Course Description

FREN501

Lire l’ancien français Instructor: Anne Salamon Language of instruction: French Ce cours cherche à développer une réflexion sur les rapports d’une part entre la littérature et la matérialité du support qui la transmet et la diffuse et d’autre part ce qui en constitue le matériau, la langue. De la variété des dialectes et graphies médiévales à […]

FREN511

Shades of Truth and Fiction in Contemporary French Literature Instructor: Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire Language of instruction: French Notre époque est tiraillée entre des conceptions antagonistes de la ‘vérité’. Nous sommes chargés, urgemment, de saisir la nature de ces débats et de nous y positionner. Paradoxalement, la littérature peut contribuer de manière cruciale à nos réflexions sur le […]

FREN521

Les littératures du monde francophone Ce cours invite les étudiants à découvrir l’univers des littératures d’expression française afin de se familiariser avec les histoires, géographies et sociétés dont elles émanent. Notre itinéraire autant transocéanique que transcontinental nous amène aux Antilles, au Maghreb, au Mashreq, en Afrique de l’Ouest et dans les îles de l’océan Indien. […]

RMST202

RMST202

Introduction to Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World II: Modern to Post-Modern Literature and Culture, Modernism to the Present Learn to love to read again! Course trailer: Course user’s manual: Course description: In this course, we will be reading literary texts, mostly novels, originally written in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, or Romanian during the […]

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SPAN592

Graduate Proseminar II: Research Skills and Scholarly Practices Cross-listed with FREN592 What is academia? What is research? What can I expect from a graduate program and what does a graduate program expect from me? How do I prepare a grant application, a conference paper, or a journal article? What are the next two years of […]

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FREN592

Graduate Proseminar II: Research Skills and Scholarly Practices Cross-listed with SPAN592 What is academia? What is research? What can I expect from a graduate program and what does a graduate program expect from me? How do I prepare a grant application, a conference paper, or a journal article? What are the next two years of […]

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SPAN591

Graduate Proseminar I: Research Skills and Scholarly Practices Cross-listed with FREN591 What is academia? What is research? What can I expect from a graduate program and what does a graduate program expect from me? How do I prepare a grant application, a conference paper, or a journal article? What are the next two years of […]

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FREN591

Graduate Proseminar I: Research Skills and Scholarly Practices Cross-listed with SPAN591 What is academia? What is research? What can I expect from a graduate program and what does a graduate program expect from me? How do I prepare a grant application, a conference paper, or a journal article? What are the next two years of […]

SPAN590C

Contemporary Latin-American Literatures and Cultures Caribbean Futures: Hispanic Caribbean Speculative Fiction Este curso de posgrado examina la ficción especulativa producida en el Caribe hispano —República Dominicana, Cuba y Puerto Rico— desde el siglo XX hasta la actualidad. El programa parte de una premisa: la ficción especulativa de estas tres islas no es un apéndice de […]

SPAN470B

SPAN470B

Indigeneidad: La identidad indígena en la literatura y la cultura latinoamericanas (siglos XVI-XXI) ¿Cómo se han representado y autorrepresentado los pueblos indígenas a través de la historia cultural de América Latina? ¿Qué estereotipos siguen vigentes y de dónde vienen? Los pueblos indígenas ocupan sin duda un lugar primordial, aunque no siempre reconocido, en lo que […]