Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: IN THE MATRIX: ON HUMAN BONDAGE AND LIBERATION ***** Using the film "The Matrix" as a point of reference, this course presents celebrated explorations of servitude and emancipation -- from religious mysticism to Marxism and artistic modernism. Texts by Lao Tzu, Farid ud-Din Attar, Plato, Freud, Marx, Baudelaire, J.S. Mill, Proust, de Beauvoir, Malcolm X, Marcuse, Baudrillard. Course taught in English. ***** Enrollment limited to 15 first-year students only, except by permission of the instructor. ***** Also offered as FSEM 127. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood