It focuses on how non-Western individuals have creatively responded to identities formed by both Western education and traditional socialization. Development of critical approaches to the Bible as a historical record and a re-examination of selected biblical stories to assess their historical veracity and meaning. This colloquium explores how advances in the history of science and technology directly and indirectly impact the literary and philosophical imagination, creativity, and invention. Using the theories of the physical sciences as they were developed from the pre-Socratics forward to quantum mechanics, this course illustrates how the connections among science, natural philosophy, and literary texts develop in both fiction and film. A chronological study of how forgery provides a key to a period's notion of truth, fact, reality, literacy, and myth.
Strict attention is given to how forgery changes over time.
These and other topics will be under discussion. Emphasis is given to Renaissance ideas and the realist vision of the Spanish Golden Era as una edad conflictiva. This course explores ideals and values of Greek society as they are expressed in tragedy, epic, philosophy, and history. Students trace interrelationships between the works themselves and also between values expressed in the works. An examination of major historical themes and historiographical controversies from the period 1559-1798 in European history.