FREN334
Exploring French Society after 1945 Engaging with history, culture, politics and intellectual life in contemporary France, this course crafts visions to understand key aspects of French society. We seek out to examine radical transformations through three specific cultural clusters. The first one addresses the Algerian War and the massive political, institutional and cultural upheavals that […]
PORT405
Amazonia (in English) Amazonia is a vast and complex region in South America—the most bio-diverse on Earth—stretching over nine countries and it is home to 400 indigenous groups. This course will explore pressing environmental and cultural issues of our time through the study of the Amazon rainforest as it is represented in literature, films and […]
ITAL409
The Strongman, the Latin Lover, and other Italian Masculinities Cross-listed with RMST459 This course offers an overview of diverse Italian masculinities as they are represented in Italian literature and culture. What does it mean to be a man in Italy? How do diverse concepts of Italian manhood come into being? How are they constructed and […]
ITST413
[Cross-listed with Italian 403] Dante and His World: The Divine Comedy in Translation Undoubtedly the best-known among all poems written in the Italian language during the last seven hundred years, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy takes us on a most unusual journey. We begin our travels quivering with the wayfarer at the outskirts of a ghastly […]
ITAL403
Within the Universe/The Universe Within — Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy: A Visionary Journey into Medieval Eco-Cosmology Cross-listed with RMST453 Undoubtedly the best-known of all poems written in the Italian language during the last seven hundred years, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy takes us on a most unusual journey. We begin our travels quivering with the wayfarer […]
SPAN530
Salvador Dalí: un acercamiento interdisciplinar DESCRIPCIÓN Dalí fue un artista que se expresó a través de diferentes disciplinas, géneros y soportes. De hecho, la pintura fue para él solo uno de los instrumentos de que hace uso para expresar sus ideas. Pero fue también un escritor innovador de obras de teatro, ópera y guiones de […]
ITAL304
Introduction to Italian Culture and Literature II: From the Modern to the Post-Colonial Age This course will be an introduction to Italian history, literature, and culture from Risorgimento (1815-1860/70) to the Berlusconi Era (1994-2011). After an introduction on Unification, the rise and fall of Fascism, WWI, and WWII, this course aims to familiarize students with […]
ITST232
Introduction to Italian Culture and Literature II: From the Modern to the Post-Colonial Age [Cross-listed with ITAL 304] This course will be an introduction to Italian history, literature, and culture from Risorgimento (1815-1860/70) to the Berlusconi Era (1994-2011). After an introduction on Unification, the rise and fall of Fascism, WWI, and WWII, this course aims […]
RMST221
Paris Of all the major cities in the world, Paris is one of those that has most inspired the imagination. Represented a thousand times in literature, paintings and films, Paris has been the subject of abundant discursive and graphic productions that have contributed to establishing it as a ‘modern myth.’ This mythical representation of Paris, […]
SPAN527B
Travel Writing in the Hispanic World to 1550 This course is an exploration of travel writing during the Spanish Medieval period in which students will venture into diverse journey narratives such as travel journals, romance tales, pilgrim guides, mirabilia, autobiographies or diplomatic reports. Although transportation was not as developed as today, Spanish medieval travelers still […]