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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introductory course on the arts, their meaning and interrelationship as well as their cultural contexts East and West. Stresses such approaches as: How do you understand a poem? What do you look for in a painting? What do you listen for in music? How do different cultural backgrounds help in appreciating a work of art?
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to modern and contemporary Southeast Asian literature and culture, with a focus on individual national histories. Explores the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and academic scholarship. Readings are in translation; classes are conducted in English. Cross-listed with AST 062.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to the modern short story in Southeast Asia, with a focus on literariness and the act of reading. Readings are in translation; classes are conducted in English. Course is repeatable as content changes to a maximum of 8 units. Cross-listed with AST 063. Maier
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of different critical approaches to literature, through reading and discussion of literary texts and critical essays on those texts. Reading and discussions cover different genres and traditions as well as different critical approaches.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Cultural study of Vienna from fin de siecle to the present through literature, film, philosophy, and the visual arts. Topics include sexuality, visual desire, crisis of language, anti-Semitism, and the post-World War II confrontation with the Nazi period. All readings are in English; selected readings in German for German majors and minors. Cross-listed with EUR 110A, GER 110A, and WMST 110.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to the metropolis Berlin as gateway between the East and West. Explores topography of the city through film, art, music, and literary texts. A study of Berlin's dramatic transformations as a microcosm of Germany and Europe's troubled history in the twentieth century. Course is conducted in English. Cross-listed with AHS 120, EUR 110B, GER 110B, and MCS 178.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A comparative study of mythic traditions from several world cultures and religions viewed from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Includes material drawn from epics, religious texts, divine hymns, creation myths, heroic legends, and concepts of the afterlife as reflected in literary and nonliterary sources. Cross-listed with CLA 112 and RLST 117.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A survey of the legacy of Greece and Rome in Western culture, from the Renaissance to the present. Topics include literature, art, architecture, and politics. Cross-listed with CLA 114.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores twentieth-century German history through film. Includes World Wars I and II, inflation and polarization of classes, Nazi Germany, representations of the Holocaust, and a divided and reunited Germany. Cross-listed with GER 163, HISE 163, and MCS 115.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of the genre of literary autobiography and its visual equivalents (self-portraits and autobiographical film). An examination of narrative structure and point of view; the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction; and concepts such as masks, sexuality, memory, and biculturalism. Focus may change from year to year. Course is repeatable as topics change.
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