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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to cultural innovation in the twentieth century. Written texts, visual arts, and performance art are analyzed through the perspectives of (1.) paradigms such as psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and liberation theology, (2.) debates about political correctness and multiculturalism, and (3.) strategies used by minority and non- Western voices. (CD)
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3.00 Credits
Team-taught interdisciplinary course using a variety of literary, historical, and theoretical materials to examine one of the following: (a.) Medieval Women; (b.) Medieval Constructs of Gender, Race, and Class; (c.) Love and War in the Middle Ages; (d.) The Medieval Environment: Landscape and Culture. May be repeated for credit with different sub topics.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary seminar on the emerging global presence of indigenous cultures. Topics include world views and interreligious dialogue, contemporary social, political, and environmental developments, and indigenous cultural representation in contemporary arts, including film, literature, and theatre. (CD)
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1.50 Credits
Study, in translation, of ancient and contemporary poetry ranging from Japanese to Irish, African American, Spanish, German, Scottish, and others. Students are required, after eight class meetings, to perform in a public presentation. Pass/Fail only.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in accounts of Japan by Western visitors from the nineteenth century to the present, e.g., Hearn, Bird, Booth, Reid, and writing of reflective essays on student responses to their experiences with Japan and Japanese culture. Taught only in Japan.
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3.00 Credits
Explores a number of experimental fictions that helped define our idea of the novel in the second half of the twentieth century. Assesses the implications of the various revisions in literary form and links them, where possible, to general changes in thought as the world became increasingly globalized.
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3.00 Credits
Critical analysis of fiction by female authors whose works concern women in Africa and its Caribbean diaspora.
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3.00 Credits
Multidisciplinary presentation and discussion of portrayals of aging in selected materials from several of the liberal arts: philosophical and religious perspectives; selections from literature and the visual arts; historical development of perceptions of aging; imaging of aging in contemporary culture. Also listed as HON 257.
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1.50 Credits
Study of the Vita Nuova as apprenticeship to the Divina Commédia, and of the first half of the Divina Commédia as epic, prophecy, autobiography, and poetry, relating it to antiquity, Christianity, Dante's European present (the birth of modern languages and new intellectual and poetic forms), and Dante's own afterlife in the West. Also listed as ENG 307.
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1.50 Credits
Study of the second half of the Divina Commédia as epic, prophecy, autobiography, and poetry, relating it to antiquity, Christianity, Dante's European present (the birth of modern languages and new intellectual and poetic forms), and Dante's own afterlife in the West. Also listed as ENG 308. P-HMN 361 or POI.
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