Course Catalog - 2008-2009

     

HURC 301 - HRC UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

Long Title: HRC UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Department: Humanities Division
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1
Description: The HRC Undergraduate Fellowship requires students Repeatable for Credit.
Course URL: http:////hrc.rice.edu/fellowships_undergrad.html
 

HURC 501 - HRC MELLON RESEARCH SEMINAR

Long Title: COMPARISON IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Department: Humanities Division
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This seminar fosters collaborative research among faculty and graduate students at the highest level. It examines recent calls for a renewed comparative hermeneutics that can begin to answer the poststructural and postmodern crisis of meaning that can read the world "anew" in the light of both human sameness and difference. Repeatable for Credit.
Course URL: http://http://hrc.rice.edu/mellon.html
 

HURC 502 - HRC MELLON RESEARCH SEMINAR

Long Title: AMERICA AND THE WORLD
Department: Humanities Division
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This seminar fosters collaborative research among faculty and graduate students at the highest level. It focuses on colonial or foreign dimensions of American identity and examines how the intersection of America and the world creates transnational spaces and actors, asking, ultimately, what it means to "globalize" U.S. history and culture. Repeatable for Credit.
Course URL: http://http://hrc.rice.edu/mellon.html