MA in Liberal Studies Approached to Modernity

When was it that people first had the sense of living in new and different times Modern Times Charlie Chaplin s famous 1936 film of that name suggests one answer, but scholars have different view of the beginning of modernity. Some recall the journalism and novels of the early eighteenth century, while others go back much further, and refer to what we used to call the Renaissance as the Early Modern period. Cultural historians invoke Wordsworth on the French Revolution: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive ; art historians date the dawn to Paris in the 1860s, when Manet and his followers took to painting modern life. Was it modernity or modernism that dramatically emerged at a certain moment on or about December 1910, when according to Virginia Woolf human nature changed Or did the shift occur deliberately, when his fellow poets followed W.C. Wiliams s injunction to Make it new Students in the MALS concentration in Modernity consider the differences and similarities between modernity and modernism and post-modernism as well as they pursue a rich variety of graduate courses in literature, history, art history, film studies, sociology and other disciplines.