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An essential part of the General Education Program, the 200-level AIID 201 Studies in Arts & Humanities course addresses the objectives of the General Education Program by providing an opportunity for students to engage with enduring questions and issues in an interdisciplinary fashion by studying texts and other sources drawn from a range of different times and cultures.

Course Description

The Studies in Arts & Humanities is an interdisciplinary liberal arts course.聽 It provides students with an introduction to key texts, concepts, and artifacts from different fields in the humanities聽including,聽for instance,聽history, literature, philosophy, music,聽and聽art history. Each section of the course covers a聽variety聽of different cultures and at least four different periods in human history, which can range from the ancient world to contemporary works. The course is designated Writing Intensive and will require students to complete at least two different types of writing assignments. This is a core General Education course, required聽of聽all students

Class Schedule

AIID 201 - STUDIES IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES
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SIAH Section Descriptions, Fall 2024

狈辞迟别:听 We will do our best to maintain this list of instructors, times, and topics.聽 However, unexpected schedule changes may happen due to enrollment and other issues.

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Section 01: Professor Riki Traum Avidan

Hybrid Monday 8:00 – 9:40, other work asynch
“The Love of Power and the Power of Love: Race, Class, and Intimacy”

鈥淚f I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don鈥檛 see.鈥

鈥揓ames Baldwin

This聽course聽invites its participants to explore questions of power, domination, race, and love as categories that structure our social worlds and personal experience. We pay special attention to the concept of family: family that often provides security and stability, is also the primary seat of power. We examine family through its relation to ambivalent feelings and categories like power, domination, and violence. We also think about the ways political systems are grounded in everyday life, affect, shape, and form intimacy and love, and in this context also gender and race.

Assuming that race, gender, and intimacy are not 鈥榥atural鈥 categories, we will look at the work that goes into making them appear so and consider聽the ways in聽which their meanings and efficacy change over time. The聽course聽will examine聽closely聽essays and literary works by Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Sigmund Freud, Anton Chekhov, Tillie Olsen, Judith Butler, June Jordan, Audre Lorde,聽and more. We will discuss聽Antigone聽by Sophocles and examine questions of race, class, and identity in聽鈥淩ecitatif鈥澛燽y聽Toni Morrison. Through these works we will ask聽how social identities鈥攅.g., race, gender, sexuality, and social class鈥攁nd regional contexts shape people鈥檚 experiences of close human relationships. In this聽course, we consider politics as a medium of domination and change. Thus, this聽course聽calls as much attention to those individual and collective forms of resistance as it does to their absence.

A main concept in this class 鈥 as you might surmise from the description above – is聽ambivalence.聽 We examine ambivalence in this course through literary as well as interdisciplinary frameworks.

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Section 02: Professor TBA

Wednesday, 9:00 – 12:30
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Section 03: Professor TBA

Wednesday, 6:05 – 9:35

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Section 04: Professor Ziva Piltch

Wednesday 1:00 – 4:30

“The Hero’s Journey”

Our theme for this section will be the hero and hero鈥檚 journey and the ways in which the hero reflects the values of her/his culture in literature and in art. The term 鈥渉ero鈥 is both male and female and includes antiheroes as well.聽 Readings that emphasize this include The Epic of Gilgamesh, Oedipus or Medea, Othello, Candide, The Doll鈥檚 House, and The Metamorphosis. Through writing and discussion we will examine our own values as well.

From the Garden of Eden story in the Bible to the thoughts of early Greek and Hindu philosophers and from a story of love and murder set in 16th century Istanbul to the writings of a 19th century Hasidic master.

Studies in Arts and Humanities is a course in which we examine ancient and modern cultures through the lens of different disciplines.聽 We will examine the differing ways societies manage and question issues of proper government, morality, and personal relationships.聽 We will explore the process by which individuals and groups challenge authority and change perceptions of divinity, belief, social conventions, and norms of behavior.

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Section 05: Professor Monika Giacoppe

Tuesday, 6:05-9:35

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Section 06: Professor TBA

Wednesday, 6:05 – 9:35

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Section 07: Professor TBA

Monday/ Thursday, 6:05 – 7:45

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Section 08: Professor TBA

Tuesday / Friday, 11:50 – 1:30

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Section 09: Professor TBA

Monday, 6:05-9:35

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Section 10: Professor Riki Traum Avidan

Hybrid Monday/ Thursday 9:55 – 11:05, other work asynch

“The Love of Power and the Power of Love: Race, Class, and Intimacy”

鈥淚f I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don鈥檛 see.鈥

鈥揓ames Baldwin

This聽course聽invites its participants to explore questions of power, domination, race, and love as categories that structure our social worlds and personal experience. We pay special attention to the concept of family: family that often provides security and stability, is also the primary seat of power. We examine family through its relation to ambivalent feelings and categories like power, domination, and violence. We also think about the ways political systems are grounded in everyday life, affect, shape, and form intimacy and love, and in this context also gender and race.

Assuming that race, gender, and intimacy are not 鈥榥atural鈥 categories, we will look at the work that goes into making them appear so and consider聽the ways in聽which their meanings and efficacy change over time. The聽course聽will examine聽closely聽essays and literary works by Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Sigmund Freud, Anton Chekhov, Tillie Olsen, Judith Butler, June Jordan, Audre Lorde,聽and more. We will discuss聽Antigone聽by Sophocles and examine questions of race, class, and identity in聽鈥淩ecitatif鈥澛燽y聽Toni Morrison. Through these works we will ask聽how social identities鈥攅.g., race, gender, sexuality, and social class鈥攁nd regional contexts shape people鈥檚 experiences of close human relationships. In this聽course, we consider politics as a medium of domination and change. Thus, this聽course聽calls as much attention to those individual and collective forms of resistance as it does to their absence.

A main concept in this class 鈥 as you might surmise from the description above – is聽ambivalence.聽 We examine ambivalence in this course through literary as well as interdisciplinary frameworks.

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Section 11: Professor Diane Tomko

Monday/ Thursday 4:10 – 5:50
“Love and Imagination”

How are love and imagination part of what makes us human?”聽聽 In this course, we will read some of the great works from the Ancient Greek World to the Twentieth century 鈥 some plays, tales, poetry, videos, novels and short stories, including Oedipus Rex, Tristan and Iseult, Pride and Prejudice, Hard Times and Dubliners. Students will also flex their writing muscles in a variety of modes, looking to explore their own imaginations as well as improve their individual style at the level of the sentence as well as the level of the essay.
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Section 12: Professor TBA

Tuesday/ Friday, 3:40 – 5:20

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Section 13: Professor TBA

Tuesday/Friday, 1:45 – 3:25

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Section 14: Professor TBA

Tuesday / Friday, 8:00 – 9:40

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Section 15: Professor Vassiliki Flenga

Monday/ Thursday, 2:15 – 3:55

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Section 16: Professor TBA

Monday/ Thursday, 11:20 – 1:00

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Section 18: Professor TBA

Tuesday/ Friday, 3:40 – 5:20
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Section 19: Professor Todd Barnes

Monday 11:20-1:00; other work asynch
“Resistance, Rebellion, & Revolution: Narratives & Manifestos of Liberation”

In this class we will study liberation movements throughout history as they are represented in poetry, plays, novels, films, and manifestos. We will read about a revolution against food insecurity in ancient Rome (Plutarch), the agrarian socialism of the Diggers in early modern England, and Shakespeare’s retelling of ancient Roman food riots in his play聽Coriolanus. We will read Marx and Engels’聽The Communist Manifesto,聽anti-colonial manifestos (e.g., Aim茅 C茅saire’s “Discourse on Colonialism”), manifestos from women’s liberation movements (from Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” to manifestos of second- and third-wave feminisms) and from queer liberation movements (e.g., Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”). We will end by looking at narratives of Occupy Wall Street, as well as more recent uprisings (e.g., Black Lives Matter, January 6th, Gaza campus encampments).

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Section 50: Professor Fabien Rivi猫re

Online, asynchronous course
“Self, Identity, Culture”

 

Literature, art, music, dance, and every form of artistic expression often address the very human question of how we, as human beings, think, feel, and experience life from multiple perspectives.

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