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Comparative Literature and Culture (A)
Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 - From Homer to Picasso: Western Culture Across the Ages
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 1040 - Ideas and Apps that Changed the World
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2102A/B - Utopias and Visions of the Future
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.
Antirequisite(s): The former CLC 2110F/G.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2103A/B - The Grotesque
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.
Antirequisite(s): the former CLC 2120F/G.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2104A/B - International Children's Literature
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.
Antirequisite(s): the former CLC 2130F/G.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2105A/B-2109A/B - Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
Please consult the Department for current offerings.
Antirequisite(s): The former CLC 2191F/G-2194F/G.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2111A/B - Storytelling - East and West
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2112A/B - The Graphic Novel in Print and Online Around the World
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2117A/B - Funny Money: Commerce and Comedy
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2118A/B - Fashion and Fiction: Creative Textures
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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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2119A/B - The Culture of Fascism
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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Comparative Literature and Culture 2121A/B - Science and the Arts: Paths of Innovation
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2122A/B - Human Rights in Literature and Art
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2125A/B - Battle of the Sexes
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.
Antirequisite(s): CLC 2294F/G
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2128F/G/Z - Barcelona: Culture through the Ages
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.
Antirequisite(s): Spanish 2105F/G/Z.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in second year or above and permission of Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
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Extra Information: 0.5 course. The course takes place in Barcelona during Intersession. See Department for information on application procedure.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2129A/B - Mexico City
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.
Antirequisite(s): Spanish 2101A/B
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2131A/B - Rome: The Eternal City
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.
Antirequisite(s): Italian 2242F/G, Italian 3340F/G, CLC 2100.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2132A/B - Italian Journeys
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.
Antirequisite(s): Italian 2240F/G, CLC 2100.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2133A/B - Italian Popular Films
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.
Antirequisite(s): Italian 2241F/G
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Extra Information: 2 lecture hours plus screenings, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2134A/B - Bombay to Mumbai: Hinduism and Literature
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2135A/B - Vienna 1900/2000
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 2255F/G, the former German 3355F/G and CLC 3391F/G if taken in 2010 and 2012.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2136A/B - Berlin Snapshots
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 2256F/G and the former German 3356F/G
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2137A/B - German Fairy Tales
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 2251F/G
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2138A/B - German-Jewish Literature and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 2141A/B
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2141A/B - Food and Health in the Middle Ages
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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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course, counts towards Medieval Studies module.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2142A/B - Courtly Love
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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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course, counts towards Medieval Studies module.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2200F/G - Exploring Comparative Literature and Cultures
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.
Antirequisite(s): CLC 2204F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2206F/G - Exploring Hispanic Cultures I
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.
Antirequisite(s): Spanish 2215F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): Spanish 2200 or Spanish 2200W/X or Spanish 2223 or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2207F/G - Exploring Hispanic Cultures II
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.
Antirequisite(s): Spanish 2216F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): Spanish 2200 or Spanish 2200W/X or Spanish 2223 or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2208F/G - Exploring Italian Cultures
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.
Antirequisite(s): Italian 2215F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): Italian 2200 or 2200W/X, the former Italian 2250 or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2209F/G - Exploring German Cultures
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 2215F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): German 2200, 2200W/X or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2291F/G-2294F/G - Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
Please consult Department for current offering.
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Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2296F/G-2297F/G - Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
Please consult department for current offering.
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Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 2204F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course
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Comparative Literature and Culture 2500F/G - Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Cultures in Action
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.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3300F/G - Literary and Cultural Theory
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.
Antirequisite(s): CLC 2205F/G, French 3700-3702F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G or CLC 2204F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3301F/G - Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
Please consult the department for current offerings.
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Extra Information: 3 lecture/tutorial hours, 1 2-hour film screening, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3302F/G - Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
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Extra Information: 3 lecture/tutorial hours, 1 2-hour film screening, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3340F/G - Medieval Literature and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 4451F/G, CLC 2236F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040, or Medieval Studies 1022, 1025A/B or 1026A/B or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
Counts towards Medieval Studies modules.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3341F/G - Renaissance Literature and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s): CLC 2240F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3342F/G - Baroque Literature and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s): CLC 2250F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3343F/G - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s): CLC 2260F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3344F/G - Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s): CLC 2270F/G and 2271F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3345F/G - Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s): CLC 2272F/G and 2273F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3351F/G - Intermediality: Where Literature and Other Media Meet
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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Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3352F/G - Intercultural Performance
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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Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3353F/G - Spectatorship up to the Digital Age
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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Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3354F/G - Crossing Borders: Europe looks (and writes) East
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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Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3355F/G - The Irrational in 20th Century Literature and Art
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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Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3360F/G - Masterpieces of Italian Literature: From the Middle Ages to Romanticism
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.
Antirequisite(s): Italian 3350F/G.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): Italian 3300 or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3361F/G - Italian Renaissance Epic
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.
Antirequisite(s): Italian 3351F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3362F/G - From Commedia dell’Arte to Modern Theatre
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.
Antirequisite(s): Italian 3352F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
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Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3371F/G - Travel Literature
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 3357F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3372F/G - German Classicism and Romanticism
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 3342F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3373F/G - Contemporary Cultures of Unification and Integration in Germany
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 3343F/G
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3374F/G - Nature and Environment in German Literature, Thought and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 3345F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3375F/G - German Thought and the Culture of Provocation
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.
Antirequisite(s): German 3344F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3380F/G - Medieval Literature and Modern Cinema
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.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020, or 1.0 from Medieval Studies 1022, or both of Medieval Studies 1025A/B and 1026A/B, or the former Medieval Studies 1020E, or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3381F/G - Hispanic Visual Arts and Texts
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.
Antirequisite(s): Spanish 3501F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission from the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information:
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3382F/G - Music, Dance, Performance in the Hispanic World
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.
Antirequisite(s): Spanish 4511F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3383F/G - Human Rights in the Hispanic World
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.
Antirequisite(s): Spanish 3551F/G.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040 or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, CLC 3300F/G or the former CLC 2204F/G, 2205F/G
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3391F/G-3394F/G - Special Topics in Comparative Literature and Culture
Please consult Department for current offering.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040, CLC 2200F/G, CLC 2204F/G or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3398F/G-3399F/G - Special Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
Special credit for Comparative Literature and Culture studies at authorized universities or institutions in approved programs. Not taught on campus.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040, 2200F/G, or CLC 2204F/G or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 3600F/G/Z - Internship in Comparative Literature and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 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.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Students must have completed or are completing the required courses and at least 50% of the module.
Extra Information: 0.5 course credit, Pass or Fail.
Students accepted for an internship will arrange individual programs with supervising faculty. The student is required to a) maintain a suitable level of performance in the position as verified by the employer through evaluation and b) submit a mid-term as well as a final report, demonstrating how the experience gained through the internship relates to his/her coursework and program of study.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 4400F/G-4409F/G - Research Seminar
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.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G and CLC 3300F/G or CLC 2204F/G and CLC 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 3 hours, 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 4410E - Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Comparative Literatures and Culture
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.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 80% minimum average in the CLC module courses taken the preceding year and permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 1.0 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 4491F/G-4492F/G - Advanced Topic in Comparative Literature and Culture
Special credit for Comparative Literature and Culture studies at authorized universities or institutions in approved programs. Not taught on campus.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): CLC 1020 or 1040, 2200F/G, 3300F/G, or CLC 2204F/G or 2205F/G or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 4493F/G - Directed Studies in Comparative Literature and Culture
The subject will be selected by students in consultation with the instructor.
Antirequisite(s):
Prerequisite(s): 80% minimum average in the CLC module courses taken the preceding year and permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 0.5 course.
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Comparative Literature and Culture 4500F/G - Senior Research Project
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.
Prerequisite(s): CLC 2200F/G, 3300F/G, or permission of the Department.
Corequisite(s):
Pre-or Corequisite(s):
Extra Information: 0.5 course.
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Academic Calendar 2015 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE INFORMATION Comparative Literature and Culture (A)
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