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Language at the Margins — LIN2111.01

Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Credits: 4
Do emoji count as language? What about birdsong? How about the gestures of people and other primates? Can we consider ‘boom’ and ‘pow’ words of the English language? This course investigates forms of communication often considered peripheral to the linguistic system, focusing on how meaning is created and shared through “marginal” language practices. We will analyze how systems

Language Documentation, Revitalization, and Reclamation — LIN4115.01

Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course addresses the theories, methods, ethics, and actual outcomes of language documentation, revitalization, and reclamation work. Students will examine the causes and consequences of language endangerment, strategies for revitalization, and community-led initiatives in reclaiming linguistic and cultural heritage. Case studies from around the world will

Language in the Mediterranean: Integration, Fragmentation and Movement — LIN4103.01

Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
The Mediterranean represents a critical site of interaction between speakers of three of the world’s largest language families; nevertheless, linguists typically treat this contact and cross-pollination as an incidental, even distorting product of the families’ southern/northern/western peripheries, rather than as constituting a dynamic center of gravity for linguistic and

Language through Film — SPA4721.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will

Language Through Film — SPA4223.01

Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,

Language, Culture, and Society — LIN2112.01

Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This course examines the complex relationship between language, culture, and society through an interdisciplinary lens, incorporating perspectives from linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. Students will explore how linguistic practices both reflect and shape identities, power dynamics, cultural norms, and worldviews as we cover

Language, Power and Belonging in the Middle East and North Africa — LIN4101.01

Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
This course addresses the ways in which language defines and projects power and identity, as well as its role as a societal force with the capacity to embrace or marginalize individuals and entire communities. The course will consider what language is in these contexts as well as public and official conceptions of what it ought to be, and will utilize a combination of primary

Latin America: A Paratext — SPA4495.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will consider the often erroneous marketing of twentieth-and twenty-first century Latin America, both from within and beyond its borders, via an open evasion of reading and a privileging of discussion. A combination of the peritext and the epitext, a paratext is everything but the “text” (whether literature, film, music, or a t-shirt) itself. It is hoped that in

Latin American Art Since Independence — SPA2111.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: MO,WE,TH 8:30am-9:50am
Credits: 5

Students with little or no Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American painting. While there will be some discussion of standard tactics such as stylistic nuances and artists’ biographies, it is expected that we will rapidly develop sufficient linguistic ability to focus on movements, ranging from the republican art of nation-building in the 19th

Latin American Art since Independence — SPA2111.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course ranges from the republican art of nation-building in the 19th century to modernism, magical realism, and the postmodern. While there will be some discussion of standard tactics such as stylistic nuances and artists’ biographies, it is expected that we will rapidly develop sufficient ability to focus on movements, theory, and politics, thus treating the works as

Latin American Art Since Independence — SPA2111.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 5
This course ranges from the republican art of nation-building in the 19th century to modernism, magical realism, and the postmodern. While there will be some discussion of standard tactics such as stylistic nuances and artists’ biographies, it is expected that we will rapidly develop sufficient ability to focus on movements, theory, and politics, thus treating the works as

Latin American Critical Theory — SPA4716.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Oddly, perhaps, theory itself, despite its own premises, its ethical veneer and visceral critical posture, has never quite overcome the traditional, global division of intellectual labor. It is applied, and alterity is nominally, similarly, embraced, thus paradoxically resulting in a cultural neo-imperialism that all the while overtly denies its own imperialist practices. The

Latin American Critical Theory (o, más allá de la alteridad) — SPA4716.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Oddly, perhaps, theory itself, despite its own premises, its ethical veneer and visceral critical posture, has never quite overcome the traditional, global division of intellectual labor. It is applied, and alterity is nominally, similarly, embraced, thus paradoxically resulting in a cultural neo-imperialism that all the while overtly denies its own imperialist practices. The

Le cinéma-monde d’Alice Diop — FRE4723.01) (day/time updated 5/2/2023

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Alice Diop has offered, for decades now, a deep and powerful cinematographic representation of France and the world. In this course, students will refine their linguistic, cultural, and critical skills while studying Alice Diop’s films, from “Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise” (2007) until “Nous” (2020). Students will also closely examine the composition of her literary and

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this sixth term Japanese course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this sixth term Japanese course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01) (new day/time as of 12/19/2022

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films — JPN4604.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

In this sixth-term Japanese course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the afterlife and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in Japanese films.  In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism, as

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films — JPN4401.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second

Life Stories — FRE4604.01

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
This course will focus on perfecting your written French through creative autobiographical writing. Literary readings will offer both a critical perspective on a wide variety of autobiographical genres as well as models for inspiration and imitation in your own writing. We will also examine style and register while striving to master some of the stylistic and grammatical

Life Stories — FRE4604.01

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
This course will focus on reading and analyzing a variety of autobiographical writing forms as well as perfecting your written French through creative autobiographical writing. Literary readings will offer both a critical perspective on a wide variety of autobiographical genres as well as models for inspiration and imitation in your own writing. We will also examine style and

Life Stories — FRE4604.01

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
This course will focus on reading and analyzing a variety of autobiographical writing forms as well as perfecting your written French through creative autobiographical writing. Literary readings will offer both a critical perspective on a wide variety of autobiographical genres as well as models for inspiration and imitation in your own writing. We will also examine style and

Linguistic Field Methods — LIN4116.01

Instructor: Alexia Fawcett
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

This course is designed to equip students with the basic methodologies necessary to carry out linguistic fieldwork with speakers/users of un(der)documented languages. Students will be trained in the skills and tools of language documentation and description by working with a speaker of a language previously unknown to them. Learning and