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Class number:
3427
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Title: Don Quixote: Ethics of Failure |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 10 |
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Available seats: 9 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, HL - 123 |
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Instructor(s): Baena, Diego |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: HISP 260 or higher, 270 recommended |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
What if you discovered that to be successful you must fail over and over again, until you transform failure into personal ethics and a way of life? In this seminar we will read Cervantes's Don Quixote, considered the most influential and the best novel ever written, as a treatise on the ethical aspects of failure, as well as a manifesto on issues such as inequality, human rights, violence, power, and racial and gender discrimination. We will also examine Cervantes's historical period, the early-modern Spanish empire, as a way to uncover the roots of our contemporary world. Don Quixote is a book that will certainly change your life forever, as well as your ideas on society, politics, and the power of the individual. |