Description
•Core Seminar II: 20th Century
This course covers a number of important primary sources, all of them written by key authors whose work was done mainly in the 20th or late 19th centuries in a variety of humanistic and scientific fields. Representative authors may include such figures as Susan B. Anthony, Simone de Beauvoir, Niels Bohr, Jorge Luis Borges, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Frantz Fanon, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Franz Kafka, Melanie Klein, Lynn Margulis, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Flannery O’Connor, though assignments may vary slightly from year to year. The goal of the course is to empower students to grapple directly with accessible presentations by leading historical figures.