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Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS)
Update: Link to descriptions of new courses approved in spring 2006. 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). CA 1. CA 4-INT 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. Either semester. Three credits. Conventions, history, and development of selected film genres. 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. |
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