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| Class Number | Class | Meeting Time | Instructor | Room | Unreserved Enrollment | Reserved Enrollment | Wait List |
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| 11814 | CMPL 120 - 001 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions | MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM | ERIC DOWNING | Dey Hall - Rm 0313 | 21/25 (25 total) | Seats filled | 0/4 |
| Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14016 | CMPL 142 - 001 Visual Culture II | MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM | GREGORY FLAXMAN | Greenlaw - Rm 0302 | 27/29 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/5 |
| Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. This course surveys the visual arts, in particular painting and photography, from roughly 1750 to the present. Pictorial traditions, styles, and genres (as well as the traditions of critical writing that respond to them) will be considered from a proto-cinematic perspective. Theater and the novel may also be examined comparatively. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14017 | CMPL 144 - 001 Engaging Film and Media | MoWe 10:10AM - 11:00AM | Rick Warner | Fetzer Hall - Rm 0109 | 114/118 (120 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14468 | CMPL 144 - 601 Engaging Film and Media | Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM | Erik Maloney | Murray Hall - Rm G205 | Seats filled (20 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units. | |||||||
| 14469 | CMPL 144 - 602 Engaging Film and Media | Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM | Erik Maloney | Murphey - Rm 0314 | Seats filled (20 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units. | |||||||
| 14470 | CMPL 144 - 603 Engaging Film and Media | Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM | Rose Steptoe | Alumni - Rm 0308 | Seats filled (20 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units. | |||||||
| 14471 | CMPL 144 - 604 Engaging Film and Media | Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM | Rose Steptoe | Greenlaw - Rm 0301 | 18/20 (20 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units. | |||||||
| 14472 | CMPL 144 - 605 Engaging Film and Media | Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM | Eleanor Rambo | Dey Hall - Rm 0404 | Seats filled (20 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units. | |||||||
| 14473 | CMPL 144 - 606 Engaging Film and Media | Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM | Eleanor Rambo | Greenlaw - Rm 0304 | 17/20 (20 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units. | |||||||
| 14018 | CMPL 180 - 001 Race and Ethnicity in Hollywood Productions and Beyond | MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM | Daelena Tinnin-Gadson | Alumni - Rm 0207 | 34/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: Studies in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American, Anglo-Indian, Caribbean, and other films that touch on themes of race and ethnicity in the American context. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14522 | CMPL 227 - 001 Global Authors: The Middle Ages in World Cinema | TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM | SHAYNE LEGASSIE | Dey Hall - Rm 0412 | 14/20 (20 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: Traces major points of convergence among the thematic concerns of medieval literature, global cinema, and academic constructions of "the Middle Ages." Considers the aesthetic and technological development of film and of medieval painting, sculpture, and dramatic performance. 3 units. | |||||||
| 11816 | CMPL 230 - 001 Global Crusoe: The Desert-Island Idea in Film and Fiction | TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM | David Baker | Greenlaw - Rm 0301 | 14/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/5 |
| Description: The desert-island scenario involves a sophisticated and culturally central thought experiment in which the constraints of history and society are suspended and human nature is exposed in its essence. This course considers the permutations of this scenario in film and fiction from around the world. 3 units. | |||||||
| 13817 | CMPL 237 - 001 Rebel, Lover, Martyr: Gender and Sexuality in North and South Korean Screen Cultures | TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM | I Jonathan Kief | New West - Rm 0219 | 8/10 (10 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This course introduces students to the history of North and South Korean film and television through the lens of gender and sexuality. In so doing, it explores the multiple forms of the Korean self and the diverse shapes that Korean identity has taken across the modern and contemporary eras. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14674 | CMPL 238 - 001 From Martial Arts to Street Dance: Rebellion with Chinese Characteristics | TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM | Keren He | Greenlaw - Rm 0302 | 9/10 (10 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This course leverages the trope of martial arts to examine forms of resistance and counterculture in the Chinese-speaking world. Contextualizing visual representations of martial arts within moments of profound sociopolitical transformations in China and beyond, we will explore the many complexities and dilemmas of political action, in particular the tension between justice and violence, emotion and motion, self-assertion and self-sacrifice, traditional chivalry and radical commitment, as well as between local allegiance and transnational alliance. 3 units. | |||||||
| 11817 | CMPL 251 - 001 Introduction to Literary Theory | TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM | SHAYNE LEGASSIE | Mitchell Hall - Rm 121A | 18/20 (20 total) | Seats filled | 0/5 |
| Description: Familiarizes students with the theory and practice of comparative literature. Against a background of classical poetics and rhetoric, explores various modern literary theories, including Russian formalism, Frankfurt School, feminism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, new historicism, and others. All reading in theory is paired with that of literary texts drawn from a wide range of literary periods and national traditions. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14022 | CMPL 255 - 001 The Feast in Film, Fiction, and Philosophy | TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM | INGER BRODEY | Greenlaw - Rm 0319 | 29/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/5 |
| Description: Comparative and interdisciplinary study of feasting and its philosophical underpinnings, with special attention to the multiple purposes and nuances of food and feasting in literature, film, and the visual arts. 3 units. | |||||||
| 13815 | CMPL 258 - 001 Iranian Prison Literature | TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM | Claudia Yaghoobi | Murphey - Rm 0115 | 5/10 (10 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: This course explores literature written in prisons, particularly under the Islamic Republic. Students will read documents to understand human rights (and violations thereof) from a historical perspective. Since literature, film, philosophy, and theory offer invaluable perspectives, we will examine their contributions in the reflection on human rights in Iran's prisons. 3 units. | |||||||
| 9456 | CMPL 262 - 001 Film and Politics | TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM | Danielle Christmas | Greenlaw - Rm 0305 | 34/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/5 |
| Description: This course investigates the complex relations between cinema and politics in particular national and/or global contexts. Examining not merely films with narratives about politically charged themes but also the political and ideological nature of filmic representation itself, this course focuses on questions that link politics and aesthetics. 3 units. | |||||||
| 13924 | CMPL 266 - 001 Weimar Cinema | TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM | INGA POLLMANN | Dey Hall - Rm 0404 | 7/13 (13 total) | Seats filled | 0/3 |
| Description: Explores important German films of 1919 to 1933, locating them in their artistic, cultural, and historical context. Treats the contested course of Weimar film history and culture and provides a theoretically informed introduction to the study of film and visual materials. Films with English subtitles; readings and discussions in English. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14024 | CMPL 280 - 001 Film Genres | MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM | Rick Warner | Greenlaw - Rm 0302 | 32/33 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/5 |
| Description: This course introduces students to the methods of genre theory and analysis as they pertain to cinema. The course may either provide a survey of several different genres or examine a particular genre in depth as it has evolved historically. National and/or transnational dimensions of popular genres may be emphasized. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14025 | CMPL 280 - 002 Film Genres | MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM | Daelena Tinnin-Gadson | New West - Rm 0219 | 30/35 (35 total) | Seats filled | 0/5 |
| Description: This course introduces students to the methods of genre theory and analysis as they pertain to cinema. The course may either provide a survey of several different genres or examine a particular genre in depth as it has evolved historically. National and/or transnational dimensions of popular genres may be emphasized. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14026 | CMPL 374 - 001 Modern Women Writers | TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM | MARSHA COLLINS | Greenlaw - Rm 0305 | 24/25 (25 total) | Seats filled | 0/4 |
| Description: The development of a women's literary tradition in the works of such writers as George Sand, George Eliot, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Yourcenar. 3 units. | |||||||
| 13929 | CMPL 477 - 001 Wicked Desire: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, on Page and Screen | TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM | Stanislav Shvabrin | Dey Hall - Rm 0404 | 14/15 (15 total) | Seats filled | 0/3 |
| Description: Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita (1955) became a global phenomenon due to its unflinching portrayal of pedophilia. This course will delve deeper into the novel's moral complexity, its international context, and its reflection in mass culture, including movies by Stanley Kubrick (1962) and Adrian Lyne (1997). Taught in English; some readings in Russian for qualified students. 3 units. | |||||||
| 11820 | CMPL 489 - 001 Empire and Diplomacy | TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM | Ted Leinbaugh | Global Center - Rm 1009 | 13/15 (15 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: Examines the history of the British Empire and the role of peace, war, defense, diplomacy, and letters in shaping Britain's presence on the world stage. 3 units. | |||||||
| 13825 | CMPL 547 - 001 Documenting Diasporas: Korean Diasporas in Films and Documentaries | TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM | Ji-Yeon Jo | TBA | 4/10 (10 total) | Seats filled | |
| Description: In this course, we will explore the multiple, shifting, and often contested diasporic subjectivities represented and produced in Korean diaspora cinemas; these subjectivities encompass various Korean diaspora communities in Asia, Central Asia, Europe, and the Americas. 3 units. | |||||||
| 14091 | CMPL 890 - 001 Special Topics in Comparative Literature | Mo 11:00AM - 2:00PM | Stephanie DeGooyer | Stone Center - Rm 0201 | 4/15 (15 total) | Seats filled | 0/3 |
| Description: 3 units. | |||||||
| 14080 | CMPL 894 - 001 Seminar | TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM | JESSICA WOLFE | Murphey - Rm 0202 | 14/15 (15 total) | Seats filled | 0/3 |
| Description: Topic announced annually in advance. 3 units. | |||||||