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Past Courses
Ever wondered how it is that we know what we think we know? Dive into twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s accessible and engaging On Certainty, in which a new mode of inquiry into...
Delve into three turn-of-the-century texts by three celebrated authors: Bluets by Maggie Nelson, Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, and White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Each of these texts has won...
This course examines women, gender, sexuality, and visual culture in the Renaissance period, ca. 1400-1600. Topics to be considered include visual constructions of male and female identity and...
Shirin Neshat
This course will explore works of fiction and graphic novels in translation written by women authors of Middle Eastern and North African origin, and contextualize these works in the historical time...
As women writing for the theater from the 1970s to the present day, Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Lucy Kirkwood have left their indelible marks on the world stage. Their topics have...
A deep dive into three of Euripides' plays featuring distinctly different monumental heroines, this class, the first of a planned ongoing series on women in Greek tragedy, will explore three plays by...
Virginia Woolf's October 1928 Orlando: A Biography is at once a bubbling jeu d'esprit of playfulness, humor and imagination, a keen critique of women's disinheritance and critics' cruelty, and a paean...
How to live and how to lead are questions that every human community has sought to answer. The thinkers on ethics and leadership whose writings we explore in this course come from Europe, Asia, Africa...
In this workshop we'll apply techniques to weave together thematic, plot and character elements to expand the second act of your tale, do justice to your premise, attract your audience, and tell the...
This course is designed for individuals who want to develop their essay writing skills. Over the course of eight weeks, participants will develop a walking and writing practice. Participants will...