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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on historical, political, scientific, and cultural issues of the German-speaking countries. Students consider art, architecture, history, music, politics, science, technology, and much more. The regional focus of the class varies. The course includes lectures in English, instruction in basic German, and a mandatory trip to the German-speaking countries over spring break. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. 3 semester hours
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This course introduces the student to modern Latin American fiction in translation. Part of the course will be dedicated to the study of short fiction and part to representative contemporary novels. Both genres should enable the student to reach a clearer understanding of the "real" rather than the "official" story Latin America. A broad spectrum of writers is reflected in the choice of novels and short fiction studied. These writers represent a variety of countries and will invite interesting comparisons and contrasts regarding style and content. A dominant theme that characterizes much of the literature is a search for identity, and the student will come to see "realismo mágico" noonly as a style but also as an integral part of the Latin American way of life. 3 semester hours
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This course traces the history of the Hispanic presence in the United States and focuses on issues concerning immigration, exile, race, language, assimilation, and transculturation. Selected readings trace the evolution of U.S. and Latin American cultures and illustrate how significant social, economic, and political differences developed within the various regions of the Americas. In addition to historical monographs and essays, students read autobiographies, novels, short stories, poetry, and drama by writers who document contemporary Hispanic experience in the United States in a variety of ways. No knowledge of Spanish required. 3 semester hours
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By exploring medicine through the humanities, students can discover mirrors within societies that reflect the many faces of medicine. This course challenges students to widen their viewpoints on medicine, especially considering the dichotomous terms of life-death, health-illness, and provider-patient. Key activities include writing a formal research paper, leading a classroom discussion, presenting in a public forum, and participating in special course activities (i.e., guest speakers, museum visits, and live performances). 3 semester hours
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This course examines the post-war cinematic representation of the World Wars in many of the combatant nations, including France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, and the United States. The course familiarizes students with the experience of these wars as well as the politics of national memory in order to facilitate contextual analysis. Students study both cinematic techniques and film theory and learn to apply these methods to the analysis of film. Collective and individual study of films expose significant shifts in the creation of each nation's memories of world war. 3 semester hours
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This course will explore representations of the relations between dominant and minority cultures. The representations under scrutiny enter into a wide range of cultural practices, and thus call for an interdisciplinary study involving various branches of the humanities. Literature, music, art, film, and history-all will be considered in an examination of how culture creates systems of inclusion and exclusion that position individuals inside or outside a domain of privilege on the basis of criteria such as class, race, and gender. 3 semester hours
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The intent of this course is to examine selected works from the growing body of postcolonial or international English writing and art. The works are from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Rim. Students will look at the cultural, social, historical, and political background of these works and the areas of the world they represent. The stories, novels, poems, plays, essays, music, art, and films read and viewed represent the diversity- and unity-of the multinational community we inhabit. Two major themes dominate the survey: first, the impact of whites upon the indigenous culture, and second, the problems of modernization, independent nation stature, and internal political corruption once the colonial power has been removed. The readings are all in their original English. 3 semester hours
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This course examines the intersections between popular culture and postmodernism, reading the television series Twin Peaks as a literary text. By studying Twin Peaks as narrative art and as cultural phenomenon, the course aims to give the student a sophisticated understanding of the differences between consumable and readable culture as well as critical strategies for interpreting the nuances in this wonderfully strange and mysterious text. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Offered in the fall semester only. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Individual investigation of a topic in humanities. Reading, research, consultation, and discussion as required. Credit, scope, topic, and prerequisites to be arranged individually. May be taken more than one semester. 3 semester hours
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