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fall 2005
(These are the course offered by the LBST program. Students can choose
among any graduate-level courses (5000 or above) in the humanities at UNC
Charlotte as electives or as courses in a personally designed emphasis.)
- 6101.091
The Liberal Arts Tradition
- (The first of the two introductory courses to the
program)
Dale Grote
- Monday 6:00 - 8:50 PM
Fretwell 114
The course serves many masters. It's an introduction to the fundamental
issues of the Western intellectual tradition and an reintroduction to the
academic study of the humanities for returning students. Students in this
class also will be acquainted with the LBST program in general.
We read widely from the masters of Western literature and philosophy.
Authors in the past have included Sophocles, Plato, Aquinas, Augustine,
Aristotle, Homer, Thoreau, Gogol, Flaubert among many others.
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- 6000.093 Great Books I
- (This is first of the four-course sequence that makes up our Great
Books concentration. The classes do not have to be taken in order.)
Paul Youngman
Thursday 6:00 - 8:50 PM
COED 038
This is the
first course in the LBST's four-course Great Books curriculum. Great Books 1 and
3 are offered in alternating fall terms; Great Books 2 and 4 are offered in
alternating spring terms. All Great Books courses use the readers available from
the Great Books Foundation (www.greatbooks.org),
each of which provide extended excepts or complete works, drawn from the classic
literary and philosophical documents of the Western traditions.
Our Great Books courses observe the "shared inquiry"
method of discussion and investigation, which invites all thoughtful
participation within a fixed framework so as to produce meaningful dialogue.
This course
will be using their 5th reader, which presents the following authors and works:
Ecclesiastes;
Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Freud, On Dreams;
Kafka, The Metamorphosis; Goethe, Faust,
Part One; Kant, First Principles Of Morals; Flaubert, A Simple
Heart; Hume, Of Personal Identity; Nietzsche, Thus Spoke
Zarathustra; Dante, The Inferno; Burke, Reflections On The
Revolution In France; Adams, The Education Of Henry Adams;
Shakespeare, King Lear; Aristotle, On Tragedy; Plato, The
Republic.
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- 6000.091 Language and Violence
- Bill Gay
Room and Building Fretwell 307
Tuesday 6:00 - 8:50
The course explores relations between language and
violence. On the one hand, although violence is often overt (physical) and
personal, it can also be covert (psychological) and institutional. On the
other hand, while language is an important means of communication, it is also
a social institution that reflects relations of power. These characteristics
of violence and language make possible linguistic violence, namely, situations
in which individuals are hurt or harmed by words.
Recommended Course
- ENGL 5050.004
- Boyd Davis
Fretwell 205
Tuesday and Thursday 3:30-4:50
We will begin with an overview of the nature and history
of legal language, in the context of differences between spoken and written
language. We will look at the nature of legal texts; the use of language in
the courtroom, including questioning, storytelling, and interpreting; the
comprehensibility of jury instructions; the role of forensic linguistics in
product liability as well as homicide; the Plain English movement; and the
intersections of language and law in trademark and hate speech litigation. Our
examination of legal culture will ground our analysis of cases, court visits,
and guest lawyers.
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