Graduate Catalog Colleges College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Courses Modern and Classical Languages World Cultures and Literature (WCL)Graduate Courses: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Courses: World Cultures and Literatures (WCL)
6198 Independent Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate status or consent of instructor. Independent graduate-level study focused on special research projects.
6301 Culture and Communication: Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or PB status. Explores the multiple methodologies for researching language as a mode of communication and interaction within the field of linguistic anthropology.
6305 Fifth Century BCE Athens
Cr. 3. (3-0). Overview of intellectual trends and political history of fifth-century BCE Athens. Topics include the development of Democracy, birth of tragedy, Persian Wars, Athenian Empire, court system, Peloponnesian Wars, and death of Socrates. Taught in English.
6330. Translation Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Investigates major concepts in translation theory, history of translation, and contemporary, interdisciplinary translation studies scholarship within their historical and cultural contexts. Case studies of texts from different traditions of thought, world regions, and periods and/or individual translation projects.
6351 Frames of Modernity
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate or postbaccalaureate status. Advanced view of major theoretical trends in Western Culture from the French Revolution to World War II. Non-Western cultural areas are also addressed through presentations by specialists.
6352 Postmodernity & Globalization (Frames of Modernity II)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate or postbaccalaureate status. Advanced view of the major theoretical trend in contemporary World Cultures from the end of WWII to the present time.
6353 Frames of Modernity III. Classics and Modernity
Cr. 3. (3-0). An exploration of the use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors. Taught in English.
6354 Studies in Global Cinema
Cr. 3. (3-0). Advanced approach to artistic and cultural aspects of world cinema. Analysis of directors, trends, and critical literature in world cinema. Taught in English.
6355. Utopias and Dystopias
Cr. 3. (3-0). Utopian and dystopian literatures and cinema from different traditions of thought and world regions. Taught in English.
6361 Advanced Topics in Italian Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Analysis of major themes in Italian Culture, Literature, Art, History, Government, Italian Civilization in the European and World Context, current issues such as immigration, and Mediterranean context. Taught in English.
6362 Latin American & Latino Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Works of Latino Literature in English and Latin American Literature in translation in relation to other U.S. and worldwide literary works as well as different theoretical frames.
6363 Drama of North-Central Europe
Cr. 3. (3-0). A 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.
6364 Holocaust Representations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Comparative analysis of representations and conceptiualizations of the Holocaust in literature, autobiography, film, architecture, and art. Taught in English.
6365 World Documentary Film
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing or post-baccalaureate status. Explores the history, theory, and evolution of documentary film in a global perspective, and through the examination of significant filmmakers from all parts of the world.
6366 Latin American & Latino Film
Cr. 3. (3-0). Latin American and Latino films and film industries: telenovelas and TV documentaries. Issues regarding immigration, urban/rural, ethnic, gender and class, border and transnational, poverty, violence, and aesthetics. Taught in English.
6370 Comparative Epic
Cr. 3. (3-0). Examination of epic poetry from ancient Greece and Rome with a comparative approach drawing on other cultures, which may include the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, medieval Europe, and/or modern oral epic traditions. Taught in English.
6372 Seminar in Scholarly Production
Cr. 3. (3-0). Advanced manuscript critique and selection, editing, translating, proofing and other skills related to scholarly publications. Related to WCL's Global CASA/LACASA Publications series.
6378 Cultures of Dissent: A Global Persepective
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing. An examination of global opposition movements as reflected in literary, autobiographical, and theoretical writings of 19th through 21st century authors as well as in film and the visual arts.
6379 Critical Theory & Globalization
Cr. 3. (3-0). Intense study of critical theory in light of globalization, migration shifts, and late capitalism.
6380 Expulsion and Aftermath: Spain, 1492 and After
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing. Study of events leading to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 and its consequences.
6381 Latin Classics in Translation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Works of Latin literature read in conjunction with current scholarship and modern theorists. Taught in English.
6385 Latin American-Latino Cultural Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Theoretical backgrounds, key themes and debates over Latin American/Latino cultural processes. Modernity/postmodernity, coloniality/postcoloniality, globalization, urban, border, transnational, ethnic, gender and subalternist perspectives. In English.
6395 Sexuality in Latino Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Sexual relationships in Latino culture and literature: gender theory, art, politics, everyday life. Theoretical and transnational perspectives.
6397 Selected Topics in WCL
Cr. 3. (3.0). Advanced topics in cultural and literary theory. Criticism and history. Major trends in postmodernity and globalization.
6398 Independent Studies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate status or consent of instructor. Independent graduate-level study focused on special research projects.
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in WCL. Master's thesis.
Catalog Publish Date: January 14, 2013
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