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Comparative Literature and Culture
1020 -
From Homer to Picasso: Western Culture Across the Ages
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A multi-media overview of the major writers, artists, thinkers, and composers that have shaped Western culture from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Figures studied include Homer, Dante, Michelangelo, Cervantes, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Picasso, Kafka, Borges.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Ideas and Apps that Changed the World
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Explore the great ideas that have revolutionized our culture. Discover their origin and application in our public and private lives. Refine your understanding of words such as literature, academia, encyclopedia, unconscious, reconciliation, platonic love, beautiful, parchment, paradox, utopia, progress, alienation, social networks, redemption through textual and visual material.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2102A/B -
Utopias and Visions of the Future
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Journey across cultures in search of various attempts to imagine ideal societies and perfect places. Exploring the political, social and cultural basis of the utopian impulse from antiquity to the 21st century, we will consider how utopia morphs into its polar opposite: the nightmare of dystopia.
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The former CLC 2110F/G.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2103A/B -
The Grotesque
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The course focuses on the grotesque imagination in literature and the arts from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The grotesque – whose limits are humor and horror, as well as the fantastic and the realistic – will be illustrated with works by Apuleius, Rabelais, da Vinci, Baudelaire, Tanizaki, Kafka, Borges, etc.
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the former CLC 2120F/G.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2104A/B -
International Children's Literature
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This comparative survey of works from different countries will consider novels, as well as films, for children of different ages in an international cultural context, dealing with such questions as adult-child relationships, growing up, the role of the imagination, gender identity and adventure.
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the former CLC 2130F/G.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2105A/B-2109A/B -
Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
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The former CLC 2191F/G-2194F/G.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2111A/B -
Storytelling - East and West
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Explore the ancient art of storytelling, focusing on three classics of world literature: the Asian Pancatantra, Thousand and One Nights and the European Decameron. Study how literary devices, themes, and styles travel across time and space boundaries bringing different cultures into contact.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2112A/B -
The Graphic Novel in Print and Online Around the World
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As a rebel genre on the border between word and image, the graphic novel has recently increased its international popularity through digital media. Tracing its history from illuminated manuscripts to webcomics, this course will study the clash between visual and verbal cultures in works by Botticelli, Buzzelli, Hergé, Hernández, Tegame.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2117A/B -
Funny Money: Commerce and Comedy
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Comic authors have long been intrigued by the “marriage market” or the “war racket,” and other satiric signs of how money makes the world go round. This course will unfold the ironies of commercial life as represented in a series of comic masterpieces from antiquity to modernity.
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2118A/B -
Fashion and Fiction: Creative Textures
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How do people visualize, think and write about fashion, and what does that say about their cultures? Consider how fashion blurs the line between copying and creating, presents unique forms of self-expression, yet draws on global and historical re-circulations of ideas or uses fiction as a motor for perpetual aesthetic innovation.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2119A/B -
The Culture of Fascism
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Compare the aesthetics of totalitarian culture in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Studying the literature, visual arts, music, film, architecture, and critical writings through which these movements expressed their ideals, we will explore the complexities of fascist culture in relation to movements such as modernism, historicism, and nationalism.
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2121A/B -
Science and the Arts: Paths of Innovation
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How do science and art relate to each other? Compare works from different countries and cultural contexts to consider what innovation means in science and in art. For instance, how does art represent, support and critique scientific activity and the associated ethical, as well as sociopolitical questions?
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2122A/B -
Human Rights in Literature and Art
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Explore controversial issues concerning human rights by discussing a range of world literature, art and cinema. We will address the complexity of the concepts of what is human and the notion of rights and justice. Examine the ideological bases that serve to justify such crimes as genocide, slavery and torture.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2125A/B -
Battle of the Sexes
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If “Love is a Battlefield,” as pop music declares, who are the victors and what are the spoils? Older than Troy, the Erotomachia (“Sex War”) is an enduring meme by which gender troubles are confronted and sexual hierarchies overturned. Its history will be traced through literature, painting, opera, drama, film.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2128F/G/Z -
Barcelona: Culture through the Ages
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This 3-week course in Barcelona explores cultural differences between Mediterranean and North American life through artistic expressions, history, food, and values. You will engage with the local culture, discover new places, and be exposed to new perspectives; ultimately, this experience will likely re-shape your identity in the global context.
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Registration in second year or above and permission of Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2129A/B -
Mexico City
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Examine Mexico City through its history of continuous transformations from Aztec empire to the megalopolis it is today. Identify traces of the various pasts in the city's contemporary urban landscape and daily life, through art, film and literature. Comparisons to other Latin American cities will be drawn.
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Spanish 2101A/B
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2131A/B -
Rome: The Eternal City
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Discover Rome and its unique contribution to Western arts and culture. Understand its prominent role in the global political and religious environments. Identify and map traces of the past in the city’s contemporary urban landscape and daily life.
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2132A/B -
Italian Journeys
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Discover Florence, Naples, Venice, Milan and more. Join illustrious travelers like Goethe, Dickens and Stendhal to explore fundamentals of Italian culture from the Middle-Ages to modernity with reference to architecture, literature, politics, film, and visual arts.
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2133A/B -
Italian Popular Films
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Study Italian Cinema and its popular genres. Explore topics such as the Italian economic boom, the evolution of the Italian family, sexuality and gender relations. Spaghetti Western, crime movies, Italian-style horror and comedy will be among the genres considered.
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2134A/B -
Bombay to Mumbai: Hinduism and Literature
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Under the British Raj, Bombay was imagined as a gateway city connecting the industrial West to the mystical East. This course examines its tumultuous transformation into modern Mumbai: a paradoxical mega-city where orientalist fantasies of a “pure” Hindu past are both vigorously sustained and vehemently countered in literature and film.
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2135A/B -
Vienna 1900/2000
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Explore Viennese life, literature, and culture during the Habsburg Empire and a century later as part of the European Union. Immerse yourself in the world of Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gustav Klimt, and their modern counterparts from Thomas Bernhard to Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
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2136A/B -
Berlin Snapshots
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Examine snapshots of the constant transformations of Berlin from imperial to cosmopolitan capital at the center of Europe in both images and texts. We will draw on visual media such as maps, paintings, photographs, and city movies and on different textual genres such as poems, novellas, short prose, essays, and excerpts from novels.
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2137A/B -
German Fairy Tales
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Discover German folk tales collected by the brothers Grimm and literary fairy tales, such as those by Tiek, Fouqué, Hoffmann and Hauff, and investigate the relationship of these classic German fairy tales to modern children's literature and film.
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2138A/B -
German-Jewish Literature and Culture
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This course will explore authors of Jewish origin who wrote in German. The question of Jewishness as a direct or indirect influence on this literature will be considered in the broader context of European politics, ideas and historical events.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2141A/B -
Food and Health in the Middle Ages
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Discover the fascinating world of medieval food culture and explore the role nutrition played in the theory of health and wellness. Study the presumed medicinal properties of the foodstuffs available in pre-Columbian Europe, their preparation and consumption, and try your hands on period recipes from the different regions.
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2142A/B -
Courtly Love
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The view of erotic love as a central, life-changing event is a product of high-medieval "courtly love," which championed adulterous love. We read some of the most important works, including the troubadours and the original tale of King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guenevere, as well as a few obscene "anti-courtly" works.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2200F/G -
Exploring Comparative Literature and Cultures
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What happens when written texts and cultural products cross chronological, cultural, linguistic, or geographic boundaries? Consider the consequences of translation between genres, media and periods. Hone your writing, research and critical thinking skills through studying how texts move between different cultural contexts.
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CLC 2204F/G.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2206F/G -
Exploring Hispanic Cultures I
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Introduction to reading, writing and researching in the visual, performing and literary arts and in socio-lingustics. Students develop foundations in these fields through a series of case studies across generic, historical, geographical areas of the Hispanic world. Taught in Spanish by one core professor in conjunction with different specialists.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2207F/G -
Exploring Hispanic Cultures II
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Introduction to reading, writing and researching in literature, film, popular culture and digital Spanish. Students develop foundations in these fields through a series of case studies across generic, historical, geographical areas of the Hispanic world. Taught in Spanish by one core professor in conjunction with different specialists.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2208F/G -
Exploring Italian Cultures
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Introduction to reading, writing and researching about Italian culture and its contribution to the global context. Students will acquire foundations through case studies concerning arts, literature, language, history and identity. Taught in Italian by one core professor in conjunction with different specialists.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Italian 2200 or 2200W/X, the former Italian 2250 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2209F/G -
Exploring German Cultures
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In this first encounter with German literary, visual and performing arts, students investigate key persons, places, times and issues, such as Goethe, Berlin, WWII, and Turkish-German relations. This course offers a practical introduction to research in German studies. Taught in German by one core professor in conjunction with different specialists.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2291F/G-2294F/G -
Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2296F/G-2297F/G -
Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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CLC 2200F/G, CLC 2204F/G or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
2500F/G -
Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Cultures in Action
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Develop intercultural competence by examining individual experiences of learning and maintaining language and of integrating cultural heritage. Connect in-class learning about language acquisition, identity, memory and related issues with service-learning projects in London or the surrounding region.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3300F/G -
Literary and Cultural Theory
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Explore a broad range of theories from Plato to contemporary trends, in a global perspective. Discover how the vocabulary and concepts of literary interpretation travel across time and cultures, and learn how to use them to think with/through a variety of literary texts worldwide.
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CLC 2205F/G, French 3700-3702F/G.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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CLC 2200F/G or CLC 2204F/G or permission of the Department.
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3301F/G -
Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3302F/G -
Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3340F/G -
Medieval Literature and Culture
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Study the renaissance of the 12th century which revitalized intellectual life in Europe, and the first great works of chivalry and romantic love in their cultural context. Gain knowledge of medieval castle architecture, fashion, food, travel, medicine, sexuality, courtly love, and the hunt in text and image.
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German 4451F/G, CLC 2236F/G.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3341F/G -
Renaissance Literature and Culture
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The Renaissance has had enormous repercussions for Western and world culture. What began as a program of educational reform ended as a reflection on the nature of humanity – and the production of some of the world’s finest artistic creations. This course investigates Renaissance art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and music.
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CLC 2240F/G.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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3342F/G -
Baroque Literature and Culture
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Devastating political crises and religious conflicts characterize the Baroque, as do startling scientific discoveries, new philosophical concepts, and geographical expansion in the New World. Consider the dynamics of this period of crisis as revealed in its literature, art and philosophy. Among the figures studied are Calderón, Velázquez, Descartes and Galileo.
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CLC 2250F/G.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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3343F/G -
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Explore the global perspectives of ideas and cultural practices in eighteenth-century Europe. Studying art, music and written texts, learn about the lively debate striving for Enlightenment progress, discover the range of material and popular culture, and consider topics such as universalism, cosmopolitanism, revolution, race, gender, media, and consumer culture.
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CLC 2260F/G.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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3344F/G -
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Explore the ideas, cultural forms, and disciplinary discourses that characterize nineteenth-century literature, art, and music in Europe between the poles of romanticism and realism. Major themes can include individualism, nationalism, revolution, colonialism, orientalism, gothic, nature, urbanism, and the relationship between the arts and sciences.
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CLC 2270F/G and 2271F/G.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
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3345F/G -
Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
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The course explores modernist, avant-garde and postmodernist literatures, arts and theories, and discusses topics such as high-brow culture, political aesthetics, kitsch, and pop, from Rilke, Woolf and García Lorca to Nabokov, Pynchon and Pelevin; Chaplin to Tarantino; Braque to de Kooning; and Tzara and Breton to Kristeva and Jameson.
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CLC 2272F/G and 2273F/G.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3351F/G -
Intermediality: Where Literature and Other Media Meet
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What do graphic novels, digital story telling, opera, ekphrasis, and movie adaptations have in common? All are examples of intermediality, in that they reference, transpose, employ several modes, or are present in different media simultaneously. The course exemplifies the theory and practice of intermediality with two or more media.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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CLC 2200F/G, 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
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3352F/G -
Intercultural Performance
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This course examines the encounters, impositions, and appropriations of different cultures through the study of performance. Under consideration are the topics of colonialism, imperialism, globalization and performance, performances that intentionally combine hybrid or diverse cultural elements, and performances of everyday life, community-based performance, and world-scale international dramas.
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3353F/G -
Spectatorship up to the Digital Age
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The course explores the evolving role of audiences when partaking in a variety of performing arts. Case studies of current and past practices of spectatorship will span from live on-line avant-garde experimentations to classical stage theatre, and will highlight the substantial role of spectatorship in shaping artistic and social trends.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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CLC 2200F/G, 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
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Crossing Borders: Europe looks (and writes) East
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This course examines European literary and cultural representations of the Orient. Studying documentary accounts written by travelers, imaginative texts, visual representations, and critical studies of the orientalist tradition, we explore the assumptions that underlie western discourses on people, lands, and cultures beyond its eastern borders.
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3355F/G -
The Irrational in 20th Century Literature and Art
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An interdisciplinary study of surrealism in European literature and art, and of magic realism in Latin American fiction. Special emphasis will be placed on their relationship with contemporary psychological and anthropological thought. Readings will include Freud, Jung, Breton and García Márquez. Examples of surrealism in art will be shown.
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3360F/G -
Masterpieces of Italian Literature: From the Middle Ages to Romanticism
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Journey through Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. Focus on masters such as Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Leopardi. Topics may include love, nature and power. Particular attention will be paid to the cultural connections with other disciplines and literary traditions.
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Italian 3300 or permission of the Department.
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3361F/G -
Italian Renaissance Epic
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Mad love, witchcraft and chivalry are some of the topics found in the Italian epic tradition, including in Orlando Innamorato, Orlanda Furioso and Gerusalemme liberata. The course will examine the epic tradition in the context of Renaissance culture and in relation to other art forms.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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3362F/G -
From Commedia dell’Arte to Modern Theatre
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Explore the Italian theatrical tradition through a selection of texts that may range from Commedia dell'Arte to modern and contemporary performances. Engage with a number of theatrical techniques and consider the style, characters and themes of Italian performance art.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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3371F/G -
Travel Literature
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When you travel, how do you view the world? How does travel change you? Trace evolving perspectives on why, when, where and how travellers have experienced European locations and other destinations.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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3372F/G -
German Classicism and Romanticism
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Classicists and Romantics create competing and complementary artistic versions to make sense of rapid changes in society around 1800. Examine everyday culture, consider conceptions of subjectivity and aesthetic ideals, discuss concepts of genre and reflect on the movements' affinities to media like sculpture and music.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Contemporary Cultures of Unification and Integration in Germany
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Study literary texts, films, and popular music informed by German unification, European integration, economic crises, and human migration. This course confronts contemporary questions about citizenship, cultural and religious diversity, nationalism, and German identity in the context of immigration and the intensifying European project.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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3374F/G -
Nature and Environment in German Literature, Thought and Culture
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Examining a long "green" tradition reflected in arts, literature and public debate. Consider diverse attitudes to the natural environment from the Enlightenment, Romantic period, industrialization, urbanization to present day concerns and controversies.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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3375F/G -
German Thought and the Culture of Provocation
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Engage critically with thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Riefenstahl by discussing philosophical and political essays, manifestos, and other documents from the Enlightenment to the present. This course explores how ideas in the German-speaking world have contributed to the values and principles of modern societies.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3380F/G -
Medieval Literature and Modern Cinema
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The course studies medieval writings in tandem with films based on them, while also examining other cinematic attempts to recreate a 'real' Middle Ages. Included are the Story of the Grail, Death of King Arthur, Tristan, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales; and films by Dreyer, Cocteau, Pasolini, Rohmer, and Bresson.
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Hispanic Visual Arts and Texts
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An introduction to visual arts through artistic literature. Descriptions of important works of art, monuments and cities, biographies of artists, texts written by and/or for the artists will be considered. Examples from diaries, reflections, manuals, and criticism may be included. Examples will come from pre-Columbian civilizations up to contemporary expressions.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission from the Department.
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Music, Dance, Performance in the Hispanic World
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This course focuses on the performing arts of the Hispanic World and how they incorporate cross-cultural influences and traditions, relate to other art forms such as the literary and visual arts, intersect with the world of mass media and entertainment, and address issues of identity, gender, social (in)justice, and/or resistance.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
3383F/G -
Human Rights in the Hispanic World
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With a Transatlantic perspective, this course examines the complex problems of representations of human rights issues and trauma in novels, films and paintings. The main objective is to study how artists and writers help us understand the effects of violence and trauma.
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CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Special credit for Comparative Literature and Culture studies at authorized universities or institutions in approved programs. Not taught on campus.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Internship in Comparative Literature and Culture
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The Academic Internship is an unpaid, credit internship with minimum of 60 hours. The internship will require students to make connections with academic study while undertaking supervised duties in organizations, businesses or community groups with interests related to Comparative Literature and Culture.
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Permission of the Department and ICC 2200F/G. Registration in the third or fourth year of a module in Comparative Literature and Culture, with a minimum cumulative modular average of 75%. Approval of, and acceptance into, an internship placement.
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Students must have completed or are completing the required courses and at least 50% of the module.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Research Seminar
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This seminar offers the opportunity for focused, advanced study. Topics may include canonical creative figures and their masterpieces, intersections of the visual, cinematographic, performing, musical and literary arts, and interdisciplinary, intermedial and period specific questions.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Comparative Literatures and Culture
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The thesis will be written in the fourth year and will be directed by a member of the Modern Languages and Literatures faculty. It will be based on an agreement between the student and faculty member on the topic, approach, and scope of the study.
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80% minimum average in the CLC module courses taken the preceding year and permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Advanced Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Special credit for Comparative Literature and Culture studies at authorized universities or institutions in approved programs. Not taught on campus.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Directed Studies in Comparative Literature and Culture
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The subject will be selected by students in consultation with the instructor.
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80% minimum average in the CLC module courses taken the preceding year and permission of the Department.
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Comparative Literature and Culture
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Senior Research Project
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In this advanced seminar, students develop their own research project with a specific historical or geographical perspective centred on a designated general theme. Students work in conjunction with peers and professors and choose their own medium of presentation ranging from the traditional to the experimental.
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