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HUMA E-50a Introduction to the Classics of Western Thought I (12235)
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Jay Harris, PhD, Harvard College Professor and Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $325, undergraduate credit $550.
Thursday, Sept. 22, 5:30-7:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 203. Fall term

An introduction to the classic texts of Western political, moral, and religious thought. In HUMA E-50a, readings include selections from the Bible, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Augustine's City of God, and Machiavelli's Prince; in HUMA E-50b, Rousseau's Social Contract, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and the works of Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, and Freud.
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HUMA E-50b Introduction to the Classics of Western Thought II (22048)
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Jay Harris, PhD, Harvard College Professor and Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $325, undergraduate credit $550.
Monday, Jan. 30, 5:30-7:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 203. Spring term

An introduction to the classic texts of Western political, moral, and religious thought. In HUMA E-50a, readings include selections from the Bible, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Augustine's City of God, and Machiavelli's Prince; in HUMA E-50b, Rousseau's Social Contract, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and the works of Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, and Freud.
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HUMA E-100 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Humanities
Graduate proseminar. 4 units. Graduate credit $1,575. Limited enrollment.
Students who do not have Harvard ID cards must purchase $100 special borrower's cards at Widener Library.

Fall term, section 1 (12415) (Syllabus) (Print View): Patricia M. Bellanca, PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University. Monday, Sept. 19, 5:30-7:30 pm, 51 Brattle Street, Room 321.

Fall term, section 2 (11989) (Syllabus) (Print View): Peter A. Zusi, PhD, Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Thursday, Sept. 22, 5:30-7:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 105.

Fall term, section 3 (12164) (Syllabus) (Print View): Amy Kittelstrom, PhD, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University. Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 am-12 noon, Emerson Hall, Room 106.

Spring term, section 1 (22029) (Syllabus) (Print View): Patricia M. Bellanca, PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University. Monday, Jan. 30, 5:30-7:30 pm, 51 Brattle Street, Room 219.

Spring term, section 2 (20728) (Syllabus) (Print View): Amy Kittelstrom, PhD, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University. Saturday, Feb. 4, 10 am-12 noon, Sever Hall, Room 302.

Spring term, section 3 (22505) (Print View): Peter A. Zusi, PhD, Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Tuesday, Jan. 31, 5:30-7:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 212.

This proseminar focuses on the research methods, writing, and critical and analytical skills necessary to produce a successful graduate-level research project in the humanities. Attention is paid to the development of close-reading skills and to strategies of textual analysis, as well as to the vocabulary for describing the structural and iconographic features of artifacts. In the fall, section 1 focuses on gothic fiction, section 2 focuses on forms of modernism, and section 3 focuses on pragmatism and its critics. In the spring, section 1 focuses on gothic fiction, section 2 focuses on pragmatism and its critics, and section 3 focuses on forms of modernism. Prerequisite: at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.
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HUMA E-105/W Survey of Publishing: From Text to Hypertext (11028)
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Matthew Richard Battles, MA, Coordinating Editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $325, undergraduate credit $550, graduate credit $1,450.
Monday, Sept. 19, 7:35-9:35 pm, Boylston Hall, Room 105. Fall term

Survey of the cognitive, social, and cultural effects of reading, writing, and publishing from the creation of the phonetic alphabet to Gutenberg to today's hypermedia. Extensive readings and frequent writing on the history and evolution of communications media and their impact on literacy, philosophy, religion, science, political economy, and social development.
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HUMA E-121 Berlin in the Twentieth Century (22226)
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Sylvia Rieger, PhD, Preceptor in German, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $325, undergraduate credit $550, graduate credit $1,450.
Thursday, Feb. 2, 7:35-9:35 pm, Sever Hall, Room 106. Spring term

This course examines Berlin's multifold metamorphoses throughout the twentieth century. We look at Berlin as a birthplace of modernity, the glitzy metropolis of the Roaring Twenties, the capital of the Third Reich, a subsequently divided city, and as the stage for reunification and its aftermath. Materials include literary and nonliterary texts, films, and visual art.
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HUMA E-148 Italian Americans: History, Literature, Issues of Identity (22294)
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Elvira G. Di Fabio, PhD, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Carol Bonomo Albright, MA, Editor, Italian Americana.
4 units. Noncredit $325, undergraduate credit $550, graduate credit $1,450.
Monday, Jan. 30, 5:30-7:30 pm, Boylston Hall, Room 105. Spring term

An exploration of the historical migratory patterns of Italians to the United States during the last 100 years and consequent issues of identity and integration. Students investigate these topics from a wide variety of sources: literary, historical, and sociological texts as well as media reports, popular music, and films.
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HUMA E-178 Russian Imperial Masterworks and Their Post-Histories (12360)
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Julie A. Buckler, PhD, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit and undergraduate credit $625, graduate credit $1,525.
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 7:35-9:35 pm, Harvard Hall, Room 103. Fall term
Online and on-campus options. See the Distance Education website. Lecture 1 video. Lecture 2 video.

Investigates major works of imperial Russian culture (literary, architectural, musical, theatrical) as products of their original historical contexts and in terms of their ongoing life as acknowledged masterworks in Russia and the West. Works include Rastrelli's Winter Palace, Falconet's monument to Peter the Great, Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman," Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and Bely's Petersburg, as well as the imperial capital city of St. Petersburg itself. This course examines how these masterworks have been variously renewed and reinterpreted since their initial inception.
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