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In and Out of Italy: Migration Fluxes Through the Boot — ITA4402.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
For many decades, Italy's geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea has made the country a preferred port of entry into Europe for migrants coming from North Africa, joined over time by people coming from Eastern Europe, Albania, China, the Far East, South America,, and lately, from Syria. Some of Italy's Southern regions have been in a perpetual state of
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In Search of Elena Ferrante — LIT2351.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 2
No one knows who the author “Elena Ferrante” really is: not her publishers (allegedly), her reading public, the critics who greet each new novel with rapture, the acclaimed Italian film directors who’ve adapted two of her novels for the screen. In an international literary scene fueled by personality, publicity, and the celebrity machine, how has Ferrante managed to stay
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Inner Travel — SPA4604.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Beyond Columbus’ errant journey into the abyss and the ensuing quest for El Dorado, or Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, Latin America’s interior has often enticed its own learned population. Their travels, in space, time and thought, do not merely present a physical confrontation with alterity, with the continent’s supposed heart of darkness, but an intellectual clearing, an
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Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World — FRE2103.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world has offered, for a long time, enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider’s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose
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Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French‐speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insiderʹs perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
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Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE2104.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider's perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
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Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world has offered, for a long time, enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider's perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose
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Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French‐speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insiderʹs perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
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Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French‐speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insiderʹs perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
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Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE2104.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider's perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
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Insider Perspectives on the French-Speaking World — FRE2103.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world has offered, for a long time, enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider's perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose
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Insider Perspectives on the French-Speaking World — FRE2103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider’s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
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Insider Perspectives on the French-Speaking World — FRE2103.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: stephen shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider’s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
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Introduction to The Art of Literary Translation — LIT2259.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
It may be that the closest, most interpretative and creative reading of a text involves translating from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us deepen our skills and sensibilities in new ways. This course has a triple focus: you will compare and contrast multiple translations of a single work; read
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Italian Genius Through the Centuries — ITA2110.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
This course will be taught in English. The course focuses on a few accomplishments of the Italian genius that have had a strong impact on the development of world civilization. Italy as a nation did not exist either when the city of Cremona produced the first violins, or when Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. There was no Italy as such when Dante was imagining his
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Italians About Their World(s) — ITA4404.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Come with a lot of curiosity as well as critical sense to discover what Italians say about their own cultural, social, and political habits and what they fail to comment upon. Through journal articles, interviews, advertisements, web sites, film, e-mails, and conversations with Italians, we will see what Italy has to say about issues such as family and familism; the role of
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Italians About Their World(s) — ITA4108.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: barbara alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Come with a lot of curiosity as well as critical sense to discover what Italians say about their own cultural, social, and political habits and what they fail to comment upon. Through journal articles, interviews, advertisements, web sites, film, e-mails, and conversations with Italians, we will see what Italy has to say about issues such as family and familism; the role of
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Italo Calvino: Narrating the Unfamiliar — ITA4213.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The course focuses on Calvino's novels, Le citta` invisibili (1972); Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati (1973); Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (1979); and the autobiographical Eremita a Parigi, a collection of his notes written between 1967 and 1984 when living and traveling abroad. These works narrate of odd and unfamiliar spaces, and of bizarre situations in which
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Italo Calvino: Narrating the Unfamiliar — ITA4611.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
The course focuses on Calvino’s novels Le citta` invisibili (1972), Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati (1973), Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (1979), and the autobiographical Eremita a Parigi, a collection of his notes written between 1967 and 1984 when living and traveling abroad. These works narrate of odd and unfamiliar spaces, and of bizarre situations in which
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Italy Through Regional Contexts — ITA4102.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 2
There are as many Italies as the regions that make up the country. There are, in fact, more, since dialects, cuisine, and social behavior may vary significantly in any one region. This course takes a path beyond the obvious and apparent to lead you into an exploration of the differences, peculiarities, and singularities of Italian regional cultures and of how the puzzle stays
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Japanese Aesthetics Through the Tale of Genji — JPN4209.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this high-intermediate Japanese course, students will examine Japanese aesthetics, the Japanese perspectives on nature, and social behaviors by reading excerpts and poems from the modern translation of the Tale of Genji. This Japanese literature masterpiece was written by Lady Murasaki, a court lady, during the Heian period (794-1185). This novel not only depicts the sense
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Japanese Aesthetics: Jomon Pottery to Superflat — JPN4216.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this intermediate course, students will learn various art in Japan from potteries in the Jomon Period (About 14,000 BC - 300 BC) to Takashi Murakamis so-called superflat, a postmodern art movement, in Heisei Period (1989 -). As they learn Japanese art, they will analyze elements of Japanese aesthetics that were shared in various art forms during each period. Students will
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Japanese Communication Styles through the Lens of Popular Film — JPN4214.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Satomi LaFave
Credits: 4
What are considered virtues in Japan are quite different from what are considered virtues in the US; moreover, traits that are virtues in Japan are sometimes considered faults or even immoral qualities in the U.S. From an American point of view, it can thus be difficult to imagine how exactly Japanese people’s minds work. In this intermediate Japanese course, we will study
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L'Afrance: Identité(s) francophone(s) en question(s) — FRE4225.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Vive « l’Afrance »!   This film title (Gomis, 2001) summarizes the goal of this course: an exploration of the rich variety of shared and conflicting francophone identities. Constructed within or outside of France, the identities studied in this course will encompass West African, Maghrebi, Caribbean and French spaces. The discussion of notions such as « 
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