CLC 1020

From Homer to Picasso: Western Culture Across the Ages: This course will introduce key figures in Western culture in terms of the period in which they lived, the style of their art or writing, and one or two major works. It will also identify the main characteristics of movements in Western culture such as the Renaissance, the Baroque, Romanticism, and Modernism, giving some specific examples from literature, art, and music.

CLC 1023

Sex and Culture: Organized as a tour of the erotic capitals of the world, with stopovers in the major cities that have contributed to humanity’s cumulative understanding of sex, the course is designed to introduce students to the great classics of erotic literature along with the most influential philosophical and theological interpretations of the meaning of sexual experience.

CLC/Italian 2100

The Capitals of Italian Culture: This course introduces students to the culture of Italian cities, from the age of the medieval commune to the present day. It will explore such cities as Assisi, Florence, Siena, Venice, Rome, and Naples, and along the way examine the features of imagined cities, infernal as well as ideal or utopian. The first unit is called “The age of the Italian city-state;” the second unit is called “The Grand tour and after” and the third is called “Cinematic Rome.”

CLC 2120F

The Grotesque The reading will concentrate on absurd and irrational views of human existence. The role of black humour and supernatural elements in Poe, Gogol, Kafka and others will be studied. Examples of the grotesque in art will also be shown.

CLC 2130G

International Children's Literature: This course is a survey of the children’s novel as a genre, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. Fantasy and Realistic works will be considered, such as Heidi, Finn Family Moomintroll and The Neverending Story. The course will help to analyze the techniques and themes that appear in children’s novels from a number of European Countries.

CLC 2150F/Ling. 2250F

The Languages of Europe: A linguistic survey of Western and Eastern Europe with emphasis on the principal structural features of the contemporary languages and the main lines of their historical and cultural development. Among the issues discussed: language vs dialect, language classification and typology, the development of writing systems.

CLC 2191G*

Literature and Music: Words and music can combine to form a composite art work that transcends either one of them in power and expressiveness. This course investigates the creative interplay of words and music, in the form of lyric song, choral music both sacred and secular, opera and popular culture

CLC/German/Spanish 2204F

Research Methods: This course is designed to introduce students to the skills and resources that are required to successfully read and interpret a primary literary text, produce presentations, answer essay exam questions, and research, organize, and write research essays at upper-year levels of the undergraduate program in literature.

CLC/German/Spanish 2205G

Introduction to Literary Theory: This course will introduce many of the critical perspectives and theories of contemporary literary and cultural studies including Structuralism, post-structuralism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Post colonialism, Marxism and Psychoanalytic criticism. It will ask how literature and criticism engage other aspects of culture such as gender, race, class and nation.

CLC/Spanish 2218F

Spanish Civilization: This course aims to introduce students to all aspects of Spanish culture. The emphasis is on the history of Spanish art and architecture which is compared as a cultural construct to Spanish literature.

CLC 2250F

Reality and Illusion: Baroque Cutlure in the 17th Century Europe: The dynamics of a period of crisis are revealed in its literature, art and philosophy. Among the figures studied are Bernini, Calderon, Velazquez, Descartes and Galileo.

CLC 2271F

Nineteenth-Century Culture: The development of Western literature, philosophy, and aesthetics during the second half of the nineteenth century, in the context of music, painting, and social movements. Authors studied may include: Leopardi, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Marx, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Strindberg, Freud.

CLC 2291F/Italian 2230F

The Italian Literary Tradition I: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque: The course aims to introduce students to major authors and works in the Italian literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. It will focus on Dante’s, Cavalcanti’s and Petrarca’s love poetry, Boccaccio’s and Basile’s tales, on Machiavelli as playwright and political thinker, and on the visionary utopia of Tommaso Campanella.

CLC 2291G/Italian 2231G

The Italian Literary Tradition II: From Romanticism to Postmodernism: The course aims to introduce students to major authors and works in the Italian literary tradition from the early nineteenth-century to the present. It will focus on novels by Foscolo, Manzoni, Pirandello and Calvino, short stories by Verga, and on the philosophical dialogues and poetry of Leopardi.

CLC 2292G*/Film 3316G*

Contemporary German Cinema:

CLC 2293G*/SP 3371G*/VA 3394G*

The Work of Art and Its Texts: The purpose of this course is to acquire iconographic references from the texts that most inspired artists in the Western tradition: The Holy Bible, Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Homer’s Iliad, Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Goethe’s Faust.

CLC 2294G*/Spanish 3330G*/Film 2242G

Latin American Film:

CLC 3301G*/German 3311G*

Literature and Culture of German Classicism and Romanticism:

CLC 3335F

Dante's Paradiso: A study of Dante's Paradiso, along with background topics such as medieval theology, cosmology, poetics, and politics.

CLC 3391F*/German 3333F

City Studies: Vienna

CLC 3391G*/SP 3380G*/VA 3392G*

Baroque Art in Latin America

CLC 4495G+/Phil 4027G+ grad

Dante's Philosophus: