Current Courses

 

Spring 2012 Semester


LBST 500: Methods of Knowing

Roberto Ignacio Diaz, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature

Wednesdays, 6:00 - 8:40 PM (January 11 - April 25, 2012)

 

Explore how we acquire knowledge and what shapes our understanding of what we know. By examining topics of friendship, Velazquez, and exoticism, learn how to view information with different frameworks of reference.

 

LBST 542: The Culture of Comedy

James Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Chair in English and Professor of English

Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:40 PM (January 12 - April 26, 2012)

 

Explore the broadest ranges of comedy and its polar opposite, tragedy and how philosophers, artists and everyday wise-guys use different forms of comedy to probe world experience and its fringes. Engage in lively discussions about comedy's "seriousness" vis-a-vis the subjects of nationhood, gender, sexuality, and race.

 

 

 

 



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