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HUMA 13500-13600-13700. Introduction to the Humanities I-II-III.
"This sequence emphasizes writing, both as an object of study and as a practice. As we study the texts of the course, we pay special attention to questions about how they function as instances of writing: How does the writing of a text shape the way that we understand it? How does writing shape our sense of what we are doing in the humanities? Such questions about writing will lead to similar questions about language in general: How is our understanding shaped by the language we use?"
Sample texts: two of Plato's Dialogues, the Declaration of Independence, selections from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, and a Shakespeare play; Descartes' Meditations, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, further selections from Thucydides' History, Woolf's The Waves, and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil; Plato's Phaedrus with Derrida's "Pharmakon," Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, still more selections from Thucydides' History, an experimental feminist essay, and a graphic novel, perhaps Alison Bechdel's Fun Home or Chris Ware's Building Stories