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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey of international cinema, selecting classic films of the major national cinemas (France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Japan) along with important works from other cinemas (Yugoslavia, India, Brazil, Senegal). Weekly screenings. Prerequisite: CIN/CMM 150. Film fee.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to literature written in Yiddish before 1900, concentrating on the three fathers of Yiddish literature, Mendele S'forim, Y. L. Peretz, and Sholom Aleichem. Included is the 17th-century journal of Gluckel of Hameln, as well as works of the occult. Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will continue the study of literary forms established by S'forim, Aleichem, and Peretz (The Realistic, The Ironic, The Parodic, etc.), as they appear in the world of such writers as Pinski, Spector, Asch, Reisen, Weissenber, Schneour, Shapiro, Kulback, I. J. Singer, Opatoshu, Bergelson, Glatstein, Grade, and on what are called Yenne Velt stories of Jewish fantasy and the occult. Proverbs, folk tales, songs, poems, will introduce each meeting. Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Studies in the works of six to eight important writers of the past 50 years in the light of their experiences during World War II and the Holocaust, five of whom have won the Nobel Prize. I. B. Singer (Poland), Joseph Brodsky (Russia), S. Y. Agnon (Holland), Primo Levi (Italy), Nellie Sachs (Sweden), Paul Celan (France), F. Kafka (Czechoslovakia), I. Svevo (Austria), A. Applefeld (Germany), Elie Wiesel (Romania), J. Roth (Galicia), H. Pinter (England), among others. Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of such modern European writers as Borges, Martin Gaite, Duras, Grass, Camus, Sartre, Mann, and Beckett. Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Thorough survey of one or more of the major national cinemas (American, British, French, German, Italian, Japanese). Specific national cinema varies by the semester, thus the course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: CIN/CMM 150 and foreign-language literature course, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Content of courses will vary.
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3.00 Credits
Study of major critical theories and techniques of literary criticism. Readings of significant modern literary critics and practical application of their methods. Prerequisites: ENG 140 and foreign-language literature course, or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
There are two capstone courses required of all students majoring in modern languages and cultures. The capstone sequence (470-471) presumes advanced competence based on previous experience in the study of major writers, ideas, and cultural periods within the student's target literature and culture program. The first capstone (ML 470) treats representative writers, genres, and cultural periods, and trains students to make comparisons and connections between different writers, periods, theories, and ideas in the several international literatures and cultures taught in the ML department. The content varies each semester dependent on majors in the capstone. The capstone course is open to students with junior-level standing or by permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This is the second and final course in a required capstone sequence. The capstone sequence (ML 470-471) presumes advanced competence based on previous experience in the study of major writers, ideas, and cultural periods within the student's target literature and culture program. This course will explore and situate theory and methods from cultural studies, an approach in which literary and artistic texts, including film, television, and video, are treated as conveyors of the working myths of a culture, not representations of essences or natures. Cultural studies treats texts as living structures that tend to become frozen within the limits of a historico-cultural scene and to intermingle with the scene to such an extent that imagining something else becomes difficult. In this way, particular categories of class, race, gender, sexualities, and the like acquire the status of norms (become normalized). The course focuses on how messages are constructed, how readers deconstruct them, and on distinct approaches to reading the various texts of a given culture. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Normally taken in the senior year.
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