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Thème et Version — FRE4810.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this course we will focus on translating from French into English as well as from English into French. We will work on developing a mindfulness about language use as well as a comparative eye focused on English and French’s stylistic and structural preferences. Grammar and lexical development will also be on offer and will highlight points where the two languages converge
Cultural Studies and Languages

Theories of Revolution — SPA4402.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Over the past two centuries, in an apparently perpetual movement towards democratic independence, Latin America has confronted ruptures in tradition and experimented with a variety of revolutionary discourses to project its multiple pasts into the future. This course will read the postcolonial back into the European and US epistemai, and vice-versa, exploring how Latin
Cultural Studies and Languages

THIS, THAT and the OTHER: An Introduction to Linguistic Referring — LIN2105.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
How do we, as users of language, guide others to successfully follow our attention and intention in referring to elements of shared physical, social and discursive worlds? How do we, as consumers of language, integrate linguistic signals with available context to successfully interpret these acts of reference? In this class, we will draw on data from a wide range of
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Thresholds of Identity: Films and Novels of Migration — SPA4807.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Thresholds of Identity offers the study of novels and films of Spanish migration, domestic and international, through contextualized engagement with selected contemporary texts. Our primary literature and films correspond to each of three recent Spanish migratory trends: 1) mass movement from rural to urban areas in the early twentieth century 2) emigration from Spain during
Cultural Studies and Languages

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the country’s social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian cinematic narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

TV Shows and The Contemporary Chinese Society — CHI4219.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 5
This course invites students to observe and discuss contemporary Chinese society by watching seven of the currently most popular TV shows in mainland China. We will discuss topics such as class, gender, marriage, paternal bond, family ethics, Chinese social development, etc., as are represented by these shows of different genres. The aim of this course is to expose students to
Cultural Studies and Languages

TV Shows, Social media and The Contemporary Taiwanese Society — CHI4406.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
This course encourages students to explore and analyze contemporary Taiwanese society through the lens of popular TV shows currently airing in Taiwan. Topics for discussion will include identity, democracy, indigenous culture, immigration and multiculturalism,  Tech industry, gender equality, LGBTQ+rights, marriage, family structure, and the broader social development of
Cultural Studies and Languages

U.S.-Asian Relations (c. 1800-Present) — HIS2146.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course explores US relations with East and Southeast Asia from the early 1800s up through the present. We examine how transnational and international forces have shaped pivotal moments across three centuries, including the Opium Wars (1840s-1860s), the Meiji Restoration (1868-1889), US seizure of the Philippines (1899-1902), the two World Wars, the Vietnam War (1954-1975),
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad — SPA4108.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

From Simón Bolívar’s recruitment of the exiled Francisco de Miranda in early nineteenth-century London, to the counter-revolutionary Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres, written in a Hampstead flat, much of Latin America’s postcolonial identity has been forged outside its borders. Beyond defining home,

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Unhomely Thoughts from Abroad — SPA4605.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
From Simón Bolívar’s recruitment of the exiled Francisco de Miranda in early nineteenth-century London, to the counter-revolutionary Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres, written in a Hampstead flat, much of Latin America’s postcolonial identity has been forged outside its borders. Beyond defining home, exiles have defined their alternate environments. De Miranda’s
Cultural Studies and Languages

Version: The Art of Translating from French — FRE4807.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 2
In this course we will practice version, the art of translating from French into English. We will work on developing a mindfulness about language use as well as a comparative eye focused on English and French’s stylistic and structural preferences. Grammar and lexical development will also be on offer and will highlight points where the two languages converge and diverge.
Cultural Studies and Languages

Virtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan — JPN2113.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 5
What do you know about Japan? Would you like to visit Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, or the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What do you want to see? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Technology such as Google Earth and 360 video
Cultural Studies and Languages

Virtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan — JPN2113.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 5
What do you know about Japan? Would you like to visit Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, or the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What do you want to see? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Technology such as Google Earth and 360 video
Cultural Studies and Languages

Virtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan — JPN2113.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 5
What do you know about Japan? Would you like to visit Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, or the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What do you want to see? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Technology such as Google Earth and 360 video
Cultural Studies and Languages

Virtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan — JPN2113.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
What do you know about Japan? Would you like to visit Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, or Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What do you want to see? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Technology such as Google Earth and Street View has
Cultural Studies and Languages

We, Unfortunately, Are Borges — SPA4219.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that “Every writer creates his own precursors” Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that this
Cultural Studies and Languages

Zen Buddhism — CHI4405.01) (cancelled 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages

Zen Buddhism — CHI4218.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 4

Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students

Chinese

Zen Buddhism — CHI4218.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages

Zen Buddhism — CHI4218.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages

“First World Problems” in Chinese Microcinema — CHI4520.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
“First world problems” has become a prolific meme generating phrase. However, it can have deeper meaning. How is Chinese society dealing with its own “First world problems” , while simultaneously dealing with those of its own unique history? These are some of the questions we will explore through the lenses of Chinese Microcinema makers. Students will naturally advance their
Cultural Studies and Languages

“My father said to my mother…”: Literary Portrayals of the Modern Italian Family — CSL2131.01) (course code changed 6/3/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
“Two years before leaving home, my father said to my mother that I was very ugly.” Thus begins Elena Ferrante’s coming-of-age novel that tells us, without qualms, about The Lying Life of Adults. This course will focus on Italian first-person fictional accounts of family life, which we will analyze with the support of relevant literary criticism, including love, Feminist, and
Cultural Studies and Languages Literature