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IDE students who wish to pursue the language, literature and culture concentration must already have fourth-semester-level proficiency in the chosen language. This may be demonstrated through a Foreign Language Assessment Test or by completing the equivalent of a fourth-semester CU course (e.g. SPAN2120 or SPAN2150).Ìý
The Language, Literature, and Culture Concentration will consist of one of the following sets of options. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ may not pick and choose from among the different languages.
Combined, many of these courses support the pursuit of a language minor.
- 3-5 credits upper division grammar content
- 3 credits upper division literary content
- 3 credits upper division cultural content
- 3-5 credits upper division literary, cultural, or additional language content
take required course (3 credits)
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Arabic 1 |
ARAB 3110 |
3 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses, three courses total (9 credits)
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
In the Footsteps of Travelers: Travel Writing in Arabic Literature |
ARAB 3231 |
3 credits |
The Arabic NovelÌý |
ARAB 3330 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Islamic Culture and the Iberian Peninsula |
ARAB 3230 |
3 credits |
Representing Islam |
ARAB 3340 |
3 credits |
Gender, Sexuality and Culture in the Modern Middle East |
ARAB 3410 |
3 credits |
Additional Courses (choose 1) |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Arabic 2Ìý |
ARAB 3120 |
3 credits |
Art in Islamic CulturesÌý |
ARAB 3241 |
3 credits |
Narrating the City: Literary Mappings of the Urban LandscapeÌý |
ARAB 3350 |
3 credits |
Arabic MediaÌý |
ARAB 4250 |
3 credits |
Additional course from Literature or Culture categories |
various |
3 credits |
Required courseÌý |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Chinese 1 |
CHIN 3110 |
5 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses, three courses total (9 credits)
Literature Course Namees |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Writing Topics on Chinese & Japanese Literature and Civilization |
CHIN 3200 |
Ìý3 credits |
Chinese Narrative Tradition |
CHIN 3334 |
Ìý3 credits |
Literary Culture in Contemporary ChinaÌý |
CHIN 3342 |
Ìý3 credits |
Women and the Supernatural in Chinese LiteratureÌý |
CHIN 3361 |
Ìý3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
The Dao and the World in Medieval China |
CHIN 3311 |
3 credits |
Literature and Popular Culture in Modern China |
CHIN 3341 |
3 credits |
Topics in Chinese Film |
CHIN 3371 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Chinese 2 |
CHEN 3120 |
5 credits |
Culture and Literature of Ancient China |
CHIN 3321 |
3 credits |
Culture and Literature of Late Imperial China |
CHIN 3331 |
3 credits |
Reality and Dream in Traditional Chinese Literature |
CHIN 3351 |
3 credits |
Additional course from Literature or Culture categories |
various |
3 credits |
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
French Composition 1 or French Composition 2 |
FREN 3050 or FREN 3060 |
3 credits |
Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing in French Literature |
FREN 3100 |
3 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses, two courses total (6 credits)
ÌýCourse Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Main Currents of French Literature 1 |
FREN 3110 |
3 credits |
Introduction to Literary Theory and Advanced Critical Analysis |
FREN 3200 |
3 credits |
French Current Events: Conversation and Composition |
FREN 3500) |
3 credits |
Business French 1 |
FREN 3600 |
3 credits |
Francophone Literature |
FREN 4170 |
3 credits |
Medieval and Renaissance Readings |
FREN 4250 |
3 credits |
Theatre and Modernity in 17th Century France |
FREN 4300 |
3 credits |
Moliere and 17th Century French Comedy |
FREN 4330 |
3 credits |
French Enlightenment |
FREN 4350 |
3 credits |
Survey of 19th Century French Literature |
FREN 4430 |
3 credits |
20th Century French Theatre and Poetry |
FREN 4470 |
3 credits |
20th Century French Novel |
FREN 4480 |
3 credits |
Postmodernist French Novel in Translation |
FREN 4800 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
French Culture Through Fashion |
FREN 3300 |
3 credits |
Culture, Performance and Development in Dakar, Senegal |
FREN 3400 |
3 credits |
French-American Cultural Differences |
FREN 3700 |
3 credits |
France and the Muslim World |
FREN 3800 |
3 credits |
Topics in French Film |
FREN 4600 |
3 credits |
Encountering Animals: contemporary Discourse and the Dialog of Species |
FREN 4700 |
3 credits |
War, Trauma, and Memory: Amnesias, Revisions, and Representations of Traumatic HistoryÌý |
FREN 4860 |
3 credits |
Course name |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced German 1 |
GRMN 3010 |
3 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses for three courses total (9 credits)
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Literature in the Age of Goethe |
GRMN 3502 |
3 credits |
German Film Through World War II |
GRMN 3503 |
3 credits |
Dada and Surrealist LiteratureÌý |
GRMN 3702 |
3 credits |
Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School |
GRMN 4051 |
3 credits |
Sex, Love and Marriage in Literature and PhilosophyÌý |
GRMN 4231 |
3 credits |
Seminar: Literature in Cultural Context |
GRMN 4501 |
3 credits |
Nietzsche: Literature and Values |
GRMN 4502 |
3 credits |
Goethe's Faust |
GRMN 4504 |
3 credits |
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
The Enlightenment: Tolerance and Emancipation |
GRMN 3505 |
Ìý3 credits |
German Film and Society 1945-1989 |
GRMN 3513 |
3 credits |
German Film & Society After 1989Ìý |
GRMN 3514 |
3 credits |
Politics and Culture in Berlin 1900-1933Ìý |
GRMN 3802) |
3 credits |
Gender, Race and Immigration in Germany and Europe |
GRMN 4301 |
3 credits |
Additional courses (Choose one course) |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced German 2 |
GRMN 3020 |
3 credits |
Business German |
GRMN 3030 |
3 credits |
The German-Jewish Experience: From the Enlightenment to the PresentÌý |
GRMN 3501 |
3 credits |
Topics in German Film |
GRMN 3504 |
3 credits |
Tracing the Criminal: Crime in 19th Century Society and Culture |
GRMN 3506 |
3 credits |
German Women Writers |
GRMN 3601 |
3 credits |
Marxism |
GRMN 4251 |
3 credits |
Nietzsche: Literature and Values |
GRMN 4502 |
3 credits |
Additional course from Literature or Culture categories |
various |
3 credits |
Course name |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Third Year Modern Hebrew, first semester |
HEBR 3010 |
3 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses for three courses total (9 credits)
Course Name |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Israeli Literature: Exile, Nation, HomeÌý |
JWST 4203 |
3 credits |
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
History of Arab-Israeli ConflictÌý |
JWST 3650 |
3 credits |
Anthropology of Jews and Judaism (Cultures of Israel and Palestine)Ìý |
JWST 4050 |
3 credits |
Ìý
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Third Year Modern Hebrew, Second SemesterÌý |
HEBR 3020 |
3 credits |
Global Seminar: Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in IsraelÌý |
JWST 4302 |
3 credits |
History of Modern Israel/PalestineÌý |
JWST 4338 |
3 credits |
Topics in Jewish History (Childhood in Modern Israel/Palestine) |
JWST 4348 |
3 credits |
Topics in Jewish History (Tel Aviv: Urban History and Culture) |
JWST 4348 |
3 credits |
Additional course from Culture category |
various |
3 credits |
Ìý
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Hindi 1 |
HIND 3110 |
Ìý3 credits |
South Asian Diasporas: Imagining Home AbroadÌý |
HIND 3661 |
3 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses for three courses total (6 credits)
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Living Indian Epics: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata in the Modern Political Imagination |
HIND 3651 |
3 credits |
Devotional Literature in South AsiaÌý |
HIND 3851 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Screening India: A History of Bollywood Cinema |
HIND 3441 |
3 credits |
The Power of the Word: Subversive and Censored 20th Century Indo-Pakistani Literature |
HIND 3811 |
3 credits |
The Many Faces of Krishna in South Asia Literature and Culture |
HIND 3831 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Composition 1Ìý |
ITAL 3015 |
Ìý3 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses for three courses total (9 credits)
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Once Upon a Time in Italy |
ITAL 4600 |
Ìý3 credits |
Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 1: 1200-1800Ìý |
ITAL 3160 |
3 credits |
Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 2: 1800-1900Ìý |
ITAL 3150 |
3 credits |
Italian TheatreÌý |
ITAL 4500 |
3 credits |
Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 3: 1900-present |
ITAL 3140 |
3 credits |
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Italian Conversation Through CinemaÌýÌý |
ITAL 3040 |
3 credits |
Contemporary Italian Culture, Politics, and the MediaÌý |
ITAL 4030 |
3 credits |
Topics in Italian Culture and Civilization from the Origins through the RenaissanceÌý |
ITAL 4200 |
3 credits |
History of Modern ItalyÌýÌý |
ITAL 4250 |
3 credits |
Multiculturalism in Italy |
ITAL 4300 |
Ìý3 credits |
Italian Feminisms: Culture, Theory, and Narratives of DifferenceÌý |
ITAL 4730 |
3 credits |
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Composition 2Ìý |
ITAL 3025Ìý |
3 credits |
Business Italian Style |
ITAL 4040 |
3 credits |
The Age of Dante: Readings from The Divine ComedyÌý |
ITAL 4140 |
3 credits |
The Age of Dante in Italian |
ITAL 4145 |
3 credits |
Visualizing Dante's Inferno: A Global Seminar in Florence Italy |
ITAL 4147 |
3 credits |
Boccaccio's Decameron: Tales of Sex and Death in the Middle Ages |
ITAL 4150 |
3 credits |
Mafia and Terrorism: Organized Violence in Italy |
ITAL 4260 |
3 credits |
Topics in Italian Cinema |
ITAL 4280 |
3 credits |
Italian Culture Through Cinema |
ITAL 4290 |
3 credits |
From Wops to Dons to Movers and Shakers: The Italian-American Experience |
ITAL 4350 |
3 credits |
Languages Internship for Professions |
ITAL 4930 |
3 credits |
Italian Senior Honors Thesis |
ITAL 4980 |
3 credits |
Senior Seminar |
ITAL 4990 |
Ìý3 credits |
Additional course from Literature or Culture categories |
various |
3 credits |
Course Name |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Japanese 1 |
JPNS 3110 |
Ìý5 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses for three courses total (9 credits)
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Writing Topics on Chinese & Japanese Literature and Civilization |
JPNS 3200 |
3 credits |
Japanese Colonial and Transnational LiteratureÌý |
JPNS 3311 |
3 credits |
Love, Death, and Desire: Classical Japanese Literature in Translation |
JPNS 3811 |
3 credits |
Travel and Travel Writing in Japanese Literature and Culture |
JPNS 3891 |
Ìý3 credits |
Critical Theory and Japanese Literature and Culture |
JPNS 4400 |
3 credits |
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Tradition and Transgression: Modern Japanese Literature in Translation |
JPNS 3841 |
3 credits |
Studies in Japanese Popular CultureÌý |
JPNS 3851 |
3 credits |
Imagining the Samurai in Japanese Literature and Culture |
JPNS 3861 |
3 credits |
Horror and the Macabre in Japanese Literature, Film, Culture |
JPNS 3871 |
3 credits |
Environment, Nature and Disaster in Japanese Literature and Culture |
JPNS 3881 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Japanese 2Ìý |
JPNS 3120 |
5 credits |
Fantasy and Sci-Fi in Japanese Literature, Film and Culture |
JPNS 3321 |
3 credits |
From Rebellion to Calamity: Contemporary Japanese Literature in Translation |
JPNS 3511 |
3 credits |
Monsters, Monks, and Mayhem: Medieval Japanese Literature in TranslationÌý |
JPNS 3821 |
3 credits |
The Floating World of Play and Passion: Early Modern Japanese Literature in TranslationÌý |
JPNS 3831 |
3 credits |
Additional course from Literature or Culture categories |
various |
3 credits |
Course names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Korean 1 |
KREN 3110 |
Ìý5 credits |
Modern Korean Literature in English TranslationÌý |
KREN 3841 |
3 credits |
Film and Korean CultureÌý |
KREN 2441 |
3 credits |
Studies in Korean Popular Culture |
KREN 3851 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Advanced Portuguese Language SkillsÌý |
PORT 3003 |
3 credits |
Transatlantic Relations in the Portuguese Speaking WorldÌý |
PORT 3230Ìý |
3 credits |
Brazilian LiteratureÌý |
PORT 4110 |
3 credits |
Literature of the Portuguese Speaking WorldÌý |
PORT 4150 |
3 credits |
Required Course |
Course Codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Third-Year Russian 1Ìý |
RUSS 3010 |
4 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses for three courses total (9 credits)
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature |
RUSS 4811 |
3 credits |
Twentieth-Century Russian Literature & Art |
RUSS 4821 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
Ìý |
---|---|---|---|
Introduction to Russian Culture |
RUSS 2211 |
3 credits |
Ìý |
Introduction to Modern Russian Culture |
RUSS 2221 |
3 credits |
Ìý |
Russian Culture Past & Present |
RUSS 3601 |
Ìý3 credits |
offered abroad only |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Third-Year Russian 2 |
RUSS 3020 |
4 credits |
History of Russian Cinema |
RUSS 3211 |
3 credits |
Contemporary Issues in Russian FilmÌý |
RUSS 3301 |
3 credits |
Russian Culture Past & Present |
RUSS 3601 |
3 creditsÌý |
Slavic Folk Culture: Ideals & Values in the Contemporary World |
RUSS 3701 |
3 credits |
American-Russian Cultural Relations |
RUSS 4301 |
Ìý3 credits |
Women in 20th Century Russian Culture |
RUSS 4471 |
3 credits |
19th Century Russian Literature |
RUSS 4811 |
3 credits |
20th Century Russian Literature & Art |
RUSS 4821 |
3 credits |
Contemporary Russian LiteratureÌý |
RUSS 4831 |
Ìý3 credits |
Additional course from Literature or Culture categories |
various |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Literary AnalysisÌý |
SPAN 3100 |
3 credits |
Advanced Spanish Grammar |
SPAN 3120 |
3 credits |
Take elective courses, choosing one from each set of courses for two courses total (6 credits)
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
---|---|---|
Major Trends & Works of Modern & Contemporary Spanish American Literature: 1898-Present |
SPAN 4180 |
Ìý3 credits |
Special Topics in Spanish and/or Spanish American Literature |
SPAN 4220 |
3 credits |
Course Names |
Course codes |
Credits |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Spanish Culture |
SPAN 3200 |
3 credits |
Ìý |
Latin American Culture: Spanish America & Brazil |
SPAN 3220 |
3 credits |
Ìý |
Late 19th & 20th Century Argentine Narrative |
SPAN 3260 |
3 creditsÌý |
offered abroad only |
Barcelona: Understanding Local & Immigrant Cultures |
SPAN 3270 |
Ìý3 credits |
offered abroad only |
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