Survey of East Asian Literature II
Poetry, prose, and drama in China and Japan from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The works will be in English translation.
East Asian Novel
The major/minor novelists and their works, especially those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The novels are in English translation.
Holocaust Literature and Film
An examination of a variety of European and American literary and critical texts and films dealing with the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Chinese Cinema in Translation
An introduction to the evolution of Chinese film in its cultural, literary and historical context. It examines moderization, cultural conflict, war, revolution, and gender roles against a backdrop of Chinese history and politics.
Discourse Analysis
An interdisciplinary study of language use, text analysis, and evaluation. The course will provide students with the ability to investigate and evaluate structural features of language and to identify the strategies used by different writers based on style and cultural backgrounds.
Discourse Analysis
An interdisciplinary study of language use, text analysis, and evaluation. The course will provide students with the ability to investigate and evaluate structural features of language and to identify the strategies used by different writers based on style and cultural backgrounds.
Language, Gender, and Culture
The role of language and culture in the formation of philosophical assumptions about gender differentiation in society.
Language, Gender, and Culture
The role of language and culture in the formation of philosophical assumptions about gender differentiation in society.
The African Diaspora
Exploration of creative works by younger Africans whose primary socialization took place in Europe (Great Britain, France, Germany) and in the United States. Their contribution to African culture as well as to Western cultural life in the Western World.
Survey of African Literature I
African literature from its ancient oral traditions to the European colonial period based on works of African authors written in English and English translations of the African works.
Survey of African Literature I
African literature from its ancient oral traditions to the European colonial period based on works of African authors written in English and English translations of the African works.
Survey of African Literature II
African literature since the independence of the African people from European colonial rule.
Survey of African Literature II
African literature since the independence of the African people from European colonial rule.
Francophone/Lusophone African Literature in English Translation
Survey of modern African literatures in French and/or Portuguese language with focus on the novel.
Literature and Ideas of Nature
Literary and philosophical texts of various historical periods that trace changes in how human beings understand their non-human environment.
Renaissance European Literature
Literature of Western Europe (Italian, French, Spanish, Germanic, and English) 1450-1600, with emphasis on literary types and prevailing ideas.
Romantic European Literature
The rise and development of Romanticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with reading of selected literature and criticism.
World Romanticism I
Early Romanticism: 1750–1830, with readings of selected literature and criticism.
World Romanticism II
Middle to late romanticism: 1820 -1900, with readings of selected literature and criticism.
Poetry
Lyric poetry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.