Bemoaning the dearth of interesting Literature and Arts cores?

Never fear.

Six additional core courses will be offered this year, according to Director of the Core Program Susan Lewis.

Five of the six courses appeared in last year's Courses of Instruction, but were bracketed, meaning they would be taught at least a year in the future.

The sixth course--Literature and Arts B-54, "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel"-- will be taught in the fall by Professor of Music Robert D. Levin. It was approved at a recent meeting of the core standing committee, according to Lewis.

The course will "examine selected masterworks of chamber music from the 1770s, when the distinctive timbres ofBaroque instruments shaped composers'imaginations, to the beginning of the 20thcentury," according to the official description.

It will also "follow parallel developments inthe technology of instrument making and growingperformer virtuosity."

Another new course is Literature and Arts A-70,"The Book of Job and the Joban Tradition."

Led by Peter B. Machinist, the Hancockprofessor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages,the course will examine the "biblical book of Jobalong with related texts, ancient, medieval andmodern...establish[ing] the literary andphilosophical traditions in which Job was composedand the literary and philosophical legacy it hasleft," according to the official description. Itis scheduled to be taught in the fall.

The third new Literature and Arts course willbe B-33, "Frank Lloyd Wright and ModernArchitecture," taught by Emmet Blakeney GleasonProfessor of Fine Arts Neal Levine.

Offered in the spring, the course will be "anexamination of the thought and practice of thiscentury's most celebrated and prolific architectas an introduction to the understanding of modernarchitecture as a form of culturalrepresentation."

Rounding out the new Literature and Artsofferings will be A-18, "Fairy Tales and theCulture of Childhood."

To be taught by Professor of German MariaTatar, the course will study fairy tales "in thebroader context of children's literature andchildrearing practices."

It will address "issues such as thefolkloristic representation of the child, therelationship between teller/author and audience,and functional changes in folktales," according tothe official description. The course will beoffered in the spring term.

Michael McCormick, professor of history, willteach Historical Study B-13, "Charlemagne and theBirth of medieval Civilization" in the spring. Thecourse will "investigate how a new civilizationarose in the country-side and conquests of the 8thand 9th centuries A.D. with consequences thatendure down to our own time."

The final new course will be Social Analysis48, "Anthropology and he Uses of History," to betaught in the fall by Michael Herzfeld, professorof anthropology.

The course will examine "how people's ideasabout history are created and used for variouspolitical and social ends, paying particularattention to the role of nationalism and to thekinds of history people create in opposition tostate power.