Time

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to the various ways that human beings have encountered the problems of time in literature and theory, considering perspectives drawn from mathematics, science, religion, art, and philosophy from multiple cultures in an effort to understand how and why time both rules our lives and escapes our grasps. Because this course is meant to facilitate a complex inquiry into both historical and present-day understandings of time, course requirements prioritize active participation, close critical analysis of texts, sustained, thesis-driven writing assignments, and short presentations.