Subject: MLIT

Term: Spring 2009

MLIT 315: Mysticism and Literature (100/6673)

W 02:00-04:30 PM Jan 12-Apr 27

Berindeanu, F; Hagiwara, T

This co-taught seminar will explore and compare mystical elements in selected literary and theoretical works from the West and the East. Comparisons will focus on a number of interrelated sub-themes such as mind, language, alienation, innocence, experience, life, death, cosmogony, cosmology, good, evil, God/gods, and nature (the ecosystem). Offered as MLIT 315, WLIT 315, MLIT 415 and WLIT 415.

MLIT 327: Gesture in Cognition and Communication (100/6675)

TR 02:45-04:00 PM Jan 12-Apr 27

Parrill, F

Most people never notice that when they are talking, they're also gesturing. Why do we produce these gestures? What can studying them tell us about the human mind? This course surveys scientific research on gesture, exploring topics such as the role of gesture in communication, cross-cultural differences in gesture, and the relationship between gesture and signed languages. The course will focus on gestures produced with speech, but will cover symbolic and ritualized gesture in the visual arts and in dance. Offered as COGS 327 and COGS 427 and MLIT 327.

MLIT 415: Mysticism and Literature (100/11203)

W 02:00-04:30 PM Jan 12-Apr 27

Berindeanu, F; Hagiwara, T

This co-taught seminar will explore and compare mystical elements in selected literary and theoretical works from the West and the East. Comparisons will focus on a number of interrelated sub-themes such as mind, language, alienation, innocence, experience, life, death, cosmogony, cosmology, good, evil, God/gods, and nature (the ecosystem). Offered as MLIT 315, WLIT 315, MLIT 415 and WLIT 415.