FREN556D
Identity, Ideology and Power Instructor: Marie-Eve Bouchard Language of instruction: French This graduate seminar will delve into three critical themes in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology: ideology, identity, and power. Its broad objective is to examine how language ideologies are involved in the construction of power structure and social identities. Focusing largely on key articles, this […]
ITAL322
Italian for Reading Knowledge ITAL322 is a course for beginner and lower-intermediate students of Italian, or students with proficiency in any Romance language, including Latin. It is addressed to students who also want to develop their language skills and build their competences in order to understand the intersection of language, meaning-making and culture. It is […]
RMST452
Great Masters of Italian Cinema After the Neorealist Age Cross-listed with ITAL430 This course aims at familiarizing students from diverse backgrounds with master- pieces by some of the most acclaimed Italian film directors from the 1950s to our day. The films studied are classic works which explore and critically delve into (the industry would probably […]
RMST453
Within the Universe/The Universe Within — Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy: A Visionary Journey into Medieval Eco-Cosmology Cross-listed with ITAL403 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 […]
SPAN504B
América Latina Errante: Displacement, Globalization, Melancholy in Latin American Cinema Instructor: Alessandra Santos Language of instruction: Spanish This seminar aims to examine contemporary Latin American cinema under the lens of displacements. We will study the geographical, cultural and subjective dislocations that occur due to economic and political globalization after 1990, migration, (im)mobility, tensions and conflicts that arise […]
RMST372
Topics in Hispanic Literature Explore Spain and Latin America’s contributions to global culture through popular Hispanic literature in translation. Language of instruction: English Instructor: Dr. Tamara Mitchell Prerequisites: No prerequisites
RMST343
Pinocchio & Everything Else Cross-listed with ITAL 333 In this course we re-visit Pinocchio, the original educational story for children (the would-be Bildungsroman, if one will) authored in Italian by the Florentine Carlo Collodi (1881 and 1882-83), seeing it in the light of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s critical dictum «It is no measure of health to be […]
FREN341
Évolutions littéraires : du romantisme au roman social Notre cours porte sur les mouvements intellectuels et artistiques en France du XIXème siècle à aujourd’hui, et ce à travers une étude de textes littéraires. Nous nous intéresserons à la construction de l’objet littéraire (roman par exemple) dans la société française. Quels sont les grands débats d’idées, […]
FREN418
African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures Ce cours invite les étudiants à découvrir les littératures antillaise et africaine d’expression française. Notre itinéraire transocéanique nous amène en Afrique de l’Ouest, en Haïti et en Algérie. La première partie du cours sera consacrée à une épopée africaine du Moyen Âge et sa représentation de la fondation de l’Empire […]
FREN357
Translation Focusing on the main challenges involved in intercultural communication, this course will teach the foundations, principles, practical strategies, and methods of translation from French to English and English to French for a variety of professional, literary, and creative purposes. We will explore the strategies and tools that translators use when faced with challenging linguistic […]