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First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• FREN 1302 - FWS: Dissecting The Body in Literature and Medicine (1500-1700)
• FREN 1303 - FWS: Misfit Poets: From Baudelaire to Bob Dylan
• ITAL 1113 - FWS: Writing Italy, Writing Self: Jewish-Italian Literature and the Long 20th (crosslisted)
• ITAL 1301 - FWS: European Modernism: Style in Architecture, Literature, Film
• POLSH 1301 - FWS: Eastern European Film
• ROMS 1102 - FWS: The Craft of Storytelling
• ROMS 1112 - FWS: The Divine Comedy: Ethics of the Afterlife
• SPAN 1301 - FWS: Latin American Radicals
• SPAN 1302 - FWS: Objects of Culture
• SPAN 1303 - FWS: Narcissism to Necrophilia: Spanish Photography and the Body
• SPAN 1304 - FWS: Under the Influence: Narcotics Writing in Latin America

French:

Enrollment in a language course is conditional upon the student’s eligibility for the particular level and on attendance at the first scheduled class session. Because of the high demand for language courses, a student who fails to attend the first class meeting will be dropped so others may register.

Note: Students placed in the 2000-level courses have the option of taking language and/or literature courses.

• FREN 1210 - Elementary French
• FREN 1220 - Elementary French
• FREN 1230 - Continuing French
• FREN 2060 - French Intermediate Reading and Writing
• FREN 2090 - French Intermediate Composition and Conversation I
• FREN 2100 - Pronunciation of Standard French
• FREN 2190 - French Intermediate Composition and Conversation II
• FREN 2210 - [Reading, Looking, Thinking: Introduction to Interpretation]
• FREN 2240 - [The French Experience]
• FREN 2260 - [What is French National Cinema]
• FREN 2270 - [Versions of Versailles]
• FREN 2310 - Introduction to French and Francophone Literature and Culture
• FREN 2400 - Cultures of the Middle Ages (crosslisted)
• FREN 2731 - [The French Modern] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3010 - Advanced French Composition and Conversation
• FREN 3050 - Advanced French through Film
• FREN 3080 - [Introduction to French Linguistics] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3120 - French Stylistics
• FREN 3130 - Advanced French through News
• FREN 3200 - [Introduction to Twenty-First Century France]
• FREN 3210 - [Readings in Modern French Literature and Culture]
• FREN 3220 - [Readings in Early Modern French Literature and Culture]
• FREN 3230 - [Readings in Francophone Literatures and Cultures]
• FREN 3280 - [Medieval Francophone Literature] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3290 - [Introduction to 17th Century France]
• FREN 3342 - [Death of God] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3350 - [Romance to Revolution: The French Novel Before 1850]
• FREN 3380 - [The Algerian Experience]
• FREN 3370 - [The Quebecois Experience]
• FREN 3400 - French Identities: 21st Century Culture and Society in France
• FREN 3420 - [Wandering Souls, Phantoms and Revenants]
• FREN 3430 - Francophone Travel Literature
• FREN 3470 - The Figure of the Outsider in French Cinema
• FREN 3490 - Literature and Moral Complexity (crosslisted)
• FREN 3520 - [(Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3530 - [Monsters A-X (Aristotle-X-files)] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3531 - [Les Monstres]
• FREN 3540 - On Paying Attention (crosslisted)
• FREN 3570 - [French Surrealism]
• FREN 3610 - [Impressionism in Society] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3620 - Culture of the Later Renaissance (crosslisted)
• FREN 3650 - [The Dawn of Modernity]
• FREN 3670 - [An Introduction to Saints] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3680 - [Passion for Poetry]
• FREN 3710 - [Reading/Screening Women’s Stories in French and Francophone Cultures]
• FREN 3730 - Religious Violence in France and Francophone Texts
• FREN 3740 - [Being Bad in the Renaissance]
• FREN 3840 - [Occupied France Through Film] (crosslisted)
• FREN 3870 - Romanticism in French
• FREN 3930 - The 20th Century Novel
• FREN 4040 - [Troubadours and Heretics] (crosslisted)
• FREN 4080 - [New York, Paris, Baghdad: Poetry of the City] (crosslisted)
• FREN 4155 - Reimagining the Body in North African Literature, Film and Visual Culture
• FREN 4180 - Poetry and Mind (crosslisted)
• FREN 4190 - Special Topics in French Literature
• FREN 4200 - Special Topics in French Literature
• FREN 4220 - [Women’s Histories in French]
• FREN 4290 - Honors Work in French
• FREN 4300 - Honors Work in French
• FREN 4330 - [The Will of the People] (crosslisted)
• FREN 4340 - Wandering Souls, Women and Ghosts:Mediumship Between Emancipation and Psychiatry
• FREN 4350 - Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation (crosslisted)
• FREN 4365 - [Caribbean Crossings] (crosslisted)
• FREN 4370 - Detours of Desire
• FREN 4415 - The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961) (crosslisted)
• FREN 4420 - [Sex in French] (crosslisted)
• FREN 4435 - Melancholy Left:Marx to Benjamin (crosslisted)
• FREN 4445 - [Renaissance Poetry] (crosslisted)
• FREN 4490 - [Mystics and Mystique]
• FREN 4540 - [Montaigne and Skepticism]
• FREN 4550 - [Rabelais]
• FREN 4570 - [Anachronism]
• FREN 4610 - [Racine: Mythology and the Politics of Sacrifice]
• FREN 4620 - Paris in the Thirteenth Century
• FREN 4680 - Theater in Seventeenth-Century France: Theaters of the Self
• FREN 4710 - [The Song of Songs] (crosslisted)
• FREN 4760 - [Libertinage and Perversion] (crosslisted)
• FREN 4770 - Contemporary Arts and Literature in France
• FREN 4956 - [Transatlantic Decadence] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6130 - [Francophonie and the Inventions of the Maghreb]
• FREN 6155 - Reimagining the Body in North African Literature, Film and Visual Culture
• FREN 6180 - Poetry and Mind (crosslisted)
• FREN 6220 - [Women’s Histories in French]
• FREN 6230 - [Althusser and Lacan] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6260 - [Literary Theory and Cognitive Science] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6280 - Perversions of the Linguistic Turn: Figure, Fetish, Formalization (crosslisted)
• FREN 6290 - Revolutions/Gender/Fictions
• FREN 6300 - French Reading for Graduates
• FREN 6330 - [Constructing the Death Drive]
• FREN 6331 - [The Will of the People] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6340 - Wandering Souls, Women and Ghosts:Mediumship Between Emancipation and Psychiatry
• FREN 6350 - Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation (crosslisted)
• FREN 6365 - [Caribbean Crossings] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6390 - Special Topics in French Literature
• FREN 6400 - Special Topics in French Literature
• FREN 6415 - The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961) (crosslisted)
• FREN 6435 - Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin (crosslisted)
• FREN 6445 - [Renaissance Poetry] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6480 - [The Refusal of Politics]
• FREN 6490 - [Mystics and Mystique]
• FREN 6540 - [Montaigne and Skepticism]
• FREN 6550 - [Rabelais]
• FREN 6560 - [What is an Act?] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6570 - [Anachronism]
• FREN 6610 - [Racine: Mythology and the Politics of Sacrifice]
• FREN 6620 - Paris in the Thirteenth Century
• FREN 6680 - Theater in Seventeenth-Century France: Theaters of the Self
• FREN 6710 - [The Song of Songs] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6770 - [Four Literary Theologians]
• FREN 6780 - [Libertinage and Perversion] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6820 - [Hopkins and Baudelaire] (crosslisted)
• FREN 6920 - [Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference] (crosslisted)

Italian:

• ITAL 1201 - Italian I
• ITAL 1202 - Italian II
• ITAL 1212 - Italian Food Culture
• ITAL 1401 - Intensive Elementary Italian
• ITAL 2140 - [World News, Italian Views]
• ITAL 2201 - Italian III
• ITAL 2202 - Italian IV
• ITAL 2203 - Languages/Literatures/Identities
• ITAL 2270 - [Family Life in Renaissance Italy] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 2900 - Perspectives in Italian Culture
• ITAL 2950 - The Cinematic Eye of Italy
• ITAL 3010 - [Screening Cosa Nostra: The Mafia and the Movies from Scarface to The Sopranos] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3020 - Italian Practicum
• ITAL 3030 - [The Present in Dialogue with the Past: Italy in Pre-Modern Times]
• ITAL 3060 - [Introduction to Italian Linguistics] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3090 - [Jewish Identity and Italian Culture] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3150 - [Literature, Politics, and Society]
• ITAL 3240 - One Italian Masterpiece
• ITAL 3300 - Save the Story! Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi
• ITAL 3490 - Literature and Moral Complexity (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3500 - [The Italian Renaissance] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3510 - Machiavelli (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3670 - [An Introduction to Saints] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3690 - [History of Renaissance Florence] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3710 - [Rome on Film] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 3890 - [Modern Italian Novel]
• ITAL 4190 - Special Topics in Italian Literature
• ITAL 4200 - Special Topics in Italian Literature
• ITAL 4270 - Dante’s Commedia
• ITAL 4290 - Honors in Italian Literature
• ITAL 4300 - Honors in Italian Literature
• ITAL 4450 - [Decameron]
• ITAL 4490 - [Renaissance Poetry] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 4660 - [War and Modernity: The Italian Experience]
• ITAL 4680 - Love and Sex in the Italian Renaissance (crosslisted)
• ITAL 4710 - [Autonomia: Cinema, Literature, Art and Politics in and around Italy, c. 1962-1979] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 4720 - Federico Fellini (crosslisted)
• ITAL 4730 - [The Italian Landscape: From the Dittamundo to Cyberspace]
• ITAL 4770 - [Human and Machine in Italian Literature and Culture]
• ITAL 4810 - [Technological Histories of Italian National Cinema]
• ITAL 6270 - Dante’s Commedia
• ITAL 6390 - Special Topics in Italian Literature
• ITAL 6400 - Special Topics in Italian Literature
• ITAL 6450 - [Decameron]
• ITAL 6490 - [Renaissance Poetry] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 6510 - [No Milieu for Philosophy: Contemporary Italian Thought and the Political] (crosslisted)
• ITAL 6710 - [Autonomia: Cinema, Literature, Art and Politics in and around Italy, c. 1962-1979]
• ITAL 6730 - [The Italian Landscape: From the Dittamundo to Cyberspace]
• ITAL 6770 - [Human and Machine in Italian Literature and Culture]
• ITAL 6810 - [Technological Histories of Italian National Cinema]
• ITAL 6850 - [Precarieta/Precariousness] (crosslisted)

Portuguese:

Faculty: P. Erber, J. Oliveira.

• PORT 1210 - Elementary Brazilian Portuguese I
• PORT 1220 - Elementary Brazilian Portuguese II
• PORT 2010 - Intermediate Brazilian Portuguese for Spanish Speakers I
• PORT 2020 - Intermediate Brazilian Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II
• PORT 2800 - Perspectives on Brazil (crosslisted)
• PORT 3520 - New Realisms: Recent Literature and Cinema from Brazil
• PORT 3960 - Contemporary Translation Fiction
• PORT 4190 - Special Topics in Brazilian Literature
• PORT 4200 - Special Topics in Brazilian Literature
• PORT 4520 - [Aesthetic Theory and Participatory Act] (crosslisted)
• PORT 4540 - Between Asia and Latin America: Transpacific Trends in 20th Century Literature, Art, and Theory (crosslisted)
• PORT 6210 - [Brazilian Critical Theories] (crosslisted)
• PORT 6390 - Special Topics in Brazilian Literature - Grad
• PORT 6400 - Special Topics in Brazilian Literature
• PORT 6540 - Between Asia and Latin America: Transpacific Trends in 20th Century Literature, Art, and Theory (crosslisted)

Romance Studies:

Faculty: E. Traverso

• ROMS 3210 - History of Romance Languages I (crosslisted)
• ROMS 3220 - History of Romance Languages II (crosslisted)
• ROMS 3465 - [The Global Gangster] (crosslisted)
• ROMS 3490 - Literature and Moral Complexity (crosslisted)
• ROMS 3620 - Culture of the Later Renaissance (crosslisted)
• ROMS 4105 - [Soundscapes of the Americas] (crosslisted)
• ROMS 4154 - [Haunted Subjects] (crosslisted)
• ROMS 4220 - [Memory Landscapes: Public Uses of the Past]
• ROMS 4230 - Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930) (crosslisted)
• ROMS 4410 - The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961) (crosslisted)
• ROMS 4430 - Melancholy Left:Marx to Benjamin (crosslisted)
• ROMS 4550 - The “European Civil War”: Violence, Politics and Culture in Europe (1914-1945)
• ROMS 4620 - [Emerging Modernity - Culture and Politics in Nineteenth Century France]
• ROMS 5070 - Methodology of Romance Language Learning and Teaching
• ROMS 5080 - Pedagogy Practicum
• ROMS 6154 - [Haunted Subjects] (crosslisted)
• ROMS 6220 - [Memory Landscapes: Public Uses of the Past]
• ROMS 6230 - Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930) (crosslisted)
• ROMS 6308 - Between Body and Mind: Anti-Universalism in Caribbean Postcolonial Thought (crosslisted)
• ROMS 6410 - The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961) (crosslisted)
• ROMS 6620 - [Emerging Modernity - Culture and Politics in Nineteenth Century France]

Spanish:

Enrollment in a language course is conditional upon the student’s eligibility for the particular level and on attendance at the first scheduledclass session. Because of the high demand for language courses, a student who fails to attend the first class meeting will be dropped so others may register.

Note: Students placed in the 2000-level course have the option of taking language and/or literature courses.

• SPAN 1120 - Elementary Spanish: Review and Continuation
• SPAN 1210 - Elementary Spanish I
• SPAN 1220 - Elementary Spanish II
• SPAN 1230 - Continuing Spanish
• SPAN 2000 - Spanish for Heritage Speakers (crosslisted)
• SPAN 2070 - Intermediate Spanish for the Medical and Health Professions
• SPAN 2090 - Intermediate Spanish I (Composition and Conversation)
• SPAN 2140 - Modern Spanish Survey
• SPAN 2150 - Contemporary Latin American Survey (crosslisted)
• SPAN 2170 - Early Modern Iberian Survey (crosslisted)
• SPAN 2190 - Intermediate Spanish II (Composition and Conversation)
• SPAN 2200 - Perspectives on Latin America (crosslisted)
• SPAN 2205 - Perspectives on Latin America in Spanish
• SPAN 2230 - Perspectives on Spain
• SPAN 2235 - Perspectives on Spain in Spanish
• SPAN 2240 - [Perspectives on the Caribbean] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 2330 - [Latino Music in the US] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 3020 - Spanish in the Disciplines (crosslisted)
• SPAN 3060 - [Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 3100 - Advanced Spanish Conversation and Pronunciation
• SPAN 3110 - Advanced Spanish Writing Workshop
• SPAN 3150 - Translating from Spanish
• SPAN 3170 - Creative Writing Workshop (in Spanish)
• SPAN 3310 - [Tales of Love & Lust]
• SPAN 3320 - [Latin American Science Fiction]
• SPAN 3340 - [Latin American Literature in Translation]
• SPAN 3360 - [Imagining Sex in Modern Spain]
• SPAN 3370 - [Baroque and Neo-Baroque: Aesthetics in Twentieth Century Latin America]
• SPAN 3380 - Anti-Imperialism in Latin America
• SPAN 3420 - [Borges: Aesthetics and Politics]
• SPAN 3560 - Spanish Cinema: 1975-The Present
• SPAN 3610 - [Music and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 3640 - [Medieval Iberia: Crosscultural Approaches]
• SPAN 3680 - [Tierra/Terra: The Figure of the Land in Contemporary Brazil and Mexico]
• SPAN 3780 - [The Golden Age Comedia: A Global Vision of a Genre]
• SPAN 3800 - Poetry and Poetics of the Americas (crosslisted)
• SPAN 3910 - [Todo Almodovar]
• SPAN 3950 - [Contemporary Women Authors from Spain]
• SPAN 3990 - [More Than Meets the Eye: Spanish Theater and Early Twentieth Century Thought]
• SPAN 4040 - [The Task of the Cleric] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4170 - [Shipwrecks: Disaster, Deliverance, and Capitalism] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4190 - Special Topics in Spanish Literature
• SPAN 4200 - Special Topics in Spanish Literature
• SPAN 4260 - [Nation, Market, and Poetry: Literature and Cultural Change in Latin America]
• SPAN 4290 - Honors Work in Spanish
• SPAN 4300 - Honors Work in Spanish
• SPAN 4350 - Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4351 - [Culture and Representation in the Borderlands] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4370 - [Fictions of Wonder: Variations of the Marvelous in Hispanic Literatures]
• SPAN 4420 - [Thinking The Event: Theory, Politics, History] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4500 - [Literature of the Conquest] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4550 - Cervantes: Don Quixote
• SPAN 4570 - Methods in Medieval (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4610 - [Ghostly Figures in Contemporary Spanish Film]
• SPAN 4630 - [Modern Andean Literature]
• SPAN 4640 - The Other Iberia
• SPAN 4650 - [Autobiography in the Cuban Revolution]
• SPAN 4675 - [Holy Wars in the 16th Century Mediterranean]
• SPAN 4690 - [Natural, Fetishized, and Found Objects: Spanish American Poetry, 1880 - 1940]
• SPAN 4700 - [Film, Photography, Literature: Visualizing Contemporary Spain]
• SPAN 4750 - [Between Landscapes and Loss: Visualizing Contemporary Spain]
• SPAN 4760 - [Lorca’s World: From Granada to New York]
• SPAN 4780 - [Theories of the Subject] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4790 - [The Seven Deadly Sins]
• SPAN 4820 - [Latin American Film]
• SPAN 4825 - The Architecture of Desire - Luis Bunuel and Film Theory
• SPAN 4830 - [Macondo/McOndo]
• SPAN 4840 - [The Latin American Boom]
• SPAN 4870 - The Forgotten and the Damned: An Alternative History of Latin American Literature
• SPAN 4880 - [Contemporary Poetry and Poetics] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4890 - [Latin American Novel]
• SPAN 4910 - [Latin American Literature and Mass Media] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 4930 - [Latin American Mystery Fiction]
• SPAN 4956 - [Transatlantic Decadence] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6040 - [The Task of the Cleric]
• SPAN 6210 - [Brazilian Critical Theories] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6260 - [Nation, Market, and Poetry: Literature and Cultural Change in Latin America]
• SPAN 6300 - [Reading for Grads]
• SPAN 6320 - Listening and Audio Cultures (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6350 - Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6351 - [Culture and Representation in the Borderlands] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6390 - Special Topics in Spanish Literature
• SPAN 6400 - Special Topics in Spanish Literature
• SPAN 6500 - [Literature of the Conquest] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6539 - [Islamic Spain: Culture and Society] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6540 - [Cervantes Mediterranean]
• SPAN 6560 - [The Cross and the Crescent in Iberia]
• SPAN 6590 - Methods in Medieval (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6690 - [Space, Place, and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Spain] (crosslisted)
• SPAN 6700 - [Film, Photography, Literature Visualizing Contemporary Spain]
• SPAN 6720 - Roberto Bolano and the Problem of Evil
• SPAN 6730 - Cartographic Fictions
• SPAN 6820 - The Architecture of Desire - Luis Bunnuel and Film Theory
• SPAN 6830 - [Post-Totalitarian Spanish Fiction]
• SPAN 6850 - [Apocalyptic Writing in Latin America]
• SPAN 6860 - [After Borges: Literature, Politics, and the Aesthetic Act]

Czech:

• CZECH 3300 - Directed Studies

Hungarian:

• HUNGR 1131 - [Elementary Hungarian I]
• HUNGR 1132 - [Elementary Hungarian II]
• HUNGR 1133 - [Continuing Hungarian I]
• HUNGR 1134 - [Continuing Hungarian II]
• HUNGR 3300 - [Directed Studies]
• HUNGR 4427 - [Structure of Hungarian] (crosslisted)

Polish:

• POLSH 1131 - Elementary Polish I
• POLSH 1132 - Elementary Polish II
• POLSH 1133 - Intermediate Polish I
• POLSH 1134 - Intermediate Polish II
• POLSH 2103 - Advanced Polish I
• POLSH 2104 - [Advanced Polish II]
• POLSH 3100 - [Eastern European Cinema] (crosslisted)
• POLSH 3300 - [Directed Studies]
• POLSH 3301 - Polish through Film and Literature

Romanian:

• ROMAN 1210 - Elementary Romanian I
• ROMAN 1220 - Elementary Romanian II