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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the crime genre in German film and television and offers an overview of selected historical developments in German literature. In addition to contextualizing the genre within the premiere crime of the twentieth century, the Holocaust, the course explores its function as a mediation on the role of evil, the power of law, and the tension between society and individuals or marginalized groups. The German fascination with crime ranges from Nazi parents, the state, and the Stasi to terrorists, foreigners, women, and even Americans. (Same as German Studies 161.) Piesche.
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3.00 Credits
In an age of Internet dating, conspiracy theories, and fierce politicking, the line between fact and fiction quickly blurs. Examines how and why literature manipulates "truth" to formulate a story, as well as texts in which falsity is to be believed; in which biographical details invade what is claimed to be a work of fiction; in which the reader is also a character; and in which historical or literary fact is altered or invented. Works may include those by Bierce, Butler, Calvino, Dick, Fforde, Fuentes, O'Brien, and Vonnegut. (Writing-intensive.) Maximum enrollment, 20. J Schwartz.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the emergence of Arabic literature from its mythological genesis in a cave of Mt. Hira' in the 7th century to high literary works produced in the thriving cities of Baghdad, Damascus and Córdoba from the 8th-12th centuries. We will then move to Arabic texts
transcribed from oral works told in markets, homes and make-shift mosques in and around the Mediterranean in the 16th century. We will conclude our survey with a select
group of contemporary novels produced by writers in Egypt, Palestine and Morocco. (Writing-intensive.) (Same as Religious Studies 189.) Maximum enrollment, 20. A Mescall.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how films produced in diverse socio-economic contexts generate conflicting modern representations of China, ranging from a legendary land, an everlasting patriarchy, to a revolutionary battlefield, and how these representations produce hegemonic and subversive cultural knowledge. Students will gain a broad understanding of post-1959 Chinese cinema and history, theory of film and cultural studies, and pertinent Hollywood films. All films have English subtitles. Requirements include film viewings, presentations, quizzes, class discussions and a final paper. All lectures and discussions in English. (Same as East Asian Languages and Literatures 205.) Wang.
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3.00 Credits
Since 1919, Chinese literature has played a decisive role in
interactions between tradition and modernity. This course examines the development of Chinese literature against such interactions. Students will familiarize themselves with the most representative modern and contemporary Chinese literary works and gain a broad understanding of
many modernity-related issues, including politics, culture, class, labor division, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. All lectures and discussions in English. Requirements: presentations, class discussions, film viewings and a final paper. (Same as East Asian Languages and Literatures 210.) Wang.
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3.00 Credits
Exploring the space and time continuum from 3,000 B.C. to 1700 A.D, this course will examine narrative, poetry and drama from Europe, the Near and Far East. Beginning with cave drawings and Babylonian myths of creation, we will question the ways that women and men have recorded the story of humankind through relationship with one another
and the divine across linguistic, literary, political, and spiritual divides. Special attention to marginality, violence, innovation and damnation in Plato, the Qur'an, Augustine, Ibn 'Arabi, Ibn Hazm, Dante, Rojas, Cervantes and Sor Juana, among others. (Writing-intensive.) (Same as Religious Studies 211.) Maximum enrollment, 20. A Mescall.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a comparative study of representative texts in world literature from 1800 to the present, including novels, short fiction, drama, and Star Trek. Particular attention paid to the concepts of self and society, with an emphasis on how the modern self is constructed and explored through narrative technique. Readings to include works by Rushdie, Murakami, Coetzee, Kleist, Wolf, Kafka, Kantner, and Dunn. (Writing-intensive.) May be taken without 211. Maximum enrollment, 20. J Schwartz.
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3.00 Credits
Be it an invisible city or simple apartment building, built environments disclose a vital interplay of material, spatial, cultural, and aesthetic forces. This course explores such environments through the literature that (re)produces a representation thereof. The texts we study challenge conventional discussions about "environment" as being necessarily synonymous with "nature," and consider how our own natures both shape and are shaped by our inventions-real or imaginary. Works selected from the following authors: Calvino, Lem, Borges, Neufeld, Verne, Ballard, Coleridge, and Stephenson. J Schwartz.
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3.00 Credits
Readings of representative works with emphasis on major literary movements, cultural history and basic literary devices. Primary texts by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, as well as some critical materials. (Writing-intensive.) No knowledge of Russian required. (Same as Russian Studies 225.) Maximum enrollment, 20. Bartle.
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3.00 Credits
The Iberian Peninsula (now home to Spain and Portugal) was the site of over 700 years of medieval Jewish, Muslim and Christian exchanges. A look into this textual space of Iberian difference after it was officially labeled as dark, evil and monstrous by the Renaissance Catholic Church State. A consideration of marginal Muslim writers like Ibrahim de Bolfad, Muhammad Rabadan and al-Wahrani exposes so-called proponents of Catholic orthodoxy like Don Quijote de la Mancha - not as enemies, but as fellow skeptics of the Monarchy's attempts to extinguish difference. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, one course in literature. (Same as Religious Studies 228.) Maximum enrollment, 20. A Mescall.
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