2015-2016 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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History |
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HIST 196 CM - Advanced Topics in American History Selected advanced topics in American history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST196 CM
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HIST 197 CM - Advanced Topics in World History Selected advanced topics in world history.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: HIST197 CM
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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
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Interdisciplinary |
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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
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ID 040 CM - Practicum in Event Management This course will instruct students in leadership theory as it relates to event management and then provide them with the practical skills to be effective event managers. The course will prepare students for managing events, giving them hands on work experience at an established campus event, as well as the opportunity to design and implement their own event, consistent with CMC’s Personal and Social Responsibility Initiative. Students will work in small groups to design and implement management solutions for design, budgeting, operations, marketing, hospitality, social and traditional media, volunteer recruitment and training, risk management, and emergency planning.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: ID 040 CM
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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
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ID 142 CM - Leading Social Entrepreneurial Ventures This course is about the social innovation leadership opportunities and challenges of creating and sustaining and model of change with a social purpose - whether a nonprofit, for profit, or hybrid model of a social venture. Students are engaged in learning and developing a basic competency level about the key determinants of social innovation and social entrepreneurial performance: theoretical frameworks rooted in psychology, community building, ecosystem development, legal structures, management strategies, governance and funding models, as well as the leadership challenges and opportunities facing social innovation leader, whether as an entrepreneur or one involved in a social mission venture through its different life stages. Starting Spring 2016, this course may no longer apply toward an elective in psychology.
Prerequisite: PSYC 037 CM or another lower-level psychology course.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ID 142 CM
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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
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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
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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
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Korean |
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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KRNT 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: KRNT130 CM
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Leadership |
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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
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LEAD 041 CM - Leadership in Sports Legendary coach John Wooden said, “I believe leadership is largely learned. Whatever leadership skills I possess were learned through listening, observation, study, and then trial and error along the way.” This course examines leadership in sports through analyses of coaches, athletes, and executives. Students will study leadership behavior to determine why certain coaches, athletes, and management teams are successful, measurement of success, the outcomes, barriers to, and social responsibility of successful leadership. Also examined are cases of failed leadership, the behaviors that lead to failure, and whether atonement for a coach, athlete, or organization is possible.
Offered: Each year
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: LEAD041 CM
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Literature |
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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LIT 071 CM - 19th-Century British Novel The novel is the crowning achievement of 19th-century British literature, a form which fully retains its immense popularity, critical interest and critical acclaim today. The accomplishment of such masters as Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot and Hardy will be seen through a close reading of major works. Discussions and lectures will focus both on concerns and issues of the period as well as on ways in which Victorian masterworks like Vanity Fair, David Copperfield, and Jude the Obscure reflect the growth and change of the novel form itself.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 071 CM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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LIT 084 CM - Lyric Voice & Vision in Modern American Literature and Film This course examines currents in American literature and film from World War II to the present. Though the course surveys key trends over this period – especially against the backgrounds of modernism and post-modernism – we will concentrate in particular on the “lyric” impulse in American culture, studying works concerned with ideas of epiphany, meditation, contemplation, transcendence, a general conception of the “poetic” and the role of feeling and the emotions in modern life. With a primary focus on short forms, we will pay special attention to work that confronts the question of how to maintain “lyric” artistic standpoints amid cultural and social developments often inimical to them.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 084 CM
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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
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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
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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
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LIT 090 CM - Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson wrote more than 1,500 short poems, but not a single long poem, nor an essay. Her poems were unknown by nearly all her contemporaries. The poems have had immense impact, however, on later poets, and she has reached a very broad readership. She and Walt Whitman-altogether different from one another-are the most canonical of American poets. Her poems have come to stand for privacy, intensity, compression, and intellectuality. She wrote in a meter familiar to all those who have sung hymns in Christian churches. Her syntax and diction, though, are often peculiar, like that of no other English-language poet.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 090 CM
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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
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LIT 092 CM - Close Reading Close reading is what students and scholars of literature do, and have always done. This course will present an overview of the history of textual interpretation, from its roots in Biblical study and ancient philosophy to more modern approaches such as Marxist literary criticism, psychoanalytic literary criticism, hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction. To this end we will read theoretical texts by Erich Auerbach, Roland Barthes, William Empson, I. A. Richards, Jacques Derrida and others. The main focus of the class, however, will be individual readings of poetic texts. Poets studied include, but are not limited to, Shakespeare, Keats, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, and Yeats.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 092 CM
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LIT 093 CM - Postwar American Poetry This course is an introduction to major American poets of the last half century, from Lowell and Olson to Rich and Howe. We will consider poets and poems both individually and in their literary and socio-historical contexts, examining poetic movements (New York School, Beats, Black Mountain, Language), the relationship of poetry to the other arts, and the role of poetry in late-20th- and 21st-century culture. We will explore the formal experimentalism of postwar American poetry, its major thematic concerns (relations between art and politics, modernity and history, public and private), and its treatment of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 093 CM
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LIT 095 CM - Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Marianne Moore This course will explore the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and that of her two most important literary influences: the modernist poet and editor, Marianne Moore, who was her mentor; and her close literary peer, and fellow New Englander, Robert Lowell. While still a student at Vassar in the early thirties, Bishop met Moore and their friendship began. She and Lowell met in the mid-forties when they were both already established writers. Through close readings of the poems of these major American poets, students will open an inquiry into how friendship, in addition to artistic and temperamental differences, can influence and shape style.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 095 CM
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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
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LIT 099 CM - Special Topics in Literature Selected topics in Literature.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 099 CM
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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
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LIT 101 CM - Translation in Theory and Practice “Every allegedly great age is an age of translations”: In this course we will test Ezra Pound’s dictum by examining the history, theory, and practice of translation. What do translators-and translations-do? What is translation’s role in the formation and transmission of culture? What is lost in translation and what may be gained? Bringing together readings from linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and anthropology, we will focus on case studies from ancient languages (the Bible, Greek classics) and pay special attention to literary translation in the 20th and 21st centuries. By also working on translations of their own, students will explore hands-on the interpretive and creative nature of the translator’s task and the specific challenges that different types of translation pose; familiarity with a foreign language is welcome but not required.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 101 CM
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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
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LIT 104 CM - The Tragedies of Sophocles Sophocles is regarded as the greatest of the Greek tragedians, in part because he could evoke such powerful tragic figures–Oedipus, Ajax, Antigone, Heracles, Philoctetes. Based on the plays that have come down to us we will follow the arc of his career, comparing him with his great model, Aeschylus, and his chief rival, Euripides. The plays will be our window onto Athenian culture and the Dionysian festival for which they were written. They will lead us to consider the “paradox of tragedy”–that we derive the most intense aesthetic pleasure from seeing the worst things happen to the best people.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 104 CM
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LIT 105 CM - Gender and Family in Medieval Literature 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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LIT 111 CM - Dante 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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LIT 130 CM - Introduction to 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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LIT 131 CM - Film History I (1925-1965) This course surveys the history of cinema as art and mass medium, from the introduction of sound to the rise of the “New Hollywood.” Topics such as cinematic response to World War II, the decline of the studio system, and “new waves” of European film-making are studied in social, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 131 CM
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LIT 132 CM - Film History II (1965-Present) This course surveys the history of cinema as art and mass medium, from 1965 to the present. Topics such as the rise of independent filmmaking in America, the conglomeration of the studios, and European resistance to Hollywood’s domination on the world market are considered in social, cultural, and aesthetic terms.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 132 CM
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LIT 133 CM - Film and Literature This course examines correspondences and affinities between literature and film in aesthetic, cultural, and social contexts. Throughout, we will look not only at specific case studies of literary adaptation or cross-reference, but consider the larger questions of cultural value implied in these transactions.Writers and film-makers to be considered include Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, and Robert Altman.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 133 CM
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LIT 134 CM - Special Studies in Film A seminar designed to explore the aesthetic achievement and social impact of film as an art form. Subjects for study include such topics as specific film genres, the work of individual film-makers, and recurring themes in film. Each year the seminar concentrates on a different area - for example, “Film and Politics,” “The Director as Author,” or “Violence and the Hero in American Films.”
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 134 CM
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LIT 135 CM - Alfred Hitchcock This course examines the work and legacy of Alfred Hitchcock from cultural, social, historical and artistic perspectives. Special attention will be paid to Hitchcock’s work in relation to cultural modernism and social modernity, and to his influence on both avant-garde and commercial cinemas, including the French New Wave (1959-1968) and the New Hollywood (1967-1975).
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 135 CM
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LIT 137 CM - Gay and Lesbian Cinema in the U.S. This is a survey of gay and lesbian cinema in the U.S. from the early 20th century to the present. The course examines depictions of gay/lesbian themes in Classical Hollywood cinema of the 20s-60s, as well as more recent examples including Sylvia Scarlett, Tea and Sympathy, The Children’s Hour, The Killing of Sister George, Poison, Swoon, Watermelon Woman, and Brokeback Mountain.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 137 CM
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LIT 138 CM - Film and Mass Culture This course will examine film as art and as medium in the context of the rise of 20th-century “mass culture.” We will take up such topics as the role of film in producing the ideas of “mass culture”, the cinematic representation of the “masses”, film as an instrument of the standardization of culture and as a mode of resistance to it, film and modernism, film and postmodernism, representations of fascism in cinema, and “subculture” considered as an effect of mass culture.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 138 CM
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LIT 139 CM - Film Theory This course investigates the major film theories from the beginnings of cinema to the present. We begin with a study of classical film theory (1900-1960) that attempts to define the essence of the form, its relation to reality, and its status as mass medium and/or art. We then move on to more recent work that examines film from ideological, sociological, or psychological perspectives, or considers the changing nature of cinema in the digital age.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 139 CM
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LIT 143 CM - Victorian Poetry and Essay This course examines major themes of Victorian culture: social conscience, faith, aestheticism, veneration of nature, and loss of sacramental vision. Readings will include the prose essays of Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Pater, and the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, the pre-Raphaelites (D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne), and Wilde.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 143 CM
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LIT 144 CM - W.B. Yeats The Irish poet William Butler Yeats, one of the “last romantics,” as he called himself, was considered by T. S. Eliot to be “the greatest poet of our time — certainly the greatest in this language, and as far as I am able to judge, in any language.” Love, art, history, politics, and the supernatural are his central themes. Yeats is a central figure of High Modernism, but among modernists his poetry remains distinctively personal. In this course we will trace Yeats’ fifty-year career, from the early days of the Celtic Twilight in the 1890s to the great poems of old age written on the brink of World War II and including Yeats’s contribution to the Irish national theater.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 144 CM
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LIT 146 CM - The Domestic Life of Empire A look at Domestic Life, as it is portrayed in the writing of Women in the Centre (Europe) and in the writing of women living in the Periphery (Africa and the Caribbean) and ways in which they were an influence, through literary culture in particular, on each other. Among the authors to be read: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Jean Rhys, Phyllis Alfrey, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Conde, Rosa Guy, Mary Prince, Merle Hodge, Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 146 CM
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LIT 147 CM - The Word and the Garden In the Beginning was The Word and through the word we got creation of the world and that world began in the garden: the man, the woman who were placed in the position of its caretakers; and the garden itself arranged in quadrants and planted in an earthly, not celestial, order: Tree of Life and then Tree of Knowledge. The garden has for a long time been a way to assert political and other forms of power (Jefferson, Bacon, The Medicis); it has also been a way for people (the Shakers, for example) to distance themselves from expressions of overt power.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 147 CM
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LIT 155 CM - Writing Nature: Gardens, Fields, and Wilderness This course will explore the various ways in which authors from biblical and classical antiquity to the present have written about nature and the natural world. We will approach this dizzyingly vast subject in two principal ways: by site, as the title indicates, and by genre. We will consider how, for example, gardens have been represented and re-imagined over time (overgrown, manicured, full of gods, full of pests), and how a literary mode like pastoral has been defined and reconceived over time (a shepherd lamenting lost love, an adolescent fleeing the city for the country). Our readings will include poems, plays, novels, and essays by Shakespeare, Milton, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Robert Frost, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 155 CM
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LIT 160 AF - Caribbean Literature Reading and analysis of novels, poetry, and essays representing the most important trends in modern Caribbean literature.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 160 AF
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LIT 160 CM - Science and Faith in Modern Literature A study of the origins and impact of nihilism in modern literature. Beginning with Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and James, the course will look at major 20th-century authors as a battleground between scientific realism and faith. T. S. Eliot, Frost, Hardy, Auden, Camus, Mann, Milosz, and Simone Weil will be among the major authors considered against the background of biology, psychology, and physical science.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 160 CM
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LIT 162 AF - African Literature Reading and analysis of novels, poetry, and essays representing the most important trends in modern African literature.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 162 AF
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LIT 163 AF - North African Literature and Culture in Text, Film, and Music This course is an introduction to North African Studies which offers an overview of North African literature and culture, through a selection of the works of some of the most important North African authors from diverse ethnic backgrounds (Arab, Berber, French, and Jewish). In addition, we will consider a selection of films, photographs, and other visual culture which will provide further insights into the complex social political and religious fabric of each country and the region as a whole. And, of course, we will consider music, which, along with poetry, is a cultural practice and form which is oral and an essential aspect of the everyday life in North Africa.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 163 AF
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LIT 163 CM - Leadership in Literature and Film This course examines different aspects of the leadership theme in literature, with special attention to such topics as ethical dilemmas confronting leaders, different styles and models of leadership, the competing loyalties and pressures felt by leaders, as well as the questions that literature raises about the very nature and validity of leadership’s various forms. Authors to be studied include Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. Additional readings by Carlyle, Byron, and Emerson may be assigned as needed. We will also study several films dealing with the leadership theme.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 163 CM
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LIT 165 AF - Caribbean Women Writers: Writing Between Borders Examination of works by women writers from the Caribbean. Seeks to uncover the complex nature of cross-cultural encounters. Explores the strategies used by these writers to define themselves both inside and outside the body politic of two societies. Attention given to questions of identity, exile, history, memory, and language. Authors include Jean Rhys, Paule Marshall, Maryse Conde, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Michelle Cliff
Prerequisite: Upper-division literature course or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 165 AF
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LIT 165 CM - Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud have exerted a dominant influence not only upon literary criticism but upon the entire intellectual culture of advanced modernity. We will study a selection of their works in a broad cultural context, beginning with Enlightenment precursors like Voltaire and Rousseau, taking account of important contemporaries like Darwin, and ending with postmodernist disciples like Thomas Pynchon and Michel Foucault.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 165 CM
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LIT 166 CM - Feminist Theory This course will focus on a selection of theoretical perspectives that have informed feminist thought and movements. We will examine how various feminist “frameworks” have sought to explain oppressive social relations and have laid the groundwork for social change. We will begin with foundational texts from the history of Western feminism and will address the variety of approaches that emerged in the last decades of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st. Attention will be paid to ethnic, minority, international, and queer perspectives on feminism and gender theory.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 166 CM
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