FSEM 127 - IN THE MATRIX
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Department: Humanities Division
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.
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Enrollment limited to 15 first-year students only, except by permission of the instructor.
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Also offered as FREN 127.
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Course not offered 2004-2005.
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Instructor(s): Wood.