Introduction to film form, style, and techniques. Examples from silent film and from contemporary film. C LIT 270, C LIT 271, C LIT 272 are designed to be taken as a sequence, but may be taken individually.
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Course Descriptions - Winter 2018
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Winter 2018
THO 101 - SLN: 22192
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
ARC 147 - SLN: 12584
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Introduction to study of film and/or television genre. Literary, mythic, and historic aspects of film and/or television genre. C LIT 270, C LIT 271, C LIT 272 are designed to be taken as a sequence, but may be taken individually.
MGH 058 - SLN: 12585
Provides an overview of key issues in the study of television. Explores what television is, what television does, and how television shapes our fundamental assumptions about space, time, image, and sound.
MGH 058 - SLN: 12586
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Study of new media histories and methodologies for research, with particular emphasis on new and emergent technologies such as the Internet and other digital forms. Specific media to be analyzed vary.
DEN 213 - SLN: 12588
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied.
MGH 271 - SLN: 12589
Students develop collaborative critical and creative skills; studying screenwriting manuals and techniques; adapt stories for screenplays; and/or write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays.
MGH 271 - SLN: 12590
GE Requirements Met: I&S, VLPA
Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
RAI 121 - SLN: 11865
Introduces the rich and complex relationship between science and literature from the seventeenth century to the present day. Students examine selected literary, scientific, and philosophical texts, considering ways in which literature and science can be viewed as forms of imaginative activity.
PCAR 192 - SLN: 11866
Folkloristics combines the methods and ideas of Literature Studies and Anthropology. Folktales (fairy tales), legends, jokes, songs, proverbs, customs and other forms of traditional culture are studied together with the living people and communities who perform and adapt them. Students learn the folklorist's methods of fieldwork (participant observation), ethnography, comparative analysis, and interpretation. Offered: jointly with SCAND 230; AWSpS.
MEB 250 - SLN: 11869
Comparative approach to literature and a workshop in writing comparative papers in English. Emphasis on cross-cultural comparison of literary works. Readings in English with an option to read selected texts in the original languages Offered: AWSp.
MEB 245 - SLN: 11870
Comparative approach to literature and a workshop in writing comparative papers in English. Emphasis on cross-cultural comparison of literary works. Readings in English with an option to read selected texts in the original languages Offered: AWSp.
MEB 235 - SLN: 11871
Comparative approach to literature and a workshop in writing comparative papers in English. Emphasis on cross-cultural comparison of literary works. Readings in English with an option to read selected texts in the original languages Offered: AWSp.
MEB 243 - SLN: 11884
Comparative approach to literature and a workshop in writing comparative papers in English. Emphasis on cross-cultural comparison of literary works. Readings in English with an option to read selected texts in the original languages Offered: AWSp.
THO 334 - SLN: 11886
Comparative approach to literature and a workshop in writing comparative papers in English. Emphasis on cross-cultural comparison of literary works. Readings in English with an option to read selected texts in the original languages Offered: AWSp.
PCAR 290 - SLN: 11888
GE Requirements Met: I&S, VLPA
Study of literature in its relation to culture. Focuses on literature as a cultural institution, directly related to the construction of individual identity and the dissemination and critique of values.
THO 135 - SLN: 11889
Department Requirements Met: Pre-req to Declare Literature Major
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Reading and analyzing literature based upon rotating genres such as sci-fi, detective fiction, romance, love, poetry, and comedy. Draws from world literature.
MLR 316 - SLN: 11891
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Examination of the development of European literature in a variety of genres and periods. Possible areas of study include literature from romantic fiction of early nineteenth century through great realist classics of second half of the century or from symbolism to expressionism and existentialism.
MEB 245 - SLN: 11892
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Emphasizes connections between twentieth century literature of the United States and Canada and current literature of Latin America. Emphasizes that, despite obvious differences, much is shared in terms of culture and national sensibility across the two continents.
EEB 037 - SLN: 11893
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Topics designated by individual instructors.
LOW 102 - SLN: 22028
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
The film as an art form, with particular reference to the literary dimension of film and to the interaction of literature with the other artistic media employed in the form. Films are shown as an integral part of the course. Content varies.
DEN 303 - SLN: 11897
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Explores topics in literature and cultures of the ancient and medieval worlds across national and regional cultures, such as particular movements, authors, genres, themes, or problems.
MLR 316 - SLN: 11898
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Explores topics in literature and cultures of the early modern world (approximately 1400-1800) across national and regional cultures, such as particular movements, authors, genres, themes, or problems.
SMI 115 - SLN: 11899
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Explores topics in literature and cultures of the modern world (approximately 1800-present) across national and regional cultures, such as particular movements, authors, genres, themes, or problems.
DEN 111 - SLN: 11900
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Offered by visitors or resident faculty. Content varies.
MUE 155 - SLN: 11902
GE Requirements Met: VLPA
Ancient and medieval epic and heroic poetry of Europe in English: the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid; the Roland or a comparable work from the medieval oral tradition; pre-Greek forerunners, other Greco-Roman literary epics, and later medieval and Renaissance developments and adaptations of the genre. Choice of reading material varies according to instructor's preference. Offered: jointly with CLAS 424.
SAV 140 - SLN: 11907
Offerings vary to cover individual theorists and particular manifestations of cultural criticism and ideology critique.