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Effective: Fall 2020 | |||||
HUMN 4H | HONORS TRAUMA & THE ARTS | 4 Unit(s) | |||
Advisory: Advisory: Not open to students with credit in HUMN 4. | |||||
Grade Type: Letter Grade Only | |||||
Not Repeatable. | |||||
FHGE: Humanities Transferable: CSU/UC | |||||
4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) |
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This course applies theories of trauma to representations of trauma and violence in the visual arts, literature, film and music with an emphasis on the transformative potential of the creative process. Topics include the representation of war, genocide and racism. Students will gain acuity to identify, understand, empathize, and respond to traumatic subjectivity, its images and artistic as well as social intent. As an honors course, it is a full seminar with advanced teaching methods focusing on major writing, reading and research assignments, student class presentations, group discussions and interactions.
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Course Objectives - | ||
The student will be able to:
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Special Facilities and/or Equipment - | ||
Multi-media equipment, LCD projector.
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Representative Text(s) - | ||
Aeschylus. Agamemnon. Translated by Philip de May. New York: Classic Books America, 2009. Shakespeare. Macbeth. New York: Washington Square Press, 1992. Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale: Part I, My Father Bleeds History, Part II, Here My Troubles Began. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Auslander, Shalom. Hope: A Tragedy. New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. Freud, Sigmund. "Screen Memories in Peter Gay." The Freud Reader. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. 117-126. La Capra, Dominick. Writing History, Writing Trauma. Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society (series). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Reserved articles and studies in Library.
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Humanities | ||
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Not applicable. | ||
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