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Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4118.01

Spring 2016
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
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Life Stories — FRE4604.01

Spring 2018
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
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Life Stories — FRE4214.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: stephen shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
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
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Literature of Barcelona and Madrid — SPA4806.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Only two cities in Spain have over one million inhabitants, and these same two cities often seem at odds with each other. One city is geographically and politically central, the seat of the royal family, while the other is on the periphery, with a government that is currently in exile. Architecturally, one is largely neoclassical and monumental, while the other can seem
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Literature of Barcelona and Madrid — SPA4218.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Only two cities in Spain have over one million inhabitants, and these same two cities often seem at odds with each other. One city is geographically and politically central, the seat of the royal family, while the other is on the periphery. Architecturally, one is largely neoclassical and monumental, while the other can seem dreamlike and surreal. One speaks what Antonio
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Literature of Travel and Discovery — FRE4605.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the representation of travel and discovery in a variety of genres (essay, theatre, novel, poetry, film, bande dessinée). By examining both fictive and real travel narratives, we will look at how reality is transformed into a text and how fictions help us to imagine and discover new ways of thinking and living. Central themes will include exile
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Literature of Travel and Discovery — FRE4222.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the representation of travel and discovery in a variety of genres (essay, theatre, novel, poetry, film, bande dessinée). By examining both fictive and real travel narratives, we will look at how reality is transformed into a text and how fictions help us to imagine and discover new ways of thinking and living. Central themes will include exile
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Living to Learn, Learning to Live: Readings in Contemporary South American Fiction — LIT2255.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
Contemporary South American fiction is rife with urgency, politics, and history, as well as narrative mischief, layering and literary gamesmanship. In this course we will read a selection of novels and stories from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and El Salvador from such authors as Cesar Aira,  Roberto Bolano, Alicia Borinsky, Sergio Chefec, Claudia Hernandez,
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Love and Other Italian Disasters — ITA4607.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In his film “Ricomincio da tre” (I’m Starting Back at Three), the Italian director and protagonist Massimo Troisi responds to his girlfriend, who reminds him that “When you have love, you have everything,”: ”No, you’re wrong, That is health.” This course focuses on representations of love, partnership, and their (im)possibilities in contemporary Italian literature and film, as
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L’Amica Geniale — ITA4609.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
This course focuses on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet--L'amica geniale (2011), Storia del nuovo cognome (2012), Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta (2013), and Storia della bambina perduta (2014). The study of the four novels will also be an opportunity to focus on the history of Italy from the end of WW II to nowadays, on Italian and Neapolitan women writers, and on Naples
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Metafiction and Authorship — SPA4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
This course will be an exploration of metafiction and authorship in Spanish literature, film, and other arts. Through a careful consideration of several important, often playful, yet sharply critical works in Spanish, as well as their most significant theoretical underpinnings, students will read and discuss text that calls attention to itself as an artifice, and therefore,
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Moral Hazards: Economic Growth and “Development” in Latin America — SPA4602.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
At the beginning of this history of promise and postponement, as such courses are wont to ratify, it would behoove anyone to reach a general and at least somewhat contextualized understanding of the relevance of such terms and realities as colonization, dependency, liberalism, industrialization, the role of the state, import substitution, populism, debt crises, privatization,
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Mother Figure and Motherly Figures — ITA4603.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course explores the concept of motherhood and the role of the mother in Italian culture through literature, film, art, and music. Some of the questions that the course will try to answer are: What are the implications and ramifications of such a crucial institution as motherhood in Italian society, for both women and men? How does motherhood affect the modern family, and
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Mother Figure and Motherly Figures in Italian Culture – Taught in English — ITA2117.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
This course explores the concept of motherhood and the role of the mother in Italian culture primarily through literature and film, but also through art and music. Particular attention will be given to the history of Italian women’s writing and Italian feminist thought. Some of the questions that the course will ask are: What are the implications and ramifications of the
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Musique et Résistance — FRE4801.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

Coming from the United States, Hip Hop culture arrived in France in the early 1980s. Since then, France has become one of the world’s most dynamic sites of production and consumption of Hip Hop cultures. With a focus on rap music, the course will delve into how social, political-economic, and historical issues of contemporary France have continuously 

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Non-Fiction in Fiction: Writers and Their Work — JPN4708.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced level course is designed for students to learn about six prominent contemporary Japanese writers and analyze their work. Students are required to research each Japanese contemporary writer and analyze how their personal background is reflected in their work of fiction. Students will also examine how Japanese society is depicted in their work and how the writers
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Our Monsters, Ourselves — SPA4715.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
"We live in a time of monsters," writes Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Monster Theory. As beings who mix categories or defy categorization altogether, monsters may be apt emblems for a postmodern age, yet it would be a mistake to imply that monsters are a creation of postmodernity. The monstrous figures that dominate popular contemporary culture come from a long artistic tradition,
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Our Monsters, Ourselves — SPA4715.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
"We live in a time of monsters," writes Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Monster Theory. By mixing categories or defying categorization altogether, monsters may be apt emblems for a postmodern age, yet it would be a mistake to imply that monsters are a creation of postmodernity. The monstrous figures that dominate popular contemporary culture come from a long artistic tradition,
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Our Monsters, Ourselves — SPA4715.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
'We live in a time of monsters,' writes Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Monster Theory. As beings who mix categories or defy categorization altogether, monsters may be apt emblems for a postmodern age, yet it would be a mistake to imply that monsters are a creation of postmodernity. The monstrous figures that dominate popular contemporary culture come from a long artistic tradition,
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Paris noir — FRE4802.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

Because of its location in the Atlantic world, Paris occupies a specific place within the African Diaspora and Africana studies. The course is an invitation to reflect upon the widely accepted imagination developed around the City of Lights: a space of ancient and refined cultural, intellectual, artistic, and culinary traditions. However, seeking to go

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Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity — FRE4117.01; section 1

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films will include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris,
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Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity — FRE4117.02; section 2

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films will include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son
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Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films may include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris,
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Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films may include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris
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Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4117.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernity's challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films will include Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat
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