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1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p105) : Next:131-286 | Prev:131-284
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd or 3rd year
Coordinator: Dr M Baker.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.
Contact: One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: Second Semester, 1997
Objectives:
understand theories of humour from an interdisciplinary perspective; consider the way Jews have represented their identity over history through their relationship to particular cultural and textual traditions.
Content:
A reading of Jewish culture by considering what has made Jews, at different points in their history, laugh. A study of humour and biblical and medieval Jewish narratives; Yiddish folklore; the migration of humour to the New World; the Jews and Hollywood; Woody Allen and contemporary American Jewry; the uses of laughter during the Holocaust.
Assessment:
Written work done during the year will consist of class papers and essays of up to 5,000 words in total.
Prescribed texts:
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p105) : Next:131-286 | Prev:131-284
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p131) : Next:131-286 | Prev:131-284
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr M Baker.
Contact: One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
understand theories of humour from an interdisciplinary perspective; consider the way Jews have represented their identity over history through their relationship to particular cultural and textual traditions.
Content:
A reading of Jewish culture by considering what has made Jews, at different points in their history, laugh. A study of humour and biblical and medieval Jewish narratives; Yiddish folklore; the migration of humour to the New World; the Jews and Hollywood; Woody Allen and contemporary American Jewry; the uses of laughter during the Holocaust.
Assessment:
Written work done during the year will consist of class papers and essays of up to 5,000 words in total.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS, SEMESTER, TITLE differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p131) : Next:131-286 | Prev:131-284
3. Jewish Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p123) : Next:131-286 | Prev:131-267
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd or 3rd year
Coordinator: Dr M Baker.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.
Contact: One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Objectives:
understand theories of humour from an interdisciplinary perspective; consider the way Jews have represented their identity over history through their relationship to particular cultural and textual traditions.
Content:
A reading of Jewish culture by considering what has made Jews, at different points in their history, laugh. A study of humour and biblical and medieval Jewish narratives; Yiddish folklore; the migration of humour to the New World; the Jews and Holywood; Woody Allen and contemporary American Jewry; the uses of laughter during the Holocaust.
Assessment:
Written work done during the year will consist of class papers and essays of up to 5,000 words in total.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTENT, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. Jewish Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p123) : Next:131-286 | Prev:131-267
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