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Course Descriptions

Students planning a program of study or concentration are urged to review program requirements and course descriptions before meeting with their advisors. Not all courses listed here are taught every year, and students should consult the Course Schedule on the Wheaton website for information about offerings in a particular semester. Courses are numbered to indicate levels of advancement as follows: 100–199, elementary or introductory; 200–299, intermediate; 300 and above, advanced. Departments often design new courses, either to be offered on a one-time basis or an experimental basis, before deciding whether to make them a regular part of the curriculum.  These courses are numbered 098, 198, 298 or 398.

Information is available online through WINDOW about prerequisites that must be completed before enrolling in a course, as well as the curriculum and general education requirements that a course fulfills. Most courses are offered for one course credit; a course credit at Wheaton is the equivalent of four semester hours.
 

German
  

  • GER 202 - Intermediate German II

    The course aims to increase students’ proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking while helping students gain comfort in extended discourse in German. A variety of student-centered activities are designed to improve their understanding and active use of the language. Literary and non-literary texts emphasize authentic cultural contexts. Some of the major themes include the Faustian motif, the German Fairy Tale, Fascism and Resistance, Migration and Immigration, German Business and Environmentalism.

    Prerequisites
    GER 201  or departmental placement

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    20007

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • GER 240 - Advanced German

    This course focuses on advanced grammar structures, parsing, and translation through discussion of short literary texts and several award winning German movies. Students will read and investigate a variety of print material, view and analyze videos and film, and write short compositions and sketches in German. Central themes of discussion include the cultural legacies of Fascism, the role of the arts in German public life, multi-cultural societies, German folklore and heritage.

    Prerequisites
    GER 202  or departmental placement

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 241 - Kafka and the Kafkaesque

    This course examines Kafka’s life and major works in the historical and social context of early-20th-century Central Europe. Major themes are: generational conflicts, the function of humor and parody in his writings, modernity in and as crisis, the figure of the outsider, as well as the “foreign, the eccentric, the illogical, the uncanny”, or simply the Kafkaesque. Several film adaptations that attempt to visualize Kafka’s imaginative depths will also be studied. Taught in English.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course is taught in English

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 242 - Introduction to German Studies

    This course is a general introduction to German culture, German history and German society. Curriculum is organized around student-centered activities that will strengthen students’ functional vocabulary and offer a systematic overview of advanced grammar. While applying linguistic skills to investigations of global issues within the German context, students will build on their intercultural literacy and enhance their global awareness. Central themes include: poverty and equity, health and education, consumerism and sustainability, German cities and regional cultures. GER 240   and GER 242 may be taken out of sequence. Taught in German.

    Prerequisites
    GER 202  or departmental placement

    Credits 1



    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 250 - Topics in German Culture

    This interdisciplinary, interactive class explores life, social issues, and critical thought through literature, film, music, press, social and other media in the contemporary German-speaking world. It aims to deepen students’ cultural awareness as global citizens. Topics may include: propaganda, ideology, language, and power in German intellectual history; thinkers and dreamers in German literature and cinema, humanities at the crossroads of science and technology; environmentalism and recycling culture in German and global communities; regional culinary curiosities; Germany as a multicultural society and the construction of identity; crossing borders / crossing cultures in pre- and post-Wall Germanies; the Uncanny and the Kafkaesque; diaspora, exile, and homecoming. Taught in English.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in English 

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities
  

  • GER 265 - Representations of the Holocaust

    Hitler and the Nazis loom large in the American imagination, and this short period in history continues to define evil. This course provides critical depth to what we understand as “The Holocaust.” We will investigate the most recent historical and philosophical debates around questions such as “Who were the perpetrators and victims?”, “Is the Holocaust unique?”, “What is resistance?”, “How can we record and remember the unspeakable?”, and “How is today’s racism connected to the Holocaust?” We will focus on artistic sources – literature, music, film, and visual art as we develop a critical awareness about the representation of these events. Taught in English.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in English

    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    20096

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

     

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 267 - Weimar and Nazi Cinema and Culture

    This course examines the films of the Weimar and Nazi periods (1919-1945) and their socio-historical, politico-cultural and aesthetic contexts of production. It covers a wide variety of works from the early beginnings of German cinema to the end of WWII. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the male gaze,” “mass culture and modernity”, or “fascist aesthetics.”Taught in English.

     

    Credits 1



    Notes
    This course is taught in English.  Cross-listed with WGS 267 .

    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    23014

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 270 - Black in Berlin

    Berlin reflects African American history and many historical, political and cultural traces. This seminar will compare the troubled histories of the U.S. and Germany as we investigate the very different, but interwoven, changing definitions of, and expectations for, race, gender and identity. We will begin by considering Berlin as an unexpected place of openness and opportunity for African Americans, as it was here that W.E.B. DuBois analyzed race not as a biological but as a social phenomenon. We will continue to the deadly racial catastrophes of the early twentieth century and the changing social and economic climates of both countries. We will continue the course with the ecstatic German welcome of presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and the hope for a new post- racial era. Our final weeks will examine present day Afro-German culture and activism.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with WGS 274 Black in Berlin . Course taught in English.

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West 

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 274 - Contemporary German Cinema and Culture

    This course offers an overview of the history of German cinema from 1945 until the present. Students will be introduced to the political, economic, and social conditions of Germany during the post-war and post-wall eras. As we study the larger cultural and aesthetic contexts of the films, we will learn how German identity has changed over the last century. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the Cold War and sexual repression,” “crisis and rebellion”, and “minority cinema.” Taught in English.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in English

    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    23014

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 276 - Berlin: Monuments and Mayhem

    Berlin is attracting profit- and “thrill-seekers” once again, recapturing something of the vibrant energy of the Roaring Twenties before its imminent descent into fascism and the subsequent construction of the wall that would divide this city and the world at large during the Cold War. This course examines the political, social and cultural metamorphoses of the city during the Second Empire, the Roaring Twenties, the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the 1968 movement and left wing terrorism, the Berlin Wall era and the unification of the city and country, and in present day Berlin scene. Student-centered activities focus on the intercultural crossroads in literature, film, music and architecture, as students investigate how new identities and memories are formed at this ever-evolving construction site. Taught in English.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in English

    Connection
    20028, 20068

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 279 - Translation Practice

    This course combines insights from Translation Studies, applied linguistics, and German cultural / literary studies in order to develop skills and experience in translating literary and non-literary genres, including song texts, short essays, advertising blurbs, everyday speech, and selected writings from the disciplines of law, international relations, economics, medicine, and biotechnology. Students explore how to negotiate literal and connotative meaning across idioms, cultures, communities, and symbolic systems. Thanks to our small class sizes, students will receive individual attention, immediate feedback, and intensive mentoring from professors and invited specialists, giving students a broad perspective of the professional field and greatly accelerating students’ development.

    Prerequisites
    Intermediate knowledge of any non-English language or permission of instructor

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities 

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Sophomore Experience, Foreign Language
  

  • GER 280 - The Monstrous and the Marvelous: German Fairy Tales and Folklore

    This course examines the role of folktales and fairy tales in cultural, socio-political, as well as economic contexts. Students will identify the main structural components of German fairy tale narratives and investigate their influences on the emotional development of young adults, on the formation of traditional gender roles, as well as the means by which fairy tale and folk motifs are transferred to other media, such as the Disney animations, or K-pop music and K-drama. Taught in English.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in English.  Cross-listed with WGS 280 .

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 282 - Identity and Difference

    What does it mean to be a German today? Recent political, cultural and literary debates in Germany have addressed the question of who is allowed to claim Germany as their “home,” their Heimat. Literary (prose, poetry) and nonliterary texts (film, popular music, vlogs) by intercultural writers and artists of the last three decades keep challenging the narrow and exclusive concept of “Germanness.” This course will explore important moments in the history of their struggle and responses to these challenges. Taught in English.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    This course is taught in English 

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars, Humanities, Global Honors
  

  • GER 298 - K-Pop and the German Fairy Tale

    What is the secret behind the immense popularity of BTS and BlackPink? Why and how have K-drama, -music, and -cuisine developed into a socio-economic powerhouse whose export value has become a substantial percentage of the South Korean nation’s GDP? This “Korean wave” or Hallyu hasn’t occurred by accident but is the result of governmental policies and the strategic cultivation of “idols” by an entertainment industry that needed territorial expansion for its own survival. This course examines how Hallyu, especially K-pop, has been a deliberate tool of soft power and how especially the K-drama and K-music industries have embraced and adapted the heroes and heroines of the German Grimm fairy tales. We will look into the development and marketing of the artists’ images and how they are grounded on the persona of the ‘underdog’. They display the vulnerabilities of fairy tale protagonists, telling an overarching story of adolescent temptations and growth and reveal , conflicts between carnal instincts and moral self-realization. We will also investigate how the constructed imagery of “idols” today conforms to the bourgeois taste and the engendered patriarchal ideology of 19th century Germany that shaped and structured the Grimm fairy tales as well as those adapted a century later by Walt Disney. Moreover, K-pop’s continual artistic self-reinvention and active participation by their fan bases have started to challenge western notions of gender and its monolithic concept of (hyper) femininity and masculinity. It is at these crossroads of East and West, race, and gender that we take an in-depth look back to the original German fairy tale and its global reach into 21st century K-pop. Taught in English.

    Credits 1
  

  • GER 298 - Repression and Rebellion

    This English- taught course traces ideas of German artistic identity as reflected in literature, film, and popular media. Beginning with the explosion of print media made possible by Gutenberg’s press, we will read widely through significant periods of cultural change including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism, Nazi Germany, the split state, and today’s reunited Germany of immigration. Special emphasis will be given to literatures of resistance, which challenged, and often changed, dominant cultural paradigms. Authors writing against artistic, political, sexual, and racial repression will be read alongside other creative production – film, art, and music - for a comprehensive introduction to German cultural history.

    Credits 1



    Notes
     

     
  

  • GER 299 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • GER 302 - German for Business and the Professions

    This course is designed to broaden students’ knowledge of German as a language of commerce and industry. Emphasis is given to business terminology, development of intercultural communication skills, and current global issues in the German business world such as marketing, social welfare, consumerism and environmental initiatives. In addition to acquiring a rich Business vocabulary, students will also develop nuanced cross-cultural knowledge by being encouraged to think critically about cultural differences and how they relate to business practices. Essential vocabulary and relevant grammar structures will be practiced throughout the class. The lesson plans are also designed with students in mind who want to develop linguistic and cultural proficiency skills related to professional life in German-speaking countries to prepare for interviews, job search and application materials, workplace communication and presentations in international work environments. Taught in German.

    Prerequisites
    GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in German

    Area
    Humanities 

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GER 303 - Deutsche Märchen und Brauchtum

    This course examines the role of folktales and fairy tales in cultural, socio-political, as well as economic contexts. Students will identify the main structural components of German fairy tale narratives and investigate their influences on the emotional development of young adults, on the formation of traditional gender roles, as well as the means by which fairy tale and folk motifs are transferred to other media, such as the Disney animations, or in K-pop music and K-drama. Taught in GERMAN.

    Prerequisites
    GER 202 Intermediate German II   or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in German

    Area
    Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 341 - Kafka and the Kafkaesque

    This course examines Kafka’s life and major works in the historical and social context of early-20th-century Central Europe. Major themes are: generational conflicts, the function of humor and parody in his writings, modernity in and as crisis, the figure of the outsider as well as the “foreign, the eccentric, the illogical, the uncanny”, or simply the Kafkaesque. Several film adaptations that attempt to visualize Kafka’s imaginative depths will also be studied. Taught in GERMAN.

    Prerequisites
    GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in German

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 365 - Representations of the Holocaust

    Hitler and the Nazis loom large in the American imagination, and this short period in history continues to define evil. This course provides critical depth to what we understand as “The Holocaust.” We will investigate the most recent historical and philosophical debates around questions such as “Who were the perpetrators and victims?”, “Is the Holocaust unique?”, “What is resistance?”, “How can we record and remember the unspeakable?”, and “How is today’s racism connected to the Holocaust?” We will focus on artistic sources – literature, music, film, and visual art as we develop a critical awareness about the representation of these events. Taught in German.

    Prerequisites
    GER 240   or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in German

    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    20096

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 367 - Weimar and Nazi Cinema and Culture

    This course examines the films of the Weimar and Nazi periods and their socio-historical, politico-cultural and aesthetic contexts of production. It covers a wide variety of works from the early beginnings of German cinema to the end of WWII. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the male gaze,” “mass culture and modernity”, or “fascist aesthetics.” At the 300-level, we will be targeting selected syntactical and grammatical issues that arise from students’ essays and class discussions.  Taught in German. 

    Prerequisites
    GER 240  or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in German

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 370 - Black in Berlin

    Berlin reflects African American history in many historical, political and cultural traces. This seminar will compare the troubled histories of the U.S. and Germany as we investigate the very different, but interwoven, changing definitions of, and expectations for, race, gender and identity. We will begin by considering Berlin as an unexpected place of openness and opportunity for African Americans, as it was here that W.E.B. DuBois analyzed race not as a biological but as a social phenomenon. We will continue to the deadly racial catastrophes of the early twentieth century and the changing social and economic climates of both countries. We will continue the course with the ecstatic German welcome of presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and the hope for a new post- racial era. Our final weeks will examine present day Afro-German culture and activism.

     

    Prerequisites
    GER 240  or permission of instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with WGS 374 . Course taught in German.

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West, Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Foreign Language, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 374 - Contemporary German Cinema and Culture

    This course offers an overview of the history of German cinema from 1945 until the present. Students will be introduced to the political, economic, and social conditions of Germany during the post-war and post-wall eras. As we study the larger cultural and aesthetic contexts of the films, we will learn how German identity has changed over the last century. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the Cold War and sexual repression,” “crisis and rebellion”, “minority cinema.” At the 300-level, we also will be targeting selected syntactical and grammatical issues that arise from students’ essays and discussions. Taught in German.

    Prerequisites
    GER 240  or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in German

    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    23014

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 376 - Berlin: Monuments and Mayhem

    Berlin is attracting profit- and “thrill-seekers” once again, recapturing something of the vibrant energy of the Roaring Twenties before its imminent descent into fascism and the subsequent construction of the wall that would divide this city and the world at large during the Cold War. This course examines the political, social and cultural metamorphoses of the city during the Second Empire, the Roaring Twenties, the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the 1968 movement and left wing terrorism, the Berlin Wall era and the unification of the city and country, and in present day Berlin scene. Student-centered activities focus on the intercultural crossroads in literature, film, music and architecture, as students investigate how new identities and memories are formed at this ever-evolving construction site. Taught in German.

    Prerequisites
    GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    20028, 20068

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 380 - Identität und Differenz

    What does it mean to be a German today? Recent political, cultural and literary debates in Germany have addressed the question of who is allowed to claim Germany as their “home,” their Heimat. Literary (prose, poetry) and nonliterary texts (film, popular music, vlogs) by intercultural writers and artists of the last three decades keep challenging the narrow and exclusive concept of “Germanness.” This course will explore important moments in the history of their struggle and responses to these challenges.

    Prerequisites
    GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught in German.  This course is offered at the 200-level, GER 282  

    Area
    Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GER 398 - Repression and Rebellion

    This English- taught course traces ideas of German artistic identity as reflected in literature, film, and popular media. Beginning with the explosion of print media made possible by Gutenberg’s press, we read widely through significant periods of cultural change including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism, Nazi Germany, the split state, and today’s reunited Germany of immigration. Special emphasis will be given to literatures of resistance, which challenged, and often changed, dominant cultural paradigms. Authors writing against artistic, political, sexual, and racial repression will be read alongside other creative production – film, art, and music - for a comprehensive introduction to German cultural history.

    Prerequisites
    GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1
  

  • GER 399 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • GER 401 - Senior Seminar

    This course serves as the capstone experience for German and German Studies majors. Each seminar is organized around a specific topic that may change each year. Students will undertake a research project, write an extensive research paper, and present their projects to a general audience.

    Credits 1



    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GER 499 - Independent Research

    Offered to selected majors at the invitation of the department.

    Credits 1
  

  • GER 500 - Individual Research

    Selected majors are invited by the department to pursue individual research in preparation for writing an Honors Thesis. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester, the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.

    Credits 1



    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors

Greek
  

  • GK 101 - Elementary Greek 1

    The first of a two-semester sequence.

    Credits 1



    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language
  

  • GK 102 - Elementary Greek 2

    The second of a two-semester sequence.

    Prerequisites
    GK 101 Elementary Greek 1  

    Credits 1



    Foundation
    Foreign Language 

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language
  

  • GK 199 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • GK 231 - Ethics and Social Justice

    Greek philosophical and religious inquiry. Texts may include, but are not limited to, selections from Plato, Homeric Hymns, Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian writings.
     

    Prerequisites
    GK 101 Elementary Greek 1  and GK 102 Elementary Greek 2  or three-four years of high school language study, or a previous 200-level course

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 300 level. 

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 232 - Soul and Self

    Greek construction of the self. Texts may include, but are not limited to, selections from Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Presocratics, and lyric poetry..

    Prerequisites
    GK 101 Elementary Greek 1  and GK 102 Elementary Greek 2  or three-four years of high school language study, or a previous 200-level course; prerequisite for the 300-level

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 300 level

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 233 - The Greek Historical Imagination

    Greek historical inquiry: political, military, social. Texts may include, but are not limited to, selections from major historical authors (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon).

    Prerequisites
    GK 101 Elementary Greek 1  and GK 102 Elementary Greek 2  or three-four years of high school language study, or a previous 200-level course. 

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 300 level.

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 234 - Heroes and Homecomings

    War and peace: the Greek mythic tradition. Texts may include, but are not limited to, Homer (Iliad, Odyssey) and selected tragedies related to the Trojan war saga..

    Prerequisites
    GK 101 Elementary Greek 1  and GK 102 Elementary Greek 2  or three-four years of high school language study, or a previous 200-level course. 

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 300 level. 

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 235 - The Urban Experience

    Gender, class, and ethnicity in Athenian society. Texts may include, but are not limited to, Xenophon, Attic orators, Attic Comedy (Aristophanes), and inscriptions.

    Prerequisites
    GK 101 Elementary Greek 1  and GK 102 Elementary Greek 2  or three-four years of high school language study, or a previous 200-level course.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 300 level. 

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 236 - Science and the Natural World

    The Greek understanding of the natural world. Texts may include, but are not limited to, Euclid’s geometry, Plato, and Hippocrates’ medical texts.

    Prerequisites
    GK 101 Elementary Greek 1  and GK 102 Elementary Greek 2  or three-four years of high school language study, or a previous 200-level course. 

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 300 level. 

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 299 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • GK 331 - Ethics and Social Justice

    Greek philosophical and religious inquiry. Texts may include, but are not limited to, selections from Plato, Homeric Hymns, Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian writings.
     

    Prerequisites
    Two 200-level Greek courses

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 200 level.  This class involves additional, intensive reading of primary Greek texts.

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 332 - Soul and Self

    Greek construction of the self. Texts may include, but are not limited to, selections from Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Presocratics, and lyric poetry..

    Prerequisites
    Two 200-level Greek courses

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 200 level. This course invovled additional, intensive reading of primary Greek texts.

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 333 - The Greek Historical Imagination

    Greek historical inquiry: political, military, social. Texts may include, but are not limited to, selections from major historical authors (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon).

    Prerequisites
    Two 200-level Greek courses.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 200 level. This course invovled additional, intensive reading of primary Greek texts.

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 334 - Heroes and Homecomings

    War and peace: the Greek mythic tradition. Texts may include, but are not limited to, Homer (Iliad, Odyssey) and selected tragedies related to the Trojan war saga..

    Prerequisites
    Two 200-level Greek courses.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 200 level. This course invovled additional, intensive reading of primary Greek texts.

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 335 - The Urban Experience

    Gender, class, and ethnicity in Athenian society. Texts may include, but are not limited to, Xenophon, Attic orators, Attic Comedy (Aristophanes), and inscriptions.

    Prerequisites
    Two 200-level Greek courses.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 200 level. This course invovled additional, intensive reading of primary Greek texts.

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 336 - Science and the Natural World

    The Greek understanding of the natural world. Texts may include, but are not limited to, Euclid’s geometry, Plato, and Hippocrates’ medical texts.

    Prerequisites
    Two 200-level Greek courses.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught concurrently with 200 level. This course invovled additional, intensive reading of primary Greek texts.

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • GK 399 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • GK 499 - Independent Research

    Offered to selected majors at the invitation of the department.
  

  • GK 500 - Individual Research

    Selected majors are invited by the department to pursue individual research in preparation for writing an Honors Thesis.

    Credits 1

Greek Latin and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
  

  • GLAM 120 - Greek and Latin Roots of Medical Terminology

    A methodical approach to understanding Greek and Latin elements in English medical vocabulary. Lectures and exercises will develop skills in recognizing prefixes, bases, suffixes, and the rules for combining them to create technical medical language.

    Credits 1
  

  • GLAM 130 - Egypt and North Africa in the Mediterranean World

    A study of the influence of ancient Egyptian and North African culture in the Mediterranean world. Lectures and discussions will examine the historical, economic, literary, artistic and religious ties between Egypt and the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to late antiquity and the early Christian era.

    Credits 1
  

  • GLAM 135 - Mythology in the Mediterranean World

    Mythology and mythography of the Greeks and Romans, set in the context of the mythologies of Egypt and the ancient Near East.

    Credits 1



    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • GLAM 140 - Before the West

    A study of the influence of ancient Mesopotamian cultures in the Greco-Roman world. Lectures and discussions will examine the historical, economic, literary, artistic and religious ties between Akkad, Persia, ancient Israel and Greece from the Bronze Age to late antiquity and the early Christian era.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    20076

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • GLAM 199 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 0.5 - 1
  

  • GLAM 254 - The Drama of Fifth-Century Athens

    The explosion of political and intellectual energy in Athens in the fifth century and its repercussions, focusing on Greek historical texts (Herodotus and Thucydides) and Greek drama (text, theatre, performance, interpretation). Topics will include the evolution of the Athenian Empire after the Persian War; the interrelationships of politics, religion and the arts; the diverse forms of comedy and tragedy; and the dissolution of Athenian power after the Peloponnesian War. GLAM 254 forms a connection with THEA 351 .

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    20046

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • GLAM 262 - The Ancient Landscape: From Mythology to Ecology

    The land outside the walls of the city: how it was used and abused, praised and feared, personified in myth and religion. Topics will include agriculture and ancient farming manuals, deforestation, the cult of streams and fountains, the divinities of the wild, the Eleusinian mysteries and the literature that idealizes the country life.

    Credits 1



    Connection
    20071

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • GLAM 266 - Gender, Power and the Gods

    An introduction to the study of the public and private lives of women in Mediterranean antiquity from classical Athens and Rome to late antiquity (fifth century B.C.E. to fourth century C.E.). The relationship of secular authority to religious custom in the Greco-Roman city-states and empires, and the social status of women within these cultures as understood (and misunderstood) by civic institutions and religious customs, including medicine, law, mythology, art and politics. Special attention to religious practices that allowed women more visible and powerful social identities, including state festivals, the so-called mystery cults, and the emerging Rabbinic (Jewish) and Christian traditions.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with WGS 266  

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Humanities
  

  • GLAM 272 - Greece and Rome to the World: What’s Novel about Ancient Novels?

    An exploration of some particular aspect of Greek and Latin literature—a work, an author, a genre, a theme—and its influence and repercussions in modern literature: how it is imitated, engaged, confronted, transformed. Topic is variable; may be repeated for credit. Lecture-discussion format, with an emphasis on writing, culminating in a final essay or a creative project. Topic for 2023: What is novel about the Greek Novel? Ancient Greek and Latin prose fictions are put in counterpoint with modern drama, novel, and film. Beginning with the ancestor of the ancient novel, Homer’s Odyssey, as retold in Gardley’s Black Odyssey, the course studies the pastoral romance (Daphnis and Chloe), Wha fantasy (The Romance of Alexander the Great), Menippean satire (Satyricon), folk tales (The Ass; Cupid and Psyche), and the ideal romance (The Ethiopian Tale). Side by side are a popular Irish novel, a modern Greek novel for children, a 16th century Spanish picaresque novel, a Soviet bureaucratic fantasy, and a Jamaican story of migration and the search for identity. Films include Pan’s Labyrinth, The Man Who Would Be King, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? 

    Credits 1



    Notes
    New course

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Writing
  

  • GLAM 299 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • GLAM 354 - The Drama of Fifth-Century Athens

    The explosion of political and intellectual energy in Athens in the fifth century and its repercussions, focusing on Greek historical texts (Herodotus and Thucydides) and Greek drama (text, theatre, performance, interpretation). Topics will include the evolution of the Athenian Empire after the Persian War; the interrelationships of politics, religion and the arts; the diverse forms of comedy and tragedy; and the dissolution of Athenian power after the Peloponnesian War. Students at the 300 level will do extra reading, writing and research in projects directed by the instructor.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course for students within the GLAM major. 

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • GLAM 362 - The Ancient Landscape: From Mythology to Ecology

    The land outside the walls of the city: how it was used and abused, praised and feared, personified in myth and religion. Topics will include agriculture and ancient farming manuals, deforestation, the cult of streams and fountains, the divinities of the wild, the Eleusinian mysteries and the literature that idealizes the country life. Students at the 300-level will do extra reading, writing and research in projects directed by the instructor.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    The course is for students within the GLAM major. 

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • GLAM 366 - Gender, Power and the Gods

    An introduction to the study of the public and private lives of women in Mediterranean antiquity from classical Athens and Rome to late antiquity (fifth century B.C.E. to fourth century C.E.). The relationship of secular authority to religious custom in the Greco-Roman city-states and empires, and the social status of women within these cultures as understood (and misunderstood) by civic institutions and religious customs, including medicine, law, mythology, art and politics. Special attention to religious practices that allowed women more visible and powerful social identities, including state festivals, the so-called mystery cults, and the emerging Rabbinic (Jewish) and Christian traditions.  Students at the 300-level will do extra reading, writing and research in projects directed by the instructor.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    This course is for students within the GLAM major. 

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • GLAM 372 - Greece and Rome to the World: What’s Novel about Ancient Novels?

    An exploration of some particular aspect of Greek and Latin literature—a work, an author, a genre, a theme—and its influence and repercussions in modern literature: how it is imitated, engaged, confronted, transformed. Topic is variable; may be repeated for credit. Lecture-discussion format, with an emphasis on writing, culminating in a final essay or a creative project. Topic for 2023: What is novel about the Greek Novel? Ancient Greek and Latin prose fictions are put in counterpoint with modern drama, novel, and film. Beginning with the ancestor of the ancient novel, Homer’s Odyssey, as retold in Gardley’s Black Odyssey, the course studies the pastoral romance (Daphnis and Chloe), Wha fantasy (The Romance of Alexander the Great), Menippean satire (Satyricon), folk tales (The Ass; Cupid and Psyche), and the ideal romance (The Ethiopian Tale). Side by side are a popular Irish novel, a modern Greek novel for children, a 16th century Spanish picaresque novel, a Soviet bureaucratic fantasy, and a Jamaican story of migration and the search for identity. Films include Pan’s Labyrinth, The Man Who Would Be King, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? 

    Credits 1



    Notes
    This course is for majors and minors within the Greek, Latin, and Mediterranean Studies Department.

    New course

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Writing
  

  • GLAM 399 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • GLAM 499 - Independent Research

    Offered to selected majors at the invitation of the department.

    Credits 1
  

  • GLAM 500 - Individual Research

    Selected majors are invited by the department to pursue individual research in preparation for writing an Honors Thesis.

Hispanic Studies
  

  • HISP 101 - Introductory Spanish I

    A course conducted by intensive oral method for students with no preparation in the language. Its goal is to provide introductory knowledge of Spanish while developing the fundamental skills: understanding, speaking, reading, writing and cultural awareness. By completing this course students will be ready for taking HISP 102 Introductory Spanish II  . Three class meetings per week.

    Credits 1



    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language
  

  • HISP 102 - Introductory Spanish II

    A continuation of HISP 101 Introductory Spanish I . Three class meetings per week.  

    Prerequisites
    HISP 101  

    Credits 1



    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language
  

  • HISP 150 - Intermediate Spanish I

    This intensive one-semester course provides further development and practice of all language skills. Comprehensive grammar review, with activities designed to enhance the fundamental skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural awareness. Three class meetings per week.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 102 , Placement Exam, or Permission of Department

    Credits 1



    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • HISP 155 - Coming of Age in Latin American and LatinX Film

    Contemporary Latin American and U.S. Latino filmmakers often focus on childhood and adolescence. What is at stake in these representations of children, youth and the process of coming of age? What does reimagining childhood and youth have to do with thinking about the future of a community? And how is film uniquely suited to such explorations? This course analyzes representations of childhood and adolescence from Latin American and Latinx filmmakers to see how these films not only describe personal pasts and identities, but also document traumatic collective histories, and work to create a cultural memory. 
     

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in English

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars, Writing
  

  • HISP 199 - Independent Study/TA

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses; includes teaching assistant. 

    Credits 0.5 - 1



    Compass Attributes
    LEAP (Teaching Second Languages) - for Teaching Assistant
  

  • HISP 200 - Intermediate Spanish II

    Continuation of HISP 150 .

    Prerequisites
    HISP 150 , Placement Exam, or Permission of Department

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • HISP 212 - Spanish for Heritage Speakers I

    Spanish for Heritage Speakers I and II is a two course sequence of advanced language and culture content designed principally for heritage learners (native speakers of Spanish who do not have or have had basic or little formal Spanish training; these are generally students raised in Spanish-speaking homes). Heritage speakers are a heterogeneous group ranging from individuals who emigrated from Latin America during childhood to second and third generation speakers who are the children or grandchildren of immigrants (Potowski). The course uses the different levels of Spanish students have acquired at home as the foundation for learning strategies that will allow them to improve their grammar competence and their speaking and written skills. Linguistic goals include academic vocabulary acquisition, improvement in informal & formal academic writing, and enhancement of formal communicative skills. The course will also focus on specific content areas that impact the way Spanish in the US is perceived, such as bilingualism, immigration, identity, ethnicity, US Latino cultural heritage and history, human rights, education and representation of Latino culture in the media.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 200 , Placement Exam, or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Students who have taken HISP 220  can not register for HISP 212

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Humanities, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 220 - Conversation and Composition

    An advanced course intended to improve the oral and written skills needed for a wide variety of communicative contexts. Students will develop the reading, writing, conceptual and practical language skills required in more advanced courses in the department and on study abroad programs. While the emphasis is on strategies of reading and writing that lead to improved compositional ability, we will also continue to reinforce oral skills and review grammar points as needed.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 200 , Placement Exam, or Permission of Department

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • HISP 235 - Contemporary Latin American Fiction in Translation

    Readings in translation of significant works by modern authors from Latin America.

    Credits 1
  

  • HISP 238 - Spanish for Heritage Speakers II

    Spanish for Heritage Speakers I and II is a two course sequence of advanced language and culture content designed principally for heritage learners (native speakers of Spanish who do not have or have had basic or little formal Spanish training; these are generally students raised in Spanish-speaking homes). Heritage speakers are a heterogeneous group ranging from individuals who emigrated from Latin America during childhood to second and third generation speakers who are the children or grandchildren of immigrants (Potowski). The course uses the different levels of Spanish students have acquired at home as the foundation for learning strategies that will allow them to improve their grammar competence and their speaking and written skills. Linguistic goals include academic vocabulary acquisition, improvement in informal & formal academic writing, and enhancement of formal communicative skills. The course will also focus on specific content areas that impact the way Spanish in the US is perceived, such as bilingualism, immigration, identity, ethnicity, US Latino cultural heritage and history, human rights, education and representation of Latino culture in the media.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 212  

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Students who have taken HISP 240  cannot register for HISP 238

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 240 - Composition and Cultural Analysis

    An advanced course that teaches textual and cultural analysis through writing. Students will learn to read and interpret complex texts and visual materials, to discuss them analytically in class, and to write about them in formal and informal writing assignments. By the end of this course, students should be able to approach a text (narrative, poetry, drama or film) with a series of critical questions and be able to write about the work in an interpretative manner.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 212  or HISP 220 , Placement Exam, or Permission of Department

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • HISP 250 - Fundamentals of Fashion: History and Theory

    This cultural studies course in English provides the theoretical and practical basis to access the world of fashion. The class’s goals are to provide students with the tools to understand the many dimensions of fashion: political, social, cultural, personal, and economic. The concept of “Fashion” in this course, refers to commercial and industrial systems as well as to the less tangible aspects of identity and affect. The course invites students to explore how the specific social and economic context in which garments are produced are expressed in clothing materiality. Fashion, of course, is a vehicle for class distinction, desire for upper mobility, and styles associated with social status or one ́s gender.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in English 

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Humanities Division, global honors, LEAP (Global Fashion Industry)
  

  • HISP 260 - The Hispanic World: Introduction to Spain’s Social and Cultural History

    An advanced course that provides an introduction to Spanish culture while maintaining and improving Spanish language skills. The course is designed to provide a study of the major trends and development in the evolution of Spanish society and culture, from its origins to the present, from historical, political, social, artistic and intellectual perspectives.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or Permission of Department

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 270 - Studies in Latin American Culture: Cuba and the Pursuit of Freedom

    An advanced course that provides an introduction to Cuban culture while maintaining and improving Spanish language skills. The course is designed to give students an overview of the evolution of Cuban culture and society from the colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Readings include novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays and historical sources. Some of the authors that will be considered are José María Heredia, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, José Martí, Nicolás Guillén, Lydia Cabrera, Alejo Carpentier, Fidel Castro, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Lourdes Casal, Nancy Morejón and Dolores Prida.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or Permission of Department

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 280 - The Hispanic World: Introduction to Latin American Culture

    An advanced course that provides an introduction to Spanish-speaking Latin American culture while maintaining and improving Spanish language skills. The course is designed to give students an overview of the diverse cultures of the region, moving historically from the first encounters of colonial times to the various communities that make up present-day Latino culture. While the temptation in such a course is to attempt to obscure differences in order to present a coherent narrative, our focus will rather be on the way many different and divergent voices make up Latin American identity and culture.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or Permission of Department

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    23003

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 282 - Visualizing Latin American Culture

    This course explores the prevalence of visual expression in the construction and representation of Latin American culture, paying especially close attention to the interaction between verbal and visual forms of expression during times of transition. We will explore the dynamics of verbal and visual expression in cultural products such as testimonies, films, photography, painting, memorials, fiction and poety from the 20th and 21st centuries, analyzing their aesthetic and political priorities and learning how they participate in wider debates on the politics of representation.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    23003

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language, Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 283 - Cultures of Globalization

    The Postcolonial Global South is the location of theoretical production and artistic expression that challenges the assumptions of western epistemologies. This class will examine what intellectuals, artists, and authors have said about culture vis-à-vis the historical consequences of colonization and world systems that place the Global South in the margins. Some of the key concepts this class will discuss are: Indigenous cultures, imperialism, nation building, neoliberalism, subaltern groups, and forms of resistance. This class focuses on some of the foundational texts and theories of Cultural Studies from the Global South.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with ITAS 283 Cultures of Globalization , course taught in English 

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities
  

  • HISP 290 - Interculturality

    In today’s globalized world intercultural competence has become a priority. Different professional sectors urge their companies and employees the need to promote intercultural competence and develop intercultural communication. Interacting effectively with people who have different values and ways of perceiving reality seems to be now a required soft or transferable skill not only to navigate successfully across geographical boundaries but also within environments/spaces where the confluence of diverse cultures is no longer bound to geographical stipulation.

    This interdisciplinary course explores the powerful impact of culture in different professional sectors. Students will explore the processes involved in the dynamic formation of cultures. We will examine theories and conceptual frameworks surrounding ideas of multiculturalism, transculturalism, and interculturality. Each of these concepts and frameworks approaches the study of cultures, communities, identities, subjectivities, and agency differently. What are the limitations of these rubrics? Do they imply assimilation in disguise? Does intercultural communication contribute to conflict resolution and if so, to what extent?.  

    Students will acquire expertise in dealing with a wide variety of cultural situations, challenges, and paradigms, thus learning practical skills that will be useful for their personal and future professional development. 

     

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course cross-listed with ITAS 290 Interculturality , course taught in English  

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 298 - Islamic Spain

    For centuries the Iberian Peninsula was a Muslim territory called al-Andalus where a uniquely sophisticated and luxurious culture flourished. Although the Muslim political presence in Spain came to an end in 1492 with the defeat of the Kingdom of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand, the last Muslims did not leave Spain until 1614. Today, massive immigration from North Africa has reintroduced Islam to Spain. In this course we will learn about the development of Islamic culture in Spain, the transition to Christian political dominance and eventual elimination of Islam, and the current debate in Spain over North African immigration.
     

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Note: Course taught in Spanish.  Course also taught at the 300-level.
  

  • HISP 299 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • HISP 300 - Spanish Practicum Internship

    In collaboration with the The Filene Center for Academic Advising and Career Services, majors and minors in Hispanic studies are placed in agencies in Massachusetts or Rhode Island that need Spanish-speaking volunteers. Students will be able to increase their fluency in Spanish through personal and continued contacts with the language and, at the same time, assist the Hispanic community in programs related to foster care, refugees, hospitalized children and adolescents, battered women and their children, legal advocacy, rape crisis, AIDS, substance abuse, runaways, family emergency shelter and in after-school programs, etc. Readings and class discussion will focus on the literatures, histories and cultures of Latinos in the U.S. and other issues pertaining to this community.

    Credits 1



    Connection
    20058

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors
  

  • HISP 301 - Transnational Internship/Practicum

    This internship course is designed to provide students with a personal experience of learning and working in an organization/business. This half-credit seminar aims to complement students’ immersion in a transnational and transcultural professional working environment. Students will learn how to observe, interact with co-workers, recognize cultural differences, compare teamwork and interpersonal interactions in different cultures, apply academic knowledge in a professional setting, and to identify opportunities to create value within the company.

    The goal of the internship is to offer a transnational and cross-cultural window into the world that illuminates and complements the classroom learning: connecting the interdisciplinary knowledge and the liberal arts study with the professional world. Students will reflect critically and constructively on their academic internship and figure out how they would like to build on their internship experiences. To achieve this goal, the internship will help meld together the personal, the cultural and the professional; through the internship and its debriefing seminar, students will reflect on the meanings of the cultural implications of globalization and how it has affected the career paths available and the organization of work. Students will apply critical cultural studies learning to shape public action.

    Credits .5



    Notes
    Cross-listed with ITAS 301  

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Humanities, Sophomore Experience
  

  • HISP 310 - Early Modern Fashion and Global Trade

    What was fashion before Vogue and Gucci? Did Fashion Weeks exist before New York or Milan? How was fashion produced and circulated before globalization? And, was Paris always the fashion capital of the world? To answer these questions, this interdisciplinary course will examine a remarkable case study. During the 16th and 17th century Spanish fashion ruled the world. The military and political dominance of Spain in Europe, America and parts of Asia turned Madrid into the fashion capital of the world. Madrid was the place to see and be seen, offering unlimited possibilities for entertainment and consumption. Plazas and streets were the stages to display power and status from Madrid to the world. Styles seen in Madrid were soon copied all over the Western world. How did this happen? What were the distinguishing features of Spanish fashion? What were the production systems of the fashion industry? Were there famous tailors and dressmakers? Was international trade important for the fashion industry? Was the fashion made locally from imported fabrics or was it all produced nationally? What came first, political and military domination or fashion and culture hegemony? This interdisciplinary course will examine the distinguishing features of Spanish fashion, as well as the various political, economic, ceremonial and protocol factors that exported this model to other continents. We will also focus on how the colonial conquest of Spain and Portugal of today’s Latin America and the Philippines developed caste-like socioeconomic and political systems in which indigenous people and African slaves were forced to convert to Christianity and to wear Western styles of dress. Yet the rich weaving traditions such as those as the Maya and Andean regions did not disappear and developed creative designs combining local and Christian symbols that allowed them to not only develop a distinctive way of expressing their identity through dressing, but also a way to challenge and contest colonial practices.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in English.

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Humanities, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 318 - The Literary Identities of Latin America

    Through a close reading of major authors, and themes of Spanish American Literature from the Early Modern Period to the present, this course seeks answers to the open question of what is a Latin American Literary Identity. Students are expected to engage in close reading and discussion of texts, as well as to revise their papers. The course is conducted in Spanish and all reading and writing for the course is also done in Spanish.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or HISP 280  or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught in Spanish

    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    23003

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language, Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • HISP 320 - Early Modern Feminism: Spain and the New World

    The history of women in Golden Age Spain is a largely untapped field. In early modern Spain, church and state, helped by the powerful Inquisition, promptly extended their dominance from the control of basic expression of faith to the domain of daily life, of personal privacy, and inside this sphere, sexual behaviors. Women were not spared in this general domestication of minds and bodies. On the contrary, in this patriarchal and catholic society all eyes were focused on their writings, talk, body and its image, sexuality, and faith, even their dreams and visions.  In this course we will examine the position of women in religious, political, literary, and economic life. Drawing on both historical and literary approaches we will challenge the portrait of Spanish women as passive and marginalized, showing that despite forces working to exclude them, women in Golden Age Spain influenced religious life and politics and made vital contributions to economic and cultural life.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with WGS 325  

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 321 - Love, Madness and Technology in Don Quixote

    This infused course examines how the fluidity of individual identity in early modern Spain destabilized a national identity based on exclusion and difference. Students will reflect upon questions such as: What is madness? What is identity? How are identity categories depicted in Don Quixote’s world? This course will be taught every two years.

    Credits 1



    Connection
    20085

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 325 - Queer Politics and Hispanisms

    This course will provide a framework to study the historical and theoretical foundations of queer theory and queer activism. We will explore how queer theory problematizes stable identities in Latin American, Latin@ and Iberian cultures. We will discuss what happens when people challenge or refuse normativized sexuality and gender categories and look at how queer citizens are caught within the processes of nationalism, neocolonialism, globalization and neoliberalism. We will start the semester reading canonical texts by Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Eve Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Judith Halberstam or Gloria Anzaldúa that will help us understand the interdisciplinary scholarship that we will explore during the second half of the semester. The second part of the course will address the question of queerness by analyzing literature, film and cultural products focusing primarily on explicit representation of LGBTQ characters and communities in Latin American, Latin@ and Iberian cultures.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught in English.  Cross-listed with WGS 326  

    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    20058, 23003, 23006

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 352 - A Mythical Foundation of Latin America

    This course studies seminal narratives from Latin America; it is aimed at developing critical and evaluative reading of Latin American major literary works among students through rigorous close reading and analysis. The thematic structure of the course is based on the idea that from fictional texts we can derive knowledge that help us to understand the historical roots of today’s Latin American society and culture.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught in Spanish

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language, Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • HISP 355 - New World Voyages and Exploration of Nature

    This course introduces students to the study of Early Modern Spanish texts focused on explorations of New World nature and landscapes. The goal of this course is to better understand how these Early Modern texts intersect with natives culture(s) and provide a perception of nature as both a physical and cultural entity. Close readings of texts will improve students’ ability to understand primary sources, while digital resources and tools (text encoding, mapping, virtual reality) will provide a Digital Humanities scholarly approach. Taught in Spanish.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    23003

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • HISP 358 - Digital Humanities Methods and Tools

    This course will introduce students to the methods and tools of Digital Humanities to explore new ways of reading literature, analyzing images, and assessing audio-visual artifacts. This course is devoted to new methods and new objects in cultural and literary studies, specifically those enabled by digital media. The goal of the course is to provide students with a space to use digital tools to create projects (such as story-telling, electronic literature, video, art) and also to develop critical vocabularies for analyzing digital projects. Without sacrificing critical discourse, this projects-based class allows students to see how digital tools may be applied to humanities fields and possibilities for scholarly work, particularly interdisciplinary work. No technological expertise is required, and students will be encouraged to experiment and tinker with a variety of platforms. This course is conducted in English.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Taught in English.  Cross-listed with FNMS 358  

    Area
    Humanities

    Connection
    20056

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Humanities
  

  • HISP 362 - Contemporary Latin American Poetry

    Poetry might seem less relevant to the cultural debates and social issues facing Latin America and Spain, and certainly more critical attention is paid to supposedly more accessible types of cultural production such as film, performance, and television. Yet there is a vibrant level of poetic production in the Hispanic world today, making poetry one of the most popular contemporary genres. I n this course we will explore poetry’s relevance in contemporary Hispanic cultures and what makes it such a powerful form for those who write and read it.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • HISP 365 - Transatlantic Detective Fiction

    This class focuses on hard-boiled detective novels from Spain, Argentina, Cuba, and Mexico. Although this genre has been considered “minor” and “trashy,” in the Hispanic world has served to present and to criticize contemporary political or social situations. Detective novels are privileged cultural products to study both high and low culture and the intersection of class, race, and gender. Additionally, these novels and their protagonist serve as a record of the quotidian culture of cities like Barcelona, Buenos Aires, La Habana, and México D.F. during the last three decades of the twentieth century.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • HISP 370 - Contemporary Women Writers of the Hispanic World

    This course introduces the students to the study of narrative written by contemporary Spanish women authors from the end of the Civil War (1939) to the present. We will approach the texts from a dual perspective. On the one hand, we will analyze the works in their socio-political and cultural context. On the other hand, we will study the works at the textual level, i.e., analyzing the text itself, its trends and its main elements: plot, themes, characters, techniques, narrative voices and the reader’s role in the work.

    Prerequisites
    HISP 240  or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with WGS 370  

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • HISP 375 - The Spanish Civil War: Memory, Text and Image

    This class focuses on the memory of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The class studies national and global political issues as well as the construction of historical and collective memory. Some of the topics the class covers are the military and political course of the war, along with its literature and visual art, including the main ideological movements (Anarchism, Communism, Fascism and Socialism). The course is divided in three parts: (1) theories of memory, history, and photography; (2) students’ presentation on topics related to the War; (3) analysis of three recent novels that present different memories from the war.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
 

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