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  • CPLT 212: Reading Travel:The Theme of Travel in Classical and Contemporary Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Dougherty (Classical Studies) NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Every story is a travel story, and this class explores the theme of travel as it appears both literally and figura-tively in works of fiction. How is narrative a spatial practice What is the relationship between travel and fiction, between travel and literary genre How does travel articulate issues of (personal and cultural) identity How do gender and family operate together with travel to structure relationships between home and away, men and women We will begin with Homer's Odyssey, which sets the stage for many of the themes and issues to be interrogated in a broad range of texts, classical and contemporary. Additional readings will include Euripides Helen , Heliodorus ' Ethiopian Romanc e, Twain 's The Adventures of Huckleberry Fi nn, Conra d's Heart of Darkn ess, Kinca id's Lucy, Robin- son's Houseke eping, and Onda atje's The English Patient. Students may register for either CPLT 212 or CLCV 212 and credit will be granted accor dingly. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Uni
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  • CPLT 220: Introduction to Comparative Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Young (Classical Studies) Topic for 2009-10: Afterlives of Antiquity. Taking up one of the major concerns of Comparative Literature as a field, this course looks at how texts move, tracing several works of Greek and Roman literature as they travel through centuries and across continents. We will begin with the troubled notion of a classic and explore questions of canonicity. Case studies will include texts Sophocles' Antigone and the poems of Catullus and Sappho. With the help of readings in reception and translation theory, we will look at these works as they change over time, asking how they have contributed to modern discourses and practices including colonialism, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, feminism, contemporary pop-culture, and modernist avant-gardes. Students may register for either CPLT 220 or CLCV 220 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • CPLT 228: Narratives of the Self

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Nolden (German) Focusing on memoirs which represent the extremes of the human condition, the course will address generic problems and narrative pat-terns of autobiographical writing and discuss the tension between fact and fiction, the (un-)reliability of memory, the problems of representing history, and the complicated relationship between text and reader. Texts by Augustine, J.-J. Rousseau, W. Benjamin, G. Pe-rec, P. Levi, C. Yang, and others. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • CPLT 284: Magical Realism

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Weiner (Russian) NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course examines fictions whose basic reality would be familiar if not for the introduction of a magical element that undermines commonplace notions about what constitutes reality in the first place. The magical element can be a demon, talisman, physical transformation, miraculous transition in space or time, appearance of a second plane of existence, revelation of the un-reality of the primary plane of existence, etc. Students will read Kafka's Metamorphosis, Queneau' s The Blue Flowers , Bulgakov ? The Master and Margarit a, Marquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitu de, Calvin o's If on a Winter Night a Trave ler, Pynch on's The Crying of Lo t 49, Murak ami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Sok olov's School for Fools, and short stories by Borges, Cortazar, and N abokov. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Uni
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  • CPLT 330: Seminar.Comparative Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Aadnani, Nolden (German) Topic for 2009-10: Cairo, Paris, Weimar: Encounters between Middle Eastern and European Literatures. This seminar explores patterns of influence and modes of (mis)readings that have shaped the encounter between the literatures of the Middle East and Western Europe. From the Crusades to Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and colonialism, the interaction between ?East? and ?West? has left indelible impressions on literature and has heightened the challenges of representation. Topics include the construction of the East in Enlighten-ment and Romantic literature and thought; the trajectory of Orientalism; the postcolonial critique of Eurocentrism; contemporary rewritings of the legacy of the nineteenth century in texts and films. Readings include Montesquieu, Goethe, Omar al-Khayyam's quatrains, Richard Burton's translations of the Thousand and One N ights, Sally Potter, Jacques Doillon, Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, Hélène Cixous, Hanan al-Shaykh, Katia Rub instein. Students may register for MES 330 or CPLT 330 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: One 200-level course in literature or by permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • CPLT 334: Literature and Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Respaut (French) Drawing on texts from different countries, this course investigates literature's obsession with medicine. Literary representations of doctors and patients, disability, insanity, AIDS, birth, death and grief, the search for healing and the redemptive power of art. Attention will be given to the links between the treatment of medical issues in fiction, in autobiography and in visual representations (film and photography). This course should be of interest to everyone drawn to health-related fields as well as students in social sciences and the humanities. Prerequisite: One 200-level course in literature or by permission of the instructor. Not open to first-year students. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • CPLT 350: Research or Individual Study

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prerequisite: By permission of the Director. See Academic Distinctions. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • CPLT 360: Senior Thesis Research

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prerequisite: By permission of the Director. See Academic Distinctions. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • CPLT 370: Senior Thesis

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prerequisite: 360 and permission of department. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • CS 111: Computer Programming and Problem Solving

    2.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Shaer, Tjaden An introduction to problem solving through computer programming. Using the Java programming language, students learn how to read, modify, design, debug, and test algorithms that solve problems. Programming concepts include control structures, data structures, abstrac-tion, recursion, modularity, and object-oriented design. Students explore these concepts in the context of interactive programs involving graphics and user interfaces. Students are required to attend an additional two-hour laboratory section each week. Required for students who wish to major or minor in computer science or elect more advanced courses in the field. Students can receive Mathematical Modeling distribution credit for only one of 111 and 112. Prerequisite: None. No prior background with computers is expected. Distribution: Mathematical Modeling. Does not satisfy the laboratory requirement. Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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