Fall 2019

Thursdays

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6 PM - 8 PM

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November 7, 14, 21, December 5 and 12, 2019

Astronomy has seen tremendous progress in the past century. Large telescopes on the ground and in space now give us views of the universe across the electromagnetic spectrum. Powerful computers can handle exponentially increasing volumes of data, and they allow simulations of remote objects and extreme astrophysics. We know how stars work, how many galaxies […]

Fridays

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10 AM - 12 PM

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October 25, November 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2019

It is for good reason that China is often called a land of poetry. As the longest continuous form of creative writing in the country, poetry has been a defining feature in the life of China’s elite, from their participation in the civil service exams to their performance of rituals on official and leisure occasions. […]

Wednesdays

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9 AM - 12 PM

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October 23, 30, November 6, and 13, 2019

This course is now sold out. Click here to join the course wait list. If space opens up we will contact those on the wait list on a first come, first served basis. This course examines Supreme Court decisions and related social movements as historical case studies in our evolving sense of our civil rights […]

Thursdays

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1 PM - 3 PM

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October 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31, 2019

Please Note: This course is located in the Dorothy Rubel Room on the Main UA Campus NOT in Oro Valley as was originally advertised. The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have for over 400 years been the subject of numerous Spanish, Mexican, Mexican-American, Native-American, and Anglo-American writers and artists. From early accounts of exploration to more recent narratives, […]

Thursdays

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9 AM - 12 PM

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October 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2019

This course is now sold out. Click here to join the course wait list. If space opens up we will contact those on the wait list on a first come, first served basis. This course moves beyond the cartoon-character stereotyping of Putin-period Russia to examine important continuities and changes in contemporary Russian politics and foreign […]

Tuesdays

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10 AM - 12 PM

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October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19, December 3, and 10, 2019

What makes Russian literature so Russian? This course will take us through two of the best-known Russian classics—Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov—as well as Turgenev’s little-known Sportsman’s Sketches as we uncover the world of mid-to-late nineteenth-century Russia. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky tackled what is known as “the cursed questions” of God, death, morality, […]

Tuesdays

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1 PM - 3 PM

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September 24, October 1, 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12, December 3, 10, and 17, 2019

This course is now sold out. Click here to join the course wait list. If space opens up we will contact those on the wait list on a first come, first served basis. Why are humans such a unique species on earth—or are we? We often think our intelligence (or more scientifically “cognition”) is special. […]

Mondays

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9 AM - 12 PM

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September 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 18, December 2, and 9, 2019

Romanticism embraces love and sensuality, but it includes much more. The romantic movement powerfully affected all forms of literature and the arts, and even science. In this seminar we investigate several texts in historical, political, philosophical, literary, musical, artistic, and scientific contexts. A particularly interesting component of German romanticism is that women opened salons, which […]

Mondays

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9 AM - 12 PM

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September 23, 30, October 7, 14, and 21, 2019

Pedro Almodóvar is now one of the world’s most highly regarded international directors. This course uses Women on the Verge (1998), his international breakthrough film, as the fulcrum to examine the before and after of his film making. The class will examine Women on the Verge and four other representative films from across the arc […]

Mondays

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1 PM - 3 PM

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September 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 18, December 2, and 9, 2019

This course surveys theater and performance produced in apartheid South Africa between 1970 and 1994, an era commonly seen as one of intense cultural struggle and resistance. We will chronologically study the history, development, and aesthetics of South African theater and performance during the apartheid era. And we will examine the key aesthetic features as […]