TOPICS: HISTORY OF LYING in Spring 2024 (HI2091C)

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Course Master: 
TOPICS IN HISTORY (HI2091)
Term: 
Spring 2024
Discipline: 
HI (History)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
Yes
Exam Date: 
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 16:00
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Notes

This course explores political manipulation, sexual deception, polite lies, theories of untruth, and totalitarian

mass culture. It aims to encourage critical thinking and analysis in relation to visual and written sources. The

course will develop student skills as readers of philosophy, legal cases, historical writing, and literature. The

course focuses for the most part on the theme of lying in Europe and the United States. Students are welcome

to broaden the geographical scope of the course, or reach outside the chronology of the course, in choosing a

subject for their class presentation and for the personalized section of their final exam.


Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will sharpen their analytical abilities with respect to complex visual and written sources ranging in type from philosophical treatises to history, literature, art criticism, and legal cases.
  2. Obtain a broad command of trends in intellectual history since the Renaissance.
  3. Situate major preoccupations of the modern day in an historical context, notably: the dissemination of false information as a deliberate political strategy; the death of authenticity as an inadvertent consequence of digital technologies and mass culture.

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 15, 2024
End Date: 
Friday, May 10, 2024
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
C-102
Friday
15:20
16:40
C-102