PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities Courses for 2011-2012

HUMA 5P31
Merleau-Ponty: The Art of Perception
(also offered as PHIL 5P71 and SCLA 5P71)

Merleau-Ponty's treatments and analyses of the visual (painting and film) and literary arts, seen as products, explorations, and distortions of human perception and embodied subjectivity, which shed light on our cultural and pre-cultural experiences of the world.

HUMA 5P71
Humanities Computing
(also offered as HIST 5V71)

Use of the computer for research, teaching, and expression in the humanities to support teaching and research, including topics such as text analysis, high performance computing, Geographic Information Systems, quantitative methods, photo-editing and animation, simulations, and serious games.

HUMA 7F90
PhD Thesis

Preparation, public defence, and examination of a thesis that is interdisciplinary in approach and that demonstrates the candidate's capacity for independent thought and study.

HUMA 7P01
Interdisciplinary Research and Writing in the Humanities

The nature and academic requirements of interdisciplinary studies, including research methodologies and resources. Focus on reading, discussion, writing, and the ongoing construction of an interdisciplinary thesis in the Humanities.

HUMA 7P02
Fields of Interdisciplinary Study

Introduction to the four fields of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Humanities: 1) Epistemologies; 2) Critique and Social Transformation; 3) Culture and Aesthetics; 4) Technology and Digital Humanities

HUMA 7P31
Recycling of Stories in Contemporary Culture

Intermedial phenomenon of retelling traditional and classic stories for a contemporary audience of all ages. Biblical narratives, folk and fairy tales, oriental tales, myth, legend, literary classics for adults, canonical children's books in a variety of genres and media. Theory of intertextuality; verbal and visual retellings; aesthetics and codes; narrative strategies; generic transposition; intermedial transformation; production, reception, and marketing.

HUMA 7P32
Text, Context and Intertext in Oral Narrative

Interdisciplinary/intercultural and comparative approach to the study of oral narrative traditions and their historical, cultural, linguistic, and literary representations. Orality, storytelling, performance, narrative memory, cultural identity. Authors may include Benjamin, Ong, Bauman, Edwards, Trinh, Zumthor.

HUMA 7P51
Hermeneutics of Personal, Social, and Artistic Transformation(s)

Theories of interpretation structure subjective and intersubjective experience. Theorists may include M. Heidegger, H. G. Gadamer, P. Ricoeur, H. Marcuse, R. Ingarten, M. Foucault, and J. Habermas.

HUMA 7P52
Feminist Thought: Constructive Revisions of the Canon

Interdisciplinary approach to the role played by feminist thought in examining and reinterpreting central notions that pervade all disciplines, such as identity, individuality, alterity, rationality, knowledge, solidarity, community, engagement. Authors may include Beauvoir, Braidotti, Butler, Cixous, Fraser, Grosz, Haraway, Kristeva, Irigaray, Benhabib, Jaggar, Ziarek.

HUMA 7P71
Theory and Praxis of Digital Humanities

Introduction to computationally-supported methods and applications for analysis, expression, and teaching in the digital humanities. Course will provide readings on topics ranging from agent-based simulations to text analysis, and practical instruction in 3D modeling and Geographic Information Systems.