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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Examines the basic features of narrative (including plot, character, point of view, and time and space relations) within various literary forms, such as the anecdote, story, tale, novella, and novel.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; written work, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Explores fiction relating to the supernatural, the uncanny, and the monstrous. Considers a wide variety of texts from diverse national literatures and traditions. Focuses on the interaction of notions of the supernatural with concepts of modernity and technological "progress."
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Surveys critical approaches to the cinema such as auteur and genre theory. Studies literature and film, national cinemas, and film movements. Cross-listed with MCS 021.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to world literature by women across many centuries. Covers the creative work of women from ancient to early modern periods, examining both texts and the historical circumstances of the earliest women writers. Emphasis is on texts originally written in languages other than English, from around the globe. Cross-listed with WMST 022A.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to the increasingly powerful voices of women writers in modernity and postmodernity. Emphasis is on texts originally written in languages other than English, from around the globe. Topics include the question of feminine writing and feminist theories about literature by women. Cross-listed with WMST 022B.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to world cinema as a fusion of national and international, culturally specific, and globally universal characteristics. Topics include realism, the role of world wars, Hollywood's global reach, alternative aesthetics of third-world cinemas, cross-fertilization between Europe and Asia, and the function of international film festivals and the international film market. Cross-listed with MCS 024.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. An interdisciplinary course that considers science fiction as an interface between today's scientific and humanistic disciplines. Using books, films, and works of art, the course examines the interplay of these disciplines in science fiction's treatment of such "big" themes as time, space, God, nature, mind, andthe future.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to a succession of New Waves in European Cinema: Neorealism in Italy, New Wave in France, and New Cinema in Germany, Russia, and Britain. Study of political engagements and technical innovations. Topics include the concept of the auteur, key manifestos, and attempts to define European cinema in film theory. Cross-listed with EUR 026 and MCS 026.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Explores the representation of food, cooking, and restaurants in films from different national traditions. Includes gender roles; sensuality and sexuality; social class and the economics of food; excess and lack. Cross-listed with MCS 036.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to the concepts of justice, law, and violence through literary and philosophical texts. Raises fundamental questions of individual human existence within the social collective. Topics include natural right, freedom of will, sacrifice, revolution, gender, and power.
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