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J.S. Bach's Six Suites for Cello
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)This four-week course will explore the cello’s magnum opus, J. S. Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello. Through these six masterpieces we will discuss Bach’s life in the 1720s, analyze the compositional ingenuity, examine Baroque musical forms, and delve
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Progressive Politics in the Midterm Election and Beyond
CourseModerate Democrats blame progressives for their divisions, and Republicans use them to depict Democrats as socialists. We will look beyond these partisan divisions to consider how our times parallel those of the Progressive Era.
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Shakespeare's Women
CourseMany of Shakespeare’s most powerful, intelligent, and subversive characters are female. How were such vividly complex roles constructed in a culture that legally defined women as property, on the grounds of their intellectual and moral inferiority?
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Chinese Poetry Then and Now
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)It is for good reason that China is often called a land of poetry. As the longest continuous form of creative writing in the country, poetry has been a defining feature in the life of China’s elite, from their participation in the civil service exam
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World War I and the Avant-Garde
CourseThe course investigates the ecology of war in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century to determine its impact on post-war perception, avant-garde art and architecture, and conceptions of place and memory.
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Language and Identity
CourseHumans use language not just to communicate information but also to indicate identity, that is, the “self versus other” or “us versus them” distinction.