Tim Lenoir, Haun Saussy, Michael Shanks

The Books

Plato, Crito

Text 2

The Sims

Text 3

The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon

Text 4

Richard II, Shakespeare

Text 5

Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss

Approaches and disciplines

Philosophical argument, literary analysis, historical contextualization, ethnographic method, visual/verbal modeling… The Humanities. All of them, all the time.

Fuzzies versus Techies

Is Bodies in Place Fuzzy?

What do you mean by “fuzzy”?

Anything goes? It’s all relative?

Not according to us: There is no “right” answer

Better—no single answer

Lots of different arguments in the humanities, not just one answer but many perspectives

Not authoritative version of the works but different views, presented from different perspectives: team-teaching includes many different perspectives

IHUM is unique

No other program emphasizes skills and approaches from different disciplines—hence team teaching in which different disciplines are represented

A unique program prompting you to produce your own knowledge of the works you study

Make your own arguments, don’t memorize and imitate ours

Learn how to read for yourself, closely and critically

Learn how different disciplines in the humanities read and interpret

Move on in winter/spring quarters to apply these skills in a sustained course sequence based in one discipline

Your IHUM is different
from other IHUMs

Approaches: The particular combination of disciplines is unique

Content: A range of materials—from a Platonic dialogue to a contemporary computer game; classics of west and east

Structure: To prompt both deep thought about our assigned texts and comparisons among them, two passes through the material

Assignments: conventional essays as well as a final multimedia project

Schedule and itinerary

Lectures and sections

The two runs

Panfora

Bookmark and frequently refer to our web page!

Assignments

Multimedia final project option!

Seminars are work too

Formulating knowledge in common with others

Engaging other points of view

A collective process of discovery. Think stage performance.

Panfora– the discussion section that never closes.

The end result


	Philosophical argument, literary analysis, historical contextualization, ethnographic method, visual/verbal modeling… The Humanities. All of them, all the time.


Is Bodies in Place Fuzzy?
	What do you mean by “fuzzy”?
		Anything goes? It’s all relative?
		Not according to us: There is no “right” answer
		Better—no single answer
Lots of different arguments in the humanities, not just one answer but many perspectives
Not authoritative version of the works but different views, presented from different perspectives: team-teaching includes many different perspectives


	No other program emphasizes skills and approaches from different disciplines—hence team teaching in which different disciplines are represented
	A unique program prompting you to produce your own knowledge of the works you study
	Make your own arguments, don’t memorize and imitate ours
	Learn how to read for yourself, closely and critically
	Learn how different disciplines in the humanities read and interpret
	Move on in winter/spring quarters to apply these skills in a sustained course sequence based in one discipline


	Approaches: The particular combination of disciplines is unique
	Content: A range of materials—from a Platonic dialogue to a contemporary computer game; classics of west and east
	Structure: To prompt both deep thought about our assigned texts and comparisons among them, two passes through the material
	Assignments: conventional essays as well as a final multimedia project


	Lectures and sections
	The two runs
	Panfora
	Bookmark and frequently refer to our web page!
	Assignments
	Multimedia final project option!


	Formulating knowledge in common with others
	Engaging other points of view
	A collective process of discovery. Think stage performance.
	Panfora– the discussion section that never closes.