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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as International Letters and Visual Studies 100.) Worldwide survey of major films from the silent era to the present. Trends in filmmaking styles and genres; the impact of modern history on cinematic art; cultural, theoretical, and philosophical issues related to the study of film. Filmmakers covered may include Eisenstein, Chaplin, Renoir, Welles, DeSica, Ray, Ozu, Bergman, Fassbinder, Sembene, and Zhang Yimou. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the literature and film of modern and contemporary Central Europe, chiefly of Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and Balkan origin. The concept of Central Europe in the politics and culture of the societies these writers inhabit. Authors may include Karl Draus, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Géza Csáth, Bohumil Hrabal, Agota Kristof, Josef Skvorecky, George Konrad, Milorad Pavic, and Slavenka DrakulÃcThis course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as International Letters & Visual Studies 122). Survey of modern South African writers, with emphasis on the effects of Apartheid and the anti-Apartheid struggle on the life of the imagination, including literary, film, and theatre evocations of South African life. Writers may include Alan Paton, Lewis Nkosi, J. M. Coetzee, Agnes Sam, Zo Wicomb, Athol Fugard, Njabulo Ndebele, Miriam Tlali, Breyten Breytenbach, Mongane Serote, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, and Besse Head. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: African and African-American Culture
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3.00 Credits
The voyage through the spiritual and political chaos into the twentieth century has produced a literature that speaks of an irrational man in an irrational world. The course will examine the theme of chaos as it is expressed in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and in works by Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Camus, Malraux, Unamuno, and Borges. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities This course meets the following culture options: French Culture Hispanic Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester Second Summer Semester
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3.00 Credits
A selected and critical interdisciplinary study of the illustrated book in the Western cultural tradition from the post-Romantic era to the present. Issues of intertextuality and representation in the visual and verbal arts, illustrative styles and strategies, graphic techniques and processes in book illustration, historical and ideological contexts. Topics include illustrations to Voltaire's Candide, Goethe's Faust, E. A. Poe's fiction, Grimms' fairy tales, and children's books by artists such as Delacroix, Beckmann, Klee, Doré, Rackham, Kent, and Sendak. Prerequisites Permission of instructor. Background in literature and/or the visual arts. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities
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3.00 Credits
Please see departmental website for detailed information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities
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3.00 Credits
Please see departmental website for detailed information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities
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3.00 Credits
American women from colonial times through the nineteenth century. Topics include women in preindustrial society, industrialization and its impact on women, women on the frontier, women and the antebellum South, True Womanhood, and the nineteenth-century women's movement. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences
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3.00 Credits
Worldwide cross-cultural trade as the roots of today's global economy. Merchant communities, trade diaspora, and trade routes. From silk roads to oil tankers; commercial networks from medieval merchants to e-commerce. An exploration of the ties between trade and civilization, capitalism, nationalism, and state-building. Emphasis on the early modern and modern periods. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement
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3.00 Credits
Historic and emergent developments in the field of women's studies, with emphasis on the impact of race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality in global perspective. Materials and methodologies are drawn from a variety of disciplines. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement - Only when taught by Professor Modhumita Roy. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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