[Englmajors] CHID Spring courses!

[Melissa Wensel]

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Subject: 	[Advisers] CHID Spring courses!
Date: 	Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:18:47 -0800
From: 	chid <chid at u.washington.edu>
To: 	advisers at u.washington.edu <advisers at u.washington.edu>


*CHID 250: Theory Schmeory*

*Instructor: Stacey Moran*

*Tues/Thurs 1:30-3:20 (and sections)*

*Fulfills CHID Group A*



Reading and understanding theoretical texts can be frustrating and
intimidating for students; often it is characterized as either 
unnecessary or as a temporary detour for accomplishing more concrete, 
activist goals.

This course attempts to demystify theory in a variety of ways in a
non-threatening environment. We will explore a number of different
theories from western philosophy, beginning with Liberal Humanism and
including Materialism, Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics, Semiotics,
Postmodernism and Poststructuralism.  Through primary and secondary
readings, we will break down, organize, and map out this heady stuff in
order to gain an overarching view of this animal called Theory. We will
tame the beast, so to speak, and leave the class armed with a basic
workable understanding of various perspectives that the student can 
apply in the future. Students with all levels of experience are 
encouraged to join in this "theory for dummies."



*CHID 270 (fulfills CHID Group C)*

*Classics of German Literature and Thought: Frankenstein read Goethe.
Shouldn’t you? *

Brigitte Prutti  triest at u.washington.edu <mailto:triest at u.washington.edu> **

This course introduces students to some inspiring, provocative, and
inventive literary writers and thinkers in the German cultural
tradition. Readings range from 18th century sentimentalism to
contemporary postmodernist fiction. We will ask what it means to awaken
one night after uneasy dreams to find oneself transformed into a giant
insect; we will envision a workaholic Prussian writer at the sandy
beaches of turn-of-the-century Venice; we will ask why Greek tragedy had
to be reinvented in 19th century Germany of all places etc. We shall
begin to understand why Frankenstein was moved to tears while reading
German fiction. Among the texts on our reading list are Franz Kafka’s
famous fantastic tale The Metamorphosis, Thomas Mann’s equally famous
modernist artist novella Death in Venice, Friedrich Nietzsche’s
path-breaking essay on the Birth of Tragedy, and the first
internationally successful 18th century German novel, Goethe’s acclaimed
Sorrows of Young Werther. We will also consider other interesting
examples of shorter prose fiction by renowned 19th to 21st century
writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann (The Thirtieth Year), Georg Büchner
(Lenz), Peter Handke (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams), Judith Hermann
(Summerhouse, Later), Joseph Roth (Stationmaster Fallmerayer), and
Adalbert Stifter (Rock Crystal). Class is conducted in English.





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