgency in contemporary America, stories about and by veterans are assigned a double role: that of exposing the horror of war yet also defending the possibility of a just war, and that of heal...
ITALIAN362 Symbolism in Literature and the Arts This course will deal with the some of the 19th and 20th century authors and artists associated with Symbolism. We will focus on some key theoretical essays about the symbol, as well as on symbolist poetry, novels, visual arts, cinema, and music. In...
ITALIAN365 Word and Image What impact do images have on our reading of a text? How do words influence our understanding of images or our reading of pictures? What makes a visual interpretation of written words or a verbal rendering of an image successful? These questions will...
ITALIAN369 Introduction to the Profession of Literary Studies A survey of how literary theory and other methods have been made institutional since the nineteenth century. The readings and conversation are designed for entering Ph.D. students in the national literature departments and comparative literature.
ITALIAN372 Body Doubles: From the Fantastic Short Story to Science-Fiction How do we imagine our bodies through language, at times almost completely refashioning a physical double, be it idealized or abject? How do such body doubles intersect with our sense of self, defining or redefining sexual identity, spiritual aspirati...
ITALIAN373 Concepts of Modernity I: Nihilism In the 1885 Preface to his unfinished work The Will to Power, Nietzsche declared: "For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that...
ITALIAN377 Medieval Lyric: How Lyric Moves Through the study of various vernacular premodern traditions, this graduate level course examines the qualities that make texts "lyric" and place them into conversation with contemporary theories of lyric. The course will situate medieval lyric withi...
ITALIAN386 Poetry and Philosophy When and why do philosophers resort to poetry?What is the relationship between poetic metaphor and philosophical argumentation?Why is the poetic often associated with empathy - recently touted as an essential human characteristic - whereas philosoph...
ITALIAN390 Magic, Science, and Religion With the rise of the human sciences in the later nineteenth century, "magic," "science," and "religion" came to be understood as entirely separate domains, with different versions of truth and divergent methods of inquiry. But how has this division b...
ITALIAN395 Philosophical Reading Group Discussion of one contemporary or historical text from the Western philosophical tradition per quarter in a group of faculty and graduate students. For admission of new participants, a conversation with Professor Robert Harrison is required. May be r...
ITALIAN398 Intensive Reading in French/Italian Enrollment is limited to French/Italian Ph.D. students. Course is designed for French/Italian Ph.D. students to prepare for department milestone exams.
ITALIAN399 Individual Work Repeatable for Credit
ITALIAN62N Art and Healing in the Wake of Covid-19: A Health Humanities Perspective How have artists contributed to healing during the Covid-19 pandemic? How does art shape or express diverse cultural understandings of health and illness, medicine and the body, death and spirituality, in response to crisis? How do such understanding...
ITALIAN75N Narrative Medicine and Near-Death Experiences Even if many of us don't fully believe in an afterlife, we remain fascinated by visions of it. This course focuses on Near-Death Experiences and the stories around them, investigating them from the many perspectives pertinent to the growing field of...
ITALIAN802 TGR Dissertation No Description Set