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Summer and Fall 2013 European Studies
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All courses are 3 credits
Summer Courses
- EUR 101-G Foundation of European Culture
- The course presents students with the
thinking from a variety of disciplines that influenced the development of
the diverse national cultures of Europe. Students are exposed to a
chronological representation of the major ways that classical Greek, Roman,
Judeo-Christian, and Islamic cultures contribute to the making of
individual national cultures and identities of the major countries of
Europe.
- Summer I: MW: : 1:30-4:55 — T. Grenkov
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- EUR 201-I Development of European
Culture
- An
introduction of the important literary works from major European cultural
and intellectual developments and an examination of their continued influence
on the modern world. Readings focus on central texts pertaining to core
religious issues, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism
and Post Modernism.
- Summer II: MW: 6:00-9:25
— T. Grenkov
Fall Courses
- CLS 225-B The Classical Tradition
- The literature of Greece and Rome has had a profound
impact on the West in terms of Philosophy, Literature, Political Theory, and
Art. The course will explore the writings of Greece and Rome and show how
they affected Western literature and thought. Authors will include Homer and
Hesiod, and Greek tragedians Thucidides, Virgil, and Ovid.
- MWF: 11:00-11:53 —
A. Godfrey
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- EUR 101-G Foundation of European Culture
- The course presents students
with the
thinking from a variety of disciplines that influenced the development of
the diverse national cultures of Europe. Students are exposed to a
chronological representation of the major ways that classical Greek, Roman,
Judeo-Christian, and Islamic cultures contribute to the making of
individual national cultures and identities of the major countries of
Europe.
- TuTh: 1:00-2:20 — T. Westphalen
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- EUR 201-I Development of European
Culture
- An
introduction of the important literary works from major European cultural
and intellectual developments and an examination of their continued influence
on the modern world. Readings focus on central texts pertaining to core
religious issues, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism
and Post Modernism.
- Tu-Th: 4:00-5:20
— T. Westphalen
LAT 111 Elementary Latin I
An intensive course designed to prepare the
beginning student to translate Latin that may be needed for use in
undergraduate or graduate study. Focus of the course is on the fundamentals
of grammar and the techniques of translation. No student who has two or more
years of Latin in high school or who has otherwise acquired an equivalent
proficiency will be permitted to enroll in LAT 111 without written
permission from the course supervisor.
MWF: 12:00-12:53
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A. Godfrey
LAT 354-S3 Literature of the
Roman Empire
Selected works of Virgil, Horace, Petronius, Tacitus, and
Juvenal are translated and examined in their soacian and historical context.
The reading and critical works in English is also required.Prerequisite:
LAT 112
Tutorial
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A. Godfrey
- HUG 221-I German
Cinema Since 1945
- A survey of contemporary Germany and
its political, social, and economic structure, as well as the study of
cultural life and institutions, within the context of its historical
development, with comparisons to American models and standards.
- M: 2:30-3:50 — B. Viola
- HUG 321 - G: Topics in the
Literature of Germany,
- A course given in English on a major German
author, genre, or literary movement, designed primarily to give students in
other disciplines an opportunity to become acquainted with the German
tradition. (German majors are admitted by special permission of their
advisors, and do the reading and term papers in German.) Semester topic:
"Death and Dishonor"
- Prerequisite: U3 or U4
standing
- Advisory Prerequisites: Two
literature courses
- TuTh: 2:30-3:50 —
T. Kerth
HUI 231-D Sex
and Politics in Italian Cinema
The cinematic representation of gender, class, and sexual politics in
post-World War II Italian films and the relationship of these themes to
Italian history, society, and culture are discussed. Films by directors
such as Bertolucci, Fellini, and Wertmuller are studied. Readings
include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.
T: 2:30-4:40 / Th: 2:30-3:50 — G. Balducci
HUI 234-G Introduction to 20th-century Theater
A study of avant-garde drama through the analysis of texts by Marinetti,
Bontempelli, Pirandello, Betti, Beckett, Ionesco, and Tenessee Williams.
Important questions such as identity and diversity are discussed from a
variety of perspectives within the social, psychological, sexual, and
multicultural context of our time.
Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of D.E.C. category B or THR 101
TuTh: 4:00-5:20 — L. Fontanella
HUI 235-G Sex,
Love ant Tragedy in Early Italian Literature
A study of the interaction between the sexes in
contrast with man's spiritual needs in the major works of early Italian
literature. Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, Boccaccio's
Decameron and Petrarch's poetry will be analyzed.
Remark: Meets English major
requirements
Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of
DEC category B or equivalent.
TuTh 2:30-3:50
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C. Franco / M. Giua
- HUI 239-I Modern Italy
- A survey of contemporary Italy and its political, social, and economic
structure, as well as the study of cultural life and institutions with comparisons to
American models and standards.
- TuTh: 2:30-3:50 — M. Mignone
HUR 141-B: The Age
of Empire
A survey of major Russian writers of the
19th and 20th centuries, including Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Solzhenitsyn.
The course offers a brief history of Russian literary masterpieces in the
context of world literature and of major cultural movements such as the
Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and 20th-century totalitarianism.
MW: 2:30-3:50 — I. Kalinowska
HUR 232-/EGL 232-I Rebels and Tyrants
An exploration of literary rebels and tyrants central to Russian and
Anglo-American traditions. The subversive tactics of such writers as
Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Sir Walter Scott, Solzhenitsyn, and Salinger are
appraised in the light of the dominant social, political and aesthetic
systems they confront.
Advisory Prerequisite: One DEC category B course.
TuTh: 10:0-11:20 — N. Rzhevsky
HUR 249-I Russia Today
Contemporary cultural trends in terms of
their historic social and political context. Recent responses to historical
changes such as the break up of the Soviet Union and its relation to the the
forces that brought about the Russian revolution, the new economic order,
and the search for Russian national identity are explored in literature, the
arts, and media.
Tu-Th: 1-00-2:20 — J. Bailyn
- HUR 341 Russian
Literature and the West
- A topics course given in English on a major Russian
author or literary movement in relation to European or American literature.
Semester supplements to this Bulletin contain specific description when
course is offered. May be repeated as the topic changes. May be used to
satisfy English or comparative literature major elective requirements with
permission of major department.
- Prerequisite:
U3 or U4 standing
- Advisory Prerequisite:
One literature course at the 200 level or higher
- TuTh: 8:30-9:50 -- T. Grenkov
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- MVL 241-G Heroes and Warriors
- A study of warrior-hero in Western Literature from
the Greeks through the Middle Ages.
- MW: 1:00-2:20 — T.
Kerth
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