CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Required and optional courses for the Cinema and Cultural Studies major and minor are also offered from a variety of departments. Please see the department website or the director of Undergraduate Studies

for further information.

CCS 101-B IMAGES AND TEXTS: UNDERSTANDING CULTURES

The images and texts of advertising, television, art, writing, film, and performance and how they come to characterize and shape our everyday lives. Using case studies, students learn how to recognize, read, and analyze culture within a particular social, cultural, or political context, touching upon such important issues as race, gender, class, ideology, and censorship.

MW 2:20PM-3:15PM LEC - JAVITS Rm 103

TH 6:50PM-8:50PM LAB – JAVITS Rm 110

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CCS 201 WRITING ABOUT CULTURE: WORDS AND IMAGES

This course has two goals: to enable students to develop their skills in textual analysis, critical thinking, argumentation, writing, and research; and to explore relations between words and images. Materials to be studied include philosophical texts, literature, cinema, visual arts, and advertising. This course is designed for CCS majors. In addition to the prerequisite described below, this course must be taken after CCS 101 and before CCS 301.

Prerequisite: Completion of D.E.C. Category A

TUTH 9:50AM-11:10AM – MELVILLE LIB Rm N5004

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CCS 301-G THEORIZING CINEMA AND CULTURE: QUEER CULTURES

This course situates films, television, and other forms of cultural production within structures of power among communities, nations, and individuals. To implement this project, we will discuss representations of homosexuality and queerness in film, literature, art, and other forms produced from both heteronormative and queer perspectives. We’ll look beyond the aesthetic pleasure of these works to examine the “cultural work” these texts perform. Attendance at film labs is required.

Prerequisites: Two courses toward the major in cinema and cultural studies.

TUTH 11:20AM-12:15PM LEC – MELVILLE LIB Rm N5004

M 5:20PM-7:20PM LAB – MELVILLE LIB Rm N5004

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CCS 401 – SENIOR SEMINAR IN CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES: MASCULINITY AND POP CULTURE

Men, Men, Men -- yes, it's a complaint, but this course will examine what it's all about. From movies to television to bodybuilding to advertising, we will look at the representation of masculinity and the male body, with an emphasis on American popular culture and mainstream cinema in particular. This course is a seminar, and it will involve active student participation (position papers, class presentation) and a final term paper of original research.

Prerequisites: U4 standing, CCS major .

TU 2:20PM-5:10PM – MELVILLE LIB Rm N4006

TH 3:10PM-5:10PM – MELVILLE LIB Rm N4006

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CCS 475 UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

PRACTICUM I

Prerequisites: U3 or U4 standing; permission of instructor and department

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CCS 487 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Intensive readings and research on a special topic undertaken with close faculty supervision. May be repeated.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department

by appointment I. KALINOWSKA-BLACKWOOD

CCS 488 - INTERNSHIP

May be repeated up to a limit of 12 credits, but only 3 credits may be applied toward the cinema and cultural studies major.

Prerequisite: Permission of program advisor

by appointment R. CHI

CCS 495 - SENIOR HONORS PROJECT IN CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

A one-semester project for CCS majors who are candidates for the degree with departmental honors. The project involves independent study under close supervision of an appropriate faculty member, and the written and oral presentation to the department faculty colloquium of an honors thesis.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and undergraduate program director.

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CLASSICS

CLS 215-I CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY

An introduction to the study of myth, including the mythology of the ancient Greeks. We will examine the influence of classical mythology on later literature, art and philosophy, and also how myth in general informs the contemporary world.

Advisory Prerequisite: One course in literature.

TUTH 5:20PM-6:40PM – SOC & BEHAVIORAL SCI Rm N436

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Some courses offered in Africana Studies (AFS), Art, History (ARH), English (EGL), European Languages, Literatures and Cultures (FRN, GER, ITL, RUS), and Hispanic Languages and Literatures (SPN) may be used to fulfill the Comparative Literature (CLT) major or minor requirements. Students are urged to consult with the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

CLT 212-I LITERARY SURVEY: ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH MODERN

Organized around four major historical events -- Circumnavigation, Industrial Revolution, Agriculture Revolution, and Colonial Expansion -- this course reads the lived reality constructed by a literary text against the more objective narrative of history. The minute details and sublime imagery of literary texts will be recruited to problematize known histories.

Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of D.E.C. Category A.

MW 3:50PM-5:10PM – PHYSICS Rm P117

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CLT 220-J NON-WESTERN LITERATURE: CHINESE LITERATURE

This course is an introduction to Chinese literature. The course is organized chronologically (from the antiquity to 20th-century) and thematically, around topics such as immorality, love, friendship, death, social responsibility, natural world, and political justice etc. We will explore various types of writing, including proverbs, hymns, philosophical writings, lyric poetry, short stories, and novels. All readings are in English translation. Previous knowledge of Chinese culture not necessary.

Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of D.E.C. category A

MW 2:20PM-3:40PM – SOC BEHAVIORAL SCI Rm S218

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CLT/EGL 266-G THE 20TH CENTURY NOVEL: NARRATIVES OF IMMIGRATION

In this course we will study several contemporary novels that deal with the issues of immigration and border-crossing. We will analyze how these texts engage in identity and community construction, as well as how they question the subject of cultural dislocation. The authors include Anzia Yezierska, Julia Alvarez, Frank Chin, V.S. Naipaul, and Bharati Mukherjee.

Prerequisite: Completion of D.E.C. Category A

Cross listed with EGL 266

TUTH 9:50AM-11:10AM – MELVILLE LIB N4006

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CLT 475, 476 UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PRACTICUM I, II

Work with a faculty member as an assistant in one of the faculty member’s regularly scheduled classes. The student is required to attend all the classes, do all the regularly assigned work, and meet with the faculty member at regularly scheduled times to discuss the intellectual and pedagogical matters relating to the course. In CLT 476, students assume greater responsibility in such areas as leading discussions and analyzing results of tests that have already been graded. Students may not serve as teaching assistants in the same course twice.

Prerequisites to CLT 475: U4 standing; permission of instructor and chairperson.

Prerequisites to CLT 476: CLT 475; permission of instructor and chairperson.

by appointment K. GABBARD

CLT 487 INDEPENDENT READING AND RESEARCH

Intensive reading and research on a special topic undertaken with close faculty supervision. May be repeated.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department

by appointment K. GABBARD

CLT 495 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE HONORS PROJECT

A one-semester project for comparative literature majors who are candidates for the degree with departmental honors. The project involves independent study under close supervision of an appropriate faculty member, and the written and oral presentation to the department faculty colloquim of an honors thesis.

Preerequisite: Permission of instructor and department

by appointment K. GABBARD

HUMANITIES

Many courses offered in other Humanities departments fulfill requirements for the HUM major. Students are urged to consult with the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

HUM/PHI 109-B PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

The role of literature and philosophy in understanding and critically assessing personal experience and social life. The links among literary texts, philosophical issues, and political and social commitments are explored. Topics include the relations between language and experience, the role of philosophical thinking through literary texts, and the significance of literary expression in different cultural and historical situations. This course ois offered as both HUM 109 and PHI 109.

Cross listed with PHI 109

MW 2:20PM-3:40PM – MELVILLE LIB Rm W0512

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HUM 121-B DEATH AND AFTERLIFE IN LITERATURE

Through discussion of representative contemporary and classical texts, this course addresses the topic of how human beings have chosen to live with the one certainty of their existence, its eventual conclusion in death, and how various images of afterlife or denial of its possibility have shaped those choices.

TUTH 3:50PM-5:10PM – SOC BEHAVIORAL SCI Rm S218

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HUM 122-B IMAGES OF WOMEN IN LITERATURE

BEYOND MOTHER, ANGEL AND WHORE

This course offers a historical and intercultural examination of literary representations of women from ancient to modern times. The course will explore the historical and social forces that create images such as Greek barbaric women, Medieval Christian female saints, good Victorian housewives, and (de)sexualized professional women in recent times. Course materials include novels, short-stories, film, and critical essays.

TUTH 2:20PM-3:40PM – MELVILLE LIB Rm N4000

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HUM 123-B SIN AND SEXUALITY IN LITERATURE

What is the difference between sex and sexuality? If the only point of agreement between Aristotle and Plato is that art imitates, to what degree does sexuality in literature imitate sex? How do the lettered arts bring out this difference that is perhaps meant not to be?
How and why did the intimacy shared between bodies become the matter of written forms of art? What is the relation between sex and desire and what might this relation tell us about the transposition of sexuality into literature? To what extent is sexuality in literature a measure of culture’s policing of desire? To what extent does it liberate us from such constraints? How do specific cultures at specific times in history express their relation to sex through literature?

MW 10:40AM-11:35AM LEC – MELVILL LIB Rm W0512

F 10:40AM-11:35AM REC 01 – EARTH & SPACE Rm 79

F 10:40AM-11:35AM REC 02 – EARTH & SPACE Rm 69

F 10:40AM-11:35AM REC 03 – S B UNION Rm 237

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HUM 201-D FILM AND TELEVISION GENRES: HONG KONG MARTIAL ARTS CINEMA

Introduction to the study of film and television through the concept of genre. Spring 2005: Hong Kong martial arts cinema. Survey of major performers and directors, such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and King Hu, as well as on-screen conventions and off-screen production and distribution practices. Examines literary and theatrical traditions; national and international identities; body, race, and gender; performance, spectacle, and narration; special effects; and the movement of a genre across boundaries of nation, language, and the concept of genre itself.

Prerequisites: One D.E.C. Category B course

TUTH 11:20AM-12:15PM LEC – JAVITS Rm 102

TU 6:50PM-8:50PM LAB – JAVITS Rm 110

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HUM 202-D FILM AND TELEVISION: HISTORY AND THEORY

An introduction to the theory and criticism of film and television from the “primitive” era to the present. Weekly film and video showings are accompanied by readings in both contemporary and classical film theory. Special attention is given to mainstream Hollywood cinema as well as to experimental traditions originating in the Soviet Union, France, and Germany.

Prerequisite: One D.E.C. Category B course

TUTH 11:20AM-12:15PM LEC – PSYCH A Rm 146

M 5:20PM-7:20PM LAB – MELVILLE LIB Rm N5004

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HUM 447 DIRECTED READINGS

Individually supervised curricula in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. For students who make arrangements the previous semester with appropriate faculty.

by appointment K. GABBARD

HUM 475, 476 UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PRACTICUM I,II

Work with a faculty member as an assistant in one of the faculty member’s regularly scheduled classes. The student is required to attend all the classes, do all the regularly assigned work, and meet with the faculty member at regularly scheduled times to discuss the intellectual and pedagogical matters relating to the course. In HUM 476, students assume greater responsibility in such areas as leading discussions and analyzing results of tests that have already been graded. Students may not serve as teaching assistants in the same course twice.

Prerequisites to HUM 475: U3 or U4 standing; permission of instructor

Prerequisites to HUM 476: HUM 476; permission of instructor and chairperson

by appointment K. GABBARD

HUM 495 HUMANITIES HONORS PROJECT

A one-semester project for humanities majors who are candidates for the degree with honors. The project involves independent study and the writing of a senior thesis under the close supervision of an appropriate faculty member.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and director of undergraduate studies.

by appointment K. GABBARD