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LTAM 110 The Americas

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LTAM 111 The Americas

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LTAM 140 The Americas

This class explores the world of comics and graphic novels. Students will learn about visual storytelling techniques, analyze the representation of diverse characters, aesthetics, and themes, and evaluate the role of comics across a range of cultures and time periods.

The course explores the role of pleasure, and protest, in the production, reception, and performance of Asian American identities in film and video. We will review the debates about stereotype criticism in Asian American media studies and go on to examine the “perverse” potentials of spectatorship. The course considers how the representations of the deviant sexuality of Asian Americans (e.g. hypersexual women and emasculated men) do more than uniformly harm and subjugate Asian American subjects. We will look at how Asian American filmmakers have protested toxic media representations and how they have articulated the pleasure and joy of Asian American lives in their work. We will study a range of media genres, including narrative fiction, documentary, experimental shorts, video art, television sitcom, and trans cinema. Films may include Green Card: An American Romance (1982), Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987), History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991), M. Butterfly (1993), Master of None (2015), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Past Lives (2023), and KPop Demon Hunters (2025).

LTCS 119

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LTEA 110C Asia

Through ten landmark films from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, this course introduces students to Chinese cinema as both an art form and a social practice. We will examine how filmmakers respond to—and intervene in—historical change, cultural memory, and everyday life. By learning core film concepts and cinematic language, students will develop the tools to read Chinese films with critical sophistication and to understand cinema’s role in shaping social consciousness and collective memory.

LTEA 120A

LTEA 120A Asia

This course is intended as an introduction to new media, visuality, and Korean popular culture and to the study of how they intersect with one another. The reading list covers the foundational theories of new media and visual studies, emerging from Euro-America and Asia in the last two decades or so. We will try to explore the ways in which new media intervenes and intersects with other contemporary issues such as the environment, race, gender, globalization, new forms of storytelling, and popular culture.

LTEA 142

LTEA 142 Asia

This course will explore environmentalism and eco-writing from Korea and beyond. We will study the impact of the past and ongoing extraction, exploitation and devastation of human proletarian labor and the environment as “resources” in colonial Korea and in post-Liberation South Korea. We will engage with various types of textual sources, including literature, films, and documentaries from the peninsula as well as scholarly works produced in the West.

LTEA 145 Asia

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LTEA 152B Asia

This course is a critical survey of some of the most important works in English literature from its beginnings until 1700. Our story begins before English was English in the way we know it. We shall look at the ways in which English evolved through its Old English, Anglo-Norman, and medieval forms. We shall watch as the genres of the most notable compositions of the times change from the seventh to the eighteenth centuries: from epic poetry (Beowulf) to narrative poetry (The Canterbury Tales) and romance (Sir Gawain), to lyric experiments (Donne, Lanyer, Herbert, and Wroth), phenomenal theatre (King Lear), and the early modern epic (Paradise Lost). We shall explore issues that remain with us today, such as the nature of heroism and government the role of religion in society the rise of the middle class beginnings and courses of sexual revolutions expansion of influential technologies (such as printing) colonialism and its aftermaths and the balance between individual freedom and social responsibility.

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In this seminar, we will focus on the poetry of the seventeenth-century author and polemic John Milton, specifically, his landmark epic Paradise Lost (1667). Reading Paradise Lost will be one of the grandest, most surprising, and most rewarding poetic experiences of your lives. It will be, well, epic.

LTEN 117

We will focus intensely on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a seminal work of speculative fiction. By comparing the 1818 and 1831 versions, as well as studying the social and political contexts of the day, we will come to understand the many complex layers of philosophical critique and artistic meanings present in the work. Secondary texts will include contemporary British and American works, as well as earlier and later texts that either influenced, or were influenced by, Frankenstein. In additional to some visual adaptions, we will also read and discuss contemporary literary theory engaging Frankenstein and the issues raised by it.

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LTEN 153 The Americas

This course examines Chicanx travel narratives. It explores how Mexican American travel and mobility reveals the function of space, place, national borders, and social practices. Through a survey of Chicanx travel literature, we will critically engage how Chicanx mobility charts terrains of struggle and new strategies for change. Moreover, we will address some of the following questions: What is the travel genre? How does Chicanx mobility align with this tradition? How is mobility tied to ideas of race, class, gender, and sexuality? And what does it mean to be a good mobile citizen?

LTEN 180 The Americas

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LTEN 181 The Americas

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LTEN 183 The Americas

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LTEN 185 The Americas

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2C is the last sequence of the intermediate series. The class will continue to study grammar, vocabulary and other aspects of the German language. This course is conducted entirely in German and emphasizes the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. The class will focus on cultural readings of historical content as well as current events and will engage in discussions of films.

Our journey through Italian culture, food and language continues with more review of important grammar points, as well as conversation about the culture of gastronomy, travel, music and film. This course follows LTIT 2B and completes the second year of the Italian language series. The course is strongly recommended for students who plan to go to Italy with EAP or other programs (but not only). There will be a couple of grammar quizzes, a couple of cultural quizzes, and a final project (both oral and written).

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LTRU 104A Russian

LTRU 104A Europe

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LTSP 100F Spanish

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LTSP 100F Spanish

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LTSP 135A

LTSP 135A Spanish

LTSP 135A The Americas

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LTSP 135C Spanish

LTSP 135C The Americas

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LTSP 155 Spanish

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The course explores how young adulthood has been conceived and transformed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This quarter's focus is sexual coming of age in the YA novel and the teen movie from 1975 to the present. Our discussions will be informed by scholarship in cultural history, literary studies, trauma studies, film/media studies, gender and sexuality studies. We will look at genres such as the realist novel, the graphic novel, the historical novel, the short story, along with the teen movie, the horror film, and the television series. Topics of discussion may include: didacticism, market demographics, censorship and book banning, intergenerational readership, literary merits, and stylistic experimentation. Novels may include Forever (1975), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), Blankets (2003), Gordo (2021), and Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021). Films may include Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Kids (1995) Jennifer’s Body (2009), and Euphoria (2019-present).

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This course surveys crime and detective fiction from a global perspective, tracing how writers across cultures use the genre to explore questions of justice, morality, and social order. Readings will include classic and contemporary works from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, highlighting the ways crime narratives engage with local histories, politics, and cultural anxieties. Students will develop analytical and comparative skills through close reading and discussions of how crime stories both reflect and challenge cultural contexts.

This course presents an introductory overview of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet film from the 20th century. Beginning with field-defining innovations in film and film theory from Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, we will examine lesser-known works of early Soviet film that helped define the new post-revolutionary culture. Hollywood-inflected Stalinist propaganda films of the 1930s will give way to post-WWII, post-Stalin experiments with neorealist and new wave aesthetics, including the pioneering visions of auteur directors like Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergej Parajanov. We will also consider brilliant work by Larisa Shepitko, Kira Muratova and other film artists grappling with both Soviet history and the late-Soviet present, as well as the wacky films that preceded the Soviet collapse and ushered in the post-Soviet 1990s. No previous knowledge of Russian or Soviet literature or film is required, and all films will be subtitled in English.

LTWL 180

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This course will focus on the emerging field of digital poetry and digital literature, that is, the intersection of artistic poiesis (making) with digital technology. As the scholar Chris Funkhouser states, “A poem is a digital poem if computer programming or process (software) are distinctively used in the composition, generation, or presentation of the text (or combination of texts).” We will read and respond to various examples of digital literature as well as theory and critiques of this emergent form alongside digital literature’s logical (and, sometimes, illogical) antecedents. Finally, we will create and workshop digital poetic texts of our own. While no prior knowledge of programming or software is necessary to take this course, please bring a willingness to experiment and to learn together.

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