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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course numbers followed by an ‘L’ are cross-listed with another department or program.
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CHEM 361 - Analytical Instrumentation
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Principles and use of instrumental methods in analysis.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CHEM 313 and CHEM 379
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CHEM 397 - Special Topics in Chemistry
1 - 4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An advanced course offering intensive study of selected topics in chemistry. Course content varies and will be announced prior to registration. Several topics may be offered each semester.
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CHEM 408 - Chemical Computation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of molecular simulation methods and modeling in computational chemistry. The course will cover computational algorithms used in theoretical chemistry and in chemical data acquisition, analysis, and graphical presentation.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CHEM 311 and CHEM 313
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CHEM 458 - Medicinal Chemistry
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This upper-level professional course presents the principles of medicinal chemistry. It is an introduction to drug development, organized along the following main lines: drug discovery process, drug structure and ADME properties, lead discovery and optimization, structure-activity relationship, computer-aided drug design, combinatorial chemistry, drugs from natural sources, pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, drug and analog synthesis and overview of major drug targets, such as biological membranes, receptors, enzymes, nucleic acids among others. Intellectual property protection, preclinical and clinical trials and approval process are also discussed.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CHEM 252
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CHEM 471 - Introduction to Green Chemistry
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course probes aspects of chemistry that are designed to benefit society and that search for pathways to minimize environmental impact. The course first studies a specific environmental problem in depth, then probes the pragmatic implications of discoveries in the field, and finally provides an array of representative green chemistry examples.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CHEM 312 (preferred) or CHEM 252 or CHEM 254 or CHEM 954A
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CHEM 478 - Readings in Chemistry
1 - 4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 12 times/12 credits
Description:
Topics vary depending on instructor.
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CHEM 479 - Readings in Chemistry
1 - 4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 12 times/12 credits
Description:
Topics vary depending on instructor.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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CHEM 498 - Senior Thesis I
2 Credit(s) | Seminar |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course, the first in a two-part sequence, contains both laboratory and classroom components. In the classroom, topics of interest to practicing chemists are discussed, including segments on scientific ethics, literature searches, and scientific writing. Students will also prepare two short presentations and regularly attend departmental research seminars, as well as beginning their capstone research project. Both courses in the sequence are required for the Chemistry capstone requirement.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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CHEM 499 - Senior Thesis II
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course, the second in a two-part sequence, contains both laboratory and classroom components. In the classroom, topics of interest to practicing chemists are discussed, including segments on scientific presentations (e.g., posters, PowerPoint, seminar talks) and career preparation. Students will regularly attend departmental research seminars, as well as continuing on their capstone research project. As paper of significant length and a research presentation are required. Both courses in the sequence are required for the Chemistry capstone requirement.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CHEM 498
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CHINSE 101 - Elementary Chinese I
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
For students with no previous training in Chinese. Introduction to pronunciation (Mandarin), grammar, conversation, Chinese characters and the Pinyin romanization system.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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CHINSE 102 - Elementary Chinese II
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A continuation of CHINSE 101 . Grammar, pronunciation, conversation, reading, and writing.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CHINSE 101 or equivalent.
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CHINSE 201 - Intermediate Chinese I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Continuation of CHINSE 102 . Intensive review and further study of grammar and audio-lingual skills with correlated intermediate-level readings in modern Chinese.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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CHINSE 202 - Intermediate Chinese II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Continuation of CHINSE 201 . Intensive review and further study of grammar and audio-lingual skills with correlated intermediate-level readings in modern Chinese.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CHINSE 201 or equivalent
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CHINSE 253 - Is Culture Power? Re-thinking ‘Traditional’ Chinese Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction to Chinese literature and culture before 1900, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which fiction, poetry, letters, diaries, plays, and essays relate to other types of cultural production, including art, ritual, philosophy, politics, discourses of nation and ethnicity, and “everyday life.”
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CHINSE 276 - Modern Chinese Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction to movies made in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, with particular attention to questions of cinematic style and technique. At the same time, it locates Chinese film in an international context-interpreting it with reference, on the one hand, to European, American, and Japanese film and, on the other, to changing economic, social, and political circumstances over the course of the last century. The course is taught in English; no knowledge of Chinese is necessary.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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CHINSE 301 - Advanced Chinese I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A course in written and spoken Chinese beyond the intermediate level. This course aims at developing students’ reading comprehension and speaking proficiency through the study of materials on contemporary China. The Pinyin romanization system is practiced in the classroom for accurate Mandarin speech.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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CHINSE 302 - Advanced Chinese II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed for advanced students of Chinese who would like to improve their informal oral communication and formal presentational skills, and further develop their essay-writing ability. Readings and film selections focus on topical issues in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture. The course is conducted in standard Mandarin Chinese.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CHINSE 202 or equivalent. CHINSE 301 is recommended
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CHINSE 303 - Readings in Chinese: 20th Century
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Short stories, essays, and other writing in Chinese. Among other topics, we will consider changing views of gender and sexuality, the interplay of aesthetics and politics in literature, and the relationship between literature and film. There will be several screenings of films based on short stories. Class discussion in Chinese.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages | Diversity Area: International
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CHINSE 305 - Readings in Chinese: Classical
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, we read classical Chinese short fiction, essays, and poetry in the original, and discuss them in class
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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CHINSE 315 - Chinese Popular Music
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course familiarizes students with Chinese pop culture and popular language usage in social context through the study of Chinese pop songs over the last fifty years. Study of representative songs will contribute not only to a better understanding of Chinese society in different historical periods and the range of socio-cultural perspectives on these periods but also will realize the learners’ language proficiency level through use of the target language in an artistic format. This course is designed for advanced level Chinese language learners (including heritage learners). Materials are primarily in Mandarin, although some videos may be subtitled in English. Lecture and discussion are conducted in Chinese, and all written work is to be done in Chinese.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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CHINSE 320 - Introduction to Teaching Chinese Language
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces theoretical and practical approaches to Chinese language teachings, including discussion of the relationship between general theories of language acquisition and teaching methodologies and the specifics of Mandarin Chinese, how to design and develop course materials, and comparative analysis of popular textbooks. Student swill conduct classroom observation and have the opportunity to design and teach a lesson. Knowledge of Chinese equivalent to CHINSE 202 or above strongly recommended.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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CHINSE 378 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
For those students wishing to pursue the study of Chinese language, literature, or culture beyond the intermediate level. A course of study is jointly designed by supervising instructor and student.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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CHINSE 379 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
For those students wishing to pursue the study of Chinese language, literature, or culture beyond the intermediate level. A course of study is jointly designed by supervising instructor and student.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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CHINSE 479 - Readings & Research
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Primarily for Seniors with a GPA of at least 3.0 in their major who wish to pursue a research topic in depth, one ordinarily not available in standard course offerings. A written prospectus detailing the plan of study must be submitted to the supervising instructor and the department.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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CINE 101 - Introduction to Cinema Studies
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of cinema studies, through the analysis of various national cinemas, genres, and directors. Through weekly readings, screenings, and discussions, students will learn the basic vocabulary of cinema studies and explore a range of modes of filmmaking, including narrative, documentary, and experimental cinema.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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CINE 121G - Space, Place, and Cinema
4 Credit(s) | Seminar | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This first-year seminar explores the many different ways in which space and place are represented in cinema, while also teaching students how to closely observe and critically analyze films. Drawing from cinema history and criticism, it examines how films instill spaces with meaning and transform them into distinctive places. Through screenings of a broad array of films, we will tour a variety of cinemas from throughout the world and investigate such topics as the role of settings in film narratives, and contemporary experiences of displacement and marginalization.
Course Attribute(s):
First Year Seminar
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CINE 201 - Cinema Histories I: Origins to 1950
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is the first in a two-part cinema histories sequence that provides students with a broad overview of the historical developments of film. Students explore the technological, industrial, and cultural shifts that have impacted cinematic production from the nineteenth century to the break up of the studio system. This class examines film history in global terms as students study US cinema alongside other major film movements from Europe, Asia, Latin American, and Africa.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CINE 202 - Cinema Histories II: 1950 to Present
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is the second in a two-part cinema histories sequence that provides students with a broad overview of the historical developments of film. Students explore the technological, industrial, and cultural shifts that have impacted cinematic production from the brake up of the studio system to the present day. This class examines film history in global terms as students study US cinema alongside other major film movements from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
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CINE 213L - The Art of Editing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, students will learn the art of cinematic editing and learn to recognize the impact of continuity and discontinuity editing. For two hours per week, the course will focus on looking at specific films that creatively engage editing techniques; for the remaining hour each week, students will learn the basics of editing language by putting together their own short sequences. Prior knowledge of editing is not required, but those students with some editing experience will also be able to engage anew with editing by learning from the masters of the trade in the history of cinema.
ART 213L and CINE 213L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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CINE 215L - America on Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on the flowering of American cinema through decades of social, political, and cultural change. It examines both classic representations of “The American Experience” and films which challenge such classic representations. The relations between film and other arts, and between film, history, and ideology, are an ongoing concern. AMST 215L and CINE 215L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
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CINE 235L - Europe at the Movies: a History of Postwar Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will investigate the most significant developments of film history int he major European countries after World War II. National cinemas of France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe will be studied in detail through weekly screenings of classic films by some of Europe’s most accomplished filmmakers. Films will be analyzed both in a broad socio-historical framework and in respect to authors’ specific styles. MLLC 235L and CINE 235L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CINE 245 - Studies in Contemporary Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on special topics in contemporary cinema, which will change from semester to semester. Through recent films from manifold different regions, nations and cultures, and using a variety of theoretical and analytical approaches, the themes explored in this course in its various iterations will include (but are not limited to) the rich contemporary history of global filmmaking, both in the traditional Hollywood models and outside the more familiar declinations of the mainstream; the study of the evolution of film form within complex technological, industrial, and cultural representational systems; the changing aesthetic and economic interface between national, regional, and global cinemas and experiences; and the dialectical relationship between new and old, innovation and tradition, self and other.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Arts
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CINE 265L - Acting for the Camera
Formerly CINE 365L
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An exploration and evaluation of techniques of television production, with particular emphasis on common industry practices. THRART 265L and CINE 265L are the same course.
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CINE 275L - Introduction to Screen and Television Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the art and the technical aspects of writing scripts for film and television. Involves analyses of screenplays, study of screen writers past and present, the relationship between director and writer, aesthetics of film writing. Project: the completion of a full-length screenplay from first treatment (synopsis) through first and second drafts and final script. THRART 275L and CINE 275L are the same courses.
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CINE 276L - The Italian Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An in-depth look into the thematic and technical development of the Italian cinema in the context of literary and social history from neo-realism through the 1980’s. Films by Rossellini, Visconti, De Sica, Fellini, Antonioni, and Pasolini. The course is conducted in English. ITAL 276L and CINE 276L are the same course.
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CINE 280L - Postwar Japanese Cinema: From Kurosawa Akira to Kurosawa Kiyoshi
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course surveys some of the most important and exciting cinematic works from postwar Japan. In the first part of the course, we will visit the “masterpieces” - world-renowned works by legendary directors such as Kurosawa Akira, Ozu Yasuijiro, and Oshima Nagisa. We will also discuss techniques of cinema using their works in order to familiarize ourselves with the critical terms of film studies. The second part of the course is divided by theme and is designed to touch on some of the crucial issues (e.g. subversion of tradition) as well as recent development (e.g. popularity of Japanese horror in the global market; what constitutes “Japanese” cinema) surrounding cinema in Japan today. Throughout the course, we will keep an eye for the relationship between Japanese cinema and Hollywood. JAPAN 280L and CINE 280L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
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CINE 285L - History of French Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will acquaint students with films and filmmakers that have made an impact on French cinema and Society from the early 20th century to today. It provides a broad survey of cinematic practices in France and explores the major social issues political debates, and historical memories that have preoccupied French society. The course focuses on how French film interrogates social and national identity in France, but also in Africa and Europe more broadly. FRENCH 285L and CINE 285L are the same course.
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CINE 289 - Special Topics in Cinema Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Various introductory special topics in cinema studies and related fields are offered experimentally, once or twice, under this heading. Topics are announced each semester during pre-registration.
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CINE 292L - Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the history of sex in American cinema by tracing the history of the representation of sex and sexuality from early cinema and the vaudeville tradition to contemporary engagements with queerness, non-normative desires, and artificial intelligence. Students will examine key moments in film history related to sex and censorship, including the scandals of pre-code Hollywood, the rise of the Hays Codes, the development of underground and the exploitation cinemas, and the emergence of the Motion Picture Rating System, as well a range of issues related to sexuality and desire, including same-sex desire, repression, sexual violence, the AIDS crisis, and sex and technology. Students will watch both mainstream, commercial films and smaller, independent art films, as well as B-movies and low budget films, to examine how sex and sexuality have been represented and censored across the broad spectrum of American cinema. This course will occur on the schedule on a rotating and irregular basis.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 .
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CINE 293L - Photography I
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to basic issues in photography. The mechanics of the camera, the techniques of the darkroom, and matters of creative and personal import are addressed through illustrated lectures, class critiques, and assigned lab hours. Some attention is given to the history of photography.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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CINE 295L - Introduction to Video
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This studio course is an introduction to working creatively with moving images within a personal, historical, and critical framework. Through technical workshops using iMovie and Final Cut Pro on the Macintosh, students explore the potential of digital non-linear editing and examine the characteristics and strategies of various genres and forms to inform and enrich their own production. ART 295L and CINE 295L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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CINE 300L - Scenic Design for Theatre and Entertainment
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will introduce students to the art and craft of scenic design for the theatre and the greater entertainment industry. As scenic designers we have not only a visual impact on the stage; we also shape the movement of the stage. As scenic designers we tell the story of the play through visual elements: structure, paint, set dressing, furniture, texture, form. Effective designers must be able to communicate their ideas to the other members of the artistic team and other artisans. This can only be done through visual means such as: scale models, drafting renderings, and research. Students will gain the basic skills in this course to be able to build on what they have learned and continue to experiment with scenic design. This course requires students not only to produce these visual elements by hand but also to critically read and research a play and choose a concept that can be used to guide their design. Projects will be presented in class so students also learn presentation skills.
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CINE 306L - Introduction to French Cinema (in French)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the major works, filmmakers, and movements of French cinema. We will develop a basic knowledge of French film through the analysis of different genres. Through cinema we will also study social, historical and political issues. The course will be taught in French. FRENCH 306L and CINE 306L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: FRENCH 202 or permisison of instructor
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CINE 314L - Art of the Moving Image
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This art history seminar explores the intersection between the moving image and art worlds. It considers issues that come up when the principles, materials, and contexts of each are brought to bear upon the other. How are paintings, sculptures, and/or the artists who work in these forms represented in films? How are moving images presented in gallery/museum spaces and what are the implications for how they interact with other art works? What are the implications of thinking of cinema as an art form, rather than, for instance, as a form of entertainment or a mechanical recording device? How are moving images related to other kinds of art? Students will consider these and other issues related to the course topic, investigating the vibrant range of ways moving images and art inform each other when they interact. ART 314L and CINE 314L are the same course.
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CINE 315L - Asian American Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the independently-produced films and videos by Asian American filmmakers and artists. Asian American independent cinema first emerged as early as the 1910s, but developed most significantly in the civil rights era and closely connected to both the Asian American political movement and the development of the Third World Independent filmmaking. This class begins with an exploration of the early history of Asian and Asian American son the American screen and then shifts to consider the role of Asian Americans behind the camera. We explore the post- 1960s production of Asian American film and video, ranging from documentary and narrative features to experimental, avant-garde, and short video. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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CINE 318L - Women and Experimental Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Focused on experimental moving images, this course addresses the ways in which some female film artists, lacking support for or interest in commercial and mainstream modes of production, distribution and exhibition, have turned instead to alternative networks. Whether in fully experimental mode, through the larger art world, or through alternative narrative filmmaking, such filmmakers engage a unique perspective - often in dialogue with feminist movements from the suffragists to 1970s feminist film theorists to more recent movements like #TimesUp.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite:
- ENGL 101 or
- another CINE or ART course or
- permission of instructor
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CINE 320 - Studies in Film Directors
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course addresses topics related to particular directors. Its specific focus changes from semester to semester, depending on the director or directors being studied. Regardless of the exact focus, the class will spend significant time exploring the concept of authorship as it related to film production, and students will critically engage with the history and politics of auteur theory.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102
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CINE 321L - Space and Place in Contemporary Art
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will take the notions of “space” and “place” as points of entry into the disparate array of practices that constitute the variegated and ever-expanding field of contemporary art. The source material for this class will be drawn from a range of artists, theorists, and movements, each of which reflects on the social construction of space and on the technologies, norms, and conventions with which humans represent space back to themselves.
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CINE 326L - Costume Design for Film/TV
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will introduce participants to the costume design process for Film and TV. Students will study all aspects of the process; including script analysis, design research, and scene breakdown; continuity, shooting schedules, and wrap; and budgeting, on-set work titles, and union jobs. Students will also learn about the supporting allied arts and crafts. Students will be required to design projects structured to enhance their understanding of Film/TV production, concept, and style, using contemporary digital software. Additionally, students will gain an historical overview, researching a variety of design aesthetics. Film clips will further support critique and class discussion. Select field trips will also be part of the course.
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CINE 330L - Doppelganger: The Uncanny Double in World Literature and Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine the figure of the uncanny doppelganger in world literature and film as well as in psychoanalytic and film theory. For more than two centuries, the figure of the doppelganger has played a major role in folklore, fiction and popular culture. A doppelganger is a ghostly double of a living person and typically appears as his or her twin, shadow or mirror image, representing evil or misfortune. The motif of “self-as-other” fuses supernatural horror with a philosophical inquiry concerning personal identify and psychological investigation into the hidden depths of the human psyche.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CINE 341L - Gender and Film: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to encourage multidisciplinary analysis of gender, cultural representations, and film in the 20th and early 21st century. Among the topics that students will explore are: ethnographic film and gendered practices in ethnographic filmmaking; how ideologies of gender, “race,” and class are constructed, disseminated, and normalized through film (documentary as well as “popular” film); Indigenous women and filmmaking in North America; femininities, masculinities, and power in the “horror film” genre; human rights film and filmmaking as activism. Students will view films made in diverse locations and reflecting multiple historical, political, and cultural perspectives and will explore the intellectual, political and social significance of film in their own lives. ENGL 341L and WGS 341L and CINE 341L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CINE 350 - Studies in Film Genre
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An upper-level course offering advanced study of topics related to particular genres, the specific focus of which changes from semester to semester, depending on the genre or genres being studies. Whatever the exact focus, the class will spend significant time exploring the fundamentals of genre theory as students think historically and culturally about the shape and function of film genre and critically engage the nature and status of American cinema as it operates within and against larger global systems of circulation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102
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CINE 351L - Documentary Moving Images
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This class addresses itself to the nexus of issues centered on the nature of images in terms of how they relate to the world. In what ways does the image provide evidence of the world, in what ways does it provide a challenge to what we think we know about the world and its people, things, and events? On one level, the course is a survey of documentary photography and cinema: it provides an overview of some of the key documentary trends like cinema verite, reenactment, portraiture, creative and experimental autobiography, and social, polemical, and ethnographic approaches to issues and cultures. To that tend, we will view several examples of these different version of documentary work and establish some of the parameters for the ways they function. On another level, the course considers art historical, theoretical, and philosophical notions of what is revealed by an image when it has referent in the world. When, for example, can a documentary image be considered a “true copy” of the world, and when does it require individual subjectivity to create and/or decipher it? The course emphasizes visual literacy and aims to develop students’ capacity for thoughtful engagement with images through creative, hands-on collaborations to community-based efforts for the final projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite:
- ENGL 101 or
- another CINE or ART course or
- permission of instructor
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CINE 355 - Topics in American Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers various ways of surveying American movies from the perspective of the dominant Hollywood model and from its margins. It is designed to allow a variety of topics in American cinema to be taught or the cinema studies minor. Specific course descriptions change based on each iteration of the course.
Drawing on the elect range of American voices, this course might focus on a historical moment, a specific group of Americans as filmmakers or audiences, and/or aesthetic questions related to American cinema. It may consider the changing aesthetics of Hollywood films by looking at films made across the complex and shifting production circumstances before, during and after the decline of the studio system; it may look as well to filmmakers working outside of the mainstream to explore how the processes by which American identities are reflected upon and challenged through movies varies according to the perspectives and methods of engagement of those who make movies. Taking into account artistic, cultural, and commercial aspects of American cinema, the course examines any number of its roles as a system of representation and communication.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CINE 361L - Indigenous Film and Critical Visual Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the ways in which filmmakers have engaged with the notion of ingenuousness primarily through feature film and documentary forms over the last 40 years. The course will look at films directed, produced and written by indigenous and non-indigenous film-makers. We will examine films from a number of different geographical areas, concentrating on North America (the United States and Canada), Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, and Southern Africa. We will also be looking at a select number of films from other areas in relationship to specific issues, these include Tuvalu, Kazakhstan and Guatemala. As part of the course structure, we will also be engaging with a number of specific issues. These include colonialism, identity, the importance of land, environmental destruction, gender, coming of age, new media platforms, the impact of commercial media, and commodification and appropriation of indigenous peoples. A select numb er of film-makers will also be joining the course as guest lecturers.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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CINE 370L - Studies in Experimental Film and Video Art
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course surveys the history of experimental forms of cinema. For as long as cinema has been in existence, filmmakers and artists of many different backgrounds have used the medium to test the limits of its expressive tools. Thus, beginning with early cinema and continuing to the present day, experimental film and video have thrived, developing their own set of concerns and aesthetic interests. These oppositional, radical, creative, and revolutionary films challenge not only the dominant commercial form of the cinema– they also open up new horizons of expression for political, social, and aesthetic issues. By looking at the development of different forms of experiments over the course of cinema history, this course gives students a historical and theoretical background to hone their appreciation and understanding of the meanings produced by film and video art. ART 370L and CINE 370L are the same course.
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CINE 372L - German Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
German cinema constitutes one of the most creative, influential and exciting of all filmic traditions. In this course students will analyze masterpieces of the German cinema and develop an understanding of their expressive modes and formal structures. Topics may include Nazi cinema, cinema and technology, minority filmmaking, German filmmakers in American exile, German New Wave, women filmmakers, and contemporary German cinema. GERMAN 372L and CINE 372L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: International
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CINE 376L - Dystopian Science Fiction in World Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will investigate the most significant developments in the genre of science-fiction cinema in a wide geographic context. In particular the course will frame and analyze dystopian fictions, focusing on its origins, recent developments and interpretations. We will investigate, compare and contrast various dystopian texts through a number of different lenses (political, cultural, ethic) and in various means (written assignments, class discussions, online forum) in order to form informed opinions on the meaning, significance, and cultural usefulness of the concept of dystopia. In fact, while this genre offers gripping and often bleak depictions of futuristic or post-apocalyptic worlds, it can be viewed as a key element to analyze and understand contemporary fears and anxieties. MLLC 376L and CINE 376L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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CINE 389 - Advanced Special Topics in Cinema Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Various advanced special topics in cinema studies and related fields are offered experimentally, once or twice, under this heading. Topics are announced each semester during pre-registration.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102
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CINE 393L - Photography Workshop
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/8 credits
Description:
This workshop is designed to expand knowledge of black and white photography learned in Photography I through individually initiated projects. While technical improvement is essential, emphasis is always given to the ideas and intentions behind the projects. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated for credit.
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CINE 420 - Political Cinema Across Cultures
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The focus of this course will be a comprehensive history of the interrelationship between politics and film in wide geographical and cultural contexts and in distinct time periods, starting from World War II. Film will be studied that was created in Europe, North America, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular the course will frame and analyze various political issues, themes, and ideologies, zeroing in on all the different ways in which these have been used or represented on screen. We will investigate, compare and contrast films and other relevant texts through a number of different lenses (political, cultural, ethical) and using diverse means (written assignment, class discussions, online forum) in order to develop informed opinions on their meaning, cultural significance, and ideological implications. Since its early days, film has been instrumental in advancing political agendas, supporting specific policies, championing ideologies (both overtly and surreptitiously), and influencing national and global audiences. Issues of historical significance and global concern such as the effects of propaganda and totalitarianism, the right to self-determination of peoples, and dominant ideological discourses, among others, will be studied in detail through weekly screenings of relevant classic films. Films will be analyzed both in a broad socio-cultural and historical framework and in respect to authors’ specific style.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CINE 450 - Introduction to Film Theory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An advanced upper-level introduction to film theory. This course explores some of the foundational questions that have shaped the discipline: What is cinema? How is it distinct from other art forms? What is the relationship between film and photography, painting, and the “real” world that a film may capture? What is a good film? What are its unique aesthetic properties? What is the cinematic apparatus? How does a film affect, construct, or delimit a spectator? What is a film spectator? How does cinema enable us to better understand ourselves as perceiving, emotional, and political subjects? Students examine three major theoretical movements: classical film theory, semiotic and apparatus approaches, and politically grounded identity-based film theory. Students also consider films in their own right as theoretical experiments in perception, aesthetics, and politics. Students will read theoretical texts and contemporary reflections on them, as well as watch films and portions of films, in order to explore the issues that have driven cinema studies since its inception.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
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CINE 480 - Internship in Cinema Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A tutorial course for students with approved internships related to cinema studies. Students meet every other week with a faculty internship coordinator to discuss the work they are doing in the internship. Course requirements typically include an internship journal, end-of-term portfolio, and a summary essay, and may include an oral presentation to a class or student group. For application forms and full information about requirements, see the director of internships.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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CLSICS 161 - Demystifying Language: English Vocabulary
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Seventy-five per cent of English vocabulary derives from either Latin or Greek. This course provides students with a system and analytical tools to demystify the process of building their English vocabulary. Students are given an introduction to English word formation (morphology) and principles of semantic change, as well as to history of the English language, while mastering a large body of word elements based in Latin and Greek. The course builds general linguistic awareness while increasing students’ English vocabulary and ability to understand unknown words at sight. Attention is given to academic, scientific and medical terminology.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 180 - Poets, Warriors and Sages: The Greeks
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through consideration of significant figures in Greek literature, history and philosophy, this course introduces students to the major features of the culture of Ancient Greece and to the prominent place of Greek ideas in the Western tradition. The course focuses on critical reading of ancient sources and incorporates analytical writing focused on the reflection of social structures in Greek literature.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 230L - Ancient Egypt
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of the history, art, archaeology, and religion of ancient Egypt. CLSICS 230L and HIST 230L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 233L - The Homeric Warrior
Formerly 233L
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will be devoted to close readings of a Homeric epic, either the Iliad of the Odyssey, with particular attention to the stresses of combat and homecoming. At the same time, the Homeric epics are important historical sources for understanding the society, economy, religion and warfare of Greece in the Bronze and Archaic Ages, and class time will be devoted to comparing poetry with the archaeological evidence.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 239L - Hindu Myth and Narrative: the Epics and Puranas
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course studies Hinduism through its narrative literature, especially the great epics (the Mahabharata and Ramayana) and mythological texts (Puranas - the “Ancient Books”). Through stories of gods, devotees, villains, and heroes, the course explores the development of significant themes in the Hindu tradition, from ethics and philosophy to asceticism and religious devotion. An important focus of the course is the enduring cultural significance of myth and the epics of South and Southeast Asia, as retold through the ages in a variety of languages, cultural contexts, and media, including classical and vernacular texts, the oral tradition, drama, dance, and cinema.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 262L - Greek Art and Architecture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the art and architecture of ancient Greece, from the Late Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period, with special attention to social and cultural contexts. Through careful study and analysis of key works we will explore the visual codes and cultural expectations that informed their original creation and reception, as well as the qualities that have contributed to their enduring influence and prestige. ART 262L and CLSICS 262L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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CLSICS 270 - The Life and Works of Julius Caesar
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Julius Caesar has been called “the best-known ancient Roman.” Not only was he Rome’s greatest general, he has been considered among the finest Latin writers and surpassed by very few Roman orators. Yet he was a man of contradictions who aroused violently different reactions. This course will explore the biography and works of Julius Caesar from several different vantage points and through many different kinds of sources; his own written works; the archaeological evidence of his buildings, coinage, and statues; the writings of his contemporaries and successors; the views of modern scholarship; and the poets and playwrights who have given us their own versions of Caesar.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 271 - Paganism and Christianity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through texts and documents, as well as art and archaeological remains, this course examines the form, experssion and practice of religious life int he ancient Greeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian world, with particular emphasis on cross-cultural borrowings and adaptations.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 278 - Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of the art, architecture and social history of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the cities destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius on August 24, AD 79.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 280 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics in the field of classical studies. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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CLSICS 281 - Greek Civilization: Multi-Cultural Perspectives
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This exploration of Greek culture from the Bronze Age (3,000 BCE) to the Hellenistic period (3rd C BCE), focuses on the “other voices” of ancient Greek society; women, slaves, and foreigners; how such identities were constructed in the ancient texts; what we can know about the lived realities of such groups. Thus, the course aims to turn attention away from the stereotype by which Greek culture exists as an unchanging canon of texts, produced by Greek men, with undeniable and continuing influence on Western culture. Indeed, part of the course will consider precisely how Greek culture has come to enjoy such status, and what, by contrast, it has meant for different peoples at different times.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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CLSICS 282 - Roman Civilization
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A consideration of the major periods of Roman civilization through the reading of literary masterpieces supplemented by a text and lectures on cultural and historical backgrounds. Discussion of Cicero, Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, Petronius (Rome). Introduction to archaeological and artistic materials.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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CLSICS 284 - Greek and Roman Mythology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, this course introduces students to accounts of creation, myths of the gods, and stories of the heros. We also consider the literary, artistic and religious dimensions of myth. Readings include Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, selected tragedies, and Ovid’s Metamophoses.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
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CLSICS 287 - Women in Greek Society and Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Readings in English translation of works of Greek literature dealing with women and their place in society. Particular attention is given to the social, historical, religious and economic forces that shaped gender roles in Greek society, and to the gulf between the roles of women in society and their images in literature. Not open to students who have taken CLSICS 212G .
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
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CLSICS 288 - Image and Reality: The Women of Rome
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Readings in English translation of works of Roman literature dealing with women and their place in society. Consideration of the social structures and forces that affected gender roles in Roman society. Particular attention is given to typologies of women in Roman literature. Not open to students who have taken CLSICS 215G.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
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CLSICS 289 - Rome in Hollywood
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses principally on the treatment of Rome in American films. It compares ancient sources with their adaptations into film. The ways Romans change in the transition from page to screen furnish clues to America’s view of itself, providing a case study of how ideology distorts history.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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CLSICS 290 - Lovers, Slaves, and Shipwrecks: The Origins of the Novel
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Novels of adventure, love, fantasy, travel, and social satire originated among the Greeks and Romans. The best known examples from antiquity are the Satyricon of Petronius and The golden Ass of Apuleius, but novels continued to be written in Latin well into the eighteenth century A.D., and were hugely popular. This course will introduce students to this long tradition. The course will focus on deep shifts in gender roles and sexuality, cultures, ethnicity, multiculturalism, fantasy, and science fiction.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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