Spring 2014

Comparative study of works from a broad range of cultural traditions that originate from, and provide insight into, vital global locations outside the Western sphere.

Survey of literary and other cultural texts from the 19th to the 21st centuries, with emphasis on the individual and social change.

Cultural dimensions of issues in globalization: migration, diaspora, terrorism, communications, climate change, collectives, production and technology, money and exchange.

Study of transformations of characters and themes from myth, legend or fairytale (Oedipus, Antigone, Faust, Don Juan, Cinderella, Comic and Tragic Twins, Hero and Monster).

Study of literary, social and cultural lives of women during the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. Reading and analysis of texts written by and about women.

Study of the ways literature presents social and/or individual reality through readings of selected novels and short stories in the realist and naturalist traditions.

Examines literature and film as distinct modes of representation, narration, and structuring of time, language, memory, and visuality.

Introduction to works of major women writers from the Middle Agesto the 20th century in their literary, social, and cultural contexts.

Examines the relation between historical and theoretical approaches to literary works.

Relations between technology, desire, power and literature through contemporary philosophers, theorists and literary critics. Examines literature and philosophy in relation to global technological planning.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Writing of an honors thesis under individual faculty supervision.

Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines. Intended for teaching assistants in Dornsife College.

Intensive study of a theoretical tradition or critical movement, or of an individual topic or thinker, in literary criticism or theory.

Topics focusing on social and political thought, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in relation to literary and cultural analysis.