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Queer French — FRE4805.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this advanced course, we will examine French culture’s engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs, Montaigne,
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Queer French — FRE4805.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this advanced course, we will examine French culture's engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Louise Labé, Madeleine de l’Aubespine, Montaigne,
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Queer French (in English) — FRE2109.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 2
In this course, we will examine French culture’s engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs, Montaigne, l’Abbé de
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Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01) (course description updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as Pedro Lemebel, Mario Bellatin, Manuel Puig, Ana Mendieta, José Donoso, and Alejandra Pizarnik, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and
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Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as Pedro Lemebel, Manuel Puig, Mario Bellatin, Ana Mendieta, José Donoso, and Carmen Ollé, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and performative
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Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as César Moro, Pedro Lemebel, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Felipe Cussen, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and performative strategies to
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Questing the Bizarre: Writing, Rewriting, and Un-Writing in Hispanic Literature — SPA4403.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 4
Julio Cortázar, the Argentine writer, is interested in characters, objects, animals, sounds, experiences, circumstances, and places that help him to configure unusual literary worlds. In this course, we will explore the different ways in which his short stories, in dialogue with the works of a wide array of Latin American and Spanish writers/poets such as Augusto Monterroso,
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Rakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling — JPN4505.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
Rakugo is one of the traditional Japanese art and storytelling entertainment which became extremely popular during the Edo period (1603-1868). Rakugo is a rather unique storytelling performance because a storyteller sits on a seat on the stage called “kooza” and tells humorous stories without standing up from the seat. Moreover, the storytellers narrate and plays various
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Rakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling — JPN4505.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Rakugo is one of the traditional Japanese art and storytelling entertainment that became extremely popular during the Edo period (1603-1868).  Rakugo is a rather unique storytelling performance because a storyteller sits on a seat on the stage called “kooza” and tells humorous stories without standing up from the seat.  Moreover,

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Rakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling — JPN4505.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
Rakugo is one of the traditional Japanese art and storytelling entertainment which became extremely popular during the Edo period (1603-1868). Rakugo is a rather unique storytelling performance because a storyteller sits on a seat on the stage called “kooza” and tells humorous stories without standing up from the seat. Moreover, the storytellers narrate and plays various
Cultural Studies and Languages

Rakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling — JPN4505.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This is the fifth term Japanese course. Rakugo is one of the traditional Japanese art and storytelling entertainment which became extremely popular during the Edo period (1603-1868). Rakugo is a rather unique storytelling performance because a storyteller sits on a seat on the stage called “kooza” and tells humorous stories without standing up from the seat. Moreover, the
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Rakugo: Art of Storytelling — JPN4505.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
Rakugo is a traditional Japanese art and storytelling entertainment which became extremely popular during the Edo period (1603-1868). Rakugo is a rather unique storytelling performance because a storyteller sits on a seat on the stage called “kooza” and tells humorous stories without standing up from the seat. Moreover, the storyteller narrates and plays various characters by
Cultural Studies and Languages

Rakugo: Art of Storytelling — JPN4505.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
Rakugo is one of the traditional Japanese art and storytelling entertainment which became extremely popular during the Edo period (1603-1868). Rakugo is a rather unique storytelling performance because a storyteller sits on a seat on the stage called “kooza” and tells humorous stories without standing up from the seat. Moreover, the storyteller narrates and plays various
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Regardez — FRE4496.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including among other works Chartres cathedral’s stained glass, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, Haitian art, as well as virtual reality experiments, students will hone their linguistic skills and enrich their
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Regions and Cuisine: Traveling Japan with Matsuo Basho — JPN4603.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this sixth-term Japanese course, students will follow the footsteps of a prominent Japanese poet in the seventeen-century, Matsuo Basho, and learn about different regions and cuisines of Japan.  As students "imaginary" travel to various regions of Japan, they will learn about historical and scenic places that are depicted in Basho’ poems and various local cuisines in
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Reinventing and Branding Japan — JPN4710.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
After the World War II, Japan tried rigorously to improve their national reputation in the World. As Japan’s economy improved, Japan’s image shifted from a brutal and heartless military nation to a powerful economic nation, and then to a nation of “soft power.” In the last 10 years, the Japanese government came up with a PR strategy called “Cool Japan” and has been promoting
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Representation of Cultural Values in Japanese Children’s Books — JPN4219.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: MO,WE,TH 8:30am-9:50am
Credits: 5

In this second-term Japanese course, students will explore Japanese cultural values and create digital books that reflect Japanese values. Students will read Japanese children’s books and watch children’s TV shows to examine how social and cultural values are portrayed and taught. Based on their analysis and understanding of Japan's social and

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ReVisions Rebellions, Revolution: Latin American Women Writers — LIT2516.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
Since the 17th century women writers have been a steadily rebellious, even revolutionizing force in Latin American letters. A number of the writers we’ll read together are also visual and/or performance artists, and intensely political, dealing in formally challenging ways with the residues of 20th-century state terror; as well as the legacies of colonialism; themes of
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Samurai and Art — JPN4301.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
What is the relationship between samurai warriors and art? It is hard to imagine the two words – warriors and art - in one sentence. However, many of samurai warriors practiced and enjoyed various types of arts. For example, the powerful feudal samurai warriors, Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi, practiced closely with a tea master, Sen No Rikyu, and enjoyed tea ceremony. In
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Seminar on Monolingualism — LIN2103.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
Scholarly estimates consistently place the percentage of the world’s population able to communicate proficiently in more than one language over 50%.  Yet multilingual competence is regularly treated as a secondary or even aberrant state requiring explanation and interpretation, while monolingualism is assumed as default despite its numerically inferior status.  In
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Seminar on Monolingualism — LIN2103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
Credits: 4
Scholarly estimates consistently place the percentage of the world’s population able to communicate proficiently in more than one language over 50%.  Yet multilingual competence is regularly treated as a secondary or even aberrant state requiring explanation and interpretation, while monolingualism is assumed as default despite its numerically inferior status.  In
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Social and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate) — JPN4402.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This fourth term Japanese course is designed for students to create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences. First, students will read short stories for Japanese children and watch Japanese animations to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze social and cultural
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