CMPL Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
14236	CMPL 121 - 001 Great Books I: Romancing the World	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	MARSHA COLLINS	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	32/35	Seats filled	32/35	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. This course focuses on the literary mode of romance, with particular attention to cross-cultural contact and exchange from classical antiquity to the present in both European and non-European literature. 3 units.
12164	CMPL 142 - 001 Visual Culture II	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	GREGORY FLAXMAN	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	24/25	Seats filled	24/25	0/999
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.
10795	CMPL 230 - 001 Global Crusoe: The Desert-Island Idea in Film and Fiction	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	David Baker	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	14/25	Seats filled	14/25	0/999
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.
12076	CMPL 237 - 001 Rebel, Lover, Martyr: Gender and Sexuality in North and South Korean Screen Cultures	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	I Jonathan Kief	New West-Rm 0219	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	0/999
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.
14970	CMPL 247H - 001 Indigenous Spiritualities in Literatures of China and Taiwan	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	ROBIN VISSER	Gardner Hall-Rm 0001	10/12	Seats filled	10/12	0/999
Description: This course examines spiritual motifs in Asian literature by Indigenous writers in China and Taiwan. Works by Tibetan, Mongol, Uyghur, Kazakh, Bunun, Tao, Hui, Yi, and Wa writers express spiritual principles from a wide variety of beliefs and cosmologies, including Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhism, Islam, Shamanism, Animism, and Christianity. As forced assimilation threatens native languages and cultural heritage, Indigenous writers function as "priests of culture," providing spiritual inspiration by lyrically evoking powers beyond the human. 3 units.
17694	CMPL 250 - 001 Approaches to Comparative Literature	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Sheera Talpaz	Dey Hall-Rm 0307	13/35	Seats filled	13/35
Description: This communications-intensive course familiarizes students with the theory and practice of comparative literature: the history of literary theory; translation; and literature combined with disciplines such as music, architecture, and philosophy. 3 units.
10796	CMPL 251 - 001 Introduction to Literary Theory	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	SHAYNE LEGASSIE	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	16/30	Seats filled	21/35	0/999
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.
14962	CMPL 259 - 001 Ideology and Aesthetics: Marxism and Literature	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	David Pike	Woollen Gym-Rm 0303	16/25	Seats filled	16/25	0/999
Description: This seminar provides students with a general introduction to Marxist thought with particular attention to its critical importance for interpreting the role of ideology in modern literature. Readings and class discussions in English. Previously taught as GSLL 251. 3 units.
12171	CMPL 280 - 001 Film Genres	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	HENRY VEGGIAN	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0301	28/35	Seats filled	28/35	0/999
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.
14855	CMPL 280 - 002 Film Genres	MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Nicole Berland	Gardner Hall-Rm 0209	34/35	Seats filled	34/35	0/999
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.
13483	CMPL 317 - 001 Myth, Fable, Novella: The Long History of the Short Story	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	SHAYNE LEGASSIE	Graham Memorial-Rm 0035	19/20	Seats filled	19/20	0/999
Description: Traces the development of European short fiction from the 12th through the 17th centuries, taking brief looks backward toward the ancient world and forward to the modern short story. Previously offered as CMPL 277. 3 units.
17693	CMPL 390 - 001 Special Topics in Comparative Literature	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Sheera Talpaz	Murphey Hall-Rm 0111	7/20	Seats filled	7/20
Description: Course topics vary from semester to semester. 3 units.
14711	CMPL 466 - 001 Modernism	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Shinjini Chattopadhyay	Dey Hall-Rm 0302	16/25	Seats filled	16/25	0/999
Description: An exploration of the period concept of modernism in European literature, with attention to central works in poetry, narrative, and drama, and including parallel developments in the visual arts. 3 units.
10797	CMPL 489 - 001 Empire and Diplomacy	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Ted Leinbaugh	Global Education, F-Rm 1009	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	0/999
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.
14949	CMPL 545 - 001 Chinese Science Fiction	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	ROBIN VISSER	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0215	9/10	Seats filled	9/10	0/999
Description: This research seminar contextualizes the contemporary explosion of Chinese science fiction within modern Chinese intellectual history and SF studies worldwide. We read globally influential novels such as The Three-Body Problem and trace several waves of the genre's century-long evolution within Chinese literature. We ask how threats of global annihilation, the exhaustion of environmental resources, discoveries in virology, epigenetics, and innovations in cybernetics intersect with global development, climate migration, decolonization, and structures of race and class. 3 units.
14478	CMPL 579 - 001 What is a Medium? German Media Theory from Aesthetics to Cultural Techniques	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	INGA POLLMANN	Dey Hall-Rm 0313	9/15	Seats filled	9/15	0/999
Description: This seminar provides students across the humanities with an overview of the historical and cultural relevance of German media theories. We will discuss the distinction between "art" and "medium", the role of technology and techniques, as well as the interaction of media theory and practice with politics. Films with English subtitles; readings and discussions in English. Previously offered as CMPL 479/GERM 479. 3 units.