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Minor Concentration European Literature and Culture (18 credits)

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Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures     Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Program Requirements

The Minor Concentration in European Literature and Culture provides students with a broad foundation for understanding the development and interconnectedness of European culture, and its relevance for the comprehension of today’s world through the study of literature and the arts from the Middle Ages to modern times. Knowledge of a language other than English is not required to complete the program.

Required Course (3 credits)

Complementary Courses (15 credits)

9-15 credits selected from the list below. At least 6 credits should be at the 300-level or above.

Students with an advanced knowledge of German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish can count GERM, HISP, ITAL, and RUSS literature courses taught in those languages toward the Minor Concentration. No more than 6 credits in any given area (LLCU, GERM, HISP, ITAL, and RUSS) shall count toward the Minor Concentration (not including LLCU 210).

  • GERM 355 Nietzsche and Wagner (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : This course examines the relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the composer Richard Wagner. It explores their intellectual kinship, their view of art, music, and philosophy in the context of Nietzsche's critique of modernity and decadence and analyzes the Third Reich's and Hollywood's appropriation of Nietzsche and Wagner.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Bauer, Karin (Fall)

    • Winter

    • Given in English

  • GERM 357 German Culture in European Context (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : A comparative examination of selected moments in German literary, artistic and cultural history in relation to broader European movements; focus on influences, exchanges and dialogues across national boundaries.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Holmes, Tove (Winter)

    • Fall

    • Course given in English

    • Prerequisite: A culture or literature course at the 200 or 300 level

  • GERM 358 Franz Kafka (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : This course will look at the works on Franz Kafka, a "classic" modernist author, in three characteristic genres: the story, the novel, and the short prose piece. A selection of Kafka's letters and diary entries as well as critical approaches to his work will also be studied.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Peters, Paul (Winter)

    • Fall

    • Given in English

  • GERM 359 Bertolt Brecht (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : This course provides an overview of Brecht's development as a dramatist and as a theorist, advocate and practitioner of a new form of theater. Attention will also be given to Brecht as a poet and to film versions of Brecht's works.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Fall

    • Given in English

  • GERM 364 Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : In connection with notions of identity, nationhood, political change, and cultural difference, this course investigates concepts and issues of gender in contemporary German Society. The readings include critical essays and literary texts by writers, scholars, philosophers, journalists, politicians, and political activists.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • GERM 365 Modern Short Fiction (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : A study of short prose forms in German throughout history.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • GERM 367 Topics in German Thought (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : A variety of issues significant to the development of German cultural and intellectual life.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Peters, Paul (Fall)

    • Winter

    • Given in English

  • GERM 368 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : Interdisciplinary study of one of the formative periods of modern European culture; examination of literature, art, thought, culture and politics in Vienna around 1900.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: A culture or literature course at the 200 or 300 level

    • Course given in English

  • GERM 369 The German Novel (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : Sustained engagement with the major texts of the German novel from Grimmelshausen to the present.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • GERM 370 Special Topics in German Film (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    German (Arts) : Intensive study of selected topics and periods in German film history.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Schwartz, Daniel (Fall)

    • Fall

    • Given in English

  • HISP 225 Hispanic Civilization 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Hispanic Studies (Arts) : A survey of historical and cultural elements which constitute the background of the Hispanic world up to the 18th century; a survey of the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations (Aztec, Maya and Inca) and the conquest of America.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Jouve-Martin, Jose (Fall)

    • Fall

    • Taught in English

  • HISP 226 Hispanic Civilization 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Hispanic Studies (Arts) : A survey of the constitution of the ideological and political structures of the Spanish Empire in both Europe and America until the Wars of Independence; a survey of the culture and history of the Hispanic people from the early 19th Century to the present.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Jouve-Martin, Jose (Winter)

    • Winter

    • Taught in English

  • HISP 301 Hispanic Literature and Culture in English 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Hispanic Studies (Arts) : A topic in the literatures and/or cultures of the Hispanic world will be studied, with all readings and discussion in English.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Fall

    • Taught in English

  • HISP 302 Hispanic Literature and Culture in English 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Hispanic Studies (Arts) : A topic in the literatures and/or cultures of the Hispanic world will be studied, with all readings and discussion in English.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Taught in English

  • ITAL 355 Dante and the Middle Ages (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Soranzo, Matteo (Winter)

    • Fall

    • Given in English

  • ITAL 361 Modern Italian Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : Major prose works of Italian literature as they reflect the reactions of writers to the social, cultural and political dilemmas facing Italian society in the 20th century.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Winter

    • Given in English

  • ITAL 365 The Italian Renaissance (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Soranzo, Matteo (Fall)

    • Winter

    • Given in English

  • ITAL 374 Classics of Italian Cinema (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Minghelli, Giuliana (Fall)

    • Fall

    • Note: Course taught in English.

  • ITAL 385 Italian Futurist Movement (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : Futurism is essentially a multidisciplinary movement. Using textual and visual material, its various manifestations - in literature, "paraliterature", painting, photography, theatre, film, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, and performance - will be examined from a double perspective: the futurist theory/practice relationships on the one hand and, on the other, the multiple links between Italian futurism, the "historical" avant-garde outside Italy and the neo-avant garde movements of the 60s and 70s.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Given in English

  • ITAL 416 The Twentieth Century (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : Topics in twentieth-century Italian literary and cultural history. The focus may be on a movement, a theme, a genre, a specific writer, or a specific period.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Given in English.

  • ITAL 450 Italy and the Visual Age (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : A study of the emergence of a mass culture industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, through the survey of a variety of visual sources.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Prerequisite: ITAL250 or above, from amongst courses taught in Italian or permission of Department.

  • ITAL 464 Machiavelli (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Fall

    • Given in English

  • ITAL 465 Religious Identities in Italy (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : This course examines the role played by religion in shaping Italian identities by looking at the works of Dante, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico, Galileo Galilei and other Early Modern authors in their cultural and institutional contexts. By looking at how these authors expressed their beliefs and interacted with religious institutions, students are invited to critically engage on the concept of "religion".

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • ITAL 477 Italian Cinema and Video (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Italian (Arts) : Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Saporito, Paolo; Tumino, Anna maria (Winter)

    • Winter

    • Given in English

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 377

  • LLCU 200 Topics in Film (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    LLCU : This seminar focuses on a special topic in European and/or transatlantic film and visual culture.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • LLCU 201 Literature and Culture Topics (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    LLCU : Special topics seminar focusing on a particularly relevant theme, recurrent motif, or a seminal movement in European and/or transatlantic literature.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Kroha, Lucienne (Winter)

  • LLCU 220 Introduction to Literary Analysis (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    LLCU : A literary analysis course that introduces the tools and critical terms needed for studying poetry and prose fiction, discussing formal and stylistic differences, organizing and writing critical essays.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • LLCU 230 Environmental Imaginations (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    LLCU : This course will provide a cultural framework for examining representations of environmental issues in literary texts and films. The emphasis will be on the ways issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, and extreme weather patterns are imagined in specific cultural productions.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • LLCU 279 Introduction to Film History (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    LLCU : An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EAST 279 or FILM 279.

    • Language of instruction: English.

  • LLCU 300 Cinema and the Visual (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    LLCU : This seminar examines topics in European and/or transatlantic cinema and visual culture, including film theory, aesthetics and historiography; media archeology; cinema and the digital; film and philosophy; cultural histories of the cinema; and approaches to moving images.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Minghelli, Giuliana (Winter)

  • LLCU 301 Topics in Culture and Thought (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    LLCU : Special topics focusing on European or transatlantic intellectual traditions and movements.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Chavez Guerra, Lidoly (Fall)

    • Since this course will be taught abroad, the statutory holidays June 24 and July 1 will not apply. Therefore, there will be classes on both June 24 and July 1.

    • A fee of $3000 covers the costs of professors room, meals, and airfare; Project Coordinator stipend, accommodation and meals; accommodation based on double occupancy, two meals a day, ground transportation, academic materials, city taxes and various activities/excursions while in Italy (La Sapienza University in Rome). Students pay their own airfare

  • RUSS 217 Russia's Eternal Questions (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Fall

    • Given in English

    • Restriction: Permission of the instructor

  • RUSS 218 Russian Literature and Revolution (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : The dramatic developments in Russian literature of the 20th century, from revolution, through conformity, to the ironies and anxieties of the post-Soviet era. Comrades, iconoclasts, absurdists, proletarians and aesthetes; the Gulag, the literary café, the music of the spheres, the crumbling Russian village; the reforging of humanity and the rediscovery of tradition.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Fall)

    • Fall or Winter

    • Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful

    • Given in English

  • RUSS 223 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : The Golden Age of Russian literature: from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol to the first works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This course traces the rise of a coherent literary tradition in Russia, exploring authors’ relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Pratt, Daniel (Fall)

    • Fall

    • Given in English

  • RUSS 224 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : This course explores the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century Russian literature. From psychological realism and the novel of ideas to the rise of the great short story; Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and Chekhov.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Berman, Anna (Winter)

    • Winter

    • Given in English

  • RUSS 330 Chekhov without Borders (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : Chekhov’s short stories and plays. The genre of the short story and its relationship to realist, modernist, and postmodernist aesthetics. Chekhov’s influence in Russia and abroad.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Fall

    • Course will be given in English.

  • RUSS 337 Vladimir Nabokov (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : Cross sampling of short stories and major novels by Vladimir Nabokov; his life-long love affair with language and "aesthetic bliss"; his flouting of convention from Russia's Silver Age to post-McCarthy America. Lolita in and beyond the Russian context.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Beraha, Laura A (Winter)

    • Given in English.

  • RUSS 340 Russian Short Story (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : Russian stories that encompass the major aesthetic and thematic concerns of the short story genre. Recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual, and artistic memory.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Parts, Lyudmila (Fall)

  • RUSS 357 Leo Tolstoy (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : An in-depth exploration of the literature and thought of Leo Tolstoy. This course will cover his major works of fiction as well as non-fiction essays, diary entries, and letters, with the majority of the semester devoted to his great masterpiece, War and Peace.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • RUSS 358 Fyodor Dostoevsky (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : An in-depth study of the writing and thought of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through reading Dostoevsky's major novels as well as some of his short fiction and journalism in the context of his times, this course will explore Dostoevsky's contributions to literature and philosophy.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Parts, Lyudmila (Fall)

    • Taught in English

  • RUSS 385 Russian Drama: from Pushkin to Chekhov (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : Masterpieces of the Russian stage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the emergence of a uniquely Russian dramatic sensitivity against prevailing European trends; the literary word in a public, political and/or avant-garde forum.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Fall

    • At least 2 courses in literature and/or cultural studies.

  • RUSS 427 Russian Fin de Siècle (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : Russian poetry, prose, drama, book design and the visual arts from the Silver Age to WWI, from Chekhov to Blok and Belyi. The crisis of realism, decadence, symbolism, and its waning traced through the eternal feminine, the devil, the city, poetry as pure creation, and millennial crisis. Not open to students who have taken or are taking RUSS 465.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Course offered in English.

    • Prerequisite(s): At least 2 courses (6 credits) in literature and/or cultural studies.

    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RUSS 465.

  • RUSS 428 Russian Avantgarde (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : Russian poetry, prose, drama, the manifesto, street festivals and the explosion of experiment in the visual arts from WW1 to 1930. The avant-garde anticipates, transcends, responds and then succumbs to revolution.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Prerequisite(s): At least 2 courses (6 credits) in literature and/or cultural studies.

    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RUSS 466.

  • RUSS 430 High Stalinist Culture 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : Novels, films, art, architecture, pageantry, rhetoric and routine of the Stalinist 1930s-40s, including socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avant-garde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum, self-proclaimed international style and/or uniquely Russian 20th-century project.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Winter

    • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RUSS 510

    • Given in English

  • RUSS 440 Russia and Its Others (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : In-depth historical approach to cultural construction of Russian national identity and to the concept of the Other as a condition of self-representation: East, West, America, class enemies, dissidents, ethnic and sexual minorities, etc. Introduction to theoretical tools for approaching issues of national identity, alterity, (post)colonialism, exoticism, and orientalism. Not open to students who have taken RUSS 475 in 201301.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Parts, Lyudmila (Winter)

    • Prerequisite(s): At least 2 literature/cultural studies courses at the 200 or 300 level; or permission of the Department.

    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RUSS 475 in 201301.

  • RUSS 454 Narratives of Desire (3 credits)

    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Russian (Arts) : An exploration of desire as it was narrativized in Russian literature 1860-1900. The course draws on comparative examples from European literature as well as various theoretical approaches for conceptualizing love and desire.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Prerequisite(s): At least two literature courses at the 200 or 300 level or permission of the department.

0-6 credits in literature courses offered by Classical Studies (CLAS), English (ENGL), and French (FREN) selected from the following list:

  • CLAS 203 Greek Mythology (3 credits)

    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Classics : A survey of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Kaloudis, Naomi (Winter)

  • CLAS 301 Ancient Greek Literature and Society (3 credits)

    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Classics : Survey of ancient Greek literature in translation, covering the key genres and texts in their social and historical contexts. The material to be discussed includes Archaic epic, lyric, and elegy; Classical tragedy, comedy, and historiography; Hellenistic poetry, and literature of the Roman Imperial period.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Sirois, Martin (Fall)

    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 200.

  • CLAS 302 Roman Literature and Society (3 credits)

    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Classics : An exploration of Roman texts written during the Republican and Imperial periods (200 BCE-400 CE) and the study of social contexts in which they were written.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Totten, Darian (Winter)

    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 208.

  • CLAS 306 Classics in Modern Media (3 credits)

    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Classics : Receptions of the classical paradigm of Ancient Greece and Rome in modern media, the classical tradition, and current scholarship.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 206.

  • CLAS 336 Modern Greek Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    Classics : Offers a panorama of Modern Greek literature. It examines a corpus of texts selected according to each year's thematic topic of study.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • ENGL 200 Survey of English Literature 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A survey of English literature before 1750 for students not registered in English programs.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Folkerth, Wes (Fall)

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Fall

    • Restriction: Not open to students in English programs

  • ENGL 201 Survey of English Literature 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A survey of English literature after 1750 for students not registered in English programs.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Winter

    • Restriction: Not open to students in English programs

  • ENGL 215 Introduction to Shakespeare (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A study of a selection of plays, in their intellectual and theatrical context, with an emphasis on the interplay of text and performance.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H; Kellar, Stephen (Fall)

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Winter

  • ENGL 309 English Renaissance Drama 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Fall

  • ENGL 310 Restoration and 18th Century Drama (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A study of works of Restoration and 18th century drama.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Winter

  • ENGL 314 20th Century Drama (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A study of selected representative works in modern drama and theatre.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Carney, Sean (Winter)

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Winter

  • ENGL 329 English Novel: 19th Century 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A study of representative novelists of the earlier 19th century.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Fall

  • ENGL 337 Theme or Genre in Medieval Literature (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : Study of a particular theme or genre of significance to the development of medieval literature.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Bray, Dorothy (Fall)

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

  • ENGL 347 Great Writings of Europe 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A study of selected texts that significantly enhance understanding of English literature.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Kilgour, Margaret A (Winter)

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Winter

  • ENGL 349 English Literature and Folklore 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A study of representative texts from Beowulf to the late Renaissance period in relation to their background in folk tradition. A focus on the origin and development of folklore motifs.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Fall

  • ENGL 356 Middle English (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A study of works in Middle English.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Winter

  • ENGL 447 Crosscurrents/English Literature and European Literature 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : Comparative study of English and European literature. Topic varies by year.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Fall

  • ENGL 456 Middle English (3 credits)

    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    English (Arts) : A study of works in Middle English.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Van Dussen, Michael (Winter)

    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .

    • Fall

  • FREN 355 Littérature du 20e siècle 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française depuis 1900.

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Daunais, Isabelle (Fall)

  • FREN 360 La littérature du 19e siècle 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 19e siècle.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • FREN 362 La littérature du 17e siècle 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 17e siècle.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • FREN 364 La littérature du 18e siècle 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 18e siècle.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Charbonneau, Frederic (Winter)

  • FREN 366 Littérature de la Renaissance 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 16e siècle.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Desrosiers, Diane (Winter)

  • FREN 453 Littérature du 20e siècle 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs et de thèmes importants de la littérature française du 20e siècle.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Les étudiants qui ont suivi le cours FREN 351 ne seront pas admis.

  • FREN 455 La littérature médiévale 1 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du moyen-âge (des origines au 15e siècle).

    Terms: Fall 2020

    Instructors: Arseneau, Isabelle (Fall)

  • FREN 456 La littérature médiévale 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du moyen-âge (des origines au 15e siècle).

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • FREN 457 La littérature de la Renaissance 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 16e siècle.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    • Les étudiants qui ont suivi le cours 125-367 ne seront pas admis

  • FREN 458 La littérature du 17e siècle 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 17e siècle.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • FREN 459 La littérature du 18e siècle 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'ceuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 18e siècle.

    Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

    Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2020-2021 academic year.

  • FREN 482 La littérature du 19e siècle 2 (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 19e siècle.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Bernadet, Arnaud (Winter)

  • FREN 485 Littérature française contemporaine (3 credits)

    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)

    Overview

    French (Arts) : Études d'ceuvres, d'auteurs ou de thèmes importants de la littérature française récente et actuelle.

    Terms: Winter 2021

    Instructors: Coussy, Audrey (Winter)

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