ECS 209/HUM 209/POL 211 Cultural Interpretation LA
An introduction to the theory and practice of cultural interpretation as developed in philosophy, social and political thought, anthropology, and literary criticism. The course will stress the way people organize reality and make sense of life through the use of symbolic systems.
Two lectures, one preceptorial. M. Viroli

ECS 320 321 Cultural Systems HA
Symbolic systems and social life in specific historical eras. Topics will vary. Recent courses include, for example, magic, art, and science in Renaissance culture, political discourse and nationalism, culture and inequality, history of technology, and the rhetoric of new media.
Staff

ECS 340/COM 340 Literature and Photography LA
A survey of the history of the rapport between literature and photography, looking closely at a number of literary and theoretical texts that differently address questions central to both literature and photography: questions about the nature of representation, reproduction, memory and forgetting, history, images, perception, and knowledge.
One three-hour seminar. E. Cadava

ECS 344/ART 342   Modern Architecture (see ART 342) LA

ECS 370/GER 370   Weimar Germany:  Painting, Photography, Film (see GER 370) LA

ECS 450/ART450   Seminar.  19th-Century European Art (see ART 450) LA

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