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Pop Culture in Modern China — CHI4401.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Understanding pop culture in modern China is no small effort. This course is not designed to do a comprehensive survey of popular culture in modern China. Instead we will explore ways of listening, speaking, reading, watching, seeing and writing to learn Mandarin Chinese through various forms of pop culture including TV shows, films, sports, newspapers, rock music, and posters
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Post-Mao Chinese Rock and Roll — CHI4511.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a
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Prominent Works of Japanese Authors — JPN4509.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
How many names of the Japanese authors can you list? Do you know which Japanese authors won the Nobel Prize in literature? Early works of Japanese literature demonstrate strong influences from Chinese literature, and again Japanese literature was influenced by Western literature in late-19th Century and early-20th Century. In this course, students will read the synopses of
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Prominent Works of Japanese Authors — JPN4509.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
How many names of the Japanese authors can you list?  Do you know which Japanese authors won the Nobel Prize in literature?  Early works of Japanese literature demonstrate strong influences from Chinese literature, and again Japanese literature was influenced by Western literature in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. In this course, students
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Prominent Works of Japanese Authors — JPN4509.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
How many names of the Japanese authors can you list?  Do you know which Japanese authors won the Nobel Prize in literature?  Early works of Japanese literature demonstrate strong influences from Chinese literature, and again Japanese literature was influenced by Western literature in late-19th Century and early-20th Century. In this course, students will read the
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Propaganda and Modern Chinese Culture — CHI4495.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ginger lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Whether on banners hung in public places or in shrill voices blaring from one of millions of loudspeakers spread across the country, propaganda slogans have been a major aspect of the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to forge a modern socialist society. In this course, a selection of these slogans from the beginning of the communist era up to the present along with poster art
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Propaganda in Modern Chinese Culture — CHI4603.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Whether on banners hung in public places or in shrill voices blaring from one of millions of loudspeakers spread across the country, propaganda slogans have been a major aspect of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to forge a modern socialist society. In this course, a selection of these slogans from the beginning of the communist era up to the present will be used as a
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Proust — FRE4804.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, students will read Proust’s novel, focusing more closely on Swann’s way, The Captive and Time regained. An exploration of the historical, cultural and artistic context, as well as cinematic adaptations will support a close reading of the text. Written assignments and oral presentations will help students improve their reading, speaking and writing skills in
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Proust — FRE4720.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: noëlle rouxel-cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course, students will read Proust's novel, À la recherche du temps perdu, focusing more closely on Swann's Way, The Captive, and Time Regained. An exploration of the historical, cultural and artistic context, as well as cinematic adaptations and various theoretical analyses will support a close reading of the text. Written assignments and oral presentations will help
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Queer French — FRE4805.01

Fall 2018
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 will include Marguerite de Navarre, l'Abbé de Choisy, Diderot, Monique Wittig, Virginie
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Queer Space: Desire and Sex in Public — FRE2106.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 1
In this course, we will examine the blurry lines separating public and private space and how they shape and influence queer sexual practices and identities. We will focus on queer sexual cultures that arose in Europe (Paris) and America from the 18th through 20th centuries as innovative models of urban sociability magnified desire and fostered experiments and new
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Race and Gender in Franco-Maghrebi Literature and Film — FRE4806.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Blase Provitola
Credits: 4
In the context of recent debates on multiculturalism and French national identity, this advanced course provides an introduction to some of the major issues impacting the French-speaking countries of North Africa and their diasporas in France. Through novels and auto-fiction, films, and other visual materials such as bandes dessinées, this course will encourage students to
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Regardez — FRE4496.01

Spring 2018
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 Chartres cathedral’s stained glasses, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, cartoon hero Tintin, surrealist drawings and films, and contemporary installations, students will hone their linguistic skills and
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Regardez — FRE4496.01

Fall 2016
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 Chartres cathedral’s stained glasses, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, cartoon hero Tintin, Cocteau’s drawings and films, and contemporary installations, students will hone their linguistic skills and
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Roberto Bolaño — SPA4804.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This is a paradoxical course. Roberto Bolaño explicitly shunned magical realism, the Boom years, the subsequent imitations, supposedly liberating Latin American literature from its hobnobbing with the establishment, and yet maintained filial ties to Dadaism, surrealism, modernism, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela, perhaps the first Boom novel. Despite the breadth
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Samurai and Art — JPN4301.01

Fall 2018
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.
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Samurai and Art — JPN4301.01

Fall 2017
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
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Samurai and Art — JPN4301.01

Fall 2016
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
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Second Language and Culture Acquisition — EDU2521.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Peter Jones
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Language and cultural learning are potentially transformative, yet can seem evanescent, elusive, and difficult to name and deliberately provide for. What conditions contribute to second language and cultural learning of the transformative kind? How does schooling both cooperate with, and block, opportunities for learning ? Sociocultural, interactionist, and linguistic
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Social Expectations for Japanese Children — JPN2107.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children's books and animation. In this course, students will read Japanese children's books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children's books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan, how those
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Social Expectations for Japanese Children — JPN4224.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children’s books and animation. In this course, students will read Japanese children’s books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children’s books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan, how those
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Social Expectations for Japanese Children — JPN4224.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children’s books and animation. In this course, students will read Japanese children’s books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children’s books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan, how those
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Social Expectations for Japanese Children — JPN4117.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children’s books and animation.  In this course, students will read Japanese children’s books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children’s books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others.  Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan,
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Social Expectations for Japanese Children — JPN4224.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children’s books and animation.  In this course, students will read Japanese children’s books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children’s books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others.  Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan,
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Social Issues in Japan Through Online News — JPN4601.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
The course is designed for students to deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture through analysis of Japanese online newspapers and examination of Japanese news articles from various contexts.  Students will practice various reading strategies, which will help them become independent learners.  Mass media is the reflection of a society and the mirror
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