The Courses

(All courses carry 3 credits unless otherwise noted.)

121 International Short Story (AL) (4 credits) 

122 Spiritual Autobiography (ALG) (4 credits)

131 Brave New World (ALG) (4 credits)

133 Introduction to Science Fiction (ALU) (4 credits)

141 Good and Evil: East-West (ALG) (4 credits)

204 Medieval Epic and Romance (AL)

231 Comedy (AL)

233 International Fantasy (AL) (4 credits)

234 Myth, Folktale, and Children's Literature (AL) (4 credits)

236 Digital Culture (I)

261H Modern Arabic Literature in Comparative Perspective (ALG) (4 credits)

290T Translation, Cross-Cultural Communication, and the Media (ALG) (4 credits)

291 Seminars:

  • Introduction to Folklore
  • Tales of Shipwreck and Captivity

319 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) (4 credits)

320H Irish Writers and Cultural Context (AL) (4 credits)

335 Comic Art in North America (ATU) (4 credits)

336 International Graphic Novel (ALG) (4 credits)

350 French Film (AT) (4 credits)

355 Modern African Literature  (ALG) (4 credits)

357 Junior Year Writing: Writing Matters (Fall Semester)

381 Self-Reflective Avant-Garde Film (AT) (4 credits)

383 Narrative Avant-Garde Film (AT) (4 credits)

391 Seminars:

  • Comparative Literature, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Neuroscience
  • Dream, History, and Identity in Polish Film
  • Dystopian Futures in Film and Fiction
  • International Science Fiction Cinema       
  • Love and War: 20th Century Polish and Russian Writers
  • On Cannibalism
  • The Proverb
  • The Unexceptional U.S.: Global Readings in U.S. Culture
  • World War Stories

392 Seminars:

  • Gender and the Body in the Middle Ages
  • Mystical Literature

394HIH History of Literary Criticism (IE) (4 credits)

397MN Literature, Film, and Fundamentalism

491N Modernisms

551 Translation and Technology

581 Interpreting and Translation: Research and Practice I (Fall Semester)

582 Interpreting and Translation: Research and Practice II (Spring Semester)

592A Medieval Women Writers

597MN  Literature, Film, and Fundamentalism

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