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1002. Reading Between the Arts
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Introduction to interrelations between literature, music, and the visual arts, including multi-media. CA 1.
View Classes »1101. Classics of World Literature I
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Introduction to classics of world literature. Comparative approach to canonical works of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, as well as Europe, from antiquity to the early modern period (1600). CA 1. CA 4-INT.
View Classes »1102. Classics of World Literature II
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
An introduction to classics of world literature. A comparative approach to representative works of culture of Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, from the Renaissance (1600) to the present. CA 1. CA 4-INT.
View Classes »1103W. Languages and Cultures
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.
Grading Basis: Graded
Develops an interdisciplinary understanding and critical awareness of basic issues concerning socio-cultural factors of languages, language use and language learning, linguistic diversity, language research methodology, and the differences among diverse modes of communication. CA 1. CA 4-INT.
View Classes »1110. Introduction to Film Studies
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Introduction to film and film studies. Tools for analyzing and reading film. Techniques and language of film. Film theories. CA 1.
View Classes »1193. Foreign Study
1.00 - 15.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. Consent of department head required, normally before the student's departure.
View Classes »2010. Media Literacy and Data Ethics
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
An introduction to information literacy on the basis of media studies, research methods in the humanities, and media and data ethics. The course will address three or more interconnected areas that are pivotal to gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information in today’s research and data landscapes, including, but not exclusive to, the study of media as a cultural product, structures of data, and aspects of ethics. CA 1. CA 4-INT.
View Classes »2201. Intercultural Competency Towards Global Perspectives
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Introduction to the interdisciplinary and international field of intercultural communication in cultural studies, including culturally determined communicative behaviors, identity, semiotics, multi-disciplinary theories of culture, and stereotypes. CA 1. CA 4-INT.
View Classes »2204. Jewish Culture in American Film
Representations of the diversity of Jewish culture (historical, religious, secular) in American film. Introduction to film analysis and interpretation. CA 1. CA 4.
View Classes »2301. Jewish Humor
Also offered as: HEJS 2301
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Not open to students who have passed HEJS 3295 when taught as this topic.
Grading Basis: Graded
The history of Jewish humor in modern times with attention given to its various forms, including oral traditions, fiction and humor writing, stand-up comedy, live performance, television, film, and music. CA 1. CA 4.
View Classes »2609. Fascism and its Opponents
Also offered as: ENGL 2609
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011. Not open for credit to students who have passed AMST/ENGL 3265W when offered as "Fascism and Antifascism in the US."
Grading Basis: Graded
A comparative study of fascist and antifascist movements, ideologies, aesthetics, and states across a number of national contexts, before and after the Second World War. Readings may consist of literary works, films and visual culture, autobiographies, political rhetoric, histories, and other cultural artifacts. CA 1.
View Classes »3201. Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Literary and cultural questions that go beyond national boundaries: the relationship of literature to other disciplines and to the other arts; cinema as a cultural phenomena. (No foreign language required.) This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
View Classes »3203. Comparative Studies in Cultural History
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
The comparative study of cultural movements in literature and the arts throughout history. Will explore different areas of cultural practice -- e.g., social, literary, political, aesthetic, anthropological, -- with an eye as to how they are shaped, and in turn shape, dominant institutions and values. Sample topics include: World War I and the emergence of Modernism; European Fascisms; Christian, Jewish, and Muslim culture in Medieval Spain; photography and the Colonial Encounter, etc. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
View Classes »3207. Film Genres
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Conventions, history, and development of selected film genres.
View Classes »3208. Studies in Film History
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
The history of cinema from its origins to the present in relation to relevant historical and cultural developments.
View Classes »3211. Indigenous Film World Wide
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
A survey of films by and about Indigenous, American Indian, First Nations, Native, and Aboriginal people. Course will focus on contemporary films and artists. CA 1. CA 4-INT.
View Classes »3293. Foreign Study
1.00 - 15.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. Consent of department head required, normally to be granted prior to the student's departure. May count toward the major with consent of the advisor.
View Classes »3299. Independent Study
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: Open to juniors or higher.
Grading Basis: Graded
3888. Variable Topics
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites and recommended preparation vary.
Grading Basis: Graded