(Offered as SPAN 238, EUST 248, and FAMS 352.) This course will be an introduction to genre films from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Spain. We will study Hispanic interpretations of filmic genres such as melodrama, thriller, comedy, horror and musical. How did these genres develop? How stable are genre conventions? Is it possible to study national cinemas in the time of transnational films?
What is meant by “natural law”? This course will explore this strange legal category from the ancient world through the present day. What connection did (or does) natural law have to the will of a God or other deity, and yet how has it also become something separate from “divine law”? What is “natural” about natural law, and does this quality make it somehow more primitive than, or prior to, or better than, positive (government-made) law?
In 1820, G.W.F. Hegel completed the last of his major published works: the Philosophy of Right. Almost immediately, Hegel’s text would be criticized as a work of philosophical apology—a rationalization and justification of the repressive Prussian state.
Law has long been as central to the literary genre of utopian/dystopian writing as this genre has been to the legal imagination.
(Offered as HIST-321 [EUP] and EUST-321) The economic history of pre-modern Europe is usually understood as the singular and exceptional rise of the first modern economy. Yet recent research in economic history and shifts in the world economy have provided new perspectives to reconsider the rise of the European economy. From this long-term and global viewpoint, the story of Europe’s economic take-off becomes the remarkable story of a backwater that became mainstream.
[LA] The course centers on events in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil since 1960. In each country the military seized power and then, after years of directing violence against its own population in the name of combating communism, peacefully ceded power to a democratically elected government. Since those transitions, each country has struggled to deal with what happened during these dictatorships.
(Offered as HIST 225 [EUP] and EUST 225.) Medieval Europe is often remembered and imagined as a chivalric civilization – a time when men were courageous and courteous, ladies were fair and respected, and the clash of arms was also an embodiment of Christian piety. This course seeks to uncover the myths and realities of medieval chivalry and thereby provide a window into the material, social, and cultural life of the Middle Ages.
(Offered as HIST-321 [EUP] and EUST-321) The economic history of pre-modern Europe is usually understood as the singular and exceptional rise of the first modern economy. Yet recent research in economic history and shifts in the world economy have provided new perspectives to reconsider the rise of the European economy. From this long-term and global viewpoint, the story of Europe’s economic take-off becomes the remarkable story of a backwater that became mainstream.
(Offered as HIST 225 [EUP] and EUST 225.) Medieval Europe is often remembered and imagined as a chivalric civilization – a time when men were courageous and courteous, ladies were fair and respected, and the clash of arms was also an embodiment of Christian piety. This course seeks to uncover the myths and realities of medieval chivalry and thereby provide a window into the material, social, and cultural life of the Middle Ages.
This course examines the theory of games in all forms, including traditional non-cooperative simultaneous-play games and their relevance to economics, psychology, and biology; iterated games; combinatorial games such as chess, checkers, and Go; imperfect information games; and stochastic games. The course also considers data structures and algorithms relevant to games, the computational complexity of games, and the use of techniques from artificial intelligence to compute strategies when it is infeasible to compute the optimal strategy. Students will have an opportunity to devel
