HON-152 |
History, Memory, & Forgetting |
This course seeks to facilitate students ' critical thinking about history as constructions of the past. In the United States and throughout the world, debates and sometimes violent campaigns have focused on official narratives and commemorative depictions about the past that function to sustain existing norms of status and power. Who contributes to making these choices? Whose voice, and thus perspective, remains muted? How does this affect what stories about the past get told and how they get told? Why do these questions and the manner they get resolved matter? This course addresses a rich body of literature about collective memory, an emerging literature on cultural forgetting, and case studies relating to various current topics. |
HON-153 |
Philosophy of Humor |
This course examines the basic theories of humor, including incongruity, superiority, and release theory. It covers the main proponents of these theories, from the German rationalists like Wollf and Kant, to the British empiricists like Hutcheson, to more and recent theories by Bergson and Freud and contemporary cognitive science. Students will examine the critical role humor plays in society and related issues in ethics and political philosophy; the nature of humor in general; and the relationship between humor and other human activities that make use of a unique relationship to language, ambiguities, or paradox, such as poetry, song, and philosophy. The course will connect to larger issues in the humanities such as the nature of language, temporality, truth, the mind, and representation as well as ethics and political philosophy. This course may be used to fulfill a general education requirement in English or philosophy or an Honors Program requirement under " Rhetoric " or " Dialectic." |
HON-200 |
Latin Foundations |
It may be used to fulfill a General Education requirement or an Honors |
Program requirement under " Grammar." |