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Class number:
3508
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Title: Curiosity and Madness |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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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: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 15 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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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: 1:30PM-2:45PM, 115V - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Benedict, Barbara |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
What makes a person curious--that is, inquisitive? what makes a person a curiosity--that is, odd? how do the two meanings relate and why do curious people in literature so often appear mad? Pandora, Eve, Sherlock Holmes and Alice in Wonderland are all curious, but is curiosity good or bad? What is madness? These and related issues will motivate our explorations into British and American literature, film and art that portrays mad and curious people from Shakespeare's Hamlet to R. L. Stevenson's Mr. Hyde to the gruesome Hannibal Lector. The course will include guest lectures on madness, films and an excursion to Hartford's Cabinet of Curiosities. Students will have the opportunity to identify and discuss a curiosity of their own. |
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Course Syllabus:
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