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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
"Amirim" Honors Program
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Naomi Mandel
Coordinator Office Hours:
After class and by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof NAOMI MANDEL
Course/Module description:
The objective of this seminar is to explore the modalities of violence in a range of forms and contexts. We will explore how violence, and its representation, function as a site where our relations with ourselves, our relations with others, and our interactions with society can be productively, and creatively, revised.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Analyze the impact of representation on the perception of violence; engage in artistic, critical, and philosophical work on the subject; extend course content to interdisciplinary contexts; practice performing in an academic context in English.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
synchronious and a- synchronious
Course/Module Content:
Week 1 introduction.
Violence and/as representation
Section 1
A history of violence
Week 2 Power
Franz Kafka, “In the penal colony”
Week 3 Trauma
Alain Renais, dir. Hiroshima mon Amour
Week 4 Testimony
Narrative and history
“The Confessions of Nat Turner” (1831)
Section 2
Violence between fantasy and reality
Week 5: Aesthetics
Art Spiegelman, Maus II: And here my troubles began.
Week 6 Identity
William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner (selections)
William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond(selections)
Week 7: Violence on screen
Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster
Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society” (1994)
Week 8: No class! Meet with instructors about your projects. Start reading American Psycho!
Section 3
Test case: Violent Fiction
TRIGGER ALERT: American Psycho is one of the most controversial texts ever published. Its depictions of torture, rape, and mutilation may be disturbing for some students. Students who are sensitive to these issues are directed to avoid the following chapters:
Week 9
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho p. 1-200
Week 10
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho p. 200-300
Tara Baxter, “There are better ways of taking care of Bret Easton Ellis than Just Censoring Him…”
Week 11
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho p. 300-400
Mailer, Norman. “Children of the Pied Piper.” Vanity Fair 54.3 (1991): 154.
Week 12
Mary Harron, dir. American Psycho
Section 4
Violence: Interdisciplinary Contexts
Week 13
Group Presentations
Week 14
Group Presentations
Required Reading:
Art Spiegelman, Maus II: And here my troubles began. (1992)
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991)
Additional readings on course Moodle
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 10 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 10 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 60 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Students should plan to purchase Art Spiegelman's Maus II: And here my troubles began and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. All other readings will be provided as pdfs on Moodle.
Students needing academic accommodations based on a disability should contact the Center for Diagnosis and Support of Students with Learning Disabilities, or the Office for Students with Disabilities, as early as possible, to discuss and coordinate accommodations, based on relevant documentation.
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