Topics vary every semester.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
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G-102 | Monday | 15:20 | 16:40 |
G-102 | Thursday | 15:20 | 16:40 |
In this course, students practice writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry while exploring the boundaries between genres. The workshop format includes guided peer critique of sketches, poems, and full-length works presented in class and discussion and analysis of literary models. In Fall, students concentrate on writing techniques. In Spring, the workshop is theme-driven. May be taken twice for credit.
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G-002 | Wednesday | 13:45 | 16:40 |
Considers a selection of Shakespeare's plays in the context of the dramatist's explorations of the possibilities of theatricality. Examines how theater is represented in his work and how his work lends itself to production in theater and film today. Students view video versions, visit Paris theaters, and travel to London and Stratford-on-Avon to see the Royal Shakespeare Company in performance.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
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G-002 | Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
G-002 | Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
This course builds on the skills acquired in Intermediate Latin I. You read longer, more difficult texts and train basic methods of classical philology and literary criticism, e.g., metrical and stylistic analysis, textual criticism, use of scholarly commentaries and dictionaries, recognizing levels of style and characteristic generic features.
The intellectual anti-heroes of Dostoevsky’s novels, novellas, and short stories from the period beginning in 1864 have left a more decisive and enduring mark on Western culture than those of any other Russian writer. The author’s struggles with poverty, poor health, imprisonment, epilepsy, and gambling led him to question the existence of any social, moral, or metaphysical order. His underground characters, divided between reason and will, confront lust, despair, schizophrenia, and insanity, sometimes descending into sado-masochism, rape, murder, and suicide. We will read this powerful fiction with an eye first to its Russian context and then to a sampling of its international repercussions (Gogol, Tolstoy, Gorky; Faulkner, Sartre, Bernhard …).
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
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G-113 | Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
G-113 | Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 |
This course builds on the skills acquired in Intermediate Ancient Greek I. Students read longer, more difficult texts and train basic methods of classical philology and literary criticism, e.g., metrical and stylistic analysis, textual criticism, use of scholarly commentaries and dictionaries, recognizing levels of style and characteristic generic features.
Reads Joyce's Ulysses in depth, and in the context of British modernist culture. Supporting readings include works by Wyndham Lewis and Virginia Woolf, and documents from contemporary periodicals. Articulates the relationships between stylistic creativity and the imagination of new possibilities for living, arguing that stylistic innovation attempts seriously and productively to grasp the emerging difficulties and opportunities of late capitalism.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
G-102 | Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 |
G-102 | Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 |
Explores literary works from Africa, Asia, India, Latin American, Ireland and/or the Caribbean alongside classics from the Western canon that address key colonial and post-colonial issues and concepts: imperialism, nationalism, globalization, empire, resistance writing, feminism, hybridity, border-crossing, exile and cultural translation. Introduces major voices in post-colonial literary and cultural studies, Franz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhaba, and Gayatri Spivak.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
G-113 | Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
G-113 | Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 |
The internship can be registered for 4-CR in certain cases. Please contact the Internship Office.
| Room | Day | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
G-L21 | Tuesday | 16:55 | 19:50 |