2018 Gen Ed Book

 

 


 

 

Spring 2018 General Education Offerings

 


  Roman
 Civilization
 


 

 


 


 

CL
 1
  01
 

What
 did
 a
 Roman
 eat
 for
 breakfast?
 
 How
 did
 he
 wear
 his
 toga?
 
 How
 accurate
 is
 the
 hit
 TV
 
series
 Spartacus?
 
 Everything
 you
 always
 wanted
 to
 know
 about
 ancient
 Rome
 but
 were
 
afraid
 to
 ask.
 
 This
 class
 incorporates
 history,
 literature,
 art,
 architecture,
 and
 archaeology
 to
 
create
 a
 complete
 picture
 of
 ancient
 Roman
 life.
 


 

General
 Education
 Credit
 for
 Understanding
 the
 Past
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 Meets:
 MWF
 10:00-­‐10:50
 

Instructor:
 Dr.
 Karen
 Ros
 ([email protected])
 
 
 

Intro to Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology


 


 


  CL
 103
 

Discover
 the
 ancient
 civilizations
 of
 Egypt,
 the
 Near
 East,
 Greece,
 and
 Rome.
 
 This
 course
 
examines
 the
 architecture,
 sculpture,
 and
 painting
 of
 these
 civilizations
 in
 their
 cultural
 and
 
historical
 context.
 
 Topics
 covered
 range
 from
 momentous
 (the
 invention
 of
 writing),
 to
 
fascinating
 (Hatshepsut,
 the
 cross-­‐dressing
 female
 pharaoh),
 to
 downright
 odd
 (bull
 leaping
 
as
 a
 religious
 ritual).
 

General
 Education
 Credit
 for
 Creative
 Arts
 or
 Understanding
 the
 Past
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 Meets:
 MWF
 1:00-­‐1:50
 

Instructor:
 Dr.
 Karen
 Ros
 ([email protected])
 
 
 

Department of Classics & Mediterranean Studies

DID YOU KNOW? The Field of Classics and Mediterranean

CLASSICS MAJORS Studies A person trained in Classics comes to
Have some of the most diverse career see today’s world from a wider, richer,
options of any major. CL/HIST 203 Ancient Rome and deeper perspective—one that
enables us to value fully and appreciate
CLASSICS MAJORS History of Rome from its origins to the modern culture, and to be more aware of
Have the highest success rate of any end of the Roman Empire; emphasis on the unspoken assumptions that lie behind
majors in law school. the way we approach life.

CLASSIC MAJORS transformation of Rome from city-state to
Consistently have some of the highest
scores on the GRE. world empire, with attention to social,

CL 203 Ancient Rome cultural, and economic background.

Instructor: Past and World Cultures course
Zinon Papakonstantinou

Fall 17: SH 304 TR 2:00-3.15

University Hall Room 1802, 601 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607 Tel 312.996.5530 Fax 312.996.8526 http://www.uic.edu/las/clas/
www.uic.edu/las/clas

DEPARTMENT
 OF
 CLASSICS
 &
 MEDITERRANEAN
 STUDIES
 

 

Colosseum,
 Rome,
 1st
 century
 CE
 

CL
 205:
 ROMAN
 ART
 AND
 ARCHEOLOGY
 
Instructor:
 Jennifer
 Tobin
 
TR 8:00-9:15

This
 course
 explores
 ancient
 Roman
 art,
 architecture,
 history
 and
 society,
 not
 just
 in
 Italy
 
but
 also
 throughout
 the
 Roman
 Empire.
 
 Our
 study
 commences
 with
 an
 examination
 of
 
the
 cultures
 that
 preceded
 and
 influenced
 the
 rise
 of
 Rome:
 the
 Villanovans,
 the
 western
 
Greeks,
 and
 the
 Etruscans.
 
 We
 will
 subsequently
 study
 the
 art
 and
 archaeology
 of
 the
 
Roman
 Republic,
 concentrating
 on
 peninsular
 Italy,
 and
 then
 go
 on
 to
 explore
 the
 careers
 
of
 the
 Roman
 Emperors
 through
 the
 archaeological
 material
 associated
 with
 them,
 in
 
Rome
 and
 in
 the
 broader
 arena
 of
 the
 Empire.
 
 Creative
 Arts,
 and
 Past
 course.
 

 

Bronze
 Chimera
 from
 Arezzo,
 4th
 century
 BCE
 

 

Pompeii:
 Everyday
 Life
 in
 a
 Roman
 Town
 


  CL/AH/HIST
 218
 


 
 

The
 town
 of
 Pompeii,
 buried
 and
 miraculously
 preserved
 by
 the
 sudden
 eruption
 of
 Mt.
 

Vesuvius
 in
 79
 CE,
 offers
 a
 unique
 opportunity
 for
 the
 exploration
 of
 everyday
 life
 in
 a
 

Roman
 town.
 
 Topics
 covered
 by
 this
 course
 include
 Pompeii's
 history,
 society,
 politics,
 

economy,
 religion,
 art,
 architecture,
 and
 entertainments,
 both
 public
 and
 private.
 
 

Prerequisite(s):
 CL
 101
 or
 CL
 103
 or
 CL
 205
 or
 AH
 110
 or
 consent
 of
 the
 instructor.
 
 


 
 

General
 Education
 Credit
 for
 Understanding
 the
 Past
 


 

Instructor:
 Dr.
 Karen
 Ros
 ([email protected])
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Meets:
 MWF
 11:00-­‐11:50
 


 

TR 11-12:15
Spring 2018
Instructor: Dingeldein

Come learn more about

MARTYRS FOR GOD

in Catholic Thought: An Introduction (CST 120)!

From the beginnings of Catholicism in the first century CE through modern times,
Catholic Christians have put their well-being and lives on the line for their God and
their religion. In “Catholic Thought: An Introduction” we will look at both ancient and
modern Catholic martyrs, investigating some of the prominent and distinctive
themes of Catholic thought as we study the spectrum of martyrdom within the
Catholic tradition.

Diaspora, Exile, Genocide:

Aspects of the European Jewish Experience
in Literature and Film

GER 125 / JST 125 / REL 127

Through literature and film students will gain an understanding of important aspects of the European Jewish
experience before and after the Holocaust.
We will analyze and discuss texts and films about Jewish life in German and Yiddish-speaking Central and
Eastern Europe from the Enlightenment to the present to learn about cultural interchange between Jews and
non-Jews and between Jews from different countries; Jewish cultural autonomy and Jewish nationalisms;
migration, immigration, and exile; and racism, anti-Semitism, persecution, and genocide.

Spring 2018

General Education Credit for Past/World Cultures

MWF 1:00-1:50

Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Loentz Taught in English
No Prerequisites
[email protected]

219GERMANSpring 2018
Vikings and Wizards, Northern Myth and Fairy Tales in Western Culture:
The Brothers Grimm and Their Cultural Legacy

Professor Patrick Fortmann TuT 2 - 3:15pm

Creative Arts and Past Course

The course examines the cultural legacy of the Brothers Grimm, nineteenth-century collectors and editors of
Germanic fairy tales and legends. Their scholarship of Germany’s national myth, The Song of the Nibelungen and the
questions they posed about oral and literary transmission continue to shape modern scholarship. Their life-long
pursuit of fairy tales launched a tidal wave of European folkloric collecting that led to significant advances in
research. The course will consider various interpretive strategies developed to classify and read this new material,
from Propp’s morphology and Aarne-Thompson’s typology to feminist, historical and animal studies approaches.

Modern Greek Culture (GKM 105)

Paris Papamichos Chronakis
MWF, 12-12:50 pm
World Cultures Course

What lies behind the sun-bathed beaches of lush travel brochures? A helpless backward so-
ciety or the laboratory of a dismal future? Now that Greece is catching the world’s atten-
tion, discover the rich culture of a country burdened with a glorious past but facing a pre-
carious future, a place where civilizations meet but ‘Europe’ confronts ‘Asia’. Through litera-
ture, images, and films, museum visits and sightseeing, explore how Modern Greeks relate
to antiquity; navigate between ‘Eastern’ tradition and ‘Western’ modernity; negotiate the
impact of globalization; and creatively appropriate western stereotypes of Greece as a
country of ruins as well as a country in ruins. All texts are in English; no prior knowledge of
Modern Greek history or literature is required.

GKM / HIST / POLS 296

Fascism and Authoritarianism
in Southern Europe
and the Mediterranean

Why did some of the first European coun-
tries to introduce liberal democratic insti-
tutions end up with Fascist dictatorships?

This course focuses on Italy, Greece, and
Spain, and deals with the most important as-
pects of fascist rule: the origins of fascist ide-
ology; political violence, torture and repres-
sion; propaganda and censorship; the cult of
the leader; treatment of women; culture and
fascism’s relation to the classical past. Finally,
the course considers the afterlives of fascism
today in popular memory and culture.
Working through various textual and visual
sources and exploring questions of memory
and legacy, the course offers a historically in-
formed perspective on the current crisis of de-
mocracy in Mediterranean Europe and the rise
of populism and political extremism world-
wide.

Past Course

MWF 1-1:50 pm

Dr. Paris Papamichos Chronakis

Modern Greek Cities and their Christians, Jews, and Muslims

This course focuses on the celebrated Mediterranean and world cities
of Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Izmir, Thessaloniki, Alexandria, and
Chicago. It details the urban experience of Christians, Jews and
Muslims and engages with the themes of antiquity, nation-building,
coexistence and conflict, war, refugeehood and emigration. Students
use texts, images and digital tools and research Chicago’s Greektown.

Past Course

MWF 3 - 3:50 pm
Paris Papamichos Chronakis



Religious Studies 121 - Jewish Studies 101
Instructor: Dina Elenbogen
Individual and Society Course

Introduction to Jewish Studies

Exploring Judaism from the Book to the World

This course will introduce you to core aspects of Judaism, Jewish rituals,
customs, tradition and beliefs. Class will consist of short lectures, large and
smaller group discussion, and both informal and formal writing
assignments. We will engage with Jewish literature, beginning with the
Hebrew Bible and ending with contemporary Jewish prose and poetry. We
will also experience Judaism as a living tradition and to that end you will
have the opportunity to visit Jewish places of worship and Jewish cultural
events. This course is open to all students, regardless of background or
previous knowledge.

Ling 260: Language Acquisition, Language
Contact, and Bilingualism

Individual and Society and US Society course
Instructor: Richard Cameron
Spring, 2018
Tuesdays/Thursdays: 2:00 - 3:15 pm

How many languages are spoken natively in Chicago? In 1903, Carl Darling
Buck published “A Sketch of the Linguistic Conditions of Chicago.” He began by
saying “The linguistic conditions in some of our largest American cities are unique
in the history of the world –an unparalleled Babel of foreign tongues.” Is this still
true today? Questions: How do bilingual communities become bilingual? Are all
bilingual communities alike? Who speaks what language to whom, when, where,
and for what purpose? How do bilinguals go about learning more than one
language? Does knowing two languages result in confusion for children in school?
In this class, we will look closely at how first and second languages are learned.
We will read about psychological and social factors that influence language
learning and language use. We will discuss such topics as the bilingual brain, types
of bilingual communities, code switching, the creation of new languages from
combinations of other languages, and issues how to raise bilingual children in a
society that favors being monolingual. Two books plus some additional readings
will be used. Fieldwork and eating exotic foods are involved.

Lith 130

Introduction to Eastern European Literatures

MWF 12:00-12:50, LH 103

Creative Arts and World Cultures Course

 

This
 course
 will
 introduce
 students
 to
 the
 histories,
 cultures,
 and
 politics
 
of
 Islam
 in
 America.
 Students
 will
 explore
 the
 diversity
 of
 Muslims
 in
 the
 
United
  States,
  and
  the
  challenges
  that
  these
  communities
  have
  faced
 
over
 time.
 Topics
 that
 we
 will
 consider
 include
 slavery,
 relations
 between
 
immigrant
  and
  African
  American
  Muslims,
  and
  Islamophobia.
  Home
  to
 
several
  important
  Muslim
  communities,
  from
  the
  long-­‐established
 
Nation
  of
  Islam
  to
  recent
  Rohingya
  migrants,
  Chicago
  is
  a
  microcosm
  of
 
Islam
 in
 America.
 Through
 field
 trips
 to
 mosques
 and
 community
 centers,
 
and
  guest
  speakers
  from
  some
  of
  America’s
  most
  significant
  Islamic
 
institutions,
 the
 city
 will
 be
 a
 crucial
 component
 of
 our
 study.
 

World
 Cultures
 Course
 


 

No knowledge of Russian required. This course
satisfies the World Cultures Gen Ed requirement.

RUSS 116 MWF 3:00-3:50pm

Russian Culture:

The Soviet Period

This course begins with a brief overview of Russian
radical thought and examines how it helped pave the way
for history’s greatest political experiment. We will read
works by famous writers such as Mayakovsky, Bulgakov,
and Solzhenitsyn that reflect the diversity of Soviet reality
and the incongruities between political dictum and human
experience. In addition to literature, we will use film and
the visual arts to examine the consequences of Russia’s

utopian experiment.

Professor: Colleen McQuillen

Spring 2018

Literature and
Fantasy in
Russia

Special Topic: 20th century Science Fiction

This course investigates the ways existing and
speculative technologies shaped the worlds of
Russian sci fi novels, short stories, and films. By
looking at imagined societies, we will inquire how
political ideology and resistance helped shape Russian
fantasies and fears in the twentieth and early twenty-
first centuries.

ALL READINGS & DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLISH.
THIS COURSE SATISFIES THE CREATIVE ARTS GEN

ED REQUIREMENT.

SPRING 2018
RUSS 247

MWF 1:00-1:50 pm

PROF. MCQUILLEN

UIC Department of Slavic & Baltic Languages & Literatures
SPRING 2018 – POLISH STUDIES

POL 130 - Masterworks of Polish Literature in Translation
T/Th 3:30-4:45 – Fulfills Gen Eds: Creative Arts & World Cultures

The Devil in Warsaw: Polish Prose in Modern Times

Enter the vibrant and anguished world of 20th-century
Polish prose with an introduction to literary works by
futurist Aleksander Wat, Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz
Borowski, poet and acerbic social critic C.K. Norwid,
modernist innovator Bruno Schulz, contemporary Polish
author and psychologist Olga Tokarczuk, and others, and
join us as we discuss the modern text as both a
hardworking machine, and an embodiment of desire. In this
course we will ask: What does fiction do, and what roles
has it played in helping to negotiate the experience of
modernity? Is storytelling still necessary and possible in a
world characterized by speed, the machine, and the filmic
arts? If so, what does it desire, and what does it promise?

Topics in this course include Positivist, Futurist, avant-garde
and neo-Romantic movements in Polish literature; witness
literature; the post-1989 literature of small homelands; and
the role of literary theologies in a secular modern world.
Reading short stories and novels written in Poland in the
turbulent 20th century, we will consider narratives that
offer escape from the modern world into the worlds of
fantasy, absurdity, or nostalgia; and narratives whose
purpose is precisely to prevent escape from the shock or
disillusionment of the 20th century.

No prerequisites. All texts will be read in English
translation, with the option to read in the Polish original.

Fulfills Creative Arts & World Cultures Gen Ed
requirements.

Prof. Karen Underhill
POL 130 / Spring 2018
T/Th 3:30-4:45 / LH 215
For more info contact: [email protected]

1930’s yiddish film – Itzik Manger – der nister –Bruno Schulz – yivo

UIC Department of Slavic & Baltic Languages & Literatures
SPRING 2018 – POLISH STUDIES & JEWISH STUDIES
POL 220/JST 220 – T/Th 12:30-1:45

Modern Polish Jewish Culture & LiteratureS

A creative arts & world cultures course

All texts will be read in English translation.

Due to its unique economic and political makeup, Poland --
the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- became home to the
majority of European and world Jewry in the modern period.
In Poland Jews developed the institutions and cultural forms
of modern Jewish life: the shtetl or small town, the Yeshiva
culture, Hasidism, Zionism, Jewish Socialism, and modern
Jewish cultural movements represented by an explosion of
literature, theater, visual arts, music and film in 5 languages:
Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, Russian and German. From the
Yiddish theater to the Socialist Bund, Avant-Garde art to
models of Zionist political organization, Polish Jewish culture
has had a formative influence on American, Israeli and world
culture until today.

This course focuses on Jewish paths of entry into modernity in
multilingual, pre-WWII Poland. Our course does not focus on
the Holocaust; yet our study of the rich and diverse world of
Polish Jewry is informed at all times by the knowledge that
this culture was all but destroyed in the 20th century, and by
considerations of how Polish-Jewish culture is today being
differently remembered, understood and revived by both
Jews and Poles in Poland, and by Jewish communities
worldwide.

Karen Underhill
POL 220 / Spring 2018

T/Th 12:30-1:45
For more info contact: [email protected]

Molly picon – sholem Aleichem – Y.L. Peretz – Debora vogel – zeitlins

TOLSTOY
 

Russian
 242/Creative Arts Gen Ed
Spring
 2018
 -­‐
 Tue
 &
 TH
 12:30-­‐1:45pm
 

Irina
 Ruvinsky
 


 


 

The Russian Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is
primarily known as a writer of novels, stories, plays, and essays.
However, Tolstoy also made major contributions in the fields
of ethics, aesthetics, and religious interpretation. In this course
we will turn to Tolstoy’s “What is Art?” as well as his fictional
writings to explore the relationship between aesthetic, morality
and spirituality in his work.

Lithuanian Culture: LITH 115

Spring 2018

General education / World cultures course

Poster by a student of Lithuanian Culture class Dominika Klapacz

Lith 115 course offers a diversity of insights over the cultural landscape
of Lithuania: language, mythology, literature, film, architecture, art,
geography, population, emigration, history, resistance, and identity.

Every semester guest speakers come to address our class: scholars,
writers, folklorists, musicians, film directors, ambassadors, even a

president of the Republic of Lithuania. We read, watch, and discuss.
We meet people, visit Lithuanian places in Chicago, and take part in a
field trip to the former Chicago Stockyards as described in notorious
Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle” that features Lithuanian emigrants.

And all our class materials are available online at no cost.

Register now! Prof. Giedrius Subačius

Other General Education Courses Offered Through the School of
Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics

Arabic/Moving Image 270: The Reel Arab
Day/Time: TR 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Mustapha Kamal
General Education Category: Creative Arts

German 217: Introduction to German Cinema
Day/Time: Online
Instructor: Zachery Fitzpatrick
General Education Category: Creative Arts and World Cultures Course

German/Spanish/LCSL 207: European Cinema
Day/Time: TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor:
General Education Category: Creative Arts and World Cultures Course

Jewish Studies/Political Science 243: Politics and Government of the Middle East
Day/Time: TR 3:30-4:45
Instructor: Norma Moruzzi
General Education Category: World Cultures Course

Linguistics 150: Introduction to the Study of Language
Day/Time: MWF 12:00-12:50
Instructor: Maja Grgurovic
General Education Category: Individual and Society Course

Lithuanian 115: Lithuanian Prose Fiction in International Context
Day/Time: TR 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Giedrius Subacius
General Education Category: World Cultures Course

Polish/Jewish Studies 130: Masterworks of Polish Literature in Translation
Day/Time: TR 3:30-4:45
Instructor: Karen Underhill
General Education Category: Creative Arts and World Cultures Course

Religious/Jewish Studies 121: Introduction to Judaism
Day/Time: TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Dina Elenbogen
General Education Category: Individual and Society Course

Russian 150: Introduction to Russian Cinema
Day/Time: TR 2:00-3:15
Instructor: Anton Svynarenko
General Education Category: Creative Arts and World Cultures Course