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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2021 |
Registration ID | COMLH329B001 |
Course Title | Hamdani: Co-spiration of the Sacred and the Satirical |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Ha,Guangtian |
Times and Days | T 09:40am-12:30pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2801 This course builds on a fourteenth-century Uyghur text titled The Contest of the Fruits – a rap battle-style put-down between different fruits – to explore the role of humour and satire in helping us think through notions of the sacred.; Cross Listed: Anthropology; Comparative Literature; Prerequisite(s): At least two 200-level courses in any of the following areas: religion, anthropology, sociology, classics, linguistics, literature (regardless of language), and philosophy. Students with previous engagements with the Hurford Center or with a strong interest in arts, religion, and philosophy are especially encouraged to enroll. In addition, it is highly desirable that students who enroll in this course have significant knowledge of a non-English language so they can draw from other traditions of humour. For this reason, it is recommended that students whose primary language is English have at least two years of continuous study of a non-English language or its equivalent; native [and heritage] speakers of a non-English language may be assumed to meet this recommendation. Those students unsure of their qualification should email Prof. Ha (gha@haverford.edu) for a consultation session.; Enrollment Limit: 15; Lottery Preference(s): Religion majors and minors Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, A) |
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