RMST-455A-2025W
Explore the cultural legacy that Byzantium left to the world in and through its waning—a heritage grounded in the ancient wisdom of the Greeks, advocating the golden possibility of achieving a timeless, truly realized human consciousness. View full description.
RMST-372A-2025W
Explore Spain and Latin America’s contributions to global culture through popular Hispanic literature in translation. View full description.
RMST-420B-2025W
In this dynamic and immersive course, we’ll explore the rich musical soundscapes of the Francophone world, from the infectious rhythms of Afrobeats, Konpa and Rumba to the stars of la chanson française, Franco-Rap, V-Pop, and more. View full description.
RMST-374-2025W
Explore how gendered spaces are constructed, negotiated, and contested in Latin American women’s literature and cultural production. Develop critical tools to analyze literature and culture through intersectional, feminist, and spatial frameworks. View full description.
RMST-306-2025W
Discover how language evolves through community interaction, how some languages are minoritized, and how contact languages reflect complex innovation. Explore how language contact and multilingualism shape French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and other Romance language varieties. View full description.
RMST-345-2025W
Gain the analytic tools to condemn and oppose dogmatic self-assurance, the fascisms of yesteryear and today. Obtain foundational knowledge of fascism, with a focus on Benito Mussolini’s regime. View full description.
RMST-280-2025W
From guerrilla movements to intimate acts of resistance, this course explores how love—patriotic, romantic, familial, erotic—acts as metaphor and force in revolutionary narratives within 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature and cultural production. View full description.
RMST-355-2025W
Explore how Italian Neorealist films illustrated major social, economic, and political issues to foster a better informed and more humane society. View full description.
RMST-341-2025W
If you are planning a trip to Italy at some point in the future, don’t miss this course! Explore the visual and literary arts in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance—from Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio to Pico, Machiavelli and Castiglione, from Giotto to Leonardo. View full description.
RMST-302-2025W
This course explores theatrical and poetic works from the Romance World, focusing on the connections and key differences between poetry and theatre. We examine how gender, race, colonialism, and power are expressed in performative, poetic, and audiovisual forms across time and cultures. View full description.