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Modern Languages

• MDNLNG 210G  Great Books

  Description:
  This course provides instruction and practice in the careful reading, analysis, and enhanced understanding of a limited number of great or classic works of literature, ancient and modern, from various national literary cultures. The readings acquaint students with culturally and/or aesthetically significant literature and heighten their awareness of the centrality of great literature to human experience. Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for CORE C150, but not for both. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • 2013 Fall

• MDNLNG 220L  Hades, Heaven, and Hell

  Description:
  This interdisciplinary course first explores Hades from Ovid to Cocteau. It then moves to heaven and hell to examine the Christian symbolism of good and evil, angels and devils, sin and redemption in European literature, film, and the arts. HUMAN 220L and MDNLNG 220L are the same course.   More Info
  
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  • TBA

• MDNLNG 255L  Pacting with the Devil: The Faust Tradition

  Description:
  A reading and discussion course emphasizing critical interpretation of major texts in the Faust tradition from German folklore, Christopher Marlowe, J.W. von Goethe, Mikhail Bulgakov and others. Attention is given to the evolution of the legend and to other adaptations (in music and film) of Faustian material. HUMAN 255L and MDNLNG 255L are the same course.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • 2013 Spring

• MDNLNG 276  Europe at the Movies: a History of Postwar Cinema

  Description:
  This course will investigate the most significant developments of film history int he major European contries after World War II. National cinemas of France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe will be studied in detail through weekly screenings of classic films by some of Europe's most accomplished filmmakers. Films will be analyzed both in a broad socio-historical framework and in respect to authors' specific styles.   More Info
  
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• MDNLNG 290  Special Topics

  Description:
  This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.   More Info
  
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  • TBA

• MDNLNG 365L  Icons of East Asia: Stereotypes, gender, and cultural history from geisha girls to martial masters

  Description:
  The purpose of this class is to explore, critically and comparatively, various discourses about popular cultural icons of East Asia. We will focus on two specific well-known examples women entertainers and male figures adapt at martial arts with the following aims: 1) to focus on specific historical contexts, which suggest how and why these categories were formed and became important; 2) to understand how dynamic and motivated these seemingly unchanging and timeless icons actually are; and 3) to investigate how gendered identities are constructed and manipulated for particular goals. ASIAN 365L and MDNLNG 365L are the same course.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • 2013 Fall

• MDNLNG 366L  Re-made in Asia: Tellings and re-tellings from the Buddha to Godzilla

  Description:
  What is a "remake"? Why are people interested in stories that are told and re-told, sometimes in many versions? This class explores narratives that travel across time and space in Asia, in order to find some answers to these questions. The purpose of this class is to consider how texts from the past are rendered relevant to concerns contemporary to the remakes. Students are expected to have taken at least one 200-level course related to Asia.   More Info
  
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• MDNLNG 368  Shanghai

  Description:
  This course is a multi-disciplinary introduction to one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Shanghai. We begin in the early nineteenth century, when Shanghai rapidly developed into one of the largest ports in the world, investigate the formation of the foreign concessions and the rise of the city to dominance in the Chinese mediasphere at the turn of the twentieth century, consider the citys changing fortunes during the early decades of the Peoples Republic, and inquire into the sources and effects of its return to world city status at the turn of the twenty-first century.   More Info
  
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• MDNLNG 390  Special Topics

  Description:
  This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • 2013 Spring

• MDNLNG 488L  The Idea of Asia

  Description:
  This course examines the imagination of Asia from a variety of perspectives: historical, economic, religious, philosophical, literary, and artistic. It begin from the extreme social and cultural diversity of the continent as it is currently defined, and asks first, how the idea of a coherent Asia was constructed; and second, what effects this idea has had in both "Asian" and "European" history. This course fulfills the capstone requirement for the Asian Studies major. ASIAN 488L and MDNLNG 488L are the same course.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • 2013 Spring