Description: Samples of culture, literature and language from around the world. Representative countries and regions include Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Taught in English.
Description: Experience of Jews in Europe from 1933-1945. Issues of racism and religious prejudice and assumptions about humanism, tolerance and progress.
Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation.
University Honors Seminar 189H is required of all students in the University Honors Program. Topic varies.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Special topic to be covered in any given semester and credit to be awarded are determined by the instructor.
Description: Consideration of topics in the area of language, literature, and civilization.
Description: Assumes a certain familiarity with the mechanics of language analysis. Phonology, morphology, and syntax reviewed, then treats language-related issues such as the relationship of language to thought and culture, animal communication vs. human language, language families, dialects and social use of language, how children acquire language, and language change. This course is designed for students who have had 3 years of high school language or 2 semesters in college. Credit is allowed for only one of the courses: MODL 200 or CLAS 100.
Description: Introduction to the literary and historical context of Jewish cultural life as expressed in modern works of literature in translation and cinema by Jewish intellectuals.
Description: Through the study of masterpieces read in translation, explores the ideas and motifs that define the major literary expressions of the human experience. Includes the rebel, love, madness, representations of gender, the quest, childhood.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and at least 3 cr in literature in English or modern languages.
Description: Introduction to the methods and materials of scholarly comparison of literatures of different languages, cultures, historical periods, and genres.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Consideration of topics in the area of language, literature, and civilization.
Description: Interdisciplinary comparative literature course that offers critical studies on socio-political changes in modern nations and respective cultures. It focuses on war, revolution, migration, exile, diaspora, and transnational conditions. Letter grade only.
Description: Close study of stories, in various forms, from around the world. Considers the role of gender, race, and history as lenses through which to approach the production and reception of storytelling. Readings, discussions, and assignments conducted in English.
Description: Survey on the literary production written by women in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Pass/No Pass only. Students must apply to the Undergraduate Advisor of the language that will be required for the internship the semester preceding the one in which they wish to register.
Description: Internship program requiring the use of a modern language in any field.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Specific topic to be covered in any given semester and credit to be awarded are determined by the instructor.
Description: Consideration of topics in the area of language, literature, and civilization.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission
Description: Life and thought of significant figures and schools of thought in the Reformation period
Prerequisites: Permission or GERM 302 for German majors.
Description: Development of German vernacular literature during the Middle Ages. Include works that represent the philosophical/religious literature, the heroic epic, and the romance.
Description: The Divina Commeddia and some minor works; extensive readings in the social background of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: Major Russian thinkers from 1700 to the present. Focus on the evolution of ideas in the Russian context and the relationship between Russian and European thought.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission.
Description: An interdisciplinary analysis of topical issues in Latin American Studies.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Consideration of topics in the area of language, literature, and civilization.