RMST-345-2023W
This course offers students from diverse backgrounds foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “F-ism” as, in successive incarnations, as it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societies and cultures. View full description. Language of instruction: English. Cross-listed with ITAL 345.
RMST-341-2023W
This course aims at blending the visual and the literary arts that flourished in the Italian peninsula from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. We will follow a chronological order, moving from Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio to Pico, Machiavelli and Castiglione, from Giotto to Leonardo. View full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-324-2023W
Study Indigenous literature and film from Quebec viewed in the socio-historical and political context that informs their production. View full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-321-2023W
Explore the global medieval world through the lens of French literature: how it represented non-feudal and non-majority-Christian cultures, what sort of contacts it focused on (peaceful or aggressive), and the ways in which it indirectly depicted itself through describing (or fantasizing) the “Other”. View full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-302-2023W
This course explores the theatrical and poetic production of the Romance World in all its breadth and diversity, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. A particular emphasis will be put on the early modern and the modernist periods, that is, the 16th-17th and the late 19th and 20th centuries. View full description. Language […]
RMST-301-2023W
“Speculative fiction” is an umbrella term for genres such as science fiction, fantasy, gothic, steampunk, horror, and alternate histories. Study four major works of speculative fiction from France, Mexico/Canada, Italy, and Brazil in English translation. View full description. Language of instruction: English
RMST-300-2023W
An introduction to the historical description and linguistic comparison of Romance languages, from the variants of late-Antiquity spoken Latin to the modern varieties of Romance languages. View full description. Language of instruction: English.
RMST-280-2023W
Evaluate the major concepts and voices that frame Latin American Student Movements throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, traversing countries (Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela), spaces (the university, the mountain, the border, the internet), and genres (graphic novel, documentary, film, music, and social media). View full description. Language of instruction: English. Cross-listed with […]
RMST-260-2023W
A critical analysis of different cultural genres, including music, film and visual art through the study of selected Portuguese and Brazilian texts. Know about the origins of Portugal, the influences on the country and the Portuguese language, and the main cultural aspects of Brazilian culture. View full description. Language of instruction: English