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LTAF 120

LTAF 120 Africa

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LTAM 110 The Americas

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LTAM 120 The Americas

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LTCH 101 Chinese

LTCH 101 Asia

Monstrous Bodies in Popular Literature and Media.This course explores how popular texts and media understand and theorize monstrosity as both metaphor and commentary for societal issues, institutions, and our relationships with others. Through our course materials, we will survey the variety of monsters across multiple genres (horror, reality TV, social media, popular music) and how they both illustrate and evoke sociocultural fears.

The course looks at the relationship between love and time in contemporary romantic comedies. It examines rom-com relationships that follow traditional life courses and those that reject romantic chronology altogether. Films may include How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, 50 First Dates, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, I Give It A Year, and Weekend. Students will learn foundational skills in film analysis.

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LTCS 170

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LTEA 110A

LTEA 110A Asia

This course offers an opportunity to delve into the study of film analysis through a focus on the developments and transformations of cinema in Japan since the mid-twentieth century. Our collaboration involves a series of discussions around what constitutes and how we constitute the study of film through exploring and interrogating various theoretical and disciplinary models. Through this work, we will learn how to critically read and respond to the languages and styles of films that we watch while addressing the relationship between cinematic representations and broader historical and political debates that these representations engage.

LTEA 138

LTEA 138 Asia

Colonial Korea in Film and Lit -This course traces modern Korean history of the colonial period (1910-1945) through examination of short fictions, novels and films produced between the first decade of Japanese rule and the 2010s. Major issues we will examine through our reading of literary and filmic texts include the following: Japanese colonization, impact of Marxism, Cultural Nationalism, colonial diasporas, modernism and traditionalism, gender and coloniality/nationalism, the rise of mass culture and consumerism, imperialization policies and collaboration, and changing South Korean conceptualizations of the colonial history. We will attempt to re-think the emergence of “Korea” as a modern nation-state transnationally, i.e., in relation to the regional and global historical changes that include imperial dominations, colonial capitalization, dissemination of ideologies such as liberalism, Marxism and nationalism, and multi-directional flows of culture, commodities and people. In addition to literary texts from the 1910, 20s and 30s, we will also study films made in the late colonial period under the imperialization policy as well as the cinematic representations of colonial Korea produced in South Korea in the late 1990s and 2010s. Our examination of South Korean cultural productions from recent years will allow us to conceptualize the historicity and changing significance of Japanese colonialism in the contemporary world.

LTEA 140 Asia

This course is a survey of literary and cinematic representations of women, femininities and the historical waves of feminist movements in modern Korea, spanning from the colonial period to the contemporary era. We will read and view major literary works and films, paying close attention to the centrality of gender and sexuality in these works’ conceptualization of the broader historical issues in modern Korea. Alongside and beyond the representative masculinist literary and cinematic representations of modern Korean history by both male and female writers, we will examine feminist/female re-inscriptions.

LTEA 143 Asia

This survey course will examine Anglophone literature from 1660 to 1832 in its historical context, focusing on the history of Enlightenment ideas of the individual. Typically, this era of literature is taught as the one that formulated the individualized narratorial “I” subject, reflecting and constructing the idea of the western liberal self. Yet, the literature is complex and not streamlined in this understanding and construction of self. In this course, we will ask: how did this period conceive of or understand “the self”? How did it construct the self in relation to “the Other”? How do these literary constructions connect to the sociopolitical and ideological climate of the time—and how do these questions carry forward to our present day?

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The course will look at some of the greatest literary achievements of the Renaissance in England, including texts by William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney, Lady Mary Wroth, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton. Genres discussed will include lyric poetry, comic drama, epic, and “discovery” narratives. Students will engage with the following topics, among others: Renaissance Humanism Lyric Poetry and the Psychology of Desire The Human and the Non-Human: Humanists, Cannibals, Nature and Tyranny, Empire and Resistance.

LTEN 110

The course will focus on one of the high points in the history of Western theater: the early seventeenth century, when William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton and other great playwrights were all writing for the London stage. Plays to discuss and analyze, both comic and tragic, will include Shakespeare’s _Macbeth_ and _Measure for Measure_, Jonson’s _The Alchemist_, and Middleton’s _A Chaste Maid in Cheapside_.

LTEN 117

The Romantic Era (1770 – 1830) was also called the Age of Revolution. Rife with political upheaval, this period also generated some of the most famous poetry of the British canon. This course will examine Romantic Era poetry beyond the usual "nature" stereotypes, rooting it within its rich historical context. We will be reading the Big 6 as well as going beyond and analyzing lesser known but equally important poets to more deeply understand the time period, the legacies of which still persist.

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LTEN 148 The Americas

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LTEN 179 The Americas

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LTEN 185 The Americas

The world changed around 1800. Revolutionaries in the Americas and France confronted empires and overturned ancient feudal hierarchies. Thomas Jefferson declared that “all men are created equal” – but did that include women and the enslaved? Views of nature shifted from a static world that could be categorized and conquered to a series of dynamically evolving ecosystems. A fascination with folklore and fairy tales supplemented ongoing interests in ancient mythology and religious tradition. Poets stopped praising princes and began to express their inmost thoughts in works of original genius. Logically arranged marriages for political purposes yielded to overwhelming, transgressive passion. An accelerating process of globalization brought Europeans into contact with radically different societies, prompting questions about racial difference and the course of human history. We will read representative works by mostly German (in translation) and perhaps some British and French writers, who did their best to make sense of a new world in which the old rules no longer applied.

LTEU 110 Europe

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LTEU 141 Europe

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LTEU 150A Europe

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LTFR 104 French

LTFR 104 The Mediterranean

LTFR 104 Europe

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LTGK 103

LTGK 103 Greek

LTGK 103 The Mediterranean

LTGK 103 Europe

This intermediate-level course is conducted entirely in German and emphasizes the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing while focusing on cultural awareness, developing higher level literacy skills and a review of grammar. Course activities include cultural readings on historical content as well as current events, discussion of films and classroom practice in the target language.

Food is culture in Italy: it is the expression of history, geography, tradition, and art.
Learning Italian is not just learning a language, but partaking of the culture this language allows you to enter.
Italian 2A/2B/50 is a grammar review, through the language of food and travel, meant to give you an "insider's perspective" on Italian culture at all levels, including music, film, sport, gestures, and of course, recipes!

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Third Year Korean 130F (4 units) is the first part of the advanced Korean. Students in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught in the Korean 2A, 2B, and 2C courses. Students in this course will learn low-advanced level skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Korean, as well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more vocabularies, expressions and sentence structures and to have a good command of Korean in formal situations. Students are expected to read and understand daily newspapers and daily news broadcasts. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:

Speaking: Students are able to communicate with accuracy and fluency in order to participate fully and effectively in conversations on a variety of topics in formal and informal settings from both concrete and abstract perspectives. They discuss their interests and special fields of competence, explain complex matters in detail, and provide lengthy and coherent narrations, all with ease, fluency, and accuracy. They present their opinions on a number of issues of interest to them, and provide structured arguments to support these opinions.
Listening: Students are able to understand speech in a standard dialect on a wide range of familiar and less familiar topics. They can follow linguistically complex extended discourse. Comprehension is no longer limited to the listener's familiarity with subject matter, but also comes from a command of the language that is supported by a broad vocabulary, an understanding of more complex structures and linguistic experience within the target culture. Students can understand not only what is said, but sometimes what is left unsaid.
Reading: Students are able to understand texts from many genres dealing with a wide range of subjects, both familiar and unfamiliar. Comprehension is no longer limited to the reader's familiarity with subject matter, but also comes from a command of the language that is supported by a broad vocabulary, an understanding of complex structures and knowledge of the target culture. Students at this level can draw inferences from textual and extralinguistic clues.
Writing: Students are able to produce most kinds of formal and informal correspondence, in-depth summaries, reports, and research papers. They demonstrate the ability to explain complex matters, and to present and support opinions by developing cogent arguments and hypotheses. They demonstrate a high degree of control of grammar and syntax, of general vocabulary, of spelling or symbol production, of cohesive devices, and of punctuation.

Prerequisite: LTKO 2C or an equivalent level of proficiency in Korean language.

LTKO 130F Korean

LTKO 130F Asia

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LTLA 100

LTLA 100 Latin

LTLA 100 The Mediterranean

LTLA 100 Europe

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LTRU 104B Russian

LTRU 104B Europe

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LTRU 110A Russian

LTRU 110A Europe

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This seminar analyzes cinematic productions by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu, from Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), to Birdman(2014) and The Revenant (2015). 

En este seminario analizaremos la experiencia de la gente latina en los Estados Unidos, el papel del lenguaje y la cultura en dicha experiencia y la reproducción de las ideologías lingüísticas y culturales en la sociedad estadounidense. In this seminar we will discuss the experiences of Latinxs in the USA, the role of language and culture in their experiences, and the production of language and cultural ideologies in US society.

An advanced Spanish conversation and writing course for second language learners. The objective of this course is to promote the development of academic Spanish in reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Students will explore a variety of cultural, literary, and writing genres from the Spanish speaking world. This course has the purpose of preparing students to work in a professional context in Spanish. Students who have experience with Spanish outside of the classroom (at home, in their community) should take the equivalent course for heritage learners (LTSP 100F).

LTSP 100A Spanish

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LTSP 100F Spanish

For students who learned Spanish at home and/or who went to school in a Spanish speaking country. This course allows students to expand their oral, reading, and writing academic proficiency in Spanish and, through class discussions, promotes critical thinking in a relevant cultural context for Latinx Students. Additionally, students will explore a variety of cultural, literary, and writing genres. This course has the purpose of preparing students to work in a professional context in Spanish.

LTSP 100F Spanish

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LTSP 116

LTSP 116 Spanish

LTSP 116 The Americas

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LTSP 145 Spanish

El objetivo de este seminario es explorar el español tal como se habla en la comunidad y el significado social y cultural que se atribuye a las diferentes formas de hablar. A través de un análisis crítico, las discusiones de clase se centrarán en las experiencias de los/las/les estudiantes acerca de su propio uso del español.

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LTWL 100

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LTWL 110B

This course explores the tradition of metadrama—plays that draw attention to their own theatricality, staging, and artifice. From Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author to Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (and more), we will examine how dramatists use self-reflexive strategies to question identity, performance, authorship, and reality itself. Readings will include works across cultures. Students will analyze how metadrama engages audiences in critical reflection, blurs boundaries between art and life, and anticipates postmodern media.

This course examines film history and its influence on culture and literary history. It studies key films such as Metropolis, Citizen Kane, Psycho, Star Wars, Do the Right Thing, Parasite, and Taste of Cherry to explore the evolution of cinematic style and storytelling.

LTWL 180

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LTWR 114C

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What Is Worship? This seminar explores worship as a cultural phenomenon through which individuals find meaning, cultivate belonging, and seek pathways for transcendence. Drawing on diverse traditions and practices, the course examines methods of worship such as prayer, movement, and music sacred spaces including synagogues, temples, churches, and mosques and the varied forms through which worship is expressed. The seminar considers the relationship between worship and identity—how practices relate to belief, community, and ways of life. The seminar also considers worship in the context of modernity and post-modernity, including how religious practices are continued, adapted, challenged, or displaced in secular and progressive settings. Emphasizing discussion and reflection, the course invites students to think deeply and respectfully about worship as an important (and often marginalized) contemporary practice that can both inspire and unsettle.

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