Courses

    Introduces basic issues in comparative literature and basic problems in literary history. Provides an overview of history and rationale of the discipline, traditional areas of research, and recent developments. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Explores similarities and differences between literature and film as narrative arts. Studies novels, short stories, and plays and films made from them. Examines problems in point of view, manipulation of time, tone, structure, and setting. Same as FILM 4003. COML 5003 and ARTF 5003 are the same course.

    An introductory study of nineteenth-century German philosophy (especially Kant, Hegel, and Marx). Required course for the graduate certificate in Critical Theory. GRMN 5030 and COML 5030 are the same course.

    Serves as an introduction to the "Frankfurt School" and Critical Theory with particular emphasis upon rationality, social psychology, cultural criticism, and aesthetics. Through close readings of key texts by members of the school (Horkheimer, Benjamin, Adorno, Habermas) we will work toward a critical understanding of the analytical tools they developed and consider their validity. Taught in English. GRMN 4051, 5051 and COML 5051 are the same course.

    Introduces students to debates surrounding migration and race in contemporary Germany. Emphasis on reading texts in context using tools of cultural studies, integrating analyses of gender, race, nation, and sexuality. Texts may include film, literature, television, magazine images, etc. Topics include: questioning multiculturalism, self-representation, integration, Islam, citizenship, violence, public space, youth culture, racism and nationalism. Taught in English. Same as GRMN 5301. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Examines both short and long narrative prose fiction from a variety of periods and from diverse national literatures. Focuses on issues of defining genre and on the origins and significance of narrative prose within its cultural context. May be repeated once for credit. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

    Examines the Russian novel and its evolution as well as Western and Russian theories of the novel as they engage and reflect upon the claims of modernity. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as GSLL 5352. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Covers selected drama topics using a comparative approach. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Explores topics and problems in rhetoric and poetic practice from antiquity to the present day. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Review of theories and practices of literary translation in their linguistic, historical, cultural, and other contexts. Translation of literary and other works from chosen foreign languages, commentaries, and analyses. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Systematic study of the Faust motif in Western literature, with major emphasis on Faust I and II by Goethe and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. Same as HUMN 4504 and GRMN 5504. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Explores the literary, intellectual, and aesthetic culture of the European baroque of the late 16th and 17th centuries through different topics pertinent to this period. Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of baroque literature, philosophy, science, and art. Illuminates the complex historical transition from the Renaissance to the modernity of the Enlightenment. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

    Covers major trends in 20th-century critical thinking. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as GSLL 5830. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

    May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.