Introduction to interrelations between literature, music, and the visual arts, including multi-media. CA 1.

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.

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.

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.

Introduction to film and film studies. Tools for analyzing and reading film. Techniques and language of film. Film theories. CA 1.

Special topics taken in a foreign study program. Consent of department head required, normally before the student's departure.

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.

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.

(Also offered as AMST 2204.) Representations of the diversity of Jewish culture (historical, religious, secular) in American film. Introduction to film analysis and interpretation. CA 1. CA 4.

(Also offered as HEJS 2301.) 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.

(Also offered as ENGL 2609.) 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.

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.

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.

Conventions, history, and development of selected film genres.

The history of cinema from its origins to the present in relation to relevant historical and cultural developments.

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.

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.