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Certain Uncertainties: Literature, Physics, Philosophy (Fall)
Education and the Life Worth Living (Fall)
Mastering the Art of Watercolor (Fall)
Six Pretty Good Selves (Fall)
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Six Pretty Good Books, HUMS 82a (Fall)
Two Cultures: Science and Humanities (Fall)
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Classical Storytelling in the Modern World (Fall 2020)
Demogoguery and Democracy (Fall 2020)
Literature and Film of World War II: Homefront Narratives (Fall 2020)
The Real and the Virtual in Literature and Film (Fall 2020)
The City of Rome (Fall 2020)
The Purposes of College Education (Fall 2020)
Translating Dante (Fall 2020)
Truth and Sedition (Fall 2020)
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Boundaries of the Body in Law and Literature (Fall 2019)
Imagining the Body Politic (Fall 2019)
Intellectuals and Power in Europe (Fall 2019)
Interpreting Film Masterpieces (Fall 2019)
Storytelling and Contemporary TV (Fall 2019)
Trials of Uncertainty (Fall 2019)
Anti-Semitism in US History (Spring 2020)
Baseball as Grand Strategy (Spring 2020)
Beauty & The Good Life (Spring 2020)
Culture and Human Evolution (Spring 2020)
Death Sentence: When the State Kills (Spring 2020)
Poetry & Objects (Spring 2020)
Mystical Poetry of Judaism & Islam (Spring 2020)
The Theory and Practice of Resistance (Spring 2020)
War & Literature (Spring 2020)
World Order in Liberal Arts (Spring 2020)
Core Seminars
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Interpretations: Poetry, Film, Music and Art: John Ashbery's Work (Fall 2020)
Modernities: Identity in Modern Thought (Spring 2021)
Modernities: Intellectuals and Power in Europe (Fall 2020)
Modernities: Philosophy of Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe (Spring 2021)
Previous Core Seminars
Interpretations: The Arabian Nights, Then and Now (Fall 2019)
Interpretations: Montaigne (Spring 2019)
Interpretations: Proust, Remembrance of Things Past (Fall 2018)
Interpretations: The Parthenon (Fall 2018)
Interpretations: Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus (Spring 2018)
Interpretations: Versions of Shakespeare’s Tempest (Fall 2016)
Interpretations: The Dream of the Red Chamber (Spring 2016)
Modernities: Modernity and the Crisis of Value, HUMS 288b (Spring 2020)
Modernities: The Modern Novel in Brazil and Japan (Fall 2019)
Modernities: Nineteenth-Century Historical Narratives (Fall 2018)
Modernities: Literature in the Era of Tyrannies 1919-1960 (Spring 2018)
Modernities: The Politics of Emotion and Sensibility (Fall 2017)
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Franke Seminar: Karl Marx's Capital
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