Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Interpretation as translation
Methods of reading
Comparative approaches: formation of general statements
Multiple translations and multiple interpretations
Inside of a text and outside of a text
Communication as translation
The interpretive perspectives
The dimensions of literacy in the 21st Century
Verbal, visual, musical
Forms of verbal, visual, and musical expressions
New media
Promotion of scholarship and research in the humanities
The role of the university presses
The scholarly monograph
The scholarly journal
The Websites
The ethical dimension
The aesthetic dimension
The study of the future
The building and function of a discipline
Resources for research in the humanities
Databases
Conferences
Scholarly and artistic associations
Scholarly journals
Research centers
Institutes for promoting and recording the humanities
Archival libraries
Museums
Library of Congress, Bibliothèque Nationale, et. al.
2
At the beginning of each seminar session, students will offer short reports on
scholarly journals. Students will also give presentations about scholarly
monographs and articles.
All of this seminar’s essays, articles, and monographs are related, which means
that discussions will not be restricted to one text during a seminar session.
Rather, we will strive for a continuous interaction among the various verbal,
visual, and musical texts.
Assignment
Vladimir Nabokov. "Good Readers and Good Writers"
Robert Con Davis-Undiano. “Back to the Essay”
Exercise: Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay. “Culture”
Translation of an English text. Full text of essay on Internet
Assignment
Short stories from: Continental Short Stories: The Modern Tradition.
Charles Frankel. “Why the Humanities?”
O. Paz. “Translation: Literature and Letters”
3
Assignment
James Paul Gee. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning
and Literacy.
Assignment
Begin Bernstein’s The Unanswered Question
(Charles Ives)
Session V
Exercise: writing a book review
Assignment
Huizinga, Homo Ludens
Assignment
L. Bernstein, The Unanswered Question, continued
Aaron Copland, What to Listen for in Music
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class (paperback if available)
Assignment
Peter Burke. New Perspectives on Historical Writing
Session XIV
General summary of main concepts and an outlook on the future of the
humanities
The concept of a discipline and interdisciplinarity
Discussion of scholarly articles related to the concept of interdisciplinarity
Article: Swoara and Morrison, “Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education”
Schaefer, “Still Crazy After All These Years”
Stanley Fish, “Being Interdisciplinary Is so Very Hard to Do”
Bloom, “Our Listless Universities”
Requirements
Active participation in seminar discussions
Preparation of paragraphs
Preparation of exercises
Reports on scholarly journals in the arts & humanities
Presentation of book review: the recreation of thought processes
Creative or scholarly project or short essays
This is a tentative outline of topics to be discussed during the semester and is subject to change according
to students’ interests and needs.