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	Courses SPRING 2012 MEMS courses CHT 4603/1962 – MEM 4931/08G9: Journey to the West Professor Richard Wang. This course is designed to explore the religious culture, cultural history and literary expression of traditional China through a 100-chapter novel known as Journey to the West, or Monkey. Based on the famous Tang Buddhist monk Hsüan-tsang’s (596-664) historical pilgrimage to India, and encompassed the story cycle of the journey to the west developed in a millennia, the novel of the Ming dynasty demonstrates its rich texture of religious and literary themes, sentiments, and assumptions in this novel, a work considered one of the masterpieces of traditional Chinese fiction, and the finest supernatural novel. The Journey’s scope includes a physical journey, a heroic adventure, a religious mission, and a process of self-cultivation, through the encounters between the pilgrims, mainly the well-known character Monkey who is Hsüan-tsang’s chief disciple and guardian, and various monsters. This novel has an unsurpassingly penetrating impact on Chinese cultural history and society. It represents the maturity of the Chinese novel, and most literary genres in its pages. While basically a supernatural novel, it also describes social customs and daily life of different regions of China. More than any other traditional Chinese narratives, the Journey presents concerns and themes directly related to Chinese religious, intellectual and cultural history, in addition to literary tradition. ENL 4333/6534 - MEM 4931/082F: Shakespeare: Tragedies Professor Richard Allen Shoaf This course will be devoted to the ten tragedies Shakespeare wrote in his career, with especial attention to three factors: his transformation of the genre (most especially in KING LEAR); the rhetorics he renewed (e.g., pun) or refined (e.g., synoeciosis; paradox) to articulate his tragic vision; and his response to the sacramentality of nature that enabled him to comprehend and mourn humans' catastrophic denials and perversions of nature, sexual nature in particular, in consequence of which self-inflicted optionlessness must lead inevitably to the end of the human. Mandatory attendance and two essays (5-7 pages in length), along with unannounced quizzes, will constitute evaluation of your performance in the course. The one text for the course will be the Norton Shakespeare, 2nd edition, which I will order through the university's stipulated portal. EUH 5934 Medievalisms Professor Bonnie Effros This seminar will explore various manifestations of heightened attention in the nineteenth century to the medieval centuries, a period traditionally castigated as backward by progressive Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers. Growing knowledge of the Middle Ages and the corresponding desire to reinvigorate study (and in some cases use) of the history, literature, arts, architecture, and traditions of this period contributed fundamentally to nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual and artistic life both in Europe and the United States. The readings for the seminar will therefore address a number of different themes rising out of the study of the middle ages and its transformation at the hands of modern thinkers, artists and architects. Among the topics to be covered in readings and discussions will be the rise of the fields of medieval history, medieval art history, and Anglo-Saxon studies in the United States, the inspirational role played by medieval artifacts, architecture, and nineteenth-century philosophers such as John Ruskin on English and American artists and designers such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and Louis Sullivan, the “restoration” of Gothic architectural sites by the likes of Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and William Randolph Hearst, the literary studies of medieval texts and the recreation of the medieval period in nineteenth-century fiction and World's Fairs, and the impact of medievalism on emergent national archaeologies in Europe. IDH 3931/05FF - MEM 4931/08EH: "To Hell and Back": Reading Dante's Inferno (H, N, R) Professor Mary Watt This one-credit course will take students on a semester-long journey through the underworld as imagined by the fourteenth century writer Dante Alighieri. The primary source will be Dante's Inferno but the course will be enhanced with visual materials and will make full use of the many digital resources devoted to the study of Dante and his world. Special attention will be paid to the political, historical and religious context in which Dante was writing but the main point of the course will be to give students an appreciation of the masterful narrative that Dante weaves and the enduring beauty of his poetry. Classes will combine student-centered activities with brief lecture style introductions to the day's reading. Accordingly, students will be expected to have read the assigned reading and be prepared to comment and participate in a meaningful discussion. ITT 3431/2282 - MEM 4931/08EG: Pilgrimages in Italy (H,N) Professor Mary Watt Through lectures, readings and discussions in English, this course considers the continuing presence of Rome and other Italian cities as metaphors and focal points of Italian artistic and literary sensibilities. JPT 3300/01H9 – MEM 4931/08G8: Samurai War Tales Professor Yumiko Hulvey. Explores the historical and cultural stimuli that led to war, recorded later as war narratives. Supported by images of architecture, narrative picture scrolls, and extant military accoutrements. LIT 4930/07G1 - MEM 4931/082G: Dante for EH Majors Professor Richard Allen Shoaf We will read all of Dante's Commedia and all of the Vita Nuova; we will also, as occasion warrants, read in others of Dante's major works, especially the Convivio, De Vulgari Eloquentia, and Monarchia. Our rhythm will consist in roughly five weeks per each canticle of the Commedia. The writing assignment for the seminar will consist in three essays (five pages each) plus short weekly quizzes to assess the pace and quality of the reading. The essays are to be one on each of the three canticles of the Commedia (we will work out topics as we go). Your final grade will be determined, then, by your performance in class meetings and your writing in these essays. In addition, we will make extensive use of the World Wide Web to access the wealth of resources available for Dante Studies, including especially the "Princeton Dante Project" (http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/index.html). MEM 3300/02AE: Castles and Cloisters (H,N) Professor Will Hasty The goal of this course will be to develop a familiarity with some of the salient characteristics of monastic and courtly-chivalric communities in the European Middle Ages, by means of a study of the ways in which they organized their lives temporally and spatially, and of the ways in which they gave expression to their views about life, love, work, God, etc. in their art, literature, and music. This course functions as a core course for the interdisciplinary minor in Medieval and early Modern Studies (MEMS). SPW 4212/01CC - MEM 4931/08G: Writing in an Age of Uncertainty: Golden Age Prose Fiction. TAUGHT IN SPANISH. Professor Shifra Armon Pre-req. Completion of one or more SPW 3000-level literature course or permission of instructor. Far from a triumphal march, the enterprise of imperial domination was felt in Spain as an uncertain and deeply conflictive upheaval. In this age of uncertainty, new forms of inquiry and new strategies of social criticism produced experimental literary forms that led to the invention of the modern novel. Note: Numerous other courses in Medieval and Early Modern Studies will be taught in Spring at the University of Florida. For more information about courses that count towards the minor and Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, contact Will Hasty (hasty@ufl.edu). MEMS and departmental courses relevant to the MEMS minor and IDS major: Spring 2010 courses Spring 2008 courses Fall 2007 Courses Summer 2007 Courses + Study Abroad Spring 2007 Courses Fall 2006 Courses Summer 2006 (study abroad) Spring 2006 Courses Fall 2005 Courses Spring 2005 Courses Fall 2004 Courses Summer 2004 Courses Spring 2004 Courses Courses will be added as the Faculty advises us of their teaching schedules. Consult the Faculty home pages or departmental pages for further information. MEMS Course Listings The courses listed below are courses that have been taught at UF in the past, and may be taught again, which are likely to be of interest to MEMS students. This overview is intended to help students plan their studies; if a particular course seems overwhelmingly attractive and is not currently offered, please contact the department for information on it. *African and Asian Languages and Literatures* ABT 3130: Arabic Literary Heritage I CHT 3123: Pre-Modern Chinese Fiction in Translation JPT 3100: Japanese Literary Heritage JPT 3130 Japanese Women Writers: The Classical Period JPT 3300 Samurai War Tales *Art History* ARH 4200: Early Medieval and Byzantine Art and Architecture ARH 4251: Romanesque and Gothic Art ARH 4304: Italian Renaissance Architecture ARH 4310: Early Renaissance Art in Italy ARH 4312: Late Renaissance Art in Italy ARH 4331: Renaissance Art in Northern Europe ARH 4350: Baroque Art in Europe *English* ENL 2012: Survey of English Literature: Medieval to 1750 ENL 2330: Introduction to Shakespeare ENL 3210: Medieval English Literature ENG 3230: Age of Dryden and Pope ENL 4220: Renaissance Literature: 16th Century ENL 4221: Renaissance Literature: 17th Century ENL 4333: Shakespeare ENL 3210: Medieval English Literature ENL 4311: Chaucer ENL 6236: Studies in Restoration and l8th-Century Literature ENG 4060: History of the English Language LIT 4930: Shakespeare's Theater of Likeness LIN 4127: Old English *History* EUH 2001: Western Civilization: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century EUH 3121: The Early Middle Ages EUH 3122: The High Middle Ages EUH 3140: Renaissance EUH 3500: Medieval England EUH 3501: Early Modern England EUH 3090: Intellectual History of Europe, Ancient through Medieval EUH 3091: Intellectual History of Europe, Renaissance to Modern EUH 3144: The Reformation EUH 3182: Medieval Archaeology EUH 3300: Byzantine History EUH 3323: Medieval Eastern Europe EUH 3383: Pagans, Christians, Barbarians: The World of Late Antiquity EUH 3500: Medieval England EUH 4220: The Expansion of Europe; Exploration and Settlement 1415-1650 EUH 4314: Spain and Portugal EUH 4331: The Ottoman Empire and the Balkans EUH 4442: France EUH 4511: Elizabethan England EUH 4513: Restoration England EUH 4602: Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution; Intellectual and Cultural History of Europe EUH 4331: The Ottoman Empire and the Balkans EUH 4442: History of France EUH 4511: Elizabethan England, 1509-1660 EUH 4513: Restoration England EUH 4563: Habsburg Monarchy HIS 2464: History of Science; Origins to Newton HIS 3463: History of Science: Origins to Newton HIS 3464: Introduction to the History of Science: Renaissance to the Present HIS 3465: The Scientific Revolution HIS 3470: History of Technology I HIS 3481: Magic and the Occult in the Age of Reason HIS 3490: History of Western Medicine HIS 3931: Honors seminar (topics may include Byzantine History, The Jews of Sepharad, etc.) WOH 3220: An Analysis of Global Historical Trends Since 1500 WOH 3281: History of the Jews from 70 to 1700 WOH 4264: Empires and Imperialism *French Studies* FRW 3100: Introduction to French Literature I FRW 3311: Theater in Avignon: An Initiation into 17th Century French Drama FRW 4212: Readings in 17th Century French Prose FRW 4410: Readings in Early French Medieval Literature *German Studies* GET 2250: The Tales of King Arthur GET 3200: The Literature of Knighthood in Germany GEW 3100: Survey of Medieval and Early Modern German Literature GER 4400: Medieval Studies in German SCT 2502: Germanic Myth and Lore FOW 3380: Castles and Cloisters *Italian Studies* ITA 3500: Italian Civilization -- Middle Ages and Early Renaissance ITT 2100: Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature ITT 3431: Italy and the Pilgrimages ITT 3930: All Roads lead to Rome: Pilgrimage and Return in Italian Literature *Latin* LNW 3490: Medieval Latin *Music* MUH 3211: Survey of Music History (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque) MUL 3341: Baroque Music Literature MUL 4334: Renaissance Music Literature *Philosophy* PHH 3200: Medieval Philosophy PHH 3400: Modern Philosophy (17th and 18th centuries) *Religion* REL 3321: Early Judaism and Christianity REL 3392: Jewish Mysticism REL 4936/JST 3930/HIS 3931: Writing the Jewish Middle Ages *Spanish Studies* SPW 3100: Introduction to Spanish Literature I; From the Middle Ages to the Golden Age SPW 4310: Readings in Spanish Drama of the Golden Age SPW 4400: Readings in Medieval Spanish Literature SPW 4604: Don Quijote >> top Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Will Hasty, 263 Dauer Hall, 273-3780 Email: hasty@ufl.edu Mary Watt, 301 Pugh Hall, 392-2422 Email: marywatt@ufl.edu


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