| 101. Classics
of World Literature I
Either semester. Three credits.
Introduction to classics of world literature. Comparative approach to
canonical works of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, as
well as Europe, from antiquity to the early modern period (1600). |
| 102. Classics
of World Literature II
Either semester. Three credits.
An introduction to classics of world literature. A comparative approach
to representative works of culture of Europe, the Americas, Africa, the
Middle-East, and Asia, from the Renaissance (1600) to the present. CA 1.
CA 4-INT. |
| 201.
Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
(Formerly offered as COML 201.) Either semester. Three credits. This
course may be repeated for credit with a change of topic.
Literary and cultural questions that go beyond national boundaries:
the relationship of literature to other disciplines and to the other arts;
cinema as a cultural phenomena. (No foreign language required.) |
| 203.
Comparative Studies in Cultural History
Either semester. Three credits. This course may be repeated for credit
with a change of topic.
The comparative study of cultural movements in literature and the arts
throughout history. The course will explore different areas of cultural
practice -- e.g., social, literary, political, aesthetic, anthropological,
-- with an eye as to how they are shaped, and in turn shape, dominant institutions
and values. Sample topics include: World War I and the emergence of Modernism;
European Fascisms; Christian, Jewish, and Muslim culture in Medieval Spain;
photography and the Colonial Encounter, etc. May be repeated with change
of topic. |
| 207. Film Genres
Either semester. Three credits.
Conventions, history, and development of selected film genres. |
| 208. Studies in Film
History
Either semester. Three credits.
The history of cinema from its origins to the present in relation to
relevant historical and cultural developments. |
| 214. Introduction
to World Cinema and Comparative Film Theory
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores or higher.
Introduction to the theory and criticism of film, applied to classics
of world cinema. Comparative study of the development of cinematic techniques,
and comparative approach to film as cultural production. |