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European Studies
Courses
Spring
2010
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The Department of European Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures offers the following courses in Latin. For further
information, please contact the department office at 632-7440,
or send an e-mail to Prof,
Tim Westphalen, Department of
European Languages, Humanities 1055.
All courses are 3 credits
European Studies
- 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 contributes to the making of
individual national cultures and identities of the major countries of
Europe.
- TuTh: 12:50-2:10 T. Westphalen
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- EUR 201-I Development of European
Culture
- An introduction to important literary works
that arose from major European cultural and intellectual movements and an
examination of their continued influence on the modern world.
- TuTh: 3:50-5:10 T. Westphalen
EUR 401 Senior Research
SeminarSr. Seminar in
in Cinema and Cultural Studies
Offered also as CCS 401
Tu: 3:50-6:50 / Th: 3:50-4:45
I. Kalinowska
- HUE 269-02 Topics in
Contemporary Slavic Culture
- Analysis and
discussion of contemporary cultural topics dealing with Russia or Eastern
and East Central Europe. Attention is paid to the historic political,
social, aesthetic, and cultural forces out of which contemporary culture has
evolved. Recent topics have included the apocalypse in literature;
20th-century Poland; Yugoslavia, past and present. Semester supplements to
this Bulletin contain specific description when course is offered. May be
repeated as the topic changes.
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MW: 3.50-5:10 I. Kalinowska
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- HUF 211 French Cinema
- Introduction to French films as representative of cinematic art.
Films are selected to provide a historical perspective and range of the
director's concerns. Students are taught methods of reading and
analyzing filmic works. All films have English subtitles.
- MW: 2:20-3:40 / W: 2:20-5:10 M. Turan
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- HUF 219-I Modern France
- An overview of French civilization seen through its diverse
manifestations in various cultural fields. The heritage of French
society is analyzed through the arts, philosophy, science, literature,
and theatre.
Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of DEC. category B
MF: 12:50-2:10 S. Petrey
- HUG 221-I German Cinema since 1945
- The theory and history of German films as an art form, from filmmakers
such as Alexander Kluge, Bernhard Wicki, and the "new filmmakers" Rainer
Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, ect. Topics include silent films: New
German Cinema, 1962-3985; national cinema and national identity; filma as
literature, etc.
- M: 2:20-3:15 / W: 2:20-5:10
B. Viola
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- 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
Supplements to this Bulletin contain description when course is offered. May
be repeated as the topic changes.
- Prerequisite: U3 or U4
standing
- Advisory Prerequisites: Two
literature courses
- TuTh: 2:20-3:40
T. Kerth
HUI 216-I Italian Civilization
Through the Ages
The historical development of civilization in
Italy with reference to literature and connection to artistic expression such as
visual art, music, and theatre.
MW: 3:50-5:10
A. Fedi
HUI 231-D Sex and Politics in Italian Cinema
This course will examine the great works of
Italian cinema in the light of two important themes in Post-War Italy: sex
and politics. The discussions will focus on the cinematic representations of
gender, class, and sexual politics as well as the films' contextual
relationship with Italian history, society and culture. Readings will
include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.
W:: 2:20-3:40 / M: 2:20-5:10 J. Reich
HUI 235-G Sex, Love and 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 2:20-3:40
C. Franco
- HUL 324 Romance Linguistics
The linguistic evolution and synchronic grammar of the Romance languages
are studied. The course is conducted in English
TuTh: 3:50-5:10 J. Elias-Ulloa
HUR 142-B Culture and Revolution
This course introduces students to twentieth-century Russian literature
by examining its relationship to the politics of the October revolution, and
by analyzing related issues such as the fate of the individual human being
in society and the role of the artist within a collective. The course offers
analyses of literary texts: novels, poems and dramas, as well as visual
arts, which exemplify both the positive dreams of the time of the
revolution, and the imagined and real horrors that came in its aftermath.
TuTh: 2:20:-3:40 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: 9:50-11:10 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: 11-20-12:40 J. Bailyn
Latin Courses
LAT 112-S3 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: 10:40-11:35
A.
Godfrey
LAT 353 Literature of the Roman
Republic
Prerequisite:
200-level Latin
course
TBA
A. Godfrey
LAT 447 Directed Readings in Latin
(1-4 credits)
May be repeated
Mandatory Prerequisite:
Permission of minor coordinator
HTBA
A. Godfrey
LAT 495 Honors Latin
HTBA A. Godfrey
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