Fall 2021

A broad introduction to the great works of Western culture from antiquity to 1800.

A comparative study of the Asian aesthetic heritage of poetry, painting, music, and drama; of literary themes, trends, and myths.

Introduction to general forms of reflection on literary discourse.

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 contemporary Arab state-society relations using literature to illustrate how people construct meanings and portray issues of national, social, and cultural significance.

Survey of cultural critique focused on Latin America as a cultural region and on Latin Americanism as a transnational academic practice.

Representative works from the "fantastic" and related currents within the European, U.S., and Spanish American traditions; reading of texts by authors such as Borges, Cortazar, Kafka, and Poe. Discussion of relevant theoretical concepts and critical works.

Examination of the modern realist novel with special focus on the representation of social change (revolution, class conflict, sexual politics).

Introduction to critical reflection on the image. Analysis of criticism, fiction, film, and visual artifacts.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Writing of an honors thesis under individual faculty supervision.

Introduces key debates regarding translingualism and translation in postcolonial, comparative, and cross-cultural literary and cinematic contexts

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.