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History
  

  • HIST132E CM - European Intellectual History: 16th Century to the Present

    This course examines the reorientation of European thought in the secularization of culture and the beginning of the modern state in the 16th century; the new ideologies concerning the relation of the individual, society, and nature with the rise of modern science in the 17th century; the emergence of ideas and progress of evolution in the industrial and post-industrial revolutions of the 18th to 20th century; post-modern thought in the late 20th century.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST132E CM
  

  • HIST133A CM - Late Imperial Russian History, 1861-1917

    This course is designed to offer students a basic knowledge of late imperial Russian politics and culture, and to provide background for understanding the rise of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution of 1917.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST133A CM
  

  • HIST133B CM - Modern Russian History, 1917 to the Present

    This course analyzes Russian society and politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods. Emphasis will be placed on the Russian revolutionary experience, on the origins and implications of Stalinism, on the Soviet Union after Stalin, and on the collapse of the Soviet system in 1991.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST133B CM
  

  • HIST134 CM - Dostoevskii’s Russia

    This course is: (1) a study of Dostoevskii’s life, his religious and ideological beliefs as articulated in major fictional and non-fictional works, his contributions to 19th-century debates about Russia’s place in the world and its historical “mission”; (2) The Russian social, religious and ideological context(s) in which Dostoevskii operated.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST134 CM
  

  • HIST135 CM - Pseudohistory

    The objective of this course is to develop the skills needed to distinguish between reliable and unreliable historical arguments. We will examine several sensational arguments about the past that been widely discredited by professional historians - what might be called pseudohistory. The case studies touch on a wide range of regions, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. By comparing pseudohistorical works with serious works of history, and by studying the ways in which professional historians interpret evidence, we will define and analyze the basic elements of historical writing that make an argument trustworthy.  

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST135 CM
  

  • HIST136 PO - Afro-Latin America

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST136 PO
  

  • HIST136C CM - Objects of War and Genocide

    Since the early 20th century, the portable camera has been one of the most powerful tools for representing and communicating suffering. Can we better understand the causes and consequences of violent conflicts and humanitarian responses through the history of visual culture and material objects? This survey of representations of war and genocide expands knowledge and understanding of the cause of conflicts, how they are waged and experienced, the making and undoing of empires and nation-states, and the emotional and social dimensions of war and forced displacement.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST136C CM
  

  • HIST138 CM - Europe’s Total Wars

    This course examines Europe’s 20th century as a series of “total wars,” from the Great War in 1914, through the Second World War and Holocaust, and concluding with the Cold War. It approaches these wars and genocide as a combination of military, economic, ideological, political, cultural, and social developments. The historical concept of “total war” will be discussed, and its horrific reality in modern Russia, Germany, France, England and the Soviet Union will be studied through the written, oral and visual accounts of political leaders, theorists, and ordinary individuals. Special attention will be paid to the themes of children at war, gendered aspects of warfare and genocide, and memory.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST138 CM
  

  • HIST139E CM - Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany

    A study of the transformation of German culture and society from 1919-1945. Begins with intellectual dilemmas of 19th-century Germany. Examines flourishing culture and political turmoils of Weimar democracy, Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, and Nazi perversions of culture. Focuses on literature, art, architecture, film, and music. Themes include the artist’s role in society, the rise of modernism, art as propaganda, and responses to the Holocaust.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST139E CM
  

  • HIST140 CM - Gender, Sex, and the Family in Europe, 1500-1900

    This seminar examines gender and revolution in two intertwined ways. First, how do historical revolutions, including the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; New World colonialism and slavery; political revolutions, including the French Revolution; 19th-century feminism, and modern industrialization confront gender roles and the family? Second, how do gender, sexual, and familial identities undergo historical change and revolution? Students will engage both primary and secondary sources, including philosophical, feminist, anthropological, and biological theory. CMC History majors may use this course to fulfill their pre-1700 requirement by arrangement with the instructor and department chair.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST140 CM
  

  • HIST142E CM - Culture and Politics in Turn of the Century Europe, 1880-1918

    Explores the relationship between politics, culture, and social change in Western and Central Europe. Units will focus on important cities including Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Prague, Budapest, and Paris. Topics include the rise of psychoanalysis, impressionism, and expressionism, conceptions of decadence, cultural pessimism, and anxieties about changing gender roles.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST142E CM
  

  • HIST144 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
  

  • HIST146 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: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST146 CM
  

  • HIST149 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 the Great Depression and World War II led to a major reordering of American society, 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
  

  • HIST150E 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
  

  • HIST151 CM - Jane Austen’s Britain

    This course uses Jane Austen’s novels and other primary and secondary sources to explore Britain and the British Empire between 1760-1830.  Major themes include: the importance of slavery in the American colonies, including the West Indies; the impact of the American and French Revolutions and Napoleonic Wars; the status of women and the role of family in the making of British identity; the articulation of psychological and moral self-awareness through the domestic novel.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST151 CM
  

  • HIST151E 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: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST151E CM
  

  • HIST154 CM - Makers of Modern India & Pakistan

    This course focuses on Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru, and looks at a dozen other important leaders of the 19th and 20th centuries in South Asia. We are interested in two groups of questions. The first includes: what about the social, economic, political and intellectual contexts of the period produced leaders like these? How are leaders created in modern South Asia? Who is excluded? The second cluster includes: what kind of a new nation did these leaders wish to create? What were the creative impulses in their vision? What were the limitations? We will read original works by these and other leaders and sift through the most important interpretations of their leadership.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST154 CM
  

  • HIST157 CM - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

    This course introduces students to the emerging historiography on gender and sexuality in Latin America. We examine changing gender roles and shifting constructions of masculinity, femininity, and honor in Latin America with particular attention to issues of sexuality, sexual preference, sexual constraints, and sexual transgressions. Topics include the encounter between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, slavery, honor, and whiteness during the independence era, prostitution, maternalism, patriarchy, queer studies, feminism, labor and class, nationalism, and dictatorships, social protest, and transgendered studies. Readings include works on the colonial period and the 19th century, but most of the course will focus on these issues in the context of the 20th century.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST157 CM
  

  • HIST158 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
  

  • HIST160 CM - EnviroLab Asia: Research and Methodologies

    This course examines the relationship between the environment and political, social, economic and cultural issues in East and Southeast Asia. In particular, it studies this relationship within the country being studied by EnviroLab Asia in the academic year. The course introduces students to a cross-disciplinary approach to study this relationship by exposing students to methodologies in humanities and social sciences as well as the history of country. The cross-disciplinary training will prepare students for a Clinic Trip at the end of the semester in which the students will travel to the country being studied to carry out research on the ground where they will apply their learned methodologies. Also listed as EA 021 CM .

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST160 CM
  

  • HIST161 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
  

  • HIST163 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
  

  • HIST166 CM - Murder and Mayhem in Imperial China

    This course examines the intersection between law and society in imperial China. Focusing primarily on the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), we will read records of crimes and disputes as windows into the ideal and reality of everyday life. Topics studied include the social and cultural fabrics of imperial China (e.g. government, family, and beliefs); the Qing legal system (e.g. how crimes were defined, tried, and punished); and skills necessary for making arguments about the past (e.g. determining what a document can and cannot tell us about the society that produced it). The course assumes no prior knowledge of Chinese history.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST166 CM
  

  • HIST167 CM - Gender and History in South Asia

    This seminar looks at the way gender is constituted with a case study of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). We will use feminist approaches to discuss how ‘women’ and feminity, and ‘men’ and masculinity are produced. After a quick survey of South Asian history to locate gender, we will look at three specific problems areas: how the state and its legal system apportion power to women and men; how education works to produce different gender identities; and how in the arts the human body is differently used and interpreted, and experiences and emotions become gendered.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST167 CM
  

  • HIST167C CM - An Economic History of Modern South Asia

    This course examines the modernization of South Asia through the lens of economic change. We will connect economic developments to broader political, legal, educational and ideological changes, in order to understand the complex processes that have transformed a wealthy pre-colonial South Asia into a struggling, poverty-ridden economy. Although we will be examining economics as a subject, our methodology will be historical and historiographical rather than econometric. Students will learn to conduct historical research for their own projects and to use a historiographical lens to analyze and debate our materials. The issues and problems covered will center on the complex modernization processes in South Asia.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST167C CM
  

  • HIST167E CM - Modernities: South Asia and Others

    Does South Asia have ‘modernity’ and how do we measure it or understand it? What is the significant difference between this modernity and that of the modern West? Should we then speak of modernities in the world? The course begins with a discussion of modernity in the West in which we clarify some historical landmarks and some interesting debates about the meanings and discourses of what we call ‘modernity.’ We then move on to South Asia and locate its different historical landmarks: educational transformation, nation-building, the emergence of new social classes, changes in gender relationships, industrial and technological growth and the discourses of modernity.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST167E CM
  

  • HIST169 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
  

  • HIST169B CM - Topics in South Asian History: Sex and Censorship in South Asia

    Restrictions on speech are a feature of democracies everywhere, from persecuting whistleblowers in the US to banning religious symbols in France to imposing restrictions on Twitter in Turkey. What sets the South Asian experience apart? This course will interrogate how a nexus of concerns over power, religion, and sex, originating in the colonial experience, has shaped the particular dynamics of censorship in South Asia. By examining the region’s long history of banning and prohibition, we will gain insight into how censorship has moulded South Asian cultural and political life. This course welcomes students interested in gender and sexuality studies, cinema and media studies, literature, history, politics, human rights, anthropology, and modern South Asian history and culture, as well as students interested in the past and present of censorship and democracy in the non-West.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST169B CM
  

  • HIST172 CM - Ancient and Medieval Nature

    This course offers an opportunity to explore the written and material evidence for ways that people in the ancient Mediterranean and medieval Europe interacted with the environment and thought about “nature.” This course will allow students to come to a better understanding of how ancient and medieval societies interacted with the natural environment, both in concrete terms of the impact of the natural environment on pre-modern societies, but also in terms of how societies fashioned distinctive means for conceptualizing and understanding “nature” (religious, philosophical, economic, literary) as a force in their lives.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST172 CM
  

  • HIST173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race

    See Scripps College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST173 AF
  

  • HIST173 CM - Global Borderlands

    What are the historical processes that have constructed the porous, contested spaces known as borderlands? Instead of taking a diplomatic or state-centered view of borderlands, we examine social processes of border-making, looking at the creation of hybrid, mobile cultures that often defy nationalist visions of the borderlands and the imagined national community. The course prioritizes a decolonial or anti-imperial approach to borderlands to uncover histories of marginalized peoples who have often been exploited and oppressed related to structures of racism. Course readings focus on borderlands in the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although comparative global examples allow students to recognize shared traits of borderlands regions or “in-between peoples” in diverse contexts. Readings raise issues related to identities such as race, ethnicity and gender, migrations, geographies, settler-colonialism and citizenship. Students develop an original historical research paper using the theoretical and methodological approaches introduced in class.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST173 CM
  

  • HIST174 CM - Design Activism

    This seminar studies the relationship between the world of design and social transformations from the early twentieth century to the present. In particular, it examines the history of modern design movements in the non-West, especially Latin America, Asia and the Middle East, from the early twentieth century to the present, and how these movements have negotiated processes of political economy to produce new forms of agency, identity, community and social exchange for the transformation of everyday life and ultimately social renewal. Previously HIST141  CM.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST174 CM
  

  • HIST176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era

    See Scripps College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST176 AF
  

  • HIST176 CM - Early American Families

    This course examines the meaning and construction of family units in the Atlantic World from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Economic changes, imperial migrations, interracial sex, and transatlantic ideas molded and shaped the notion of what a family was. Similar concepts, such as marriage, illegitimacy, and households shifted in turn. In this seminar, we will explore these changes in different imperial systems during the era of European Atlantic colonization. The course also develops vital research skills and methodologies needed by historical scholars.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST176 CM
  

  • HIST177 CM - Winston Churchill as Statesman and Historian

    Examines the life and writings of Winston Churchill as a means to understand a broader history. From his roots in an aristocratic family through his experiences as a soldier to his extraordinary career as a politician, Churchill’s life offers insight into important developments, including colonial wars, the transformative “People’s Budget” of 1910, the two World Wars, and post-1945 decolonization. A critical treatment of events such as the Bengal famine of 1943-44 will be among the topics explored. A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Churchill’s work as a historian will also be a significant component of the course.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST177 CM
  

  • HIST178 CM - Nations, Nationalisms, and the Global Modern Middle East

    This course explores something we take for granted: the existence of nation-states and the role that nationalism plays in shaping global events. Our focus is on how state systems in the Middle East and North Africa emerged from a world of empires and imperialism, and we will use historical analysis to explore diverse ideological movements, the role of gender in defining national agendas, debates concerning constitutionalism and legal definitions of state and citizenship, the relationship between natural resources and forms of government, models of counterinsurgency and the “global war on terror” as a framework for foreign intervention and internal state policy, and the possibility for resistance and social activism in the face of new technologies for state surveillance.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST178 CM
  

  • HIST179 CM - Researching the Holocaust

    Exploration of research and reflection on the cutting-edge of current issues and debates surrounding Nazi Germany’s attempt to annihilate the Jews. In a seminar-style inquiry designed for students who want to take their previous Holocaust studies to a more advanced level, attention focuses on film and internet resources, as well as on recent books and articles. Previously HIST137  CM.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST179 CM
  

  • HIST182 CM - Human Health and Disease in American History

    This seminar explores how health and disease shaped American societies, culture, and politics from the colonial period to the present. Topics will include the changing science of human health, folk medicine, the professionalization of American medicine, and the politics and ethics of biomedical research in a historical context. Readings, assignments, and in-class exercises will prepare students to produce an original research paper. This course fulfills the research requirement for the history major. 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST182 CM
  

  • HIST183 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
  

  • HIST186B CM - Revolutionary London and Paris, 1688-1852

    This upper-level research seminar explores the Enlightenment and 18th-century revolutions by focusing on London and Paris as epicenters of culture, commerce, and politics. How did urban institutions, print culture, an emerging consumer marketplace, and a booming population contribute to new social relations and tensions? How did both cities’ networks and urban landscape facilitate revolution? Using historical texts, maps, economic and demographic data, art, architecture, literature, and the contemporary press, we will research how urban life in London and Paris shaped the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution, the Enlightenment and French Revolution, and how inhabitants experienced these transformations.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST186B CM
  

  • HIST190 CM - Race and American Cities

    This upper-level research seminar will examine the relationship between urban development and race from the colonial era to the present. We will analyze the historical forces and institutions that have created forms of racial segregation and economic inequality and explore the role of cities as a site of racial conflict, interaction, collaboration and identity formation. Surveying a wide range of places, groups and issues, the course will provide a way to better understand the economics, politics and social life of American cities in the past and the present and to think spatially and geographically about historical continuity and change.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST190 CM
  

  • HIST196 CM - Advanced Topics in American History

    Selected advanced topics in American history.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST196 CM
  

  • HIST197 CM - Advanced Topics in World History

    Selected advanced topics in world history.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: HIST197 CM
  

  • HIST199 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
  

  • ID076 JT - Intersections: Gender, Race and Sexuality

    What assumptions do people address everyday in their lives about gender and sexuality? This introductory course focuses on this question, analyzing topics such as the historical emergence of feminism and feminist critique; social constructions of gender and the family; patriarchy and the state; the politics of gender and sexuality; the relationship between bodies and institutions; representations of gender in art, literature, film, and the media; and intersections with race/ethnicity, class, nation and other identities. Readings engage a broad range of disciplines including contemporary feminist theory, history, sociology, and literary and media studies. The course privileges a collaborative feminist approach to introduce students to social theories.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ID 076 JT
  

  • ID080 CM - Introductory Personal Finance

    This introductory course is the first step in a life-long journey toward financial literacy and wellness. Topics include financial goal-setting and planning, budgeting, spending and saving, taxes, consumer credit, student loans, home mortgages, risk management, investing in stock, bonds, and other assets, asset allocation, and retirement plans.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0.5

    Course Number: ID 080 CM
  

  • ID120 CM - The Science of Making Life Better

    This course will examine theories about what leads to human happiness and fulfillment, including money, power, pleasure, fame, beauty, adventure, and pleasure. We also will explore another theory: the paradoxical notion that people are happiest when they pursue selfless behavior. This seems to challenge much of traditional economic and evolutionary theory, which posits that humans seek to maximize their own personal self-interest. Thus we will look at the science behind such phenomena as heroism, altruism, morality, and cooperation. Finally we will explore case studies of social entrepreneurs and innovators who seek to make life better for others in the world.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ID 120 CM
  

  • ID150 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
  

  • ID150 JT - Interdisciplinary Special Topics

    The scholar and the athlete have long existed in a complex and contested relationship both in the history of higher education and in American culture at large. This interdisciplinary course aims to study that relationship from a variety of perspectives: historical, philosophical, sociological, and institutional. We will trace modern views of the scholar and the athlete back to classical and Enlightenment theories of education and the good life and then study how these roles have been represented and reconfigured both in the university setting and in contemporary public policy debates.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ID 150 JT
  

  • ID196 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

Korean
  

  • KORE001 CM - Introductory Korean

    Korean 1 is designed for students who do not have any Korean language background. Students who have knowledge of Korean should take a placement exam before enrolling. 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). Letter grade only.

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE001 CM
  

  • KORE002 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). Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite: KORE 001 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every spring

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE002 CM
  

  • KORE033 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). Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite: KORE 002 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE033 CM
  

  • KORE044 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
  

  • KORE090 CM - Korean through Popular Culture and Media

    This course is designed to help students improve Korean language proficiency and cultural competence through a variety of popular media content such as television programs, news clips, and documentaries. It aims to equip students with communicative skills, with emphasis on vocabulary building, advanced grammar, and writing. Discussion topics are also selected to extend students’ understanding of Korean society, history, politics, and culture. Satisfies the CMC Foreign Literature GE.

    Prerequisite: KORE 044 CM  or equivalent.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KORE090 CM
  

  • KORE100 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
  

  • KORE199 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
  

  • KRNT130 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. Letter grade only.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: KRNT130 CM

Leadership
  

  • LEAD010 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
  

  • LEAD040 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: LEAD040 CM
  

  • LEAD041 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: Every year

    Credit: 0.5

    Course Number: LEAD041 CM
  
  

  • LEAD121 CM - Making a Difference: Strategies for Solving Social Problems

    The news can seem depressing - full of gloom and doom, detailing everything that’s wrong with the world. This course will introduce students to “rigorous and compelling reporting about [positive] responses to social problems.” These are news stories that highlight the most promising ideas for solving the challenges of the 21st century - from improving education to increasing economic prosperity and opportunity for all. Students will also apply this knowledge to selecting a social change organization that deserves funding. Acting as philanthropists, they will evaluate and determine the initiative that can most effectively make a difference in the community.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LEAD121 CM
  

  • LEAD122 CM - Civic Leadership

    Civic leaders are people who strive to make a positive impact in their communities. Whether they are working to improve education, public health, human rights, the environment, freedom, or financial prosperity for all Americans, civic leaders are attempting to make the world a better place. How do they succeed? What are the most effective strategies and best practices? What are the obstacles, barriers, and challenges that civic leaders face most often? This course will explore the essential tools that nonprofits need to function efficiently and effectively for sustained growth and maximum impact.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LEAD122 CM
  

  • LEAD142 CM - Leading Social Innovation: How Award-Winning Social Entrepreneurs Change the World

    Social entrepreneurs are motivated by the desire to see the world as it can be, not merely as it is. This course is about the leadership opportunities and challenges of creating and sustaining creative solutions that address social problems-whether through nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid models of change. Students learn about the key determinants of social innovation: the complexity of the world’s problems, theoretical frameworks rooted in psychology and business management, community building and ecosystem development, governance and funding models, scalability and growth, and impact measurement techniques. Students learn from and work directly alongside multi-award winning social entrepreneurs and practitioners who are creating systems change in their respective sectors.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LEAD142 CM
  

  • LEAD150 CM - Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

    This course provides an overview of leadership, innovation, and social entrepreneurship theories and constructs, with applications and implications for leading in innovative and cutting-edge organizations in Silicon Valley. Topics will range from leading creative, entrepreneurial teams to the leadership skills necessary to foster innovative organizations. A central theme will be to equip students with the knowledge and skills to be effective leaders in innovative organizations - both established firms and start-ups. Offered as part of the Silicon Valley Program.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LEAD150 CM

Literature
  

  • LIT030 CM - Introduction to Video Art

    This is an introductory course in digital video production. The course provides an opportunity for students to explore the language and aesthetics of film and media through creative projects. Over the course of the semester, students will make a series of short videos, and will consider how video production helps to elucidate important concepts in the history and theory of film and media practice. Practical instruction will be given in the use of cameras, tripods, microphones, lighting and editing equipment. In addition to video projects, coursework will include readings and screenings.

    Prerequisite: One introductory film studies or media studies course.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 030 CM
  

  • LIT031 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
  

  • LIT034 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.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 034 CM
  

  • LIT036 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
  

  • LIT037 CM - Poetry Writing I

    This class is an introductory workshop in poetry writing for those who wish to improve their craft as poets while broadening their knowledge of poetry. More than half the semester will be devoted to formal weekly exercises. Poems by students will be discussed in a “workshop” format with attention to the process of revision. Class time will also be spent on assigned readings and issues of craft. Students will be asked to regularly memorize and recite poems. A final portfolio of eight revised poems will be required for completion of the course.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 037 CM
  

  • LIT038 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
  

  • LIT057 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
  

  • LIT058 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
  

  • LIT060 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
  

  • LIT060B CM - American Writers 1900-Present

    This course is an introduction to modern American literature in different genres: though our emphasis will be on the novel, we will also be looking at short stories, poems, plays, essays, and films. We will study the evolution of American literature within the changing social, cultural, intellectual, and literary contexts and conventions of the last hundred or so years by tracing shifting mythologies and perceptions of Americanness in authors such as Cather, Hemingway, W.C. Williams, Faulkner, O’Neill, Ellison, Kerouac, and McCarthy. Our reading will emphasize the variety of narrative strategies and formal experiments authors developed and undertook in order to capture local color or distinct voices, to respond to or register changes in the modern world, or to shape discourses of nationhood, democracy, liberty, race, and gender.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 060B CM
  

  • LIT061 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
  

  • LIT062 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
  

  • LIT063 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
  

  • LIT065 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
  

  • LIT066 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
  

  • LIT067 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
  

  • LIT068 CM - Slow Shakespeare

    This course will be about the rewards, and pleasures, of reading Shakespeare’s plays slowly–that is, of engaging in intensive study of a small number or plays rather than surveying the playwright’s entire output in a single genre or period. We will read four plays, taking into account not only broader matters of plot, theme, character, identity, and ideology but also more minute matters of form and performance: diction, meter, syntax, pace, voice, gesture, action, and embodiment. Attention will also be given to recent theoretical treatments of close reading, performance practices, and Shakespeare’s complex status in the contemporary world.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 068 CM
  

  • LIT069 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
  

  • LIT070 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
  

  • LIT071 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
  

  • LIT072 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
  

  • LIT073 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
  

  • LIT075 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
  

  • LIT078 CM - Travel and The Literary Imagination

    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
  

  • LIT081 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
  

  • LIT084 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
  

  • LIT089 CM - The English Enlightenment: Dryden, Pope, and Johnson

    The course will focus on poets whose poems display many of the virtues of memorable prose-clarity, vigor, sense, civility. These poets were engaged by the events of their time and wrote for literate readers who prized the sense of what they read-a general audience. The course will represent these poets’ literary achievements, with special attention given to Pope’s Essay on Man and Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes.” All three poets left their mark, too, on the history of literary criticism. We will discuss Dryden’s essays and prefaces, Pope’s Essay on Criticism, and Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 089 CM
  

  • LIT090 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
  

  • LIT091 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
  

  • LIT092 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
  

  • LIT093 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
  

  • LIT094 CM - American Women Poets

    The history of American poetry is unthinkable without the contribution of a central lineage of female poets. This course offers an in-depth examination of their work; we will open with the beginnings of the American literary tradition (Anne Bradstreet) and the nineteenth century (Emily Dickinson), then focus on twentieth-century poetry (from modernists Gertrude Stein and Marianne Moore to postwar poets Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath), and conclude by looking at exciting contemporary voices. We will consider poets and poems both individually and in their literary and socio-historical contexts, examining poetic movements (Imagism, Objectivism, the New York School, Confessionalism, Black Mountain, Language), the relationship of poetry to the other arts, and the role of poetry in American culture. While we will home in on gender poetics and politics, we will also explore broader questions of poetic form, the relations between modernity and history, and America and the world, as well as the poetic treatment of race, class, sexuality, and nation.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: LIT 094 CM
  

  • LIT095 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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