annd the final round...

1. Advanced Seminar in Philosophy and Education (focusing on Cosmopolites and Poesis)
2. Colloquium in Philosophy and Education (weekly visiting professors talk about various topics)
3. Philosophy of Literature (This course pivots around the following themes:

• 1. Relationship between literature and truth; 
• 2. Theories of interpretation of literary writing; 
• 3.The question of universality or pluralism of works of literature: models in classicism and romanticism; 
• 4. Theories of the genesis of literature
• 5. The relationship between literature and morality

4. American Literature since 1945: (SO EXCITED FOR THIS ONE!!!)

• Seize the Day: Saul Bellow
• Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison
• Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov
• On the Road: Jack Kerouac
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Joan Didion
• Crying of Lot 49: Thomas Pynchon
• Beloved: Tony Morrison
• The Interpreter of Maladies: Jhumpa Lahiri

5. Expressive Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and the Arts (most intriguing and novel course)

• The Phenomenology of Perception;Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Positive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS: Harrington
• Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance: Thomas Defratz
• African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization: Hoad
• Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion: Susan Manning
• Being and Race: Black Writing since 1970: Charles R. Johnson
• Introduction to Husserl's Origin of Geometry: Jacque Derrida
• Crave Radiance: Elizabeth Alexander
• Infectious Rhythms: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture-Browning
• In a Shade of blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
• A Mercy: Toni Morrison

This class seems to pivot around African and African-American culture as well as critical race theory and feminism through the lens of dance, literature, and history...We're supposed to go to museums, galleries, and performances as well. Pretty excited to see the interactive part of this course...Also, great poets on the syllabus: Rita Dove, Gwendolyn Brooks and Audre Lorde. Also stoked about reading Soyinka and Morrison.