Fall 2024

• KNOW 36055--Imperial Ways of Knowing (Winter 2025) 

This course explores the interplay between knowledge, history, and power by focusing on two non-Western empires: the Mughals and the Ottomans. It introduces students to questions of knowledge formation in historical imperial contexts as well as critically reflecting on our own ways of knowing and claims to knowledge about the past. This course meets the Knowledge Formations Certificate requirement.

Instructors: M. Bozluolcay and P. Kumar.

• KNOW 36057--Science Wars: Truth and Politics across the Disciplines

Does science have a special claim to truth, prior to politics? Do philosophy or art have such claims? This course examines what it means to "politicize" truth. Throughout the quarter, we will look at modern iterations of these questions, from the work of Karl Popper to the Sokal Affair and from phenomenology to postmodernism. This course meets the Knowledge Formations Certificate requirement.

Instructor: Isabel Gabel

• KNOW 31418--Darwinism and Literature taught by D. Maestripieri

• KNOW 23816--Hope & Theological, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives taught by K. Hector

• KNOW 26000--Big Monumental Sculptures in Past and Present taught by J. Osborne

• KNOW 27001--Image and Text in Mesoamerican Codices taught by C. Brittenham