2009-2010 Courses
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Fall 2009
KAPLAN HUMANITIES SCHOLARS PROGRAM:
HUM 101-6/HUM 210-0 - 20, 21, 22 Freshman Seminar: The Mirror of Custom: Comedy and the Arts of Living in Society
Instructors: Kathryn Bosher (Classics), Thomas Simpson (French & Italian), William West (English)
Open only to freshmen in the program.
Please see the program website for details.
HUM 260-0 Humanities Explorations/SOC 205: American Society
Topic: "Health and Biomedicine as Human Concerns"
Instructor: Steven Epstein (Sociology)
Day/time: TTH 11:00-12:20 p.m.
Room: ANNG 15
HUM 390-0 Humanities Internship (open to all NU undergrads):
Receive academic credit and be an intern in a Chicago arts or humanities institution while taking classes at NU. Quarter-long Fall/Winter/Spring/ Summer internships available.
HUM 395-0 Humanities Seminar/ITALIAN 380: Topics in Italian
(undergrad and graduate students)
Topic: "Neo-realism and International Cinema: Fantasies of Otherness in Postwar Italian Cinema"
Jean Gimbel Lane Humanities Professor: Cristina Lombardi-Diop
Day/time: TTH 12:30-1:50
Room: Kresge 2-370
Winter 2010
KAPLAN HUMANITIES SCHOLARS PROGRAM:
HUM 102-6/HUM 211-0 - 20, 21,22 Freshman Seminar: The Good Society and the Question of Species
Instructors: Susan Pearson (History), Laurie Shannon (English), Mary Weismantel (Anthropology, Spanish & Portuguese)
Open only to freshmen in the program.
Please see the program website for details.
HUM 201-0 Thinking Across Traditions
Instructor: Ann Gunter (Art History)
Topic:"The Persian Empire"
Day/Time:TTH 11:00-12:20
Room: Kresge 2-380
HUM 301-0 Topics in the Humanities Thinking Across Traditions
Instructor: Huey Copeland (Art History)
Topic: "Race, History, Conceptual Practice"
Day/Time: T 12:00-3:00
Room: Kresge 2-370
HUM 302-0 Perspectives in the Humanities
Instructor: Ruediger Seeseman (Religion)
Topic: "Theories and Practices of Knowledge in Islam"
Day/Time: TTh 10:30-11:50
Room: TBA
HUM 390-0 Humanities Internship (open to all NU undergrads):
Receive academic credit and be an intern in a Chicago arts or humanities institution while taking classes at NU. Quarter-long Fall/Winter/Spring/ Summer internships available.
HUM 395-0 Humanities Seminar
(undergrads and graduate students)
Instructor: Ann Gunter (Art History)
Topic: "Archaeology and Nationalism"
Day/Time: TTH 2:00-3:20
Room: Kresge 2-380
HUM 260-0 Humanities Explorations
Instructors: Seamas O’Driscoll (Slavic), Marco Ruffini (French & Italian)
Topic: "Aspects of Love"
Day/time: M 3:00-5:00
Room: TBD
HUM 301-0 Topics in the Humanities
Instructor: Julia Stern (English)
Topic: "Mary Chestnut and her Milieu"
Day/time: M 2:00-5:00
Room: TBD
HUM 301-0 Topics in the Humanities
Instructor: Michael Sherry (History)
Topic: "Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn in American Life"
Day/time: TBA
Room: TBA
HUM 301-0 Topics in the Humanities
Instructor:Seamas O’Driscoll (Slavic)
Topic: "Literature and Economic Imagination"
Day/time: M 3:00-5:00
Room: Kresge 2-380
HUM 302-0 Perspectives in the Humanities
Instructor: Christopher Lane (English)
Topic: "Studies in Doubt"
Day/time: MW 2:00
Room: TBD
HUM 302-0 Perspectives in the Humanities
Instructor: Marco Ruffini (French & Italian)
Topic: "The Italian Renaissance: On the Knowledge of the Surface."
Day/time: MWF, time TBD
Room: TBD
HUM 390-0 Humanities Internship (open to all NU undergrads):
Receive academic credit and be an intern in a Chicago arts or humanities institution while taking classes at NU. Quarter-long Fall/Winter/Spring/ Summer internships available.
HUM 395-0 Humanities Seminar
(undergrads and graduate students)
Instructor: Steven Epstein (Sociology)
Topic: "Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Modern Life Sciences"
Day/time: T 2:00 - 5:00
Room: Kresge 2-370
