2012-2013 Catalog 
    
    May 25, 2024  
2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

History

  
  • HIST 143D CM - Atlantic Revolutions, 1760s-1830s

    The purpose of this course is to explore the unprecedented wave of servile insurrections, anti-colonial revolts, political revolutions, and wars for independence that spread across the Atlantic world at the turn of the 19th century. Questions we will ask include: Why did European states and empires suddenly crack apart one by one? How important was the diffusion of new ideas? Why did some colonies seek and win independence, and why not others? How do slave insurrections and native American wars for independence fit into the history of the revolutionary era? What were the connections, both material and ideological, between the North American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions, and how can we understand their different outcomes?

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST143D CM
  
  • HIST 144 CM - Reagan’s America: The Politics and Culture of the 1980s

    Some see the 1980s as “Morning in America” while others view it as a “New Gilded Age.” This course aims to make sense of this polarized reaction by examining a wide range of issues and events. We will pay particular attention to the relationships between politics and popular culture and between foreign and domestic affairs, and the effect of policies and politics on everyday life. In doing so, we will situate the decade within its broader historical context and assess whether the United States today still lives under the shadow of the 1980s.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST144 CM
  
  • HIST 145 PO - Afro-Latin America

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST145 PO
  
  • HIST 146 CM - History of Germany, 1740 to the Present

    Traces the history of German lands from Frederick the Great to recent reunification. The rise of Prussia, the mixed responses to the Enlightenment, the emergence of Bismarck, and the creation of a unified German state in 1871, are examined as foundations of modern Germany and as prelude to the devastation of two world wars. Other topics include the nature of the Third Reich, the evolution of the genocidal program, postwar efforts at denazification, the establishment of two Germanies, the tensions of the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST146 CM
  
  • HIST 149 CM - America in Depression and War

    This course examines the transforming effects of two cataclysmic events in the 20th century. We will study the ways in which both the Great Depression and World War II led to a major reordering of American society, and politics, and culture. Topics include social welfare, the growth of the state, race and gender relations, work and organized labor, the impact of new forms of media, economic mobilization, and war and social change.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST149 CM
  
  • HIST 150E CM - The Age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare: Tudor-Stuart Britain, 1485-1640

    Explores the triumphant rise of the 16th-century Tudor monarchs and their impact on politics, society, religion, and culture, and the troubled role of the 17th-century Stuart monarchs, the English Civil War, and “Glorious Revolution.” By using several of William Shakespeare’s plays and other cultural sources, the course analyzes how theater, literature, the visual arts, print, and popular culture created mythic national histories and reflected contemporary socio-political concerns. Other topics will include: kingship and state building, the Protestant Reformation, women and family, crime and the poor, early empire building, and slavery.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST150E CM
  
  • HIST 151E CM - The Making of Modern Britain

    From the age of George I to the defeat of Hitler, this course will examine how the British politically, economically, and culturally constructed their nation and empires. Themes will include the British Enlightenment; the rise of capitalism and industry; the acquisition of a world-wide empire in the Americas, India, Africa, and elsewhere; the cultivation of nationalism, Victoria, and Victorianism; the growth of mass politics and culture; the early welfare state; the Seven Years War; the American Revolution; The French and Napoleonic Wars; the Crimean and Boer Wars; the World Wars; the effect of these wars on the home front, literature, and politics.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST151E CM
  
  • HIST 152 CM - Politics and Art in Europe from the Enlightenment to Fascism

    How do visual imagery, satire, fiction, and film convey political meanings and critiques? Why and how do political revolutionaries use the arts to help remake society? How do political critics use the arts to make their points in more or less provocative ways? How can we read the arts as political artifacts? This seminar will answer these questions by focusing on William Hogarth and 18th-century Britain; the French Revolution and 1848-1871; imagery of nationalism, race, and colonialism in late 19th-century Britain and Empire; politics, film, and modernity in Paris, 1919-1945.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST152 CM
  
  • HIST 153 CM - American Religious History

    This seminar examines the role that religion has played in the history of the United States, and asks students to critically explore how peoples and communities in various places and times have drawn upon religion to give meaning to self, group, and nation. The course will cover a wide range of traditions, including Protestant Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and Judaism, as well as regional, denominational, and racial-ethnic dimensions within these groups. Readings will consist of history monographs, fiction, biography, and scholarly articles. Also listed as RLST 138 CM .

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST153 CM
  
  • HIST 154 CM - Gandhi’s India

    This seminar is an exercise in how to study a topic in history from different theoretical perspectives. We will look at Mohandas (“Mahatma”) Gandhi, the India he belonged to of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the problems he took up (inequality, leadership, self-perfection) through the perspectives of narrative history, development, Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, cultural studies, postmodernism, deconstruction, and feminism.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST154 CM
  
  • HIST 155 CM - Utopianism and Political Imagination in East Asia

    Utopianism has been celebrated as stimulating imagination and criticized as a mystifying force. Despite its critics, utopianism in East Asia has played a valuable role in organizing movements for political liberation and economic equality, criticizing ideological structures and helping people to negotiate the present in order to create a new future. Examining utopian ideas and movements in East Asia after 1800, this class critically studies various themes in utopian studies, including Utopian Thinkers, such as Thomas More, the Taiping Rebellion in China, 1930s Japanese Utopian Literature, Utopian Agrarianism in Korea, Maoism and Utopianism, and Anime and Fantasy in East Asia.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST155 CM
  
  • HIST 158 CM - Japanese Empire: Korea, China, Taiwan, and Manchuria

    Following the Meiji Ishin (1868), Japan became an imperial power as it seized territories and resources in various parts of East Asia. By the start of the Pacific War in December 1941, Japan had become one of the largest imperial powers in Asia with its colonization of Taiwan and Korea, control of vast parts of southern China and establishment of the puppet regime of Manchukuo (Manchuria). This class looks at how Japan became an imperial power in East Asia and how this development impacted those affected by Japanese rule, including Korea,China, Taiwan, and Manchuria. In particular, the class seeks to trace why and how people in Korea, China, Taiwan, and Manchuria sought to forge new ideologies, customs, and practices to not only deal with Japanese imperialism, but also modernity.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST158 CM
  
  • HIST 159I CM - Islamic World: Travel/Encounter

    How does travel shape self-definitions and regional stereotypes? What can studying the history of travel and tourism tell us about the shift from early modern empires to colonial worlds and to the contemporary processes of globalization? This class is designed to help you explore and formulate answers to these questions by looking at how the region, which we commonly refer to as the “Middle East” and the “Islamic World,” came to be constructed historically through circuits of travel and cross-cultural encounters. We will investigate tensions inherent in the history of travel itself: between travel as pleasure, leisure, and a means for spiritual fulfillment vs. travel as a mode of conquest, a strategy for economic and political survival and an experience of alienation. Our over-arching goal will be to analyze how travel functions simultaneously as a means of identification with another culture and as a re-affirmation of cultural difference.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST159I CM
  
  • HIST 161 CM - Modern Korean History

    Examination of the evolution of modern Korean culture and society within the context of political and institutional history. Consideration of such topics as the opening of Korea, Korean reactions to imperialism, the colonial experience, national division and civil war, and contemporary Korea.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST161 CM
  
  • HIST 162C CM - China: Warring States to First Emperor: The Origins of Imperial China (500-200BCE)

    The consolidation of the small kingdoms of the late Zhou into seven major states, the bloody struggles among these contenders, and the creation of a unified empire by the First Emperor in 221 BCE. Major themes include: the technological and economic forces that made possible consolidated territorial kingdoms; the intellectual ferment that produced Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism; the development of political and military stratagems; religious practices as represented by the tomb of the First Emperor, concepts of leadership, and personalities of the First Emperor and other major figures. The course also will explore the collapse of the Qin Empire less than twenty years after unification, its institutional and intellectual legacy to the making of imperial China, and the figure of the First Emperor in political debates in the Maoist era and contemporary commercial films.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST162C CM
  
  • HIST 163 CM - Modern Chinese History, 1750 to the Present

    This course examines the various processes that define China’s struggle for a modern identity and state. It begins by evaluating the changes in 18th-century Chinese society and the economy resulting from population growth, increased commercialization, and environmental problems. It then traces the decline and collapse of the 19th-century state due to popular rebellion and foreign imperialism. The course then focuses on 20th-century revolutionary movements, efforts at state building, and currents of cultural change culminating in the Maoist revolution, and concludes with the dramatic changes in the reform era following Mao’s death.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST163 CM
  
  • HIST 164 CM - Mao’s China: Revolutionary Leadership and Its Consqequences

    This course explores the life, ideas, policies, and leadership style of Mao Zedong, one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. Even today Mao remains a national hero to many Chinese, although others view Mao as the archetype of tyranny and despotism. This course uses Mao’s biography to illuminate a variety of issues about Mao the man, Mao the leader, the Chinese revolution, and the meaning of the Maoist party-state. Each week’s assignment covers a chronological period while introducing thematic materials on topics such as child raising, peasant behavior, the cult of the leader, mass mobilization, and reactions to totalitarianism. The course also explores the nature of charismatic leadership and the role of the individual as an agent of historical change.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST164 CM
  
  • HIST 165 CM - The Middle East in Modern Times

    This seminar examines the social, political, and economic history of the Middle East since 1500. Beginning with an examination of early modern states and societies, the seminar will go on to explore the ways in which capitalist market economies, European penetration, and nation building projects have transformed and restructured the region during modern times. Subjects include the Ottoman era, the territorial settlement of the Middle East and the emergence of the Mandate System after the First World War, nationalism and the question of Palestine, and the emergence of modern Islamic movements.

    Offered: Every spring

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST165 CM
  
  • HIST 169 CM - Topics in Asian History

    Selected topics in the Middle East (169a), South Asia (169b), or East Asia (169c).

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST169 CM
  
  • HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race

    This course explores the varied ways in which scientific racism functioned against African Americans in the United States from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries and addresses African American intellectuals’ response to biological racism through explicit racial theories and less explicit means such as slave narratives, novels, essays, and films.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST173 AF
  
  • HIST 175 CM - Women and Politics in America

    This course will analyze the history of American women in political life, broadly defined, from the mid-19th century to the present. Following a historical chronology, we will consider the debate over the 15th amendment, the movement for female suffrage. Reforms of the Progressive era, activism through church and community groups, the New Deal, the Civil Rights movement, the women’s movement, and women officeholders today. Throughout we will consider women’s political work as legislators, public policy makers, reformers, and activists.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST175 CM
  
  • HIST 176 AF - The Modern Civil Rights Movement in America

    Mainly through primary readings, films, and guest lectures, this course explores the origins, development, and impact of the modern African American struggle for civil rights in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on grass-roots organizing in the Deep South.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST176 AF
  
  • HIST 183 CM - The Fall of Rome and the End of Empire

    Political corruption, economic failure, barbarian invasion, religious rupture, and even the plague have all been offered as explanations for the end of the Roman Empire. But do we really understand how and when a political system and culture that enjoyed such remarkable longevity finally came to an end? This course will examine the often widely divergent interpretations of material and documentary evidence offered by historians, classicists, and archaeologists. Political, economic, military, religious, social, and environmental factors will receive careful attention.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST183 CM
  
  • HIST 184 CM - The Culture of Fascism in 20th Century Europe

    Provides an understanding of facism in modern Europe by exploring its cultural and intellectual components. After surveying the various fascist movements and considering the competing definitions of the concept, specific topics to be treated include: intellectual roots, theories of psychological appeal, management of the arts in national socialist and fascist Italy, film, architecture and monuments, and the role of the Church.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST184 CM
  
  • HIST 185 CM - Making History

    This seminar is designed to allow history majors to engage with the craft of researching and writing history. These methods are approached within a thematic and geographic context, involving critical evaluation of evidence and careful written presentation of interpretations and conclusions. In order to experience history as a discipline, students will be trained to do research using primary sources such as government documents, personal memoirs, letters, newspapers, oral histories, novels, art, and visual images found in research libraries and archival collections. Students will be exposed to important historiographical and theoretical traditions within the fields of European, American, or Asian social, political, and cultural history. This course is required of all history majors and should be taken in the sophomore or junior year, although first semester seniors also may take it.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST185 CM
  
  • HIST 187 CM - After the Holocaust, After the Gulag, 1945 to the Present

    This course explores European responses to the Holocaust and the Gulag, the construct of “totalitarianism” often invoked to explain them, and the problem of absolute or radical evil in politics.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST187 CM
  
  • HIST 190 CM - Advanced Topics in Chinese History

    Selected topics in Chinese history.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST190 CM
  
  • HIST 191 CM - Advanced Topics in Asian History

    Selected topics in Asian history.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST191 CM
  
  • HIST 194 CM - Advanced Topics in Ancient History

    Selected advanced topics in Ancient history.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST194 CM
  
  • HIST 195 CM - Advanced Topics in European History

    Selected advanced topics in European history.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST195 CM
  
  • HIST 196 CM - Advanced Topics in American History

    Selected advanced topics in American history.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST196 CM
  
  • HIST 197 CM - Advanced Topics in World History

    Selected advanced topics in world history.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST197 CM
  
  • HIST 199 CM - Independent Study in History

    Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0.5 or 1

    Course Number: HIST199 CM

Interdisciplinary

  
  • ID   026 CM - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies

    A cross-disciplinary examination of the study of women. Current analysis of women’s past and present role in society; their creativity; their physical, emotional, and intellectual development; and their sexuality will be examined by historians, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, economists, political scientists, artists, and literary critics.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ID 026 CM
  
  • ID   040 CM - Practicum in Event Management

    Students will learn leadership theory as it relates to event management. The course will prepare students for managing events, with special emphasis on training students to manage CMS home contests, regional, and national level collegiate events. Featured speakers from the event management industry will also present as guest lecturers. Students will work in small groups to design and implement management solutions for hospitality, transportation, officiating, operations, concessions, media and web support, medical services, and emergency planning. Students will gain valuable practical work experience in event management while developing leadership skills and expertise in a specific area.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 0.5

    Course Number: ID 040 CM
  
  • ID   050 AF - Caribbean Society and Culture

    Examines the complexity and diversity of the Caribbean in terms of its socioeconomic reality, the lives of its people, and its artistic and intellectual products.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ID 050 AF
  
  • ID   150 CM - Contemporary African Voices

    This course is designed to provide an introduction to, or better understanding of, some of the most significant novels and other literary works by Anglophone and Francophone writers from Africa in recent years. Topics include: Home and Exile, Rwandan genocide, Truth and Reconciliation, Testimonies, Migration, and Cosmopolitanism.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ID 150 CM
  
  • ID   196 CM - Gould Center Seminar

    This is a standing course with a director and topic that change annually.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ID 196 CM
  
  • IIS  110 PZ - (Mis)Representations of Near East and South Asia

    This course will focus on the literature and cinema of South Asia and the Middle East. By 1914, the British Empire had colonized almost 85 percent of the world, bringing diverse cultural traditions under the encyclopedic gaze of Western modernity. If part of the project of the colonial apparatus was to collect knowledge of the world in ways that bodies, cultures, and landscapes could be understood and ordered by the West, contemporary societies are now negotiating their own means of self-representation in the often violent space of post-colonial rupture. Throughout the term, we will work with texts and visual images produced out of, and in response to, the history of the colonial encounter with attention to representations of gender and sexuality, violence and terrorism, class structures, and migration.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: IIS 110 PZ

Korean

  
  • KORE 001 CM - Introductory Korean

    Korean 1 is designed for students who do not have any Korean language background. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. This course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE001 CM
  
  • KORE 002 CM - Continuing Introductory Korean

    A continuation of KORE 001 CM , Korean 2 aims to equip students with basic communicative skills in Korean, with emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. This course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).

    Prerequisite: KORE 001 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every spring

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE002 CM
  
  • KORE 033 CM - Intermediate Korean

    Korean 33 is the first semester of second year Korean. This course furthers development of four basic skills, with emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. This course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).

    Prerequisite: KORE 002 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE033 CM
  
  • KORE 044 CM - Advanced Korean

    Korean 44 is the second semester of second year Korean. This course aims to equip students with advanced communicative skills in Korean, with emphasis on advanced grammar and vocabulary building. This course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).

    Prerequisite: KORE 033 CM  or equivalent 

    Offered: Every spring

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE044 CM
  
  • KORE 100 CM - Readings in Korean Literature and Culture

    This course is designed to help students improve Korean language proficiency through extensive reading and discussions of a variety of texts, including short stories, poetry, essays, and newspaper articles. Reading and discussion topics are selected to extend students’ understanding of Korean society and culture. Emphasis is also placed on writing critical essays in Korean.

    Prerequisite: KORE 044 CM  or equivalent 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE100 CM
  
  • KORE 130 CM - Korean Cinema and Culture

    This course examines Korean history, politics, culture, and society through analysis of their representation in contemporary Korean cinema. This course will follow the history of Korea chronologically from Yi Dynasty to the present focusing on the topics such as Confucianism, Colonial period, nationalism, Korean War, national division, military government, and democratic movements. The focus of the class will be equally distributed between the films themselves and the historical time and people captured on these films. Knowledge of Korean is not required.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE130 CM
  
  • KORE 199 CM - Independent Study in Korean

    Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for an independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0.5 or 1

    Course Number: KORE199 CM

Japanese

  
  • JAPN 178 PO - Japanese and Japanese American Autobiography

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: JPNT178 PO

Leadership

  
  • LEAD 010 CM - Foundations of Leadership

    This course is designed to provide a solid foundation on how leadership is defined, viewed, and studied. Using multidisciplinary approaches, the course will review conceptualizations and theories of leaders and leadership from ancient times to the present.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LEAD010 CM

Literature

  
  • LIT  031 CM - Introduction to Creative Writing

    This course offers the chance to explore three genres of creative writing: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. We’ll read contemporary short stories, poems, and personal essays, looking at the choices writers have made in terms of structure, technique, and content. We’ll then put this knowledge to use by trying our hands at fiction, creative non-fiction, and formal and free verse. By the end of the course, students will have had the chance to experience literature from the writer’s side, and perhaps will have found a genre to explore in more depth in further creative writing classes.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 031 CM
  
  • LIT  034 CM - Creative Journalism

    An intensive hands-on course in feature writing styles and journalistic ethics; a primer for writing in today’s urban America. Essentially, journalism, like all art, tells a story. How that story is told is as critical to the success of a piece as the importance of its theme. A series of writing exercises and reporting “assignments” will give both inexperienced and more advanced writers the tools to explore their writerly “voice.” Special attention will be devoted to discussions of the role of the journalist in society. All registered students must attend the first class.

    Prerequisite: written permission of department chair.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 034 CM
  
  • LIT  036 CM - Screenwriting

    A seminar-workshop on the theory and practice of writing screenplays. We will view films and read scripts in a variety of genres, examine the roles of art, craft, and commerce in writing for film, and discuss in general the enterprise of being a writer. Each student will make substantial progress in the writing of an original screenplay. All registered students must attend the first class.

    Prerequisite: written permission of department chair.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 036 CM
  
  • LIT  038 CM - Fiction Writing

    This course, which will be conducted as a workshop, will deal with both short and long forms of fiction. Participants, who may choose either form, will present their original manuscripts and will discuss those submitted by their fellow writers. All registered students must attend the first class.

    Prerequisite: written permission of instructor.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 038 CM
  
  • LIT  057 CM - British Writers I

    A survey of the major British writers from the medieval and Renaissance periods. Throughout the course we will pay attention to how this literature reflects political, religious, and philosophical influences, as well as particular aspects of the early development of the English language.

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 057 CM
  
  • LIT  058 CM - British Writers II

    A survey of representative major themes and texts from the Restoration through the early 20th century. The course, which emphasizes poetry, drama, and non-fiction prose, addresses the transitions between Neoclassic, Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist trends in British literature.

    Offered: Every spring

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 058 CM
  
  • LIT  060 CM - American Writers to 1900

    A survey of major American writing (excluding novels) illustrating the development of a national literature from the Colonial period through the 19th century. Readings will be chosen from the works of such representative writers as Edwards, Franklin, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, and Henry James. Considerable attention will also be paid to the social and philosophical forces which influenced the literature.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 060 CM
  
  • LIT  061 CM - The Bible

    This course focuses on intensive reading in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, with special attention to the complexities of interpreting a sacred text. The problems of authorship, historical and religious context, canon formation, and translation will be considered in light of the history of interpretation from midrash, St. Augustine, and Origen through modern literary criticism, especially Robert Lowth, Eric Auerbach, Northrop Frye, and Robert Alter. Special attention will be given to the use of the Bible by modern writers.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 061 CM
  
  • LIT  062 CM - Shakespeare’s Tragedies

    This course will treat the development of Shakespeare’s tragic dramas and explore the nature of tragedy. We will read seven works by Shakespeare and three by his contemporaries Marlowe, Tourneur, and Webster. Shakespeare’s contribution to tragedy will be studied partly in the context of ancient and medieval as well as Renaissance conceptions of tragedy.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 062 CM
  
  • LIT  063 CM - Chaucer

    This course introduces students to the major works of the 14th-century English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. We read seven of the major tales from The Canterbury Tales; two of the longer dream vision poems, The House of Fame and The Book of Duchess, and Chaucer’s epic poem, Troilus and Criseyde. Students will learn to read all Chaucerian works in their original Middle English.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 063 CM
  
  • LIT  064 CM - Shakespeare’s Histories and Romances

    This course studies representative plays from each of the major phases of Shakespeare’s evolution, from the histories, the comedies, the tragedies, to the last plays, or romances. Designed for literature majors and non-majors alike, this course enables the latter, in particular, to proceed to other plays in the Shakespearean canon. While focusing on different stages in his development, it also looks to the more enduring thematic patterns and personal myths present in Shakespeare’s work.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 064 CM
  
  • LIT  065 CM - Love Poetry of the English Renaissance

    The ages agree that love is among the most powerful and significant human experiences. Love is the most urgent of poetic messages, and has inspired the greatest variety of expressive forms. This course will explore the depiction of love in English poetry from the early 16th to the late 17th centuries, in courtly sonnets, erotic narratives, marriage poems, devotional meditations, metaphysical lyrics and satire. Authors will include Skelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, and Swift.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 065 CM
  
  • LIT  066 CM - Shakespeare’s Comedies

    Shakespeare’s comedies have entertained audiences for four centuries; they are also complex works of art which reward detailed study. In this course we will read eight of Shakespeare’s comedies, from the lighthearted play The Taming of the Shrew to the darker Measure for Measure, and supplement our readings with film. We will discuss topics such as love, sex, marriage, gender roles, parents and children, figurative language, jokes, scansion, performance in Shakespeare’s time and ours, the nature of comedy, happy endings and those excluded from them.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 066 CM
  
  • LIT  067 CM - Milton

    England’s greatest epic poet was also a political and controversial religious thinker whose life and work had an enormous influence on British and American writers from Blake to Melville. This course will examine Milton’s major epic poems - Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes - as well as his great early poems Lycidas, and Comus, in the context of biblical and classical literary traditions as well as the religious and political crises of his time. Milton’s controversial prose writings on education, kingship, marriage, and freedom of the press will also be considered.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 067 CM
  
  • LIT  068 CM - Sex, Lies, and 18th-Century English Stage Comedy

    When Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, he re-opened the theaters and inaugurated one of the richest periods of British drama, a period best known for its brilliant comedies and its preoccupation with sexuality. This course will examine the rise of Restoration comedy, the debates that arose in the early 1700’s about morality and the stage, and the development of sentimental comedy in the mid-to-late 18th century. We will pay attention to the historical particularities of the Restoration and 17th-century theatre: the intimate performance space of the former, the relative spaciousness of the latter; the appearance of the actress and the professional woman writer; the themes of marriage, money, and masking; and the controversy over licentiousness. We will also consider comedy as a vehicle for social criticism and political satire. Readings will include plays by Aphra Behn, Susanna Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, William Congreve, John Dryden, John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Richard Steele, and William Wycherley.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 068 CM
  
  • LIT  069 CM - Shakespeare’s Sonnets

    This course is focused on a single volume of poems which are among the most famous and canonical in English. We will read them closely, with particular sensitivity to their syntax and sonic structure. This will be a course not only in love poetry but in poetic style. We will consider diverse thematic readings and address arguments by Shakespeare’s recent critics. We will often be studying the ways in which interpretability provides new life to old poems. And we will consider what other poets since Shakespeare have made of the sonnet form. We will be constantly studying very great verbal art.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 069 CM
  
  • LIT  070 CM - The Rise of the English Novel

    In a famous phrase, D. H. Lawrence called the novel “the one bright book of life.” This course examines the rise of the novel in England from its emergence in the early 1700s to its establishment as a dominant, if controversial, genre just over a century later. Key issues to be studied will be plot, characterization, the perspectives of satire vs. sentiment, social class, gender roles, courtship and marriage, and fiction’s ethical powers and responsibilities. Readings include novels by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, Radcliffe, Austen, and Scott, as well as background readings in criticism and theory.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 070 CM
  
  • LIT  072 CM - Jane Austen

    One of the greatest and most beloved English writers, Jane Austen played a major role in the development of the novel as a genre. This course will cover the six published novels, her letters, and unpublished works. We will study Austen’s role within a tradition of women’s writing, with attention to both her predecessors and successors. We will examine her works in relation to the cultural context of the late 18th and early 19th century and will also survey the growing body of scholarship on Austen.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 072 CM
  
  • LIT  073 CM - The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    In this course we will read closely some Hopkins poems and study this great Victorian as a devotional poet and a stylistic innovator, especially at the level of prosody and diction. We will consider the significance of diction in poetry and investigate Hopkins’ prosodic innovations as a return to Anglo-Saxon models of accentual versification. T. S. Eliot saw a divide in English poetry between the native, Anglo-Saxon style of Dryden and the Latinate style of Milton. We will investigate nativism in English poetry from Dryden to Basil Bunting in order to establish a context for Hopkins’ innovations.
     

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 073 CM
  
  • LIT  074 CM - The Gothic Novel: Producing Monsters

    Francisco Goya famously declared that “the sleep of reason produces monsters.” In this course we will examine the Gothic novel, a literary genre that attempts to obscure the line between the real and the fantastic. We will consider the relationship between the language of terror and the age of enlightenment, the social upheavals and political revolutions that shaped the Gothic novel, as well as the ways in which the individual came to be represented by the Gothic imagination. Readings will include, but are not limited to: The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, The Italian, Zofloya, Northanger Abbey, Frankenstein, and Dracula.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 074 CM
  
  • LIT  075 CM - Vladimir Nabokov

    This seminar will examine the depth and breadth of the works of Vladimir Nabokov. Special attention paid to those works originally written in English. Special consideration will be accorded to Nabokov’s irreverent and idiosyncratic opinions on the task of the critic. Readings will include: Lolita; Speak, Memory; Pale Fire; Pnin; Ada, or Ardor; The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; The Gift; Strong Opinions; and Lectures on Literature.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 075 CM
  
  • LIT  077 CM - Richard Wright and Zora Neal Hurston

    This course considers the conflicting aesthetics of two prominent black American writers of the mid-20th century. As an expositor of literary naturalism, Wright composed a fiction redolent of racial protest. In best-selling works like Native Son and Black Boy he portrayed what he once called the “essential bleakness of black life in America.” Hurston, on the other hand, employed her formal study of anthropology to render a vernacular fiction that celebrates the complexity of black folk traditions. Through close readings of their major works (both fiction and non-fiction, novel and short form) and consideration of their shifting critical reception, we shall seek a clearer sense of how Wright and Hurston differ, what they share, and where they fit in the broader scope of American literature.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 077 CM
  
  • LIT  078 CM - Travel Narratives

    The Travel Narrative is essentially an account of a conquest, sometimes in the service of the Divine, sometimes in the service of Empire, sometimes in the service of private enterprise, sometimes in the service of personal satisfaction and private revelations. The readings start with the book of Exodus and go on to the voyage of Ibn Battuta, the voyage of Christopher Columbus, the travels of William Bartram, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, the conquest of the Himalayan region by Europeans, and the journal of the poet Louise Bogan, among others.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 078 CM
  
  • LIT  080 CM - 19th-Century American Fiction

    A study of the short stories and novels of selected authors, including Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Melville, and James. Particular attention will be given to the tension in these works between domesticity and the adventure far from home. We will also explore the various ways in which the past intrudes upon characters’ new worlds.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 080 CM
  
  • LIT  081 CM - Melville

    This seminar will examine the work and life of Herman Melville, one of the most complex and influential of American writers. After attention to several of the early novels, particularly Typee and Redburn, the focus will turn to the major novels, Moby Dick, Pierre, The Confidence Man, and Billy Budd, as well as the stories of The Piazza Tales. Melville’s poetry, including the epic pilgrimage Clarel, will be considered in depth in the context of the Civil War and in relation to its ongoing spiritual occupations. Literary, religious, scientific, and political contexts will structure readings and discussions. Students are encouraged, though not required, to have taken a course in Shakespeare, the Bible, or Milton prior to enrollment.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 081 CM
  
  • LIT  085 CM - Contemporary American Fiction

    This class will explore major American novels and short fiction since 1945. We will examine the work of various authors in terms of their art and personal vision as well as their relation to particular literary movements and social and political circumstances. Texts will include Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse, Don Delillo’s White Noise, Jessica Hagendorn’s Dogeaters, Sandra Cisnero’s Women Hollering Creek, Marilyn Robinson’s Housekeeping, Leslie Marmon’s Silk’s Ceremony, among others.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 085 CM
  
  • LIT  087 CM - Modern Black Fiction

    This course explores the major writers, works, and movements in black American literature after the Harlem Renaissance. Particular focus will be given to emerging and diverging traditions of writing and the changing nature of racial representation in the United States. Works may include those by Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 087 CM
  
  • LIT  089 CM - Reading Thomas Jefferson & the African in America

    As we credit Jefferson with inventing the language of Liberty, so too we can give credit to the presence of the people who made him understand and invent that language. Readings from Jefferson will include his Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, and The Farm and Garden Books. Other readings: Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of his life and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 089 CM
  
  • LIT  091 CM - American Poetry: Tradition and Experiment

    An introduction to major American poets including Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Eliot, Lowell, and others. Emphasis will be on basic concepts of metaphor, prosody, and myth and their relation to American thought.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 091 CM
  
  • LIT  098 CM - News from the Delphic Oracle: Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

    In this course we will examine ancient Greek literature in the context of its culture, starting with the traditional foundations of Greek religion and heroic ideals embodied in epic, lyric, comedy, and tragedy. Then we will progress to the great period of questioning that followed, exemplified by the figure of Socrates, and expressed in the writings of philosophers and historians. Authors will include Homer, Simonides, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 098 CM
  
  • LIT  099 CM - Special Topics in Literature

    Selected topics in Literature.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 099 CM
  
  • LIT  100 CM - Literary Theory Since Plato

    What is a good book? How do we decide whether a work of literature is worth reading? What is the basis of literary judgment? How do we bring history, religion, and myth to bear on our understanding of literary texts? How does imaginative literature differ from other forms of discourse? These are among the fundamental questions explored in this course through the eyes of major literary thinkers. The course examines literary criticism as a discipline with unique traditions of inquiry beginning with classical debates about form and reality and the tensions between the moral and aesthetic dimensions of literature as they have been engaged by such writers as Plato and Aristotle, Sidney, Johnson, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Arnold and Pater, Woolf, and Eliot.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 100 CM
  
  • LIT  102 CM - Exploring Poetry

    This course is designed to introduce students to the thorough, systematic study of poetry, thus increasing students’ enjoyment of poetry and preparing them for advanced study of poetry in other courses. We will examine such issues as theories of poetry, form, poetic voice, symbolism and metaphorical language, irony, meter, and recurring themes as treated by poets of different backgrounds, in different cultural and historical contexts. The course will be organized thematically, but will include work by poets from the middle ages to the present.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 102 CM
  
  • LIT  105 CM - Domestic Bliss? The Medieval Household

    The family was in flux in the Middle Ages: cities were growing, women were working in greater numbers, and people were starting to enjoy the benefits of privacy in domestic space. This course explores family dynamics and the household in a wide range of medieval literary texts and visual sources including cycle drama, illustrated books of hours, The Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe. Over the course of the semester, we’ll consider questions related to gender, labor, housing, and the changing household economy.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 105 CM
  
  • LIT  107 CM - Modern Drama

    This course is a survey of modern dramatic literature beginning with the late-19th century plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov, and continuing to the present day. Students will be introduced to works from a variety of avant-garde movements including Symbolism (Maeterlinck), Dadaism (Jarry), Expressionism (Treadwell), Surrealism (Artaud), Epic Theatre (Brecht), and Theatre of the Absurd (Beckett). We will also become familiar with dramatists of the post-1945 period, including Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Wole Soyinka, Caryl Churchill, and Sarah Kane.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 107 CM
  
  • LIT  107B CM - Medieval Drama

    This course provides a survey of medieval dramatic literature including liturgical drama, morality plays, the drama of saints and conversion, the raucous tavern plays of Arras, France, and the epic cycles performed in York, Chester, and Wakefield. Questions related to theatricality and performance will be central to our examination of these plays: how, where, and in what contexts were they performed, and who were the actors? Readings will be supplemented with a wide range of interdisciplinary materials including visual media, financial accounts, props lists, anti-theatrical treatises, and modern performances.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 107B CM
  
  • LIT  108 CM - Medieval Women Writers

    This survey of women writers begins in the 12th century with Marie de France, who famously claimed that “anyone who has received from God the gift of knowledge and true eloquence has a duty not to remain silent.” The work of medieval women writers is wide-ranging and diverse, from chivalric romance and visionary poetry to utopian fiction. In addition to work by such authors as Christine de Pisan, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Angela of Foligno, and Hildegard of Bingen, we’ll read the letters of Abelard and Héloise, and the trial of Joan of Arc.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 108 CM
  
  • LIT  110 CM - The Age of Chivalry

    The chivalric ideal was a complex social and behavioral code that governed the life of the medieval court, from the battlefield to the bedroom. In addition to the early legends of Tristan, Parzival, and Lancelot, we’ll examine late medieval practical guides for aspiring knights written by Raymon Lull, Geoffrey de Charny, and Andreas Capellanus. Other readings will include Marie de France’s fanciful Arthurian Lais, Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, and Malory’s Mort D’Arthur. Key issues to be examined include the chivalric ethos, changing definitions of medieval masculinity, representations of women in chivalric texts, medieval identity performance in tournaments and pageants, and contemporary medievalisms, from Camelot to Monty Python.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 110 CM
  
  • LIT  111 CM - Dante and the Italian 14th Century

    This course introduces students to one of the most influential authors of medieval Europe. We’ll explore themes related to sin and punishment, love and lust, commerce and trade, and the complicated relationship between author and text. We’ll also meet corrupt friars, lusty nuns, shady merchants, and even a person described as “the worst man in the world.” In addition to reading Dante’s Vita Nuova, Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), and excerpts from the Convivio and Monarchia, students will also read Giovanni Boccaccio’s riotous Life of Dante, written just decades after Dante’s death. At the end of the course, we’ll emerge from the depths of hell onto the bustling streets of Florence with selected stories from Boccaccio’s Decameron. All readings will be in English translation.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 111 CM
  
  • LIT  114 CM - Politics, Violence, and Early Modern Literature

    What constitutes the ideal state? The ideal ruler? These questions lie at the center of the extraordinary flourishing of political thought in Europe between 1500 and 1700. At the same time, they deeply engaged the literary imagination of the period, as authors held the mirror up to their own societies, reconstructed societies of the past, and described societies of their own imaginative making. In this course we will explore the complex and compelling intersection between early modern politics and literature, paying particular attention to the uses and representations of violence. Our readings will include works by Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Montaigne, Milton, Hobbes, and others.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 114 CM
  
  • LIT  115 CM - Shakespeare and His Rivals

    The longstanding tradition of bardolatry, or Shakespeare worship, has given us a mythical figure that bestrides the narrow world like a colossus. But the historical Shakespeare was once a young writer trying to make a name for himself in the bustling world of London theater. There he had not only contemporaries but also competitors. In this course we will read a group of Shakespeare’s plays next to and against those of his rivals, including Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. We will carefully consider such matters as style, stagecraft, genre, history, moral philosophy, and the representation of difference.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 115 CM
  
  • LIT  116 CM - Autobiography and Literary Imagination

    In this seminar we will explore the ways in which individuals take possession of and authority over their lives through the act of writing. The impulse behind this act varies: sometimes it might be to justify the life that has been lived so far; sometimes it might be to explore the life not lived at all, an expression of regret; sometimes it might be an attempt to conceal events consciously or not, from both the reader and the author.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 116 CM
  
  • LIT  117 CM - Literature of Late Medieval England

    From the plague to the peasants’ revolt, this course examines critical moments in the cultural history of England by looking at the literature of the court, the city, the church, and the countryside. Key topics addressed over the course of the semester will include urbanization, lay piety, anticlericalism, literacy, cosmopolitanism, gender politics, labor, and national identity. Students will read a wide range of genres including epic poetry, fabliau, sermons, saints’ lives, dream visions, and drama Readings will include Pearl, Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Langland’s Piers Plowman, and excerpts from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and shorter poems.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 117 CM
  
  • LIT  118 CM - The Romantic Revolution

    A study of the revolution in human consciousness known as Romanticism. The course concentrates on the British Romantics, but also studies Romanticism as an international phenomenon. Writers studied include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Emerson, Thoreau, Lermontov.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 118 CM
  
  • LIT  119 CM - 19th-Century Russian Novel

    This course examines the explosive growth of the Russian novel. Students will read major works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and will become familiar with such themes as Slavophilism, realism, revolution versus tradition, and national identity.

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 119 CM
  
  • LIT  121 CM - British Modernism

    Modernism was characterized by radical experiments in form that altered the conventions of what we think of as literature. Inseparable from these technical innovations were the cultural forces that shaped writers of the period, including the trauma of war, the rise of mass culture, new technologies such as radio, cinema, and photography, and changed patterns of mobility, urban experience, and sexual freedom. But modernism’s relentless quest for the new was accompanied by an attraction to the very old, as writers turned to Greek antiquity and the Celtic past to forge their aesthetics. This course approaches the modernist movement through some of its most prominent figures (Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot) and examines distinctive techniques including Imagism, stream-of-consciousness, and the mythic method.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 121 CM
  
  • LIT  122 CM - European Modernist Fiction

    The first half of the 20th century produced an exceptional body of powerful and innovative fiction. Modernist fiction is notable for its stylistic originality, formal experimentation, psychological depth, sensuality, wit, nostalgia, and irony. Authors will include Conrad, Joyce, Ford, Woolf, Lawrence, Kafka, Proust, Gide, Mann, and others.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 122 CM
  
  • LIT  123 CM - Fugitives From Utopia: The Writers of Post-War Poland

    This course will consider the great literature of post-war Poland in the context of the major historical and social forces that have contributed to its development. Among the authors read will be Herbert, Milosz, Gombrowicz, Szymborska, Kolakowski, Lem, Baranczak, Swir, Singer, and Zagajewski. Because of the immense popularity and influence of many of these authors, almost all are available in very fine English translations. All major genres will be included with particular attention to the stunning body of poetry, some of the 20th century’s very best.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 123 CM
  
  • LIT  124 CM - Literature and War

    War pervades literature as thoroughly as it has pervaded human history. This course studies the depiction of war from the American Civil War to the recent past in selected works of literature and film. While the course examines the many-sided nature of war, its main emphasis is on the following three areas: ethics in war; military leadership; and the tension between idealism and disillusionment. Texts to be studied include Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Babel’s Red Cavalry, Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Jones’s The Thin Red Line, as well as the work of various poets and essayists.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 124 CM
  
  • LIT  125 CM - 20th-Century English and Irish Poetry

    This course will introduce English and Irish poetry of the 20th century, with special attention to the central figures of Hardy, Yeats, and Auden, but also including, among others, Houseman, Hopkins, the poets of World War One, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Hughes, and Heaney.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 125 CM
  
  • LIT  127 CM - The Novel Since World War II

    Since 1945 the novel has increasingly become an international genre, with a reading public and lines of influence between writers that transcend the boundaries of language and nation. This course will consider a selection of the most important and influential works written in this period in America and abroad. Texts will include Invisible Man, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Go Down, Moses, On a Winter’s Night a Traveler…, The Kiss of the Spider Woman, A Clockwork Orange, Labyrinths, Beloved, V., Midnight’s Children, and Pale Fire.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 127 CM
  
  • LIT  130 CM - Language of Film

    We will begin with a close analysis of a contemporary popular film, in an effort to determine typical conventions of cinematic expression, and then proceed through a study of multiple movements and genres in the history of film, from German Expressionism to the French New Wave, from Hollywood to documentary to avant-garde and independent film-making. Overall, the course is intended to provide students with a broad introduction to film analysis and to the field of Film Studies.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 130 CM
 

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