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The Migrant Worker issue in Chinese Film — CHI4602.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have helped Chinese cinema broadened its appeal and consolidate its position as a significant force in international cinema, such historical fantasies may not do much to help us understand modern Chinese culture. Fortunately, there is much more to contemporary Chinese cinema, and many fine Chinese language films are available
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The Modern Chinese Family — CHI2113.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
All the children of one’s parent’s siblings are all just called cousin in English. However in Chinese there is a different word for each particular relationship. This stems from how in traditional Chinese Confucian culture each individual’s duties and obligations towards others are dictated by their relationships, with family relationships being the most important. But then in
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The Politics of Pedro Almodóvar — SPA4603.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Sometimes called apolitical or ahistorical, many of Pedro Almodóvar’s luscious films have met with consternation, if not distain, by Spanish critics. Yet Almodóvar leads the jury for the 2017 Cannes film festival. In fact, Spanish film scholar Paul Julian Smith notes that while “Pedro Almodóvar is now the most successful Spanish filmmaker of all time, whether that success is
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The Spanish Avant-Garde. From "Avignon Street" to "Guernica" — SPA4216.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: luis gonzalez-barrios
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is a survey of the avant-garde artistic movement in Spain, ranging from Pablo Picasso’s Las señoritas de la calle Avignon (1907) to the first appearance of Guernica (1937) in the international exhibition in Paris (1937). These two works by Picasso are used as an example of the increasing politicization of the -ismos (cubism, ultraism, surrealism), an artistic
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The Textual City — SPA4805.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from architecture, politics, philosophy, literature, and photography, in order to problematize urban
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The Textual City — SPA4704.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city, focusing on (though by no means limited to) Buenos Aires as a touchstone case. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from history, architecture,
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The Visual Art of China — CHI4496.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Whether it is the serenity of a classical Chinese landscape, the heroism of a CCP propaganda poster, or the humor of "The history of Chinese painting and the history of modern western art washed in the washing machine for two minutes", art is always somehow a reflection of the culture. In this class we will explore the ways in which art expresses culture. Each class or every
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The Visual Art of China — CHI4496.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and
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Theories of Revolution — SPA4119.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Over the past two centuries, in an apparently perpetual movement towards democratic independence, Latin America has confronted ruptures in tradition and experimented with a variety of revolutionary discourses to project its multiple pasts into the future. This course will read the postcolonial back into the European and US epistemai, and vice-versa, exploring how Latin
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Theories of Revolution — SPA4601.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Over the past two centuries, in an apparently perpetual movement towards democratic independence, Latin America has confronted ruptures in tradition and experimented with a variety of revolutionary discourses to project its multiple pasts into the future. This course will read the postcolonial back into the European and US epistemai, and vice-versa, exploring how Latin
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Thresholds of Identity — SPA4501.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
In Thresholds of Identity, we will consider the literature of Spanish migration, domestic and international, through contextualized readings of contemporary texts. Our primary literary examples will correspond to each of three recent major waves in migrations for Spain: 1) movement from rural to urban areas in the early twentieth century 2) emigration from Spain to other
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Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the country's social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes? Focusing
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Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the countryʹs social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes? Focusing
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Traveling with Matsuo Basho — JPN4701.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will follow the footsteps of a prominent Japanese poet in the seventeen-century, Matsuo Basho, and learn about different regions of Japan and the Japanese great passion for food.  As student “imaginary” travel 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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Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA4122.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will keep exploring Italian culture through ideas of space, supported by role-play, music, film, videos, and the Internet. Meanwhile, you will advance in the study of the language. Students will continue developing their ability to carry out everyday and more complex tasks in Italian. By the end of
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Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. Students will continue exploring Italian culture through ideas of space, supported by role-play, music, film, videos, and the Internet, along with different authentic materials. In this course, we will focus in particular on public spaces and their social activities. Meanwhile, students will also advance
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Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA4214.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through the lens of journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and online newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. Meanwhile, you
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Unlocking Italian Culture II: Reporting Italy — ITA4214.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through the lens of journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and on line newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. You will also
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Unlocking Italian Culture II: Reporting Italy — ITA4214.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and on line newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. Meanwhile, you will advance
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Unlocking Italian Culture: I — ITA2106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an introductory course in Italian that will open the door to the inner aspects of the Boot's culture. Most of Italian social life revolves around close interpersonal relationships and attachment to places. Both aspects, for the good and the bad, shape an Italian's day from the morning coffee to the late dinner at home and do affect an individual's entire life. Through
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What is the Truth? World War II from the Japanese Perspective — JPN4709.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
What is the truth in history? Is there one truth? In this course, students learn World War II from the Japanese point of view by reading and examining Japanese history textbooks, novels, essays, and films. Historical events such as the bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima can be perceived differently depending on whether you study them in Japan or in America. In other
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What Is the Truth? World War II from the Japanese Perspective — JPN4709.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
What is the truth in history?  Is there one truth?  In this course, students learn World War II from the Japanese point of view by reading and examining Japanese history textbooks, novels, essays, and films.  Historical events such as the bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima can be perceived differently depending on whether you study them in Japan or in America
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What is the Truth? – Learning WWII with History Textbooks in Japan — JPN4233.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is the truth in history?  Is there one truth?  In this course, students learn World War II from the Japanese point of view by reading and examining Japanese history textbooks, novels, essays, and films.  Historical events such as the bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima can be perceived differently depending on whether you study them in Japan or in America
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Women in Latin America — SPA4502.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Latin American feminism is conventionally read like any other form of feminism, as an absence attempting to become present. Pivoting around a selection of short stories by the likes of the Ocampos, Bombal, Garro, Valenzuela, Poniatowska, Peri Rossi, Allende, and Schweblin, along with criticism and political contextualization, we will discuss such conventional readings,
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Women in Latin America — SPA4256.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Latin American feminism is conventionally read like any other form of feminism, as an absence attempting to become present. Pivoting around a selection of short stories by the likes of the Ocampos, Bombal, Garro, Valenzuela, Poniatowska, Peri Rossi, Menchú, Allende, and Schweblin, along with criticism and political contextualization, we will discuss such conventional readings,
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