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4.00 Credits
Zen Buddhism was the core around which many of Japan’s greatest cultural achievements evolved. From the medieval period on, with its importation from China, the culture of Zen served as the primary context for much of Japanese metaphysics, architecture, landscape and interior design, medicine, ink painting, noh drama, haiku poetry, as well as the entire cultural complex known as the tea ceremony. Along with the Zen doctrinal and textual roots of these remarkable achievements, this course will examine the vibrant culture fostered in the medieval Zen monastic temple institution known as the Gozan and its dispersal into the culture at large.
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4.00 Credits
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 not only marked the end of a social(ist) experiment, but also closed a period in Russian cultural history. This course will look at the best (and a little of the worst) Russian fiction written during the Soviet period. We start with two novels describing the first decade of the new regime (‘Envy’ and ‘The Golden Calf’), read a Socialist Realist classic of the 1930s (‘How the Steel was Tempered’), sample literary tributes to Stalin, and discuss a manuscript that “would not burn” (Bulgakov’s ‘Master & Margarita’). Solzhenitsyn’s ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ closes our discussion of the Stalinist period and marks a thaw in Russian culture that leads through Vasily Shukshin’s Siberian stories and Yury Trifonov’s Moscow prose in the sixties and seventies. The sensational debut of Tatyana Tolstaya’s short stories closes the Soviet period and anticipates the literary renewal of the immediate post-Soviet period. In English.
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4.00 Credits
Friedrich Nietzsche continues to be one of the most influential modern philosophers, yet controversy surrounds almost every aspect of his life and work. This course will help students go beyond the controversy in order to consider Nietzsche's texts discerningly and how he approached the problems of truth, power, and morality. Close examination of his most important writings will be complemented by inquiry into Nietzsche's effects on twentieth-century philosophy. Other thinkers include Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Sarah Kofman, Jacques Derrida and Giles Deleuze.
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4.00 Credits
The focus of World Literature in Translation is to examine what makes a translation "successful" as a translation. By reading a series of recently translated works (some contemporary, some retranslations of modern classics), and by talking with translators, we will have the opportunity to discuss both specific and general issues that come up while translating a given text. Young translators will be exposed to a lot of practical advice throughout this class, helping to refine their approach to their own translations, and will expand their understanding of various practices and possibilities for the art and craft of literary translation.
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4.00 Credits
CLT 389 is an introduction to theories and critical approaches as strategies for reading and interpreting texts, films, and other cultural objects. Students in this course will read a variety of literature and theory with an eye toward understanding what criticism's roles are, why and how the study of literature and culture (still) matters, and how they can develop their own critical skills based on their personal interests and concerns. This course teaches reading strategies that will help students to get to the heart of what they are studying, and very significant amounts of course work will be devoted to the art of writing the literary essay. How do you choose a thesis, what methods of investigation do you employ, and how do you synthesize your analysis? Required of all Majors in MLC, this course is also open to students with a Minor in an MLC discipline, or by permission of the Instructor.
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0.00 Credits
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0.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
This seminar course is based on research on and discussion of a variety of issues of contemporary concern in Japan, including national, ethnic and racial identity; changing gender and sex roles; the family and generational conflict; immigration and work; the emperor system, war, and memory; cultural authenticity; and Japan's changing roles in Asia and in the world. Readings on issues begin with articles in the online English-language editions of Japan's main news media, extend outward to reports in the US news media, and eventually to popular and scholarly English-language studies of the issues involved. Grading is based on participation in informed discussion of issues raised in class (20%), and on four papers on issues to be chosen by each student with the intructor¿s permission (20% each).
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4.00 Credits
Explores changing cultural meanings of country and city from early 20th century urban culture through revolution and to the present era of mass migration and urban destruction and renewal.
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2.00 Credits
Film Studies involves the critical analysis of the pictorial and narrative qualities of motion pictures, film theory, and film history, understanding film as both industry and creative art. This course unconventionally focuses on the tangible object at the origin of the onscreen image, and what we can learn about the social, cultural and historical value of motion pictures and national film cinemas through an understanding of “Film” as an organic element with a finite life cycle. Focus is on the photographic element, but includes a consideration of alternative “capture media.”
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