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Most of us learn in high-school biology that life is some combination of growth, reproduction, and animation, and that it always contains DNA. Yet for many this definition is unsatisfying. This course...
Every now and then a great novel gives birth to a great film. What makes it possible? "I found myself reading Berlin Alexanderplatz in a way that you could hardly call reading – more like devouring...
We live amidst a “Big Data” revolution, a moment of exponential data accumulation and the accelerated development of technologies that process it. Computer scientists have developed machine-learning...
We live amidst a “Big Data” revolution, a moment of exponential data accumulation and the accelerated development of technologies that process it. Computer scientists have developed machine-learning...
This course will explore Black women's perspectives on the history of slavery by reading a transnational selection of autobiography and historical fiction written by African, American, and Caribbean...
We will read and discuss Boethius' medieval philosophical work The Consolation of Philosophy.
This course examines the nostalgic (yet forward-looking) symphonies, piano music, and chamber music in which Brahms, along with his contemporaries, Wolff and Bruckner, created an enduring testimonial...
The course combines a close reading of the annotated edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with the viewing and discussion of several film adaptations of the novel and other significant vampire films. The...
Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and philosopher John Stuart Mill held parallel interests in promoting and living a life that is free and happy. In this course, we read from their works—including...
Do you like Proust? Kafka? Polish painter and writer of Jewish descent, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), is next of kin. Brutally shot in 1942 by a Gestapo officer, Schulz did not finish his novel, The...