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聚焦于美国散文的主要作品, 戏剧, 和诗歌, 学生们被邀请去发现美国文学中什么是美国的, and to explore – in conjunction with the junior history course – how America’s literature, 就像这个国家本身, 锻造了自己独特的身份. 从美国浪漫主义延伸到当代, the class investigates Ameri可以 literature’s rather fraught response to social and political changes. 本着这种精神, students are encouraged to discover and discuss how Ameri可以 literature is singularly informed by ideas and cultural debates concerning freedom, 命运, 逆境, 成功, 社区与归属感, class, 性别, 和种族. 学生还将学习文学研究和文学批评. 作业包括解释性论证和比较分析, 研究反应, 同时也是反思电影和创作的机会.

学生将学习如何开始一个研究项目，包括图书馆的使用, 基于网络的资源, 参考书目, 还有其他的发现指南，以及如何写一篇长论文. Each student will develop a research plan and a bibliography for work over the summer on the senior thesis. 仅限11元.

在这个课程中，我们读高中女生喜欢的书.  我们将要阅读的大部分文学作品都出自女性作家之手, 所有的主角都将是女孩和女人.  You might reflect on the fact that the vast majority of the literature you’ve read so far in your education has been written by male authors and has usually focused on male protagonists, and you might want to think about the difference it would might make if this were not so.  为什么女孩子特别喜欢女孩子写的关于女孩子的书?  女性角色和你所熟悉的男性角色有什么不同吗?  (我们不妨将简·爱的故事与匹普的故事作比较，以此作为出发点.)  Are the challenges facing female characters the same as those facing their male counterparts?  和, 如果我们发现女性角色特有的问题, 它们是否随时间而改变, 还是说它们基本保持不变?   它们和你在自己的生活中遇到的问题一样吗?  我们会讨论这些问题和主题, 以及其他许多人(爱), 婚姻, 性, 繁殖, 举几个例子), 当我们深入研究一些大的, 精彩的小说.  We’ll start with Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 然后和弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫一起进入了20世纪, 以及当代小说《BBIN集团官方网站》, 玛格丽特·阿特伍德.   我们还将阅读第四部现代小说, 如果我们有时间的话, 我们要写一些现代短篇小说, 和/或诗歌.  我们将以电影《BBIN集团官方网站》结束这学期.  仅限12秒.

Existentialism is a philosophy that emphasizes the individual and his or her freedom to create meaning. 通过拥抱这种自由, the individual takes ownership of his or her own life in the face of death and an absurd world. 这样做被称为清醒、真实或真诚. 存在主义者也意识到了, 然而, 这种激进的自由给个人带来了焦虑和绝望, 谁往往宁愿放弃自由，以背信弃义地生活. 更麻烦的是, 人们常常以产生异化的方式强迫他人遵守他们的价值观, 物化, 和压迫. 因此, 存在主义, 我们会看到, has much to say about sexism and racism; indeed, this philosophy even today continues to make signifi可以t contributions to such social issues.

在本课程中, we will explore the philosophy of 存在主义 primarily through literature and film. 让·保罗·萨特, 最著名的存在主义者之一, claimed that art is often a better means for conveying philosophy than a treatise or essay. 虽然最终的阅读清单尚未确定, 我们可能会阅读和讨论的作品包括卡夫卡的《bbin集团》, 梅尔维尔的《bbin集团》, 萨特的几部戏剧和故事, 加缪的《bbin官网》在内的几部电影, 罪行和轻罪, 我爱哈克比, 和/或搏击俱乐部. Students will write a film review for the course on an existential movie of their choice, and two additional papers – one of which students may write as a short story of their own that incorporates the 主题 of the course. 仅限12秒. 

被称为“枢纽”,这个词是由其挚爱的奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯创造的, Boston has always been a nexus for intellectual development by using the lure of its phenomenal universities to bring together some of the most capable people from all over the world. This class will relish in some of Boston’s rich immigrant history as we delve into academically acclaimed, recent literature by and about people who have all found themselves in this great city. 原指被流放的各种犹太人口, Diaspora 可以 refer to people who have been forced to leave their home countries because of oppression, but it 可以 now also refer to emigrants who have chosen to leave their countries for a variety of reasons. These people have sacrificed everything they’ve known and loved in the hopes of bettering their fates and that of their families and ancestors. Just as Pip needed to leave the forge for the big city to forge a new identity for himself, Jhumpa Lahiri的书中的人物 同名——弗朗西斯科·戈德曼 白鸡长夜伊娃·霍夫曼的 迷失在翻译中查蒂·史密斯的 在美牙买加金凯德 露西, to name a few, have all come out to Boston in their trek toward becoming global citizens. 就像维克多·弗兰肯斯坦需要大学来实现他的创造一样, characters in many of these texts have all come to the universities here to make their own, 有时巨大的, 文化的发现. 这门课也可以考虑历史修正主义的文本，如玛格丽特·阿特伍德的 使女的故事巴拉蒂·慕克吉的 世界的主人或者杰拉尔丁·布鲁克斯的 迦勒的穿越. 在此过程中，我们还将考虑电影、艺术和其他媒体表现形式. 我们也可能会读到一些最近的小说，比如埃莉夫·鲍特曼(Elif Bautman)的作品 的白痴 或者Danzy Senza的 高加索，以便在稀薄的学术氛围之外了解讨论的脉搏. Buoyed by short critical and historical discussions as well as short texts from various genres and forms, students will select the longer texts that we will read together as a class and one or more texts they will pursue on their own. Together we will explore how and why this great city we call home has indeed become the hub of the universe.

Modernity seeks to build a rational, free, and fair society founded on liberalism and capitalism. Over the last forty years the main advocate of this view has been Neoliberal Capitalism, 哪个已经主导了我们社会的许多方面.  This seminar explores the strengths and weaknesses of neoliberalism by studying some of its proponents and its critics from the schools of socialism, 女权主义, 反殖民主义和种族理论, 和印第安人哲学. 因此，我们将阅读米尔顿·弗里德曼的著作 资本主义与自由， 马克·费歇尔 资本主义的现实主义温迪·布朗餐厅 在新自由主义的废墟中安吉拉·戴维斯的 自由的意义弗朗茨·法农的 可怜的地球， 和罗宾·沃尔·基默尔的 编织香草. 注意:这不是一门经济学课程, but rather an ethical/philosophical critique of the intersection of the Neoliberal Capitalists ethos and its limits E.g. 新自由主义真的会像其支持者声称的那样导致一个公正和公平的社会吗? 如果不是，我们该怎么办? 什么 可以 我们所做的?