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Featured Courses - Fall 2024
Taught W 3:35pm - 6:05pm
Why did love become such a major, and pan-European, cultural phenomenon? Are medieval and modern desire fundamentally different? This course will take a comparative approach to medieval literature, looking to some of the greatest works of Occitan poetry, Middle High German and Old French romance, and Italian literature. Alongside primary texts, we will read modern psychoanalytic work about desire. There are no prerequisites for this class.
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH!
Taught MWF 11:15am - 12:05pm
Did you know that the Italian Cinderella murdered her stepmother? Or that Sleeping Beauty had twins before marrying the prince? Or that the cats in Italian Puss-in-Boots stories were female? While Walt Disney’s animated fairy tales are familiar to most American children and adults, few people realize that Disney’s most beloved characters descend from an Italian and French fairy tale tradition that dates back to the 16th century. In this class, you will study how fairy tales have changed through time and across cultures.
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Taught TuTh 12:30pm-1:45pm
Discusses the emergence of the zombie figure in the Caribbean and its evolution from colonial Haiti to present-day popular culture having passed through Hollywood. Through movies and literary, historical, and scientific documents, students will study critically how this mass-media icon came to represent deep-rooted anxieties about the modern world.
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH!