HUM 3010: Medieval Devlopments to Reforming Traditions. (1-12)
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HUM 3020: Enlightenment to Modern Period (1-12)
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HUM 3030: Metephysical Poets (1-12)
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HUM 3040: Oxford Fantasists (1-12)
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HUM 3111: Uganda Studies Program: African Literature (3-6)
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HUM 3300: CCCU: India Literature (3-6)
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HUM 4000: Oxford: Political Science and British Culture (6)
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Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Oxford Scholar’s Semester in Oxford. Taught through a semester-long program of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities in Oxford, England, this course examines selective themes from the British past and the traces they have left in present day Britain. Students explore how events, people, and ideas from the past are remembered, forgotten, and misremembered in literature, politics, philosophy, religion, art and architecture, and the material landscape, and investigate the meaning, use, and abuse of the past. May be repeated for credit 2 times.
Attributes: Upper-Division
HUM 4010: Oxford Semester: Prohibition and transgression-The 18th and 19th Century Gothic Novel (4.5)
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Taught through a semester-long program of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities in Oxford, England. The eighteenth-century gothic movement was a reaction to the dominance of the Enlightenment emphasis on reason and rationalism. The Marquis de Sade saw it as the natural literary result of the violence and terror of the French Revolution. Its conventions included aristocratic villains and persecuted maidens, the supernatural, the victory of nature over man’s creations and of chaos over order, and the theme of imprisonment with the consciousness forced back upon itself. As a transgressive sub-genre of the novel, it was anti-Catholic, anti-nostalgic, and anti-aristocratic. It evolved in the Victorian age to reflect nineteenth-century concerns about religion, race, gender, imperialism, and cultural degeneration. This course will trace its development from the first gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), to Bram Stoker’s presentation of fin-de-siècle anxiety in Dracula (1897). Students can explore how gothic themes caught the imagination of contemporary artists and architects and how they translated them into paintings and drawings, many of which acted as inspiration for the writers themselves. Why does the Gothic genre refuse to die? Why do we remain fascinated with the forbidden and enjoy being terrified? What is the difference between terror and horror and why did Romantic poets like Coleridge, Byron, Shelley view the former as such a rich source of inspiration? These are some of the questions we will address. Typically offered: Summer.
Attributes: Upper-Division
HUM 4020: Oxford Seminar:Psychology & Literature-From Margery Kempe to Sylvia Plath (4.5)
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Taught through a semester-long program of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities in Oxford, England. This seminar will explore mental illness and instability in several major authors, focusing on Margery Kempe, a medieval housewife and mystic who became the first autobiographer in English; John Bunyan, the seventeenth-century author of Pilgrim’s Progress; John Clare, a nineteenth century nature poet who became incarcerated in an asylum; and two key twentieth-century female authors, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. We will read their writings in the light of psychological theory and of cultural and feminist contexts. Led by a literary scholar who is also a psychologist and psychiatrist, this seminar will bring unusual insights to the study of these distinctive texts. Typically offered: Summer.
Attributes: Upper-Division