Courses: World Cultures and Literatures (WCL)College: Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Any TCCN equivalents are indicated in square brackets [ ].

WCL 2351: World Cultures Through Literature and the Arts
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or the equivalent. Works of literature, painting, film, to explain contemporary global/local developments, conflicts. Cultural areas and topics may vary.

WCL 2352: World Cinema
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Major cinematic works from Latin America, Asia, Middle-East, Europe, and Australia in relation to contemporary topics such as globalization and migrations. Cinema as a global art form.

WCL 3351: Introduction to Latino Cultural Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Basic cultural dimensions of U.S. Latino communities through literature and the arts, including ethnic minority formation, immigration and transnational processes.

WCL 3355: Women East and West: Global Representations of Female Divinities
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: WCL 2351 or 2352 or permission of instructor. Representations of female dieties from an East -West perspective.

WCL 3362: U.S. Latino Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Major trends, traits, works, authors, and issues of Chicano, and other Latino literatures.

WCL 3366: Latin American and Latino Film Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Latin American, Latino films, telenovelas and TV documentaries. Issues regarding immigration, urban/rural, ethnic, gender and class, border and transnational, poverty, violence, and aesthetics. Taught in English.

WCL 3371: Cities in Film and the Arts
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Cities and urban life worldwide from the advent of modernity to postmodernity and globalization, as expressed in visual arts, film, theory and literature.

WCL 3373: Gender and Sexuality in World Film
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Introduction to representations of gender and sexuality in important films from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle-East, Europe, and Australia, and to major developments in global feminist film theory.

WCL 3376: Visual Stories - Local and the Global
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: WCL 2351 or 2352 or consent of instructor. Globalization of Houston is documented and analyzed conducting a visual and textual ethnography.

WCL 3377: The Modern Middle East: Literature, Politics, and Ideas
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Survey of major landmarks in the literature and thought of the Middle East after 1798, examining them in the context of the region's political history. Taught in English.

WCL 3392: Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Basic dimensions of Latin American cultural processes. Focus on indigenous/Spanish/African/Asian heritages and transformations; including mestizaje, transculturation, hybridization. Globalization and transnational patterns.

WCL 3397: Selected Topics in World Cultures and Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Topics in world cultures and literature. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

WCL 4322: Seminar in Scholarly Production
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: WCL 2351 or 2352 or consent of instructor. Advanced manuscript writing, critique and selection, editing, translating, proofing, and other skills relevant to scholarly publication. Related to WCL's Global CASA and LACASA Publications series and Urban Research Initiative.

WCL 4351: Frames of Modernity I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1304. Major theoretical trends in Western & non-Western culture from the Renaissance to World War II.

WCL 4352: Frames of Modernity II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1304. Major theoretical trends in contemporary World Cultures from the end of World War II to present.

WCL 4353: Frames of Modernity III: Classics and Modernity
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1304. Use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors. Taught in English.

WCL 4362: Seminar in Latin American and Latino Literatures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Works of Latin American and Latino literature in translation in relation to other U.S. and worldwide literary works as well as different theoretical frames.

WCL 4364: History of Drama in Northern and Central Europe
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: senior standing or consent of instructor. Historical and critical analysis of European theater from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Readings include dramas and theoretical essays as a means for understanding and representing cultural norms.

WCL 4367: Voices from Exile and Diaspora
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the experience of exile, displacement, and diaspora reflected in 20th-21st century literature and film and theoretical approaches to migration and diaspora.

WCL 4374: Sex and Gender in Antiquity
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1304 and junior standing. Issues of sex and gender in ancient Greece and Rome through the study of literature, art, and science.Works of Latin American and Latino literature in translation in relation to other U.S. and worldwide literary works as well as different theoretical frames.

WCL 4379: Critical Theory and Globalization
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Intensive study of critical theory in light of globalization, migration shifts, and late 20th century social theory and literary criticism.

WCL 4381: Seminar in Latin American and Latino Cultural Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Key themes and debates regarding Latin American/Latino cultural processes in the arts, politics, and everyday life. Modernity/postmodernity, coloniality/postcoloniality, globalization, urban, border, transnational, ethnic, genera, and subaltern perspectives. Taught in English.

WCL 4394: Sexuality in Latino Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Sexual relationships in Latino culture, gender theory, art, politics, everyday life, transnational perspectives.

WCL 4396: Special Topics in World Cultures and Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Topics in cultural and literary theory, criticism and history, major cultural trends in postmodernity and globalization. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

WCL 4398: Independent Study
Cr. 3. Prerequisites: senior standing and consent of instructor. Independent study for special research projects.

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Catalog Publish Date: August 18, 2011
This Page Last Updated: June 3, 2011
Effective Date of Archive: December 19, 2011