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Fall 2012 GREAT BOOKS FEATURED SEMINAR:
GRBK 2600. Great Books of the 19th & 20th Centuries
Great Books of Radical Thought:Revolution, Evolution, Mind and "Man"

with Helena Feder, Assistant Professor of English
TTh 11-12:15pm (84855) also available in Honors section 299 (84856)

Featuring:

  • Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto (1848)
     
  • Charles Darwin's On the origin of species by means of natural selection … (1859)
     
  • Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1929)
     
  • Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949)
     
  • Read alongside fiction works by Upton Sinclair, H.G. Wells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Virginia Woolf

 

Fall 2012:
CLAS 2000 Intro to the Classics: Humanities J. Stevens 84150 001 TTh 11-12:15 Speight 129
CLAS 2230 Great Books of Ancient Lit. II: Rome M. Teske 84157 001 TTh 2-3:15 Bate 1024
CLAS 2500 Greek Tragedy in Translation J. Given 84154 001 MWF 9-9:50 Bate 1023
ENGL 2100 Major British Writers TBA 85064 001 MWF 1-1:50 Bate 1018
ENGL 2200 Major American Writers H. Feder
R. Watson		 85068
85096		 001 TTh 3:30-4:45
002 MW 3:30-4:45		 Bate 1015
Bate 1010
ENGL 3630 The Bible As Literature D. Wilson-Okamura 85118 001 MWF 2-2:50 Bate 1029
ENGL 4010 Medieval Literature N. Sidhu 85135 001 MW 2-3:15 Bate 1025
ENGL 4070 Shakespeare: Histories D. Wilson-Okamura 85138 001 MWF 10-10:50 Bate 1024
ENGL 4080 Shakespeare: Comedies T. Herron 85139 001 MW 3:30-4:45 Bate 1001
ENGL 4090 Shakespeare: Tragedies T. Herron 85140 001 MW 2-3:15 Bate 1021
FORL 2620 French Lit. in Trans: Paris A-H. Miller 84846 001 TTh 12:30-1:45 Rawl 103
FORL 2665 Don Quixote J. Lorenzo 84857 001 MWF 9-9:50 Rawl 203
HIST 3405 History of Ancient Greece F. Romer 85390 001 MWF 1-1:50 B B203
MRST 2500 Intro to Renaissance Studies K. Moll 85565
85566		 001 TTh 2-3:15
299		 B D205
PHIL 1311 Great Philosophers Antiquity-Present R. McCarty 84178 001 TTh 11-12:15 B D309
PHIL 3331 Modern Philosophy H. Jacoby 83709 001 MWF 2-2:50 B D313
POLS 2070 Intro to Political Theory N. Spalding 83170 001 MWF 10-10:50 B C102
RELI 2695 Intro to the Old Testament L. Mazow 81279 001 TTH 9:30-10:45 Flanagan 265
RELI 2696 Intro to the New Testament L. Johnson 84199 001 TTh 9:30-10:45 B D309

 
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