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Using art and short prompts, students can draw out characters and details to grow new work or nudge open areas where they are "stuck." The class will examine how other writers have used ekphrastic...
What if we actually came into contact with beings from another planet? How would we communicate? Would the aliens be friendly? Would we? What does imagining such an encounter tell us about the...
Where are we headed? Will our long history of short-sighted choices decimate the planet and leave the few who survive in a wasteland? Or will developments in technology bring about a near-mastery of...
This quarter we will focus on movies centrally interested in new and strange ways of thinking about what a human being is. How are we to understand the status of the android or of artificial...
This three-quarter sequence will examine the world in the 20th Century, from 1900 through to 2001. The first course will focus on the world of European empires, leading to the crisis of the Great War...
This three-quarter sequence will examine the world in the 20th Century, from 1900 through to 2001. The first course will focus on the world of European empires, leading to the crisis of the Great War...
This third class of a three-quarter sequence will examine the world in the 20th Century, from 1968 to 2001, emphasizing the relation between politics and society, with contemporary reflection on the...
An immersion in the short stories, poetry, and essays of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) can lead to a profound change in our understanding of the world – the world as we think we know...
In this monumental novel of 1973, heir to Moby-Dick, Ulysses, and To the Lighthouse, Pynchon envisions a world that has surrendered, in the late stages of the second world war, to eruptive cognitive...
It is unlikely there has ever been a more original, beautifully written and complex set of travel writings than those composed by Evelyn Waugh. Here are travel writings closer to Gulliver's Travels...