COM LIT C187
Reading across Culture
Description: Seminar, three hours. What is it we do when we try to understand words, habits, gestures, and beliefs not our own? Do we understand something foreign to us by immersing ourselves in it or by standing apart? Does ability to understand something foreign imply taking universal standpoint? Can we make judgments about beliefs other than our own? Questions of cultural interpretation have long history in both Western and non-Western cultures. Discussion of history of questions about cross-cultural interpretation and comparative interpretation of cultures in both comparative literature and cultural anthropology. Reading of some very complex and influential works by such writers as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Amitav Ghosh, James Clifford, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Erich Auerbach. Concurrently scheduled with course C287. P/NP or letter grading.
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The class that changed my life, literally. I loved this class so much i went and got Dr. Band a gift because even though i hate reading i read EVERY SINGLE novel/reading for this class, and I dam well loved it. Band is the most amazing professor i have EVER taken and will remain so. The holocaust in literature class is a literal life changer and i recommend EVERYONE to take it. We cannot forget what had happened in Hitler's Europe and Dr. Band instills situations and graphic images in your mind that will never be forgetten. it is not a difficult class, just be on your stuff and go to lecture and take notes. THIS IS AN EMOTIONALLY CHALLENGING CLASS, be prepared to read first hand accounts that will make your second guess your lifestyle. But you need to because trust me WE dont know how good we have it. I am not only saying this because I am a first generation american Jew but because this class makes you value human life, and makes you appreciate the world we live in. Love Dr. Band and really enjoyed this class, wish there was more like it.
The class that changed my life, literally. I loved this class so much i went and got Dr. Band a gift because even though i hate reading i read EVERY SINGLE novel/reading for this class, and I dam well loved it. Band is the most amazing professor i have EVER taken and will remain so. The holocaust in literature class is a literal life changer and i recommend EVERYONE to take it. We cannot forget what had happened in Hitler's Europe and Dr. Band instills situations and graphic images in your mind that will never be forgetten. it is not a difficult class, just be on your stuff and go to lecture and take notes. THIS IS AN EMOTIONALLY CHALLENGING CLASS, be prepared to read first hand accounts that will make your second guess your lifestyle. But you need to because trust me WE dont know how good we have it. I am not only saying this because I am a first generation american Jew but because this class makes you value human life, and makes you appreciate the world we live in. Love Dr. Band and really enjoyed this class, wish there was more like it.
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