Undergraduate students are invited to the Comparative Literature Department’s reception for special majors, minors, and other students interested in our Department. Join our faculty and graduate students for an afternoon of refreshments and lively conversation.
DATE: Wednesday, October 25, 2006
TIME: 3:30 P.M.
PLACE: Clemens Room 640
The English Department invites sophomores, juniors and senior Honors Scholars to enroll in the following English Honors seminar for the Spring 2007 semester. If you are following the new Honors Requirements it will count as a departmental honors course.
Honors: Revenge
Professor Daniel Hack
TTh 9:30 - 10:50
Registration through the Undergraduate Office, 303 Clemens
Revenge is one of the oldest topics in Western literature and remains to this day a ubiquitous element in popular culture. And no wonder: revenge serves as a ready-made source of narrative energy, suspense, and violence, while at the same time raising fundamental questions about justice, human nature, and agency. To study revenge, then, means to study much else besides, from questions of literary history and form to the relationships between desire and duty, emotion and reason, nature and culture, the primitive and the modern, past and present, parents and children, remembrance and forgiveness, and the individual and the state (among others!).
As we tackle these issues, we will be particularly alert to changes over time in the ways revenge has been represented. We will find that not only do attitudes toward revenge differ, but so too do the issues it is seen to engage with, as well as the sheer level of interest in the topic (despite its seeming ubiquity). To get at some of these diverse understandings and uses of revenge, we will consider a broad range of materials. We will begin by reading key texts from two bodies of work in which revenge plays a dominant role: ancient Greek tragedy and early modern English tragedy. We will then move on to (and spend the greatest amount of our time with) the Victorian novel, a genre in which the place of revenge is intriguingly uncertain. We will conclude with a look at some treatments of revenge in contemporary American film, personal narrative, and possibly fiction.
Tentative reading and viewing list:
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Euripides, Orestes
Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Wilkie Collins, Basil
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Laura Blumenfeld, Revenge: A Story of Hope
Clint Eastwood (dir.), Unforgiven
Steven Spielberg (dir.), Munich
Requirements: Class participation, short response papers, a 7-8 page essay, and a 12-15 page essay.
UB’s Freshman Seminar Discovery Program offers a small class experience for first-year students, providing them with the opportunity to engage with a distinguished faculty member around a thought-provoking and challenging topic. The goal of this course is to help new students:
Each semester, different faculty members offer seminars on exciting, unique topics.
More information on the program is available at http://advising.buffalo.edu/succeed/seminars.php
**THIS COURSE FULFILLS AN HONORS PROGRAM REQUIREMENT**
Cell Bio is the basis of every other course you will take in preparing for a career in the biomedical sciences. Master it now, and you’ll be ahead of the game in subsequent courses and in getting ready for your PCAT, MCAT, or DAT. Plus, let’s face it, this stuff is cool—it’s the secret to life and the basis of all the amazing breakthroughs that are fast occurring in understanding and treating disease
In addition to everything in regular Cell Bio, Honors Cell Bio offers:
If these sound like pros rather than cons to you, then consider BIO201Hon, especially if
You need not be in the University Honors Program to take BIO201Hon, but if you are, you can use it to fulfill one of that program’s requirements.
Questions? Problems? See the preliminary syllabus on http://www.biology.buffalo.edu/courses/bio201/Bio201_Main.html and/or e-mail Dr. Janicke at mjanicke@buffalo.edu.
The Honors registration window for Fall 2007 is Monday, October 16 through Wednesday, October 18, 2006.
**When you check your registration window on MyUB or on BIRD it will not give you the Honors window, it will only give you your regular window. This is normal. Just go ahead and register during the Honors window.**
The Spring 2007 class schedule is now available on MyUB.
Information on Honors seminar descriptions and selection has been posted on the Honors Program website www.honors.buffalo.edu
Looking for a job, internship, major or graduate/professional school?
Upcoming events include the Graduate & Professional School Fair (Oct. 17); Government Career Fair (Oct. 18); Tech Fair (Oct. 18); UB Majors and Career Fair (Oct. 25) and Career Services Workshops at www.ub-careers.buffalo.edu/calendar.shtml
Interview on campus with employers…http://www.oncampusinterviews.buffalo.edu/
The Western New York Chapter of Mensa will be having an admissions test on October 21 at the Anna M. Reinstein Memorial Library on Harlem Road. This test will qualify people for membership into Mensa, the high IQ society. There are no restrictions based on age, sex, religion, etc., only a qualifying test score on a standardized test.
The Western New York chapter is very active, with parties, dinner meetings, and movie events. There are also leadership opportunities at the local and national level.
Their website is http://wny.us.mensa.org , which includes information on how to register for the upcoming test, as well as basic info on the group. For those who are interested but can’t make the October test, we will have another one in November (details will be posted on the website once they are finalized).
The School of Nursing is pleased to announce that they are able to expand enrollment in their second degree - Accelerated BS program in Nursing for students who have already earned a BA or BS in a non-nursing field. Students graduating this May are also eligible. Interested students should go on-line and apply to the School of Nursing today for the ABS program: http://nursing.buffalo.edu/appl-abs.htm. The deadline for application is November 15. Students at UB also complete the re-entry application for May enrollment; those not at UB should apply at once for May admission at:
http://admissions.buffalo.edu/.
The nine prerequisites must be completed by next May to be ready to start the program.
General information may be found at http://nursing.buffalo.edu
Congratulations to Emily Truesdell, a freshman Honors student who is the winner of the 2006 UB Reads writing contest. UB Reads is the University at Buffalo’s summer reading program, which seeks to build a sense of community among first-year students through an intentional and relevant shared reading experience. This summer’s book selection was Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Emily’s winning essay is titled “The Dalai Lama as a Role Model in Freedom in Exile.” The winner of this writing contest receives one semester of free in-state tuition.
