2012-2013 University Catalog archived
Course Descriptions
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JOUR 212 - The Journalist in Fiction and Film
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
Since the time of Sophocles, at least, citizens have been tempted to “kill the messenger.” Those bearing news are often at odds with the citizens to whom they bring the news. This class explores the tension between citizens and modern-day messengers by reading and viewing fictional depictions of journalists. Students examine the role of popular culture in forming myths, stereotypes and false expectations of journalists - and other groups - to understand better the role of journalists in a free society. Luecke.
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JOUR 214 - The Vietnam War and the Journalists Who Covered It: 1961-1975
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2012
Appropriate for non-majors. A critical in-depth study taught on campus and in Vietnam of reporting and reporters during the Vietnam Conflict, from the death of the first American military adviser to South Vietnam’s last hours. Students meet journalists who covered the conflict on both sides and are exposed to numerous examples of journalists’ work, through readings, class visits, and documentaries and films. In Vietnam, students receive instruction on the war from the Vietnamese perspective through a series of lectures and tours to heighten the students’ knowledge of the war and the country’s progress since the cessation of hostilities. Students write essays and an inclusive final project or research essay. de Maria.
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JOUR 216 - The Press and The Civil Rights Movement
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: Journalism 101 or instructor consent. Appropriate for history majors or African-American studies students. This research seminar examines the press’s role in the Civil Rights Movement of the South in the 1950s and ‘60s. It includes a 10-day tour of key sites of the movement and archives related to its history (Greensboro, Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville), oral-history interviews with press veterans, readings, discussions, and proposals for a research paper and a magazine article. Cumming
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JOUR 218 - Online Speech: Refuges, Harbors and Perils
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
Prerequisite: JOUR 101 or sophomore standing. An examination of how the marketplace of ideas created on the World Wide Web impacts, impedes, and affects our communication and discernment abilities through looking at the laws that empower, encourage, and inhibit these abilities on the Web. The online experience includes clashes of interests, conflicts between content producers and content users, issues of privacy and defamation, and amplified roles and effects of anonymous speech in the society. Students examine how courts and lawmakers have dealt with these conflicts, the kinds of public policies engendered, and the effects on the First Amendment. Specific cases include controversies involving Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, etc. and legislative instruments such as the DMCA and the CDA. This seminar focuses on online speech as it affects defamation, privacy, anonymity, pornography, social networking, and citizen journalism. While technical knowledge is not required to take the class, students must be willing to actively participate in class projects. Abah.
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JOUR 221 - Communication in Global Perspectives
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2012 and alternate years
Prerequisite: JOUR 101. Open to majors and non-majors. This course examines how the marketplace of ideas created by the Web impacts, impedes, and affects our communication and discernment abilities by looking at the laws that empower, encourage, and inhibit these abilities on the Web. Abah.
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JOUR 225 - Crisis Communications
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. A case-study approach to current methods of forecasting problems and responding effectively to crises and consequences in the public and private sectors. Topics include identifying and communicating effectively with stakeholders during crises, effective media-relations strategies during emergencies, building an effective crisis-response plan, regaining public credibility following a crisis, and avoiding public relations mistakes during litigation. Abah.
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JOUR 231 - Communication Theory
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. A critical overview of leading theoretical traditions in communication studies. Examination of the concepts of general and thematic theories in use, describing the similarities and differences among the concepts and applying them in practical situations. Some attention is paid to epistemological foundations, the structure of communication theory as a field, and examining the relationship between communication theory and sociocultural practice. Artwick.
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JOUR 232 - Research Methods in Mass Communication
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. This course introduces students to the systematic study of communication, including quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in both theory-building and applied contexts. Students examine the research process, conceptualization, design, measurement, and analysis. Modes of inquiry studied include survey research, content analysis, experimental research, focus groups, depth interviewing, ethnography, and historical research. The class also engages students in a research project that may serve a local nonprofit agency. Artwick.
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JOUR 234 - A Sense of Place: Multimedia News Features
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: JOUR 201 or instructor consent. This writing and reporting class creates an intensely experiential setting for students to “learn by doing” one of the more elusive but rewarding aspects of journalistic feature writing: writing about a place. Interspersed with relevant readings in literary journalism and short exercises in nonfiction writing and multi-media storytelling, assignments will have students drive out of Lexington, anywhere from five to 50 miles, to spend most of a day in a spot on the map. Their stories about such places are produced online in print, audio, and digital photography. Cumming.
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JOUR 240 - Poverty in the Media
Credits: 3
Not open to students with credit for JOUR 241. No Prerequisites; appropriate for non-majors. An in-depth examination of portrayals of poverty, chiefly in the United States, from the late 19th century to the present through an intensive review of distinguished print journalism, nonfiction books, documentary film, and movies. By consulting social science literature as well, students gain a deeper understanding of the various conceptual paradigms through which poverty has been understood and explained. Counts as part of the Shepherd Program in Poverty and Human Capability Wasserman.
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JOUR 241 - Media and Poverty: The Poor in Journalism and Film
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Not open to students with credit for JOUR 240. This course offers an in-depth examination of portrayals of poverty, chiefly in the United States, from the late 19th century to the present through an intensive review of distinguished print journalism, nonfiction books, documentary film, and movies. By consulting social science literature as well, students gain a deeper understanding of the various conceptual paradigms through which poverty has been understood and explained. Wasserman.
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JOUR 242 - Media Ownership and Control
FDR: SS5
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: At least junior standing or instructor consent. This course explores the relationship between what the media do and how they are owned and run. It examines the influence of market pressures and state regulation, and asks how commercial objectives affect the media’s ability to meet their traditional responsibilities within a democratic society, as a forum for discourse, an organ of accountability and a means by which popular culture is sustained. Although the chief focus is on news media, the course also looks at the entertainment industries and the Internet as increasingly integrated parts of a consolidated media system and as interpreters of social and political realities. Wasserman.
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JOUR 253 - Beat Reporting for Print and Online Media
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: JOUR 202. Simulated daily newsroom laboratory stressing news judgment, information gathering, and journalistic writing under deadline pressure. Using the community as the laboratory, students develop competence in the principles and techniques of print-media and Internet communications in a democratic society. All work is produced in the computerized laboratory newsroom. (Meets concurrently with JOUR 263.) Staff.
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JOUR 263 - Beat Reporting for Broadcast and Online Media
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: JOUR 202. Continuing development of news judgment, information gathering, and news presentation for the electronic media. Students develop competence in the principles and techniques of beat reporting for radio, television and the Internet. (Meets concurrently with JOUR 253.) Staff.
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JOUR 266 - Cross-Cultural Documentary Filmmaking
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
The United States is a melting pot of nationalities and cultures. As people move to the U. S. from other countries they go through cross-cultural adaptation, and identity becomes an issue for everyone. Students in this course work in three-person teams to produce five-minute documentaries on cross-cultural adaptation by an ethnic community in our region or by selected international students at Washington and Lee. Students are expected to immerse themselves in learning about the home countries and current communities of their subjects. The course includes instruction in the techniques of documentary film-making, allowing student to develop their writing, storytelling, shooting and editing skills. Staff.
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JOUR 270 - Digital Media and Society
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Facebook, YouTube, and iPhones are popular, if not essential elements in college students’ busy lives. Being born into the digital age, students have grown up with profound and rapidly-changing media and communication technologies, yet likely take them for granted. This course takes an in-depth look at digital media, exploring the relationship between technology and social change. The concept of technological determinism guides our examination of social networking, online news/information, digital entertainment, and health online. Artwick.
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JOUR 280 - Covering Courts and the Law
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall and Winter
Prerequisites: At least sophomore standing. Appropriate for non-majors. Courthouses make the best beats by providing a window on what is important to the American people. This course introduces students to the U.S. court system, its players, language and impact on the public at large. Students learn how to identify newsworthy legal stories, read court documents, and make sense of them in order to write clear, compelling, fair and accurate news stories for mass audiences. Locy.
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JOUR 295 - Topics in Journalism and Mass Communications
Credits: 3 credits in Fall or Winter; 4 credits in Spring
Planned Offering: Offered when departmental resources permit.
Study of a selected topic in journalism or mass communications. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Appropriate for non-majors.
Spring 2013 topic:
JOUR 295-01 Great Trials in History: The Impact of the Press and Public on Justice (4). Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Not open to students who have taken an earlier version as JOUR 180. Students study historically significant cases against defendants ranging from Socrates and the accused witches of Salem, Massachusetts, to the Scottsboro Boys and the leaders of Nazi Germany. Rich or poor, admired or scorned, defendants in high-profile cases captivate the public because they reveal our potential for good and evil. Often in dramatic fashion, trials expose society’s biases against unpopular ethnic groups or races. Decades later the outcomes of these trials continue to be second-guessed as miscarriages of justice. Using cases of people accused of spying, war crimes and mass murder, the course explores the complexities of the conflict between the freedom of the press and the ideal of a fair trial. Locy.
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JOUR 295: Race, Gender and Religion in the Media (3). No prerequisites; open to non-majors. An examination of how race, gender, and religion are portrayed in television, film and magazines, on the web, and in other media. We employ analytical and experiential frameworks to analyze historical and topical depictions of religion, as well as historical and topical stereotypes of women and people of color in news, entertainment and advertising. Mitchell. Winter 2013
Fall 2012 topic:
JOUR 295: Global Communications (3). This course covers the main issues and trends that characterize international and transnational media systems and explores ways in which media power is contested globally and nationally. We consider whether opportunities for resistance provided by new technologies represent a significant break with the past by looking at the nexus between social media and social change domestically and on the international stage. Students also examine the legal and ethical challenges of globalized media while trying to understand the impact of the global media on local and national media. Abah.
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JOUR 296 - Topics in News Media History
Credits: 3 in fall, winter; 4 in spring
Planned Offering: Spring 2012
Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. This course uses a variety of research methods to explore a particular era or focus in the history of the American press. Past topics, likely to be offered again on a rotating basis, have been on civil rights coverage in the South since 1945 and on early American newspapers as represented by the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers in W&L’s Farrar Collection. Open to non-majors.
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JOUR 297 - Topics in Public Science
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Open to nonmajors. Co-taught interdisciplinary study of selected issues in science or social science and how those issues are presented to the public by the news media. This course gives a basic presentation of research and other information about particular topics. The emphasis is on how a journalist would find this information, evaluate the quality of various sources, and create a meaningful written presentation that contributes to public understanding. Student work involves extensive writing. Richardson, Staff from a science discipline.
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JOUR 301 - Law and Communications
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: Junior standing. An examination of the development of First Amendment jurisprudence, the law of defamation, privacy, access, free press-fair trial, journalists’ privilege, obscenity and pornography. The case study approach is used, but the emphasis is on the principles that underlie the landmark cases. This course can serve as an introduction to and preparation for further studies in communications law and/or the legal system in general. Abah.
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JOUR 318 - The Literature of Journalism
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Instructor consent required. Appropriate for nonmajors. A study of the seminal writings in American journalism, focusing on their literary styles, their influence in the development of American journalism, and their impact on U.S. history. de Maria.
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JOUR 319 - Mass Media and Society
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: At least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A review of the current research into and theories of how people use the mass media, emphasizing the impact of the mass media on public knowledge, attitudes, and discourse. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of mass media to other cultural institutions. Richardson.
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JOUR 320 - Covering Crime and Justice: A Practicum
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
This course exposes students to how the news media cover the three branches of government as they act separately and in concert in dealing with crime and justice. Through the creation of a Washington and Lee “courts bureau” in Washington, students spend five days covering “real” cases in “real” time in the D.C. District Court, arguably one of the nation’s most important federal trial courts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, which is widely considered second in importance only to the U.S. Supreme Court. Students learn how courts are structured, how they work, and how the press covers the Judiciary as it interacts with the other two branches of government in the administration of justice. Locy.
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JOUR 338 - The Documentary
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A critical study of the documentary in film and television, with analysis of prominent directors and genres. de Maria.
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JOUR 344 - Ethics of Journalism
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: POL 203 and at least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A study of the moral issues arising from the practice of modern journalism and communications. Includes examination of philosophical and theoretical foundations of ethics, the place and role of journalism in the larger society, and moral choices in the newsroom. Topics include: First Amendment freedoms, privacy, confidentiality of sources, conflicts of interest, cooperation with law enforcement, free press/fair trial, photojournalism, and issues of accountability. Wasserman.
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JOUR 345 - Media Ethics
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and junior standing. This course enables students to explore ethical challenges that arise within the various communication practices of contemporary media: journalism, public relations, advertising, documentary film, blogging and fictional programming. The course offers a grounding in moral reasoning and an understanding of professional ethics as an evolving response to changing social and industrial conditions in the media industries. Wasserman.
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JOUR 351 - Editing for Print and Online Media
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and at least junior standing. The principles and techniques of editing copy and producing publications for the print media and the World Wide Web, with emphasis on clarity of thought, legal and moral responsibilities, and effective communication. Extensive laboratory work. Attention is given to the latest computer-based production and editing applications, as students participate in producing prototype newspaper pages, the Rockbridge Report cablecast and website. Staff.
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JOUR 353 - Opinion Writing
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Appropriate for majors and nonmajors. Opinion writing is growing in popularity and importance, though much of it is derivative and shrill. This course develops students’ ability to write opinion based on fact and reasoned argument across a range of genres, including editorial writing, column writing, criticism, and blogging. Currency in public affairs is emphasized along with building skills in persuasion, formulating coherent positions, developing voice and encouraging civil dialogue. The course is highly interactive and participatory. Staff.
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JOUR 356 - In-depth Reporting
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: JOUR 253 or 263, and junior or senior standing. The principles and techniques of developing and creating enterprising, heavily researched journalistic work for the mass media. Students produce in-depth work for newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the World Wide Web. Extensive group work is required. Richardson.
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JOUR 357 - Magazine Feature Writing
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. The principles and techniques of developing and polishing long-form journalistic articles for print media. Extensive writing and reporting are required. Cumming.
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JOUR 362 - Producing for Broadcast and Online Media
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: JOUR 253 or 263 and at least junior standing. Preparation for leadership roles in electronic media. Extensive work in decision making and management in the newsroom through television news producing and Internet content construction. Staff.
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JOUR 365 - The Broadcast News Magazine
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: JOUR 201. The principles and techniques involved in developing and creating enterprising longer-form journalistic work for a converged environment, principally television and the World Wide Web. Students research, write, and produce news and feature packages similar to those of network television news magazines for broadcast on the local cable-access channel. de Maria.
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JOUR 371 - Reporting on Business
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Reporting and writing techniques used by journalists who cover the world of business, focusing especially on companies and their employees and customers. Students develop competence in framing, researching, and writing articles in these areas. A part of the business journalism sequence; also appropriate as an elective for other journalism majors and for business majors. Luecke.
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JOUR 372 - Reporting on the Economy
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: At least sophomore standing. Reporting and writing techniques used by journalists who cover the world of economics and business, focusing especially on the economy and financial markets. Students develop competence in framing, researching, and writing articles in these areas. A part of the business journalism sequence; also appropriate as an elective for other journalism majors and for business and economics majors. Luecke.
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JOUR 377 - Media Management & Entrepreneurship
Credits: 3-4
Planned Offering: Fall, Spring
Prerequisite: At least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A seminar examining trends and challenges in media management, including a close examination of industry economics, changing reader and viewer habits, revenue and profit pressures, and labor and management issues unique to the news profession. Staff.
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JOUR 399 - Contemporary Problems in Law and Journalism
(LAW 242)
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: JOUR 301 and instructor consent. Enrollment limited. A seminar devoted to the study of issues on the frontier of developments in law and journalism. Issues to be addressed include limits on the dignitary torts of privacy and emotional distress; limitations on public availability of governmental information; the impact of new technology on communications law; proposals for reform of libel law; and the role of reporters, editors and legal counsel in the news process. Abah, Murchison.
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JOUR 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
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JOUR 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
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JOUR 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
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JOUR 421 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
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JOUR 422 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
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JOUR 423 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
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JOUR 451 - News Internship
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the journalism or business journalism sequences. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
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JOUR 452 - News Internship
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: JOUR 202 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the journalism or business journalism sequences. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
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JOUR 453 - News Internship
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: JOUR 202 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the journalism or business journalism sequences. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
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JOUR 461 - Communications Internship
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the mass communications sequence. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
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JOUR 462 - Communications Internship
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the mass communications sequence. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
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JOUR 463 - Communications Internship
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared journalism majors in the mass communications sequence. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml .
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JOUR 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Planned Offering: Fall-Winter
Prerequisite: Senior standing, honors candidacy and consent of the department faculty. Students interested in honors work are expected to receive departmental approval no later than the middle of the spring term in the junior year. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54253.xml for details. Staff.
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LATN 101 - Elementary Latin
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Study of Latin declensional patterns and sentence formation. Carlisle.
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LATN 102 - Elementary Latin
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: LATN 101. A continuation of the materials and methods in LATN 101 with emphasis on syntax. Carlisle.
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LATN 201 - Republican Prose
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: LATN 102 or equivalent. Reading selections from some or all of the following: Cato, Nepos, Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, and Varro. Emphasis on style and syntax, along with the political and social background of the later Republican period. Staff.
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LATN 202 - Introduction to Verse
FDR: FL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: LATN 201 or equivalent. Introduction to the language, meter, and style of Latin verse with readings from Horace, Ovid, Virgil, and Propertius. Benefiel.
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LATN 301 - Advanced Prose
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent. Selections from among Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Seneca, and Quintilian. Staff.
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LATN 302 - Advanced Republican and Augustan Verse
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent. Selections from among Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Staff.
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LATN 310 - Letters of Cicero and Pliny
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2012
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. This course examines different styles and purposes of letter writing in the Roman world, focusing on the historically revealing letters of Cicero and Pliny, but also including samples from the Epistles of Horace and Seneca, as well as a few “fictional” letters by Ovid. Benefiel.
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LATN 320 - Literature in the Age of Nero
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2012
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. This course provides an opportunity for advanced Latin students to understand a very complicated period by examining representative literature of the age. Readings include the Thyestes of Seneca, as well as selections from his Moral Epistles , selections from Lucan’s de Bello Civili , Petronius’ Satyricon , and Tacitus’ Histories . Images of art and architecture of the period are shown, and lectures cover such topics necessary for understanding the literature as slavery, public entertainment, and patronage. Carlisle.
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LATN 321 - Lyric Poetry: Horace and Catullus
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. Lyric Poetry: Horace and Catullus Carlisle.
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LATN 323 - History: Tacitus
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. History: Tacitus Staff.
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LATN 324 - Roman Historiography: Livy
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. Readings from the Augustan historian Livy’s History of Rome . Carlisle.
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LATN 325 - Virgil’s Aeneid
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and every third year.
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. Virgil’s Aeneid Carlisle.
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LATN 326 - The Poetry of Ovid
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and every third year.
Readings from the masterpieces of Ovid’s poetry, including one or more of the following: The Metamorphoses (a grand mythological epic), The Fasti (festivals and the Roman calendar), The Heroides (fictional letters written by mythological heroines, Ars Amatoria and Amores (love poetry) and Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto (his poetry from exile). Topic varies by term but course may be taken only once. Benefiel or Carlisle.
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LATN 327 - Medieval and Renaissance Writers
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. Readings from Augustine, Bede, the Crusader historians, medieval hymns, the Carmina Burana , Petrarch, and texts proposed by students. Johnson.
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LATN 331 - Early Republican Literature
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. This course explores the literature of early Rome, most importantly Roman comedy. Carlisle.
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LATN 332 - Latin Prose Composition
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: One 300-level LATN course or instructor consent. A consideration of several masters of prose style, including Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus and Pliny, as well as extensive exercises in Latin prose composition. Carlisle.
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LATN 395 - Topics in Advanced Latin Literature
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: LATN 301 or equivalent. Selected subject areas in Latin literature. The topic selected varies from year to year. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Fall 2012 topic:
LATN 395: Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid (3). Prerequisite: One 300-level LATN or consent of the Classics Department’s head. This course explores the diverse genre of Roman elegy through a close reading of extensive selections of Ovid Amores I and the first book of Propertius, as well as excerpts from other authors. Our focus is on these works as love poems, and we examine how poets use a collection of texts to immortalize the objects of their affection and tell their readers what it is like to be in love. Themes to be discussed include different ideas about love, women in elegiac poetry, and relationships between the lover and his wider social and political environment. In addition, we learn about elegy’s place within the wider poetic tradition of the Greek and Roman world, ask ourselves how we can reconstruct what an ancient poetry book looked like, and think about how to tell stories and create characters in verse. Students enrolling in this course should have successfully completed at least one 300 level course in Latin, or have permission of the chair of the Classics Department. (HL) Koester.
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LATN 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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LATN 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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LATN 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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LATN 421 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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LATN 422 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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LATN 423 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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LACS 101 - Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
A multidisciplinary, introductory course designed to familiarize students with the pertinent issues that determine or affect the concept of identity in Latin American and Caribbean societies through a study of their geography, history, politics, economics, literature, and culture. The purpose of the course is to provide a framework or overview to enhance understanding in the students’ future courses in particular disciplines and specific areas of Latin American and Caribbean study. Barnett.
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LACS 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. .
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LACS 195 - Special Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
FDR: FDR designation varies with topic, as approved in advance.
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit.
A topical seminar that focuses on an interdisciplinary examination of a singular theme relevant to the overall understanding of Latin America and the Caribbean region, such as Hispanic Feminisms, the Indigenous Americas, or Shifting Borders, among others. As an introductory seminar, topics are selected with the purpose in mind to present the student with a broad, regional view within the scope of a restricted focus or medium. Staff.
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LACS 256 - Trans-American Identity: Images from the Americas
(LIT 256) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Counts toward the literature distribution requirement for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. A multi-genre survey of representative literary works from the Americas, defined as those regions that encompass Latin American and Caribbean cultures. In particular the course uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how exemplary artists from the region have crafted images to interpret and represent their American reality. Selected narrative, film, and poetic works by Spanish-American (Neruda, Garcia Marquez, Rulfo, and Carpentier), Francophone (Danticat), Lusophone (Amado), and Anglophone authors (Walcott, Brathwaite, and Naipaul), among others. Barnett.
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LACS 257 - Multiculturalism in Latin America: The Case of Brazil
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013
This seminar studies Brazil as an example of a multicultural society. Students examine the meaning of multiculturalism and related concepts of identity, heterogeneity, and Eurocentrism, not only in regard to the Brazilian context, but also, comparatively, to that of US culture. The course focuses on the social dynamics that have engaged Brazilians of different backgrounds, marked by differences of gender, ethnicity, and class, and on how multiculturalism and the ensuing conflicts have continuously shaped and reshaped individual subjectivities and national identity. Some of the key issues to be addressed in class are: Brazil’s ethnic formation; myths of national identity; class and racial relations; and women in Brazilian society. Readings for the class include novels, short stories, poetry, and testimonial/diary Pinto-Bailey.
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LACS 396 - Capstone Seminar in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: Declaration and completion of all other minor requirements or instructor consent. This capstone course builds upon the foundations developed in LACS 101 and related coursework in the distribution areas. Students discuss assigned readings centered around a key theme or themes of Latin American Studies in connection with an individualized research project. This project is carried out with continual mentoring by a faculty member and in collaboration with peer feedback. Each student presents his/her findings in a formal paper, or other approved end-product, and summarizes the results in an oral presentation.
Winter 2013 topic:
LACS 396: Capstone Seminar: Place and Displacement (3). Place has become a powerful metaphor to convey a sense of personal belonging, though the notion of place goes far beyond physical or geographical location. Art, literature, food, music, memory, and myth help to define place and have become important elements of identity construction across Latin America and Caribbean societies. The portability of these cultural features allows for the redefinition of place and belonging in multiple locations. We consider how and why people, beliefs, and boundaries—both real and imagined—are physically and/or conceptually dislocated. What new meanings, ideologies, and beliefs are generated as a result of displacement processes? Discussions are informed by interdisciplinary readings focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, including the United States. Readings and discussions consider colonial- and independence-era displacements as well as modern and contemporary redefinitions of place and belonging. Individualized research projects may build upon class discussions or consider unrelated themes of personal interest. Lepage. Staff.
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LACS 421 - Interdisciplinary Research
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, and consent of the instructor. Independent research into a topic centered within Latin America or the Caribbean, directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students are expected to share their work with the public through a public presentation.
Winter 2013 topic:
LACS 421: Directed Interdisciplinary Research: Medicine & Healing in Guatemala (1). Weekly student-led conversations, in Spanish, about medical terminology, Guatemalan culture and history, and health practices in Latin America. Mayock. Barnett.
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LACS 422 - Interdisciplinary Research
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, and consent of the instructor. Independent research into a topic centered within Latin America or the Caribbean, directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students are expected to share their work with the public through a public presentation. Barnett.
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LACS 423 - Interdisciplinary Research
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, and consent of the instructor. Independent research into a topic centered within Latin America or the Caribbean, directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students are expected to share their work with the public through a public presentation. Barnett.
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LIT 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. .
Fall 2012 topic:
LIT 180: FS:Understanding Contemporary Italian Culture (3). First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. This seminar, taught in English, investigates the development and nature of Italian culture through the analysis and discussion of selected representative texts, films, and artworks. The objective of the course is to familiarize students with cultural and political phenomena that are specific to contemporary Italy and to discuss these phenomena critically, historically and comparatively in order to acquire an understanding of Italy’s complex and evolving cultural identity. Special attention is devoted to the last 100 years. Students read, discuss and analyze literary works by some of the most important Italian authors, including Carlo Levi, Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Collodi, Luciano Bianciardi. (HL) Bini.
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LIT 201 - Classical Mythology
(CLAS 201) FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. An introduction to the study of Greek mythology, with an emphasis on the primary sources. The myths are presented in their historical, religious, and political contexts. The course also includes an introduction to several major theories of myth, and uses comparative materials drawn from contemporary society and media. Crotty.
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LIT 203 - Greek Literature from Homer to the Early Hellenistic Period
(CLAS 203) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. Readings in translation from Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, the comedians, and the lyric and pastoral poets, including selections from Herodotus and Thucydides, and from Plato’s and Aristotle’s reflections on literature. The course includes readings from modern critical writings. In Winter 2012, we read some of the most famous stories of the Western world–from the Iliad and the Odyssey , to Milton’s Paradise Lost and Joyce’s Ulysses , via Virgil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Civil War . All of these works are epic narratives, each presenting a different concept of the hero, and yet, at the same time, participating in a coherent, on-going and unfinished tradition. We consider such questions as the role of violence in literature; the concept of the heroic as it reflects evolving ideas of the individual and society; and the idea of a literary tradition.
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LIT 204 - Augustan Era
(CLAS 204) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. An interdisciplinary course taught in English, using the tools of literature, history and art to examine a specific, complicated, and pivotally important period in the evolution of western culture, focused on the literary. Readings from the poets predominate (Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphosis , selections from Horace, Propertius, Tibullus and other poems of Ovid) and also including readings from ancient historians dealing with Augustus and the major events of his period (e.g. Suetonius, Plutarch, and Tacitus on such topics as Actium and problems of succession). The topic for each lecture is illustrated with slides of works of art and architecture from the period. Selections from historians and from material remains are chosen according to intersection points with the literature. Carlisle.
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LIT 215 - 20th-Century Russian Literature in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. Selected Russian literary masterpieces (short stories, plays and novels). Authors include Olesha, Babel, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn. Brodsky.
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LIT 218 - Pre-Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. A survey of Chinese literature from the earliest period to the founding of the Republic in 1912. Taught in English, the course presupposes no previous knowledge of China or Chinese culture. The literature is presented in the context of its intellectual, philosophical and cultural background. Texts used may vary from year to year and include a wide selection of fiction, poetry, historical documents, Chinese drama (opera) and prose works. Audiovisual materials are used when appropriate and available. Fu.
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LIT 220 - Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. This is a survey course to introduce students to the literature of 20th-century China. Through close reading of key literary texts from the 1910s to the present, students explore the social, historical and literary background that gave rise to the texts studied and the ways in which these texts address various issues that China faced at the time. Taught in English, the course presupposes no previous knowledge of China or Chinese culture. In addition to the selected literary texts, the course introduces several feature films that are cinematic adaptations of modern Chinese fiction and explore the complex and dynamic interchange between literary and cinematic language. Zhu.
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LIT 221 - Japanese Literature in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. An introduction to Japanese literature in its historical and cultural contexts from premodern to modern times. The course materials draw upon selections from the earliest prose works to contemporary fiction of representative modern writers. Ikeda.
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LIT 223 - Seminar in Japanese Literature in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement or instructor consent. Selected topics in Japanese literature, varying from year to year. Possible topics include the development of poetic forms, Heian court literature and art, diaries, epics, Buddhist literature, the culture of food and tea, and Noh drama.
Winter 2013 topic:
LIT 223: Seminar in Japanese Literature in Translation: Contemporary Femal Writers (3). Prerequisites: Completion of FW writing requirement and instructor consent. Short stories by contemporary female writers, such as Hayashi Mariko, Ekuni Kaori, Mure Yoko and Sato Aiko. (HL) Ujie.
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LIT 225 - Poetry and Drama of Japan in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. This course is designed to introduce students to the poetry and theater of Japan’s premodern era. We examine classical themes and poetic art forms, and read from the vast canon of Japanese poetry. Readings cover major poets such as Hitomaro, Komachi, Teika, Saigyo, Sogi and Basho. The second part of the course offers a close study of the four traditional dramatic art forms of Japan: Noh, Kyogen or Comic Theater, Puppet Theater, and Kabuki. Students experience the performative aspect of the Noh theater by learning dance movements and song/chant from the play Yuya . The final part of the course demonstrates how classical theater has influenced modern playwrights and novelists. Ikeda.
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LIT 235 - Tragedies East and West
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: When departmental resources are available.
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. This course is designed to introduce students to the topic of tragedy in both China and the West from its origin in Greece and the Chinese Yuan dynasty up to modern times. It examines the concept of tragedy as a literary genre in the West, its evolution in history, and the aptness of its application to Chinese drama. Primary texts from Western and Chinese classical drama as well as from the modern period are selected as a basis for comparison, with a view to helping students form a comparative perspective in their appreciation of both Chinese and Western drama. Course activities include frequent discussions, writing assignments and projects of student performance, video screenings and a possible trip to either Washington DC or New York City to view a Chinese or Western play in performance. Fu.
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LIT 256 - Trans-American Identity:Images from the Americas
(LACS 256) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Counts toward the literature distribution requirement for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. A multi-genre survey of representative literary works from the Americas, defined as those regions that encompass Latin American and Caribbean cultures. In particular the course uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how exemplary artists from the region have crafted images to interpret and represent their American reality. Selected narrative, film, and poetic works by Spanish-American (Neruda, Garcia Marquez, Rulfo, and Carpentier), Francophone (Danticat), Lusophone (Amado), and Anglophone authors (Walcott, Brathwaite, and Naipaul), among others. Barnett.
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LIT 259 - The French Caribbean Novel
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A stylistic and thematic study of identity acquisition through exile, marginalization, struggle, reintegration and cultural blending or any other sociologically significant phenomenon reflected in the literary works of the most important post-colonial French West Indian authors. Spawned largely by Aimé Césaire’s book-length poem, Notebook of a Return to My Native Land , French Caribbean novels have proliferated since the end of World War II. After taking a brief look first at this seminal poem, the course then focuses analytically on novels written by authors such as Haitian Jacques Roumain, Guadeloupeans Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé, and Martinicans Joseph Zobel, Raphaël Confiant, and Édouard Glissant. Several films based on, or pertaining to, Césaire’s poem and to certain novels are also viewed. Staff.
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LIT 260 - German Film Adaptation
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. This course examines both the history and theory of film adaptation by studying how directors treat and transform major literary works into moving pictures. As closely related art forms, literature and film have much in common – narrative frames, archetypes and audiences, as well as themes, motifs, and values. The study of works of literature and film in tandem leads to the development of more successful strategies and methods for reading texts and images as well as a better understanding of both genres. Kramer.
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LIT 261 - Modern German Literature in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A critical study of the novels, plays, stories, and poetry of such modernists as Kafka, Mann, Rilke, Wedekind, Kaiser, and Brecht and such contemporary masters as Bachmann, Bernhard, Frisch, Grass, Handke, and Weiss. Staff.
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LIT 262 - German Literature Before 1900 in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Readings from Lessing, Goethe (Faust I and II ), Schiller, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism. Staff.
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LIT 263 - 19th-Century Russian Literature in Translation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A study of major works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Brodsky.
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LIT 272 - Modern Jewish Literature in Translation
(REL 272) FDR: HL as literature only
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Readings in the works of 20th-century authors writing in Yiddish and Hebrew, such as the Polish author Isaac B. Singer, the Russian author Sholem Aleichem, and the Israeli novelists Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua. These writings are studied as literary expressions of religious themes and as responses to the historical and religious crises of modern Jewish life in Europe, the United States, and Israel. The class views four films for additional insight into Yiddish and Israeli culture. Students write two interpretive papers and daily analyses of the readings and films. This is a discussion-centered course. Marks.
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