Foreign Languages

CHINESE

• Brotherhood and Righteousness San Guo and Shui Hu
• Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy I
• Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy II
• The Concept of Family
• Festivals: Past and Present, East and West
• “Four Generations Under One Roof” to “One Child”
• “The Lost Generation” in Zuese langman
• Love and Self Identity in Hong Lou Meng
• Monuments and Icons in China
• Representations of Women in Chinese Literature
• Singing into the Multifaceted Chinese Reality
• Tour China
• Tracing Cultural Roots
• Tracing Cultural Roots II

FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

• Conversational and Discourse Analysis
• Second Language and Cultural Acquisition

FRENCH

• Desire and Repression in French Literature
• Exploring French Song as Cultural Artifact
• Figures in 19th-Century Literature/Culture: The Prostitute
• Francophone Cultures’ Relationship with the World
• Francophone Identities
• The Historical Film
• Introduction to French and the Francophone World I
• Introduction to French and the Francophone World II
• Love and Friendship in Contemporary French Cinema
• Pushing the Boundaries: Examining Paraliterature
• Reading the Sea
• Representing Identity: Development of Autofiction
• Revolt and Resistance
• Us and Them: Travel and Identity

ITALIAN

• The Baroque and the Modern
• The Culture of Everyday Language
• Italian Children’s Literature and Culture
• The Italian Opera (L’italiano con l’opera)
• The Italian Resistance (La Resistenza Italiana)
• The Mafia and “Amoral Familism” in Italian Life
• Neorealism and the New Realism
• Performing Real-World Italian
• Song and Film from Italy
• “Subjective” Narrative
• Svevo and Tozzi
• The Writing of Italian Visual Artists

JAPANESE

• Acting in Japanese I: Intro to Japanese Language/Culture
• Communicating in Japanese I
• Communicating in Japanese II
• How Life Has Transformed
• Japanese and Chinese Calligraphy II
• Love in Contemporary Japan
• Morals in Japanese Folk Tales
• Speech and Gender in Japanese Society
• Speech and Gender in Modern Japanese Literature
• Underlying Cultural Expectations in Films
• What Do the Facts Tell You about Japan?

SPANISH

• The Art of Spanish I: Language through Painting
• The Art of Spanish II: Language through Film
• The Fiction of History: Borges and Spain
• The Generation of ’98
• Inner Travel
• Latin America: A Paratext
• Seeing Spanish: Portraits in Words and Pictures
• Shaping the Spanish Self 
• Transgression in the First-Person Singular
• Transition in Spain
• Transition in Spain and Latin America
• Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad

Related Courses:

• Democratizing China
• Don Quixote: “The First and Most Completest Novel”
• Musics of Asia
• Post-Colonial Novels