Cultural Studies and Languages Courses
Spring 2024
Cuisine, Culture, and Identity
Stephen ShapiroÉcocritique : Écologie et Littérature
Sophie Brunau-ZaragozaEnhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences Through Japanese Children’s Books
Ikuko YoshidaExploring Contemporary Society through Films and Media
Ginger LinInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Sophie Brunau-ZaragozaLatin American Critical Theory
Jonathan PitcherLife and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films
Ikuko YoshidaQueer French
Stephen ShapiroQueering Creation in the Arts of Latin America
Lena Retamoso UrbanoSocial and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate)
Ikuko YoshidaSonorous and Silent: Transatlantic Poetry in Spanish
Lena Retamoso UrbanoSpanish Through Film
Jonathan PitcherSpecial Projects in Advanced Japanese
Ikuko YoshidaThe art of Letting Go: Daoism and Buddhism in Daily Life
Ginger Lin
Fall 2023
Dining Culture in Taiwan
Ginger LinFirst World Problems: Microcinema and popular media
Ginger LinFrom the Edo to Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society
Ikuko YoshidaGender and Sexuality in Chinese Culture
Ginger LinInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World I
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereLatin America: A Paratext
Jonathan PitcherLe cinéma-monde d’Alice Diop
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyMouvements
Stephen ShapiroMyths and Legends from the Spanish-Speaking World
Lena Retamoso UrbanoParis on Screen: Tradition and Modernity
Stephen ShapiroPerceptions of Reality in 20th Century Latin American Literature
Lena Retamoso UrbanoProminent Works of Japanese Authors
Ikuko YoshidaRakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling
Ikuko YoshidaSurrealism in Latin America: Origins and Reception
Lena Retamoso UrbanoVirtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan
Ikuko Yoshida
Spring 2023
Beyond Le Triangle et l’Hexagone: Narrating the (Hi)story and the Self
Maboula SoumahoroContemporary Chinese Poetry
Ginger LinEnhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences: Digital Book Project (Introductory)
Ikuko YoshidaFramed? Literature Heroines on Screen
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyInner Travel
Jonathan PitcherInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyLife and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films
Ikuko YoshidaQuesting the Bizarre: Writing, Rewriting, and Un-Writing in Hispanic Literature
Lena Retamoso UrbanoSocial and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate)
Ikuko YoshidaSound Bites
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlySpanish Through Song
Lena Retamoso UrbanoSpecial Projects in Advanced Japanese
Ikuko YoshidaSpecial Projects in Spanish
Jonathan PitcherTaiwan and China in Global Affairs
Ginger LinThe Art of Literary Translation: Your Histories, Texts, and Authorial Selves
Marguerite FeitlowitzThe Basic Calligraphy Strokes for Beginners
Ginger LinZen Buddhism
Ginger Lin
Fall 2022
Avant-Garde Art in China
Ginger LinBlackness in French
Maboula SoumahoroChocolat
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyDialoguing with Modern Latin American Poetries
Lena Retamoso UrbanoDining Culture in Taiwan
Ginger LinExamining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society in the Edo Period and Meiji Period
Ikuko YoshidaGesture: Utterances as multimodal acts
Leah PappasIn Quest of the “New” Latin American Chronicle
Lena Retamoso UrbanoInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World I
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereLanguage, Thought, and Culture
Leah PappasLatin American Art Since Independence
Jonathan PitcherMaking the Invisible, Visible: Creating from the Margins
Lena Retamoso UrbanoMother Figure and Motherly Figures in Italian Literature and Culture – Taught in English
Barbara AlfanoPop Culture in Taiwan and China
Ginger LinRakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling
Ikuko YoshidaReading & Writing Multilingual Texts: When One Language Isn’t Enough
Marguerite FeitlowitzRegardez
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlySocial Issues in Japan Through Online News
Ikuko YoshidaTai Chi 37 Forms
Ginger LinVirtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan
Ikuko Yoshida
Spring 2022
Cartography of Desire in Latin American and Spanish Poetry
Lena Retamoso UrbanoEnglish(es) Past, Present and Future
Thomas Leddy-CecereEnhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences: Digital Book Project (Introductory)
Ikuko YoshidaFrench Comedy
Stephen ShapiroFrench Through Films
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyFrom April Fifth to June Fourth: Craze, Hunger, and Everydayness in China’s Reform Era
Jingsheng ZhangFrom “Modern Woman” to “Iron Girl” to “Left-over Woman”
Jingsheng ZhangInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyLife Stories
Stephen ShapiroPrima dell’_Amica geniale_: Elena Ferrante’s Short Novels
Barbara AlfanoQueering Creation in the Arts of Latin America
Lena Retamoso UrbanoRegions and Cuisine: Traveling Japan with Matsuo Basho
Ikuko YoshidaReVisions Rebellions, Revolution: Latin American Women Writers
Marguerite FeitlowitzSocial and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate)
Ikuko YoshidaSpanish Through Film
Jonathan PitcherSpecial Projects in Advanced Japanese
Ikuko YoshidaTeaching Languages and Cultures K-6
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyThe Art of Literary Translation
Marguerite FeitlowitzTheories of Revolution
Jonathan PitcherTHIS, THAT and the OTHER: An Introduction to Linguistic Referring
Thomas Leddy-CecereTV Shows and The Contemporary Chinese Society
Jingsheng Zhang
Fall 2021
#Stop Asian Hate: Taking Actions Against Hate
Ikuko YoshidaConversations
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyCréatrices
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyCuisine, Culture, and Identity
Stephen ShapiroDining Culture in Taiwan
Ginger LinExamining Equality and Equity through the Analysis of Japanese Society in the Edo Period and Meiji Period
Ikuko YoshidaIn and Out of Italy: Migration Fluxes Through the Boot
Barbara AlfanoInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World I
Stephen ShapiroLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereLanguage, Power and Belonging in the Middle East and North Africa
Thomas Leddy-CecerePerceptions of Reality in 20th Century Latin American Literature
Lena Retamoso UrbanoPropaganda in Modern Chinese Culture
Ginger LinRakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling
Ikuko YoshidaSeminar on Monolingualism
Thomas Leddy-CecereSurrealism in Latin America: Origins and Reception
Lena Retamoso UrbanoTai-Chi & Qi-Gong
Ginger LinThe Daoist Tales
Ginger LinThe Language of Persuasion
Sarah HarrisThe Power of Image
Lena Retamoso UrbanoVirtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan
Ikuko Yoshida
Spring 2021
Chocolat
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyConfucianism vs. Daoism
Ginger LinContemporary Chinese Poetry
Ginger LinContemporary Japanese Culture
Huang-wen LaiContemporary Japanese Fiction and Film
Huang-wen LaiGhosts and Demons in Japan
Huang-wen LaiInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyIntroduction to Japanese Film
Huang-wen LaiKansai Dialect and Culture
Justin VasselliLanguage through Film
Jonathan PitcherParis on Screen Tradition and Modernity
Stephen ShapiroQueer French
Stephen ShapiroSpecial Projects in Spanish
Jonathan PitcherThe Latin American Short Story
Jonathan PitcherThe “Chinese Dream” after COVID?
Ginger LinTraveling in Italian Film
Barbara Alfano
Fall 2020
Crash and Learn: Latin American Art since Independence in Intensive Beginner’s Spanish
Jonathan PitcherCurrent Affairs: Taiwan, Hong Kong and China
Ginger LinDining Culture in Taiwan and China
Ginger LinFrench Through Films: On connait la chanson and Vers la tendresse
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyFrench Through Films: Rue Cases-Nègres and Au revoir les enfants
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World
Stephen ShapiroLa novela de la tierra
Jonathan PitcherLanguage as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-CecereL’Afrance: un livre/un film
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyModernizing the Nation: From the Edo Period to the Meiji Period
Ikuko YoshidaOcchio all’Italia I: Italian Culture in Depth
Barbara AlfanoOcchio all’Italia II: Italian Culture in Depth
Barbara AlfanoOrientalism and Exoticism
Stephen ShapiroRakugo: Art of Storytelling
Ikuko YoshidaSpecial Projects in Advanced Japanese
Ikuko YoshidaThemes and Version
Stephen ShapiroThresholds of Identity: Films and Novels of Migration
Sarah HarrisVirtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan
Ikuko YoshidaWe, Unfortunately, Are Borges
Jonathan PitcherZen Buddhism
Ginger Lin