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TOPICS IN ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING (EN4091)

Have you yearned to start a novel, a collection of related short stories or narrative essays, a memoir, or a series of poems? This cross-genre, seminar-style course is designed for students who want to pursue larger, more advanced creative writing projects. Students will submit project proposals for discussion and approval, and then present significant installments of writing at regular intervals during the semester. Revisions will be required along with student-professor individual conferences. Readings will be used as guiding examples, and required reaction papers will be tailored to individual projects.

SOURCES OF EURO. & MED. CULT. (ES1000)

Chooses as its focus for the semester a topic which is of constant and emblematic importance in the development of European culture over many centuries. Examines the evolution by various means, including text and film.

THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (ES1005)

Focuses on Florence as a source of culture and artistic flowering, and locus of competition, contestation and strife. Examines the distribution of wealth and the structuring of society and politics, the development of humanist inquiry and pedagogy, the religious climate and artistic patronage. Surveys, for comparison, Rome and Venice.

THE MODERN CITY (ES1010)

Studies the foundations of the 19th-and 20th-century city, examining the cultural dynamics of key European cities. Uses film and other texts to question and explore urban modernity.

INTRO TO ANCIENT GREECE & ROME (ES2018)

The presence of Ancient Greece and Rome in our world cannot be overestimated. The Greeks taught us demokratia, our computers have a Latin name. Through Ancient Greece and Rome Western civilization has assimilated Near Eastern achievements like the alphabet. Presenting striking show cases, this course enables you to recognize how your life and thought have been shaped by ancient influences and to acquire a basic overview of more than 2000 years of Greco-Roman civilization - from the time of Troy to the many ends of Rome in late antiquity.

CONTEMPORARY GERMANY (ES2025)

Taking the founding of the Second Empire (1871-1918) as a point of departure, the course investigates Germany's historical transformations from Imperial Empire to Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the postwar Allied occupation, the creation of the two German states, and the unification of the country.

BERLIN FROM ALLIED OCCUPATION TO CAPITAL (ES3002)

Examines the Allied partition of Berlin, the politics of the Cold War, the Berlin Air Lift, the emergence of two German states, the division by the Berlin Wall, and the reemergence of a unified city in a new Germany. Films, drama, and novels trace the historical development of the city. Includes a study trip to Berlin.

THE HISTORY OF PARIS (ES3004)

Seeks to understand how Paris elucidates the history of France by following its history from its origins to the present. The site of religious and political revolution, Paris testifies to the trials and glories of French history.

VIENNA, 1800-1918 (ES3006)

Studies Vienna's culture and Austria's history against a background of spatial transformations from Baroque palaces to the historicist style of the Ringstrasse and the modernist architecture of Wagner and Loos. Investigates building styles, paintings, novels, memoirs, music and films to document the city's development. Some readings are: Freud, Roth, Schnitzler, Zweig. Includes a study trip to Vienna.

EDINBURGH THE CITY, SCOTLAND THE NATION (ES3010)

Traces the development of Edinburgh from the Act of Union with England (1707) to the present, through architecture, philosophy, religion, cultural history, literature, and film. Links the city to Scotland's attempt to define its identity and achieve greater political autonomy. Some authors studied include David Hume, Adam Smith, Irvine Welsh. Includes a study trip to Edinburgh.