2017-18 Past Courses
Comparative Literature and Culture
2000 Level
CLC 2102B: Utopias and Visions of the Future
On the basis of books and stories from antiquity to more recent times, this course will take you across the map of Europe in search of various attempts to imagine ideal societies and perfect places. Exploring the political, social and cultural basis of utopian impulse, we will consider how utopia morphs into its polar opposite: the nightmare of dystopia. Taught in English. View Syllabus
CLC 2107A: World Cultures/Global Screens
By looking at a body of films from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, this course aims to expose students to a wide range of questions and debates around culture and identity, while also relating these matters to circulating discourses about the Global. Depending on each case study, the consecutive units focus on different critical approaches, alternatively addressing questions concerning the representation of racial, ethnic and cultural identities, matters of gender and female authorship, and issues of genre and stardom.
This course is cross listed with Spanish 2901A and Film 2195A. View Syllabus
CLC 2132A: Italian Journeys
Travel through three major capitals of Italian culture: Florence, Venice, and Naples.
Explore the variety of their artistic splendor, enjoy the pleasure of their literary and filmic tradition and understand crucial moments of their socio-political history.
Meet emblematic historical figures of artists, politicians and writers, crucial for the destiny of their city and beyond, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, The Medicis, Goldoni, Basile.
Our journey spans from the Renaissance to the present and unfolds following the footsteps of illustrious travelers such as Goethe, Dickens and, whose descriptions of the Bel Paese have watermarked the expectations of millions of tourists.
Movies, literary readings, masterpieces of plastic and figurative arts, plays, historiography and political essays, documentaries and, in some cases, music will be our introductions to these cities.
Get on board, you too, for the everlasting Grand Tour!
This course is cross listed with Italian 2240F.
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--CANCELLED -- CLC 2136B: Berlin Snapshots
This course introduces students to the literature and culture of modern Berlin through the study of six “snapshots,” each illuminating a moment in the city’s turbulent and ever-evolving history: the Emergence of Modern Berlin; Berlin, Imperial Capital; Berlin in the Weimar Republic; Berlin under National Socialism; Devided Berlin; Post-Unification Berlin.
This course is cross listed with German 2256G.
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CLC 2291G: From Berlin to Hollywood: German Exile cinema
Description coming soon.
Cross listed with German 2260G and Film Studies 2297G.
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CLC 2297F: Pre-Contact American Art and Architecture
This course will introduce students to the arts of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America from the Prehistoric times until the early colonial era. Relying on a thematic organization, we will consider how artworks, whether weavings, baskets, ceramics, sculptures, paintings, or architecture, reflect the worldviews of the indigenous Americans who created and used them. By using an interdisciplinary approach, we will study these cultures and artworks from the perspectives of art history, anthropology, archaeology, history, and ethnography. Our interdisciplinary perspective will assist us in partially reconstructing the cultural practices of these American societies prior to contact with the Europeans who arrived in the sixteenth century.
This course is cross listed with Spanish 3902F and VAH 2266F.
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CLC 2500F: Bridging Classroom & Community: Languages & Cultures in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with GER/ITA/SPA 2500F
View Syllabus
On the basis of books and stories from antiquity to more recent times, this course will take you across the map of Europe in search of various attempts to imagine ideal societies and perfect places. Exploring the political, social and cultural basis of utopian impulse, we will consider how utopia morphs into its polar opposite: the nightmare of dystopia. Taught in English. View Syllabus
CLC 2107A: World Cultures/Global Screens
By looking at a body of films from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, this course aims to expose students to a wide range of questions and debates around culture and identity, while also relating these matters to circulating discourses about the Global. Depending on each case study, the consecutive units focus on different critical approaches, alternatively addressing questions concerning the representation of racial, ethnic and cultural identities, matters of gender and female authorship, and issues of genre and stardom.
This course is cross listed with Spanish 2901A and Film 2195A. View Syllabus
CLC 2132A: Italian Journeys
Travel through three major capitals of Italian culture: Florence, Venice, and Naples.
Explore the variety of their artistic splendor, enjoy the pleasure of their literary and filmic tradition and understand crucial moments of their socio-political history.
Meet emblematic historical figures of artists, politicians and writers, crucial for the destiny of their city and beyond, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, The Medicis, Goldoni, Basile.
Our journey spans from the Renaissance to the present and unfolds following the footsteps of illustrious travelers such as Goethe, Dickens and, whose descriptions of the Bel Paese have watermarked the expectations of millions of tourists.
Movies, literary readings, masterpieces of plastic and figurative arts, plays, historiography and political essays, documentaries and, in some cases, music will be our introductions to these cities.
Get on board, you too, for the everlasting Grand Tour!
This course is cross listed with Italian 2240F.
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED -- CLC 2136B: Berlin Snapshots
This course introduces students to the literature and culture of modern Berlin through the study of six “snapshots,” each illuminating a moment in the city’s turbulent and ever-evolving history: the Emergence of Modern Berlin; Berlin, Imperial Capital; Berlin in the Weimar Republic; Berlin under National Socialism; Devided Berlin; Post-Unification Berlin.
This course is cross listed with German 2256G.
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CLC 2291G: From Berlin to Hollywood: German Exile cinema
Description coming soon.
Cross listed with German 2260G and Film Studies 2297G.
View Syllabus
CLC 2297F: Pre-Contact American Art and Architecture
This course will introduce students to the arts of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America from the Prehistoric times until the early colonial era. Relying on a thematic organization, we will consider how artworks, whether weavings, baskets, ceramics, sculptures, paintings, or architecture, reflect the worldviews of the indigenous Americans who created and used them. By using an interdisciplinary approach, we will study these cultures and artworks from the perspectives of art history, anthropology, archaeology, history, and ethnography. Our interdisciplinary perspective will assist us in partially reconstructing the cultural practices of these American societies prior to contact with the Europeans who arrived in the sixteenth century.
This course is cross listed with Spanish 3902F and VAH 2266F.
View Syllabus
CLC 2500F: Bridging Classroom & Community: Languages & Cultures in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with GER/ITA/SPA 2500F
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3000 Level
-- CANCELLED-- CLC 3351F: Intermediality: Where Literature and Other Media Meet
What happens to a story as it moves from the medium of language to the medium of film? What are the differences, commonalities and problems associated with the (mis)matching of two ways of representing reality? We will explore ways of "seeing" with words and "telling" with images...or vice versa. We will consider what is lost and/or gained through this intermedial process and to what extent filmmakers "respect" their literary sources or displace them. All discussion will be contextualized in the exploration of human psychology, anthropology and the history of ideas. Taught in English.
This course is cross listed with German 3360F.
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-- CANCELLED-- CLC 3302G: Haunted Screen: Early German Cinema
Description coming soon.
This course is cross listed with German 3361G and Film Studies 3377G.
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What happens to a story as it moves from the medium of language to the medium of film? What are the differences, commonalities and problems associated with the (mis)matching of two ways of representing reality? We will explore ways of "seeing" with words and "telling" with images...or vice versa. We will consider what is lost and/or gained through this intermedial process and to what extent filmmakers "respect" their literary sources or displace them. All discussion will be contextualized in the exploration of human psychology, anthropology and the history of ideas. Taught in English.
This course is cross listed with German 3360F.
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-- CANCELLED-- CLC 3302G: Haunted Screen: Early German Cinema
Description coming soon.
This course is cross listed with German 3361G and Film Studies 3377G.
View Syllabus
4000 Level
CLC 4500G: Senior Research Project
Chicken soup for a cold or flu is not a recent concept but an age-old remedy. Centred on the theme “Food and Medicine in the Middle Ages” develop your own research project. Avenues to explore may range from medieval ideas about nutrition, sick-dishes, foodstuffs and drugs, to cooking and dining practices, regional preferences and intercultural influences. Choose the medium of presentation that best suits your topic.
This course is cross listed with GER/ITA/SPA 4500G
View Syllabus
Chicken soup for a cold or flu is not a recent concept but an age-old remedy. Centred on the theme “Food and Medicine in the Middle Ages” develop your own research project. Avenues to explore may range from medieval ideas about nutrition, sick-dishes, foodstuffs and drugs, to cooking and dining practices, regional preferences and intercultural influences. Choose the medium of presentation that best suits your topic.
This course is cross listed with GER/ITA/SPA 4500G
View Syllabus
Digital Humanities
2000 Level
DH 2126G: Ethics for a Digital World
Have you ever wondered if something you're about to do online is right or wrong? When does downloading count as theft? Is cyber sex cheating? Does a hacker’s code of ethics make any sense? Is online bullying worse than other forms of bullying? Students will explore these questions and others through a study of both ethical theory and a series of cases in the burgeoning and important field of digital ethics. You'll learn what traditional ethics has to say about these questions and also learn about the ways in which life online is stretching and changing our moral concepts. View Syllabus
Cross listed with Phil 2078G
DH 2144B: Data Analytics: Principles and Tools
A comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to data analytics using modern computing systems, with equal attention to fundamentals and practical aspects. Topics include sources of data, data formats and transformation, usage of spreadsheets and databases, statistical analysis, pattern recognition, data mining, big data, and methods for data presentation and visualization
Cross listed with CS 2034B View Syllabus
DH 2220A: Computing and Informatics in the Humanities I
It's 2016 do you know how to code yet? We live in an era of unprecedented data generation and nowhere is that more apparent than in the life sciences. Without automated tools to help us process, format and mine our data, we are essentially helpless, buried by sheer volume.This course will teach you the basics of computer programming, oriented completely towards helping make you a 21st century scientist. Even if you end up choosing a career path outside of science, basic programming skills will enable you to grapple with problems and datasets that are inaccessible to those without these skills. View Syllabus
Cross listed with CS 2120A
DH 2221B: Computing and Informatics in the Humanities II
A continuation of DH 2220A with a deeper exploration of organizing and manipulating large data sets. Project-based course.
Cross listed with CS 2121B View Syllabus
Have you ever wondered if something you're about to do online is right or wrong? When does downloading count as theft? Is cyber sex cheating? Does a hacker’s code of ethics make any sense? Is online bullying worse than other forms of bullying? Students will explore these questions and others through a study of both ethical theory and a series of cases in the burgeoning and important field of digital ethics. You'll learn what traditional ethics has to say about these questions and also learn about the ways in which life online is stretching and changing our moral concepts. View Syllabus
Cross listed with Phil 2078G
DH 2144B: Data Analytics: Principles and Tools
A comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to data analytics using modern computing systems, with equal attention to fundamentals and practical aspects. Topics include sources of data, data formats and transformation, usage of spreadsheets and databases, statistical analysis, pattern recognition, data mining, big data, and methods for data presentation and visualization
Cross listed with CS 2034B View Syllabus
DH 2220A: Computing and Informatics in the Humanities I
It's 2016 do you know how to code yet? We live in an era of unprecedented data generation and nowhere is that more apparent than in the life sciences. Without automated tools to help us process, format and mine our data, we are essentially helpless, buried by sheer volume.This course will teach you the basics of computer programming, oriented completely towards helping make you a 21st century scientist. Even if you end up choosing a career path outside of science, basic programming skills will enable you to grapple with problems and datasets that are inaccessible to those without these skills. View Syllabus
Cross listed with CS 2120A
DH 2221B: Computing and Informatics in the Humanities II
A continuation of DH 2220A with a deeper exploration of organizing and manipulating large data sets. Project-based course.
Cross listed with CS 2121B View Syllabus
3000 Level
DH 3220A: Databases for the Humanities
A study of modern database systems and their applications to and use in humanities and social science projects. Topics include database design, querying, administration, security, and privacy..
Cross listed with CS 3319A/CS 3120A View Syllabus
A study of modern database systems and their applications to and use in humanities and social science projects. Topics include database design, querying, administration, security, and privacy..
Cross listed with CS 3319A/CS 3120A View Syllabus
German
1000 Level
German 1030: German for Beginners
Practice speaking, understanding, reading and writing German in a dynamic class setting. Develop your communicative skills while learning interesting and useful things about the German-speaking countries. Consider taking part in one of our many study-abroad or exchange opportunities.
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Practice speaking, understanding, reading and writing German in a dynamic class setting. Develop your communicative skills while learning interesting and useful things about the German-speaking countries. Consider taking part in one of our many study-abroad or exchange opportunities.
View Syllabus
2000 Level
German 2200: Intermediate German
Improve your speaking, reading and writing skills in a small class setting. Find out more about the culture of the German-speaking countries through authentic readings, short films, songs, interviews and biographies, while building your vocabulary and reviewing all major areas of German grammar.
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German 2220B: German Conversation
Practice speaking German through guided conversations, discussions, role plays and games. Learn how to make small talk, ask for and give advice, complain about something, ask someone a favour, explain things, respond to an invitation, give opinions, etc. Improve your fluency while also learning about some current issues and cultural peculiarities of the German-speaking countries. Build your intercultural competence through systematic practice of many conversational situations. View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- German 2256G: Berlin Snapshots
This course introduces students to the literature and culture of modern Berlin through the study of six “snapshots,” each illuminating a moment in the city’s turbulent and ever-evolving history: the Emergence of Modern Berlin; Berlin, Imperial Capital; Berlin in the Weimar Republic; Berlin under National Socialism; Devided Berlin; Post-Unification Berlin.
Cross listed with CLC 2136B
View Syllabus
German 2260G: From Berlin to Hollywood: German Exile Cinema
Description coming soon. View Syllabus
This course is cross listed with CLC 2291G and Film Studies 2297G.
German 2500F: Bridging Classroom & Community: Languages & Cultures in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with CLC/ITA/SPA 2500F
View Syllabus
Improve your speaking, reading and writing skills in a small class setting. Find out more about the culture of the German-speaking countries through authentic readings, short films, songs, interviews and biographies, while building your vocabulary and reviewing all major areas of German grammar.
View Syllabus
German 2220B: German Conversation
Practice speaking German through guided conversations, discussions, role plays and games. Learn how to make small talk, ask for and give advice, complain about something, ask someone a favour, explain things, respond to an invitation, give opinions, etc. Improve your fluency while also learning about some current issues and cultural peculiarities of the German-speaking countries. Build your intercultural competence through systematic practice of many conversational situations. View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- German 2256G: Berlin Snapshots
This course introduces students to the literature and culture of modern Berlin through the study of six “snapshots,” each illuminating a moment in the city’s turbulent and ever-evolving history: the Emergence of Modern Berlin; Berlin, Imperial Capital; Berlin in the Weimar Republic; Berlin under National Socialism; Devided Berlin; Post-Unification Berlin.
Cross listed with CLC 2136B
View Syllabus
German 2260G: From Berlin to Hollywood: German Exile Cinema
Description coming soon. View Syllabus
This course is cross listed with CLC 2291G and Film Studies 2297G.
German 2500F: Bridging Classroom & Community: Languages & Cultures in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with CLC/ITA/SPA 2500F
View Syllabus
3000 Level
German 3305: Advanced German
Take your German to the next level while exploring topics such as travel, politics, history, film, music, fine art, literature, technology and the environment. Learn to speak and write more fluently, express yourself more idiomatically, and master the more challenging points of German grammar.
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--CANCELLED-- German 3331F: Uncanny German Stories A man loses his shadow and goes on a wild adventure to get it back while another character wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant bug. Why do such stories sound strangely familiar and yet make us shiver? This course will show the German way of delving into uncanny, the weird, the titillating and the grotesquely funny was we explore the mysterious worlds of stories by German authors ranging from Romanticism to the late 20th century. Taught in German.
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--CANCELLED-- German 3360F: Intermediality: Where Literature and Other Media Meet
What happens to a story as it moves from the medium of language to the medium of film? What are the differences, commonalities and problems associated with the (mis)matching of two ways of representing reality? We will explore ways of "seeing" with words and "telling" with images...or vice versa. We will consider what is lost and/or gained through this intermedial process and to what extent filmmakers "respect" their literary sources or displace them. All discussion will be contextualized in the exploration of human psychology, anthropology and the history of ideas. Taught in English.
Cross listed with CLC 3351F.
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- German 3361G: Haunted Screen: Early German Cinema
Description coming soon.
Cross listed with CLC 3902G and Film Studies 3377G
View Syllabus
Take your German to the next level while exploring topics such as travel, politics, history, film, music, fine art, literature, technology and the environment. Learn to speak and write more fluently, express yourself more idiomatically, and master the more challenging points of German grammar.
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- German 3331F: Uncanny German Stories A man loses his shadow and goes on a wild adventure to get it back while another character wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant bug. Why do such stories sound strangely familiar and yet make us shiver? This course will show the German way of delving into uncanny, the weird, the titillating and the grotesquely funny was we explore the mysterious worlds of stories by German authors ranging from Romanticism to the late 20th century. Taught in German.
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- German 3360F: Intermediality: Where Literature and Other Media Meet
What happens to a story as it moves from the medium of language to the medium of film? What are the differences, commonalities and problems associated with the (mis)matching of two ways of representing reality? We will explore ways of "seeing" with words and "telling" with images...or vice versa. We will consider what is lost and/or gained through this intermedial process and to what extent filmmakers "respect" their literary sources or displace them. All discussion will be contextualized in the exploration of human psychology, anthropology and the history of ideas. Taught in English.
Cross listed with CLC 3351F.
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- German 3361G: Haunted Screen: Early German Cinema
Description coming soon.
Cross listed with CLC 3902G and Film Studies 3377G
View Syllabus
4000 Level
German 4500G: Senior Research Project
Chicken soup for a cold or flu is not a recent concept but an age-old remedy. Centred on the theme “Food and Medicine in the Middle Ages” develop your own research project. Avenues to explore may range from medieval ideas about nutrition, sick-dishes, foodstuffs and drugs, to cooking and dining practices, regional preferences and intercultural influences. Choose the medium of presentation that best suits your topic.
Cross listed with CLC/Italian/Spanish 4500G
View Syllabus
Chicken soup for a cold or flu is not a recent concept but an age-old remedy. Centred on the theme “Food and Medicine in the Middle Ages” develop your own research project. Avenues to explore may range from medieval ideas about nutrition, sick-dishes, foodstuffs and drugs, to cooking and dining practices, regional preferences and intercultural influences. Choose the medium of presentation that best suits your topic.
Cross listed with CLC/Italian/Spanish 4500G
View Syllabus
Intercultural Communication
2000 Level
ICC 2200G: Not "Lost in Translation": Practice and Theory of Intercultural Communication
In our increasingly diversified and globalized world, we often need to collaborate to solve complex problems. Experiences in this course help you consider how you can use the theory and practices of Intercultural Communications to prepare you to be the best global citizen you can be. Reflect on a variety of personal and digital intercultural experiences, so that you do not get “Lost in Translation” between cultures!
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ICC 2500F: Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Culture in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with CLC/GER/ITA/SPA 2500F
View Syllabus
In our increasingly diversified and globalized world, we often need to collaborate to solve complex problems. Experiences in this course help you consider how you can use the theory and practices of Intercultural Communications to prepare you to be the best global citizen you can be. Reflect on a variety of personal and digital intercultural experiences, so that you do not get “Lost in Translation” between cultures!
View Syllabus
ICC 2500F: Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Culture in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with CLC/GER/ITA/SPA 2500F
View Syllabus
Italian
1000 Level
Italian 1030: Italian for Beginners
Do you ever say ‘espresso’, ‘martini’, ‘cappuccino’, ‘al dente’, ‘pizza’, ‘bruschetta’, patio, ‘paparazzi’, ‘vendetta’, ‘stiletto’, adagio, ‘cantato’? Then you already know some Italian! And did you know that words such as ‘management’ and ‘bank’ derive from Italian? Join IT 1030, and have fun learning in class and online the language of Dante, Fellini, Bocelli, Pavarotti, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Prada, Versace and the famous bankers from Florence, the Medici family!
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Italian 1045B: Italian for Travellers I
Full immersion one week course in Tuscany, for students with little previous knowledge of Italian. An introduction to Italian in an active and practical way, it emphasizes travel competence, oral expression and basic Italian grammar.
While you will be based in Arezzo, classes will be held in May at Nobel Prize for Peace 2015 Nominee Rondine Cittadella della Pace (AR).
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Italian 1046A: Italian for Travellers II (INTERSESSION) *Course offered during intersession*
Full immersion three-week course in Tuscany, for students with little previous knowledge of Italian. An introduction to Italian in an active and practical way, it emphasizes and oral expression and basic Italian grammar.
While you will be based in Arezzo, classes will be held in May at Nobel Prize for Peace 2015 Nominee Rondine Cittadella della Pace (AR).
View Syllabus
Do you ever say ‘espresso’, ‘martini’, ‘cappuccino’, ‘al dente’, ‘pizza’, ‘bruschetta’, patio, ‘paparazzi’, ‘vendetta’, ‘stiletto’, adagio, ‘cantato’? Then you already know some Italian! And did you know that words such as ‘management’ and ‘bank’ derive from Italian? Join IT 1030, and have fun learning in class and online the language of Dante, Fellini, Bocelli, Pavarotti, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Prada, Versace and the famous bankers from Florence, the Medici family!
View Syllabus
Italian 1045B: Italian for Travellers I
Full immersion one week course in Tuscany, for students with little previous knowledge of Italian. An introduction to Italian in an active and practical way, it emphasizes travel competence, oral expression and basic Italian grammar.
While you will be based in Arezzo, classes will be held in May at Nobel Prize for Peace 2015 Nominee Rondine Cittadella della Pace (AR).
View Syllabus
Italian 1046A: Italian for Travellers II (INTERSESSION) *Course offered during intersession*
Full immersion three-week course in Tuscany, for students with little previous knowledge of Italian. An introduction to Italian in an active and practical way, it emphasizes and oral expression and basic Italian grammar.
While you will be based in Arezzo, classes will be held in May at Nobel Prize for Peace 2015 Nominee Rondine Cittadella della Pace (AR).
View Syllabus
2000 Level
Italian 2200: Intermediate Italian
Do you already have a basic proficiency in Italian language? Would you like to keep feeding your passion for all things Italian? This is your course. Taught by native speakers, the course is designed to help you improve your vocabulary and develop your conversational and written skills using a variety of authentic materials, such as websites, songs, short stories, and films. Through these materials you will be constantly immersed in the language and culture of Italy, in class and online!
View Syllabus
Italian 2202: Intermediate Italian in Italy
In this intermediate Italian course, you will learn the language while being exposed to authentic Italian culture in the heart of Tuscany through daily interactions with native speakers. The course includes a community-engaged learning component. You will be based in Arezzo, while classes will be held in May at Rondine Cittadella della Pace (Nobel Prize for Peace 2015 Nominee).
View Syllabus
Italian 2220B: Italian Conversation
A selection of guided conversations in Italian dealing with a range of issues in contemporary Italy. Students will develop their communicative skills in Italian through discussion of a number of topics, ranging from social and political issues to media, pop culture, films, music, fashion, food, and sports.
View Syllabus
Italian 2240F: Italian Journeys
Travel through three major capitals of Italian culture: Florence, Venice, and Naples.
Explore the variety of their artistic splendor, enjoy the pleasure of their literary and filmic tradition and understand crucial moments of their socio-political history.
Meet emblematic historical figures of artists, politicians and writers, crucial for the destiny of their city and beyond, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, The Medicis, Goldoni, Basile.
Our journey spans from the Renaissance to the present and unfolds following the footsteps of illustrious travelers such as Goethe, Dickens and, whose descriptions of the Bel Paese have watermarked the expectations of millions of tourists.
Movies, literary readings, masterpieces of plastic and figurative arts, plays, historiography and political essays, documentaries and, in some cases, music will be our introductions to these cities.
Get on board, you too, for the everlasting Grand Tour!
This course is cross listed with CLC 2132A.
View Syllabus
Italian 2500F: Bridging Classroom & Community: Languages & Cultures in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with CLC/GER/SPA 2500F
View Syllabus
Do you already have a basic proficiency in Italian language? Would you like to keep feeding your passion for all things Italian? This is your course. Taught by native speakers, the course is designed to help you improve your vocabulary and develop your conversational and written skills using a variety of authentic materials, such as websites, songs, short stories, and films. Through these materials you will be constantly immersed in the language and culture of Italy, in class and online!
View Syllabus
Italian 2202: Intermediate Italian in Italy
In this intermediate Italian course, you will learn the language while being exposed to authentic Italian culture in the heart of Tuscany through daily interactions with native speakers. The course includes a community-engaged learning component. You will be based in Arezzo, while classes will be held in May at Rondine Cittadella della Pace (Nobel Prize for Peace 2015 Nominee).
View Syllabus
Italian 2220B: Italian Conversation
A selection of guided conversations in Italian dealing with a range of issues in contemporary Italy. Students will develop their communicative skills in Italian through discussion of a number of topics, ranging from social and political issues to media, pop culture, films, music, fashion, food, and sports.
View Syllabus
Italian 2240F: Italian Journeys
Travel through three major capitals of Italian culture: Florence, Venice, and Naples.
Explore the variety of their artistic splendor, enjoy the pleasure of their literary and filmic tradition and understand crucial moments of their socio-political history.
Meet emblematic historical figures of artists, politicians and writers, crucial for the destiny of their city and beyond, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, The Medicis, Goldoni, Basile.
Our journey spans from the Renaissance to the present and unfolds following the footsteps of illustrious travelers such as Goethe, Dickens and, whose descriptions of the Bel Paese have watermarked the expectations of millions of tourists.
Movies, literary readings, masterpieces of plastic and figurative arts, plays, historiography and political essays, documentaries and, in some cases, music will be our introductions to these cities.
Get on board, you too, for the everlasting Grand Tour!
This course is cross listed with CLC 2132A.
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Italian 2500F: Bridging Classroom & Community: Languages & Cultures in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with CLC/GER/SPA 2500F
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3000 Level
Italian 3300: Advanced Italian
Do you want to keep feeding your passion for all things Italian, while expanding your knowledge of Italian language and culture? This is your course.
Italian 3300 is aimed at developing advanced–level competence in the four basic language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Discussions on a variety of cultural topics such as food, travel, politics, the arts, and use of a wide range of material (websites, films, songs, literature) will help you refine your skills so as to communicate more fluently in Italian. These activities are also meant to increase your intercultural awareness.
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--CANCELLED-- Italian 3328F: Masterpieces of Contemporary Italian Literature
You can't build a thorough understanding of today's global culture if you don't have any familiarity with the literary treasures of modern and contemporary Italy.In this course you will be introduced to a number of Italian writers who have contributed to shape the way in which we have come to think of ourselves and the world in the past one hundred years or so. This course is taught in Italian.
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--CANCELLED-- Italian 3338G: Books on the Big Screen
Double the pleasure: watch the film show you what the book hadn’t described and let the book reveal what the movie hadn’t disclosed.
Experience more than half a century of Italian history through four masterpieces of cinema and literature.
Learn to recognize the strategies deployed by these two arts in telling the extraordinary destinies of passionate, original, and thought provoking Italian characters. Share in stories of courage, heroism and engagement deeply rooted in Italy’s cultural fabric.
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Italian 3040B: Studies at Rondine Citadel of Peace in Italy
Please note: this is a winter term course, but takes places during intersession, with the exception of planning meetings during the winter term. Application required.
This course, held mainly in Tuscany at Rondine Citadel of Peace (Novel Prize for Peace nominee 2015), builds skills for understanding cultural differences and fosters awareness for social change in a global context. UWO students will reside in downtown Arezzo and will study at Rondine, together with the Citadel's own international students. The course springs from the collaboration between Italian Studies (MLL, main campus), Social Justice (King's) and Rondine Cittadella della Pace (Italy).
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Do you want to keep feeding your passion for all things Italian, while expanding your knowledge of Italian language and culture? This is your course.
Italian 3300 is aimed at developing advanced–level competence in the four basic language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Discussions on a variety of cultural topics such as food, travel, politics, the arts, and use of a wide range of material (websites, films, songs, literature) will help you refine your skills so as to communicate more fluently in Italian. These activities are also meant to increase your intercultural awareness.
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- Italian 3328F: Masterpieces of Contemporary Italian Literature
You can't build a thorough understanding of today's global culture if you don't have any familiarity with the literary treasures of modern and contemporary Italy.In this course you will be introduced to a number of Italian writers who have contributed to shape the way in which we have come to think of ourselves and the world in the past one hundred years or so. This course is taught in Italian.
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- Italian 3338G: Books on the Big Screen
Double the pleasure: watch the film show you what the book hadn’t described and let the book reveal what the movie hadn’t disclosed.
Experience more than half a century of Italian history through four masterpieces of cinema and literature.
Learn to recognize the strategies deployed by these two arts in telling the extraordinary destinies of passionate, original, and thought provoking Italian characters. Share in stories of courage, heroism and engagement deeply rooted in Italy’s cultural fabric.
View Syllabus
Italian 3040B: Studies at Rondine Citadel of Peace in Italy
Please note: this is a winter term course, but takes places during intersession, with the exception of planning meetings during the winter term. Application required.
This course, held mainly in Tuscany at Rondine Citadel of Peace (Novel Prize for Peace nominee 2015), builds skills for understanding cultural differences and fosters awareness for social change in a global context. UWO students will reside in downtown Arezzo and will study at Rondine, together with the Citadel's own international students. The course springs from the collaboration between Italian Studies (MLL, main campus), Social Justice (King's) and Rondine Cittadella della Pace (Italy).
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4000 Level
Italian 4500G: Senior Research Project
Chicken soup for a cold or flu is not a recent concept but an age-old remedy. Centred on the theme “Food and Medicine in the Middle Ages” develop your own research project. Avenues to explore may range from medieval ideas about nutrition, sick-dishes, foodstuffs and drugs, to cooking and dining practices, regional preferences and intercultural influences. Choose the medium of presentation that best suits your topic.
Cross listed with CLC/GER/SPA 4500G
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Chicken soup for a cold or flu is not a recent concept but an age-old remedy. Centred on the theme “Food and Medicine in the Middle Ages” develop your own research project. Avenues to explore may range from medieval ideas about nutrition, sick-dishes, foodstuffs and drugs, to cooking and dining practices, regional preferences and intercultural influences. Choose the medium of presentation that best suits your topic.
Cross listed with CLC/GER/SPA 4500G
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Spanish
1000 Level
Spanish 1030: Spanish for Beginners
More than 400 million people speak Spanish. Why don't you? Learning to speak Spanish opens the door to a broad and exciting world. Spanish 1030 is an elementary course for students who have never studied Spanish. You will learn basic vocabulary and grammar that will allow you to communicate with Spanish speakers about everyday matters
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More than 400 million people speak Spanish. Why don't you? Learning to speak Spanish opens the door to a broad and exciting world. Spanish 1030 is an elementary course for students who have never studied Spanish. You will learn basic vocabulary and grammar that will allow you to communicate with Spanish speakers about everyday matters
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2000 Level
Spanish 2200: Intermediate Spanish
Spoken worldwide, Spanish is the official language of 21 countries. Taught by native-speaking instructors, Intermediate Spanish will prepare you and will braoden your linguistic scope so you can make connections with local residents and deepen your experiences in Spanish-speaking countries. The primary emphasis of this course is on effective oral and written expression, so as to permit students who have completed this course to communicate their ideas and opinions with clarity in a variety of academic and social settings. View Syllabus
Spanish 2214A: Comparative Grammar of English and Spanish
Is Spanish easier to learn than English? In this course you will compare the structure of both. You will learn, for example, that Spanish has more verb forms, and English has a simpler word order. Exploring the contrasts will lead to a deeper understanding of grammar. View Syllabus.
Spanish 2215F: Exploring Hispanic Cultures I
This course is an introduction to reading, writing and researching in Hispanic visual, performing, literary, and cultural production. The course also includes considerations of Hispanic socio-linguistics, as seen over time in a variety of texts. We will explore culture from the Hispanic world including Europe, North Africa and the Americas. The course´s objectives are, through the realization of individual projects, to improve research abilities and Spanish language skills in conversation, reading and writing. This year, we will be focusing on the Hispanic world at war. Students will be doing research on major cultural figures and the impact of their work on their communities. This course will be taught in Spanish. View Syllabus.
Spanish 2216G: Exploring Hispanic Cultures II
This course is an introduction to reading, writing, and researching in literature, film, popular culture and digital Spanish. Students develop foundations in these fields through a series of case studies across generic, historical, geographical areas of the Hispanic world. This year, the course will focus on food, markets, and cooking in the Hispanic world. View Syllabus
Spanish 2220B/3327B: Spanish Conversation
This course will entail a variety of guided conversations in Spanish dealing with a selection of issues in contemporary Hispanic World (Spain, North America, Mexico and the Caribbean, Central and South America). Students will develop their communicative skills in Spanish through discussions of topics, ranging from social and political issues to TV and pop culture, films, music, fashion, food, and sports. View Syllabus
Spanish 2500F: Bridging Classroom & Community: Languages & Cultures in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with CLC/GER/ITA 2500F
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Spanish 2901A: World Cultures/Global Screens
By looking at a body of films from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, this course aims to expose students to a wide range of questions and debates around culture and identity, while also relating these matters to circulating discourses about the Global. Depending on each case study, the consecutive units focus on different critical approaches, alternatively addressing questions concerning the representation of racial, ethnic and cultural identities, matters of gender and female authorship, and issues of genre and stardom.
This course is cross listed with CLC 2107A and Film 2195A
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--CANCELLED-- Spanish 2902A: Latin American Cinema
This course will concentrate on Latin American cinemas, referring to a body of films made in different countries insce the advent of sound adn the rise of the first studios in the region until today, with a strong emphasis on the most recent productions which have been re-defining the landscape of these varied and rich national film industries and film cultures. Always approaching the texts as social and aesthetic practices, attention will be paid to questions of (national and cultural) identity, film history and historiography, realism and ideology, and issues of race and gender. This course is cross listed with Film 2194A.
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Spanish 2903A: Latin American Women's Fiction
Though often sidelined, the fiction of women writers in Latin America offers significant intellectual contribution to ongoing debates, including those related to curent topics on gender, ethnicity, and identity. This introductory course examines Latin American women's literature, covering a panoramic selection of female writers and examples of their fictional prose works from the 17th century to the present day, with a focus on themes relevant to current issues.
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Spanish 2904B: Fiction in Hispanic American Children's Literature
This course provides an approach to Hispanic American Children´s Literature, and an analysis of its origins and characteristics through the study of this literary field in Hispanic American countries such as Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba and El Salvador. With this selection of countries, it will be possible to comprehend how diverse and yet particular this literature thought for children is, by means of analyzing narrative texts and poetry produced in different social and historical contexts between the XIX century to the present.
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Spanish 2956A: Language Acquisition in Bilingual Contexts
Multilingualism is the reality for the majority of the world’s population. As a result, it is receiving more and more attention from other disciplines (such as computer science, education, or political science). This course examines the main issues in child and adult second language acquisition and combines theory with practice with the objective of giving students a general, yet comprehensive, perspective of bilingual language acquisition.
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Spoken worldwide, Spanish is the official language of 21 countries. Taught by native-speaking instructors, Intermediate Spanish will prepare you and will braoden your linguistic scope so you can make connections with local residents and deepen your experiences in Spanish-speaking countries. The primary emphasis of this course is on effective oral and written expression, so as to permit students who have completed this course to communicate their ideas and opinions with clarity in a variety of academic and social settings. View Syllabus
Spanish 2214A: Comparative Grammar of English and Spanish
Is Spanish easier to learn than English? In this course you will compare the structure of both. You will learn, for example, that Spanish has more verb forms, and English has a simpler word order. Exploring the contrasts will lead to a deeper understanding of grammar. View Syllabus.
Spanish 2215F: Exploring Hispanic Cultures I
This course is an introduction to reading, writing and researching in Hispanic visual, performing, literary, and cultural production. The course also includes considerations of Hispanic socio-linguistics, as seen over time in a variety of texts. We will explore culture from the Hispanic world including Europe, North Africa and the Americas. The course´s objectives are, through the realization of individual projects, to improve research abilities and Spanish language skills in conversation, reading and writing. This year, we will be focusing on the Hispanic world at war. Students will be doing research on major cultural figures and the impact of their work on their communities. This course will be taught in Spanish. View Syllabus.
Spanish 2216G: Exploring Hispanic Cultures II
This course is an introduction to reading, writing, and researching in literature, film, popular culture and digital Spanish. Students develop foundations in these fields through a series of case studies across generic, historical, geographical areas of the Hispanic world. This year, the course will focus on food, markets, and cooking in the Hispanic world. View Syllabus
Spanish 2220B/3327B: Spanish Conversation
This course will entail a variety of guided conversations in Spanish dealing with a selection of issues in contemporary Hispanic World (Spain, North America, Mexico and the Caribbean, Central and South America). Students will develop their communicative skills in Spanish through discussions of topics, ranging from social and political issues to TV and pop culture, films, music, fashion, food, and sports. View Syllabus
Spanish 2500F: Bridging Classroom & Community: Languages & Cultures in Action
Would you like to acquire lifelong competences that will allow you to build (self)-cultural awareness and interact meaningfully with other cultures in today's globalized world? Then Bridging Classroom and Community is your course! We will explore issues of identity, memory, immigration, prejudice, stereotype, and intercultural dialogue, while building a connection with our own London community, and its wealth of languages and cultures via collaborative projects between students and members of this community.
This course is cross listed with CLC/GER/ITA 2500F
View Syllabus
Spanish 2901A: World Cultures/Global Screens
By looking at a body of films from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, this course aims to expose students to a wide range of questions and debates around culture and identity, while also relating these matters to circulating discourses about the Global. Depending on each case study, the consecutive units focus on different critical approaches, alternatively addressing questions concerning the representation of racial, ethnic and cultural identities, matters of gender and female authorship, and issues of genre and stardom.
This course is cross listed with CLC 2107A and Film 2195A
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- Spanish 2902A: Latin American Cinema
This course will concentrate on Latin American cinemas, referring to a body of films made in different countries insce the advent of sound adn the rise of the first studios in the region until today, with a strong emphasis on the most recent productions which have been re-defining the landscape of these varied and rich national film industries and film cultures. Always approaching the texts as social and aesthetic practices, attention will be paid to questions of (national and cultural) identity, film history and historiography, realism and ideology, and issues of race and gender. This course is cross listed with Film 2194A.
View Syllabus
Spanish 2903A: Latin American Women's Fiction
Though often sidelined, the fiction of women writers in Latin America offers significant intellectual contribution to ongoing debates, including those related to curent topics on gender, ethnicity, and identity. This introductory course examines Latin American women's literature, covering a panoramic selection of female writers and examples of their fictional prose works from the 17th century to the present day, with a focus on themes relevant to current issues.
View Syllabus
Spanish 2904B: Fiction in Hispanic American Children's Literature
This course provides an approach to Hispanic American Children´s Literature, and an analysis of its origins and characteristics through the study of this literary field in Hispanic American countries such as Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba and El Salvador. With this selection of countries, it will be possible to comprehend how diverse and yet particular this literature thought for children is, by means of analyzing narrative texts and poetry produced in different social and historical contexts between the XIX century to the present.
View Syllabus
Spanish 2956A: Language Acquisition in Bilingual Contexts
Multilingualism is the reality for the majority of the world’s population. As a result, it is receiving more and more attention from other disciplines (such as computer science, education, or political science). This course examines the main issues in child and adult second language acquisition and combines theory with practice with the objective of giving students a general, yet comprehensive, perspective of bilingual language acquisition.
View Syllabus
3000 Level
Spanish 3300: Advanced Spanish Language
Are you interested in improving your oral and written abilities in Spanish? Whether you're working, traveling, or reconnecting with your family and heritage in a Spanish speaking country, this course, taught by natve speakers, will help you to achieve your objective. Would you like to express yourself fluently, read newspapers, editorials, professional interviews, and literary articles as well as listen to the radio and watch television and movies? After this course you will. Although grammar is not the major emphasis at this level, you will improve your grammar and vocabulary through interesting activities such as: debates, cultural discussions, and presentations. View Syllabus
Spanish 3303B: The Structure of Spanish
This course will introduce students to basic concepts in linguistics from a Spanish perspective. It examines the different levels of structure, including the Spanish sound system (phonology), word formation (morphology), and sentence formation (syntax). It will also examine the relationships between form and meaning. View Syllabus
Spanish 3314F: Hispanic Sociolinguistics
You will learn about the role of linguistic and social factors such as 'gender', 'class', 'age' and 'education', in language variation and change. Sociolinguistic theory and methodology will be discussed with respect to lexical, morpho-syntactic and phonological patterns and in the context of different varieties of Spanish, such as Cuban, Argentine, Colombian, Mexican and Peninsular Spanish.
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Spanish 3318B: The Sounds of Spanish
This course invites you to learn about the Spanish sound system, variation in the Hispanic world and Spain, and accent recognition. You will become familiarized with current topics in Hispanic phonetics and phonology via readings, music and movies. You will also have the opportunity to design and carry out an experiment.
View Syllabus
Spanish 3319B: The Acquisition of Spanish
This course has three branches: review of experimental research as carried out by others; experimental research as conceived and carried out by you; and application to real life situations, the community. in the first of these we will review, based on the textbook and recent articles, what we know about second language acquisition. For the second part, in groups you will develop a research project that you will carry out and report on. For the third part you will work with a member of the community that wants to practice English. View Syllabus
Spanish 3901G: Women Filmmakers
This course will explore the notion of film authorship in relation to its utterances and implications when associated to the praxis of women film directors, with a special emphasis on contemporary Hipanic voices. While troubling the notion of women's cinema, its definition, limits and limitations, a wide range of case studies - filsm emerging from dissimilar contexts of production and reception - will be mostly read and discussed in the light of feminist approaches to questions about gender and representation. In this sense, the course will also offer a historical and critical overview of feminist scholarship within film studies and of the ongoing debates in this ares of study. This course is also cross-listed with WS 3375G and Film 3311G
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Spanish 3902F: Pre-Contact American Art and Architure
This course will introduce students to the arts of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America from the Prehistoric times until the early colonial era. Relying on a thematic organization, we will consider how artworks, whether weavings, baskets, ceramics, sculptures, paintings, or architecture, reflect the worldviews of the indigenous Americans who created and used them. By using an interdisciplinary approach, we will study these cultures and artworks from the perspectives of art history, anthropology, archaeology, history, and ethnography. Our interdisciplinary perspective will assist us in partially reconstructing the cultural practices of these American societies prior to contact with the Europeans who arrived in the sixteenth century.
This course is cross listed with CLC 2297F and VAH 2266F.
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--CANCELLED-- Spanish 3903G: Literary Creativity in the Digital Age / Creatividad Literaria en la Era Digital
Have you heard of Wattpad? Join this online storytelling community and discover why this Toronto-based platform is the preferred option for readers of your generation all over the world. In this course, you will become a writer in the digital age. Explore the app or the website and write your own story, read your classmates’ and others’ stories, vote and comment on them, follow your favorite authors and get your own followers. Everything from your phone or your computer! You will learn how these new social interactions between readers and writers are changing the literary production and publication system. The course will showcase successful cases that made the leap to the literary and film industries. You could be the next! In this course, we will also reflect critically on the role of Wattpad and Artificial Intelligence in the future of literary creativity. Could a machine ever write a bestseller? Syllabus coming soon!
Are you interested in improving your oral and written abilities in Spanish? Whether you're working, traveling, or reconnecting with your family and heritage in a Spanish speaking country, this course, taught by natve speakers, will help you to achieve your objective. Would you like to express yourself fluently, read newspapers, editorials, professional interviews, and literary articles as well as listen to the radio and watch television and movies? After this course you will. Although grammar is not the major emphasis at this level, you will improve your grammar and vocabulary through interesting activities such as: debates, cultural discussions, and presentations. View Syllabus
Spanish 3303B: The Structure of Spanish
This course will introduce students to basic concepts in linguistics from a Spanish perspective. It examines the different levels of structure, including the Spanish sound system (phonology), word formation (morphology), and sentence formation (syntax). It will also examine the relationships between form and meaning. View Syllabus
Spanish 3314F: Hispanic Sociolinguistics
You will learn about the role of linguistic and social factors such as 'gender', 'class', 'age' and 'education', in language variation and change. Sociolinguistic theory and methodology will be discussed with respect to lexical, morpho-syntactic and phonological patterns and in the context of different varieties of Spanish, such as Cuban, Argentine, Colombian, Mexican and Peninsular Spanish.
View Syllabus
Spanish 3318B: The Sounds of Spanish
This course invites you to learn about the Spanish sound system, variation in the Hispanic world and Spain, and accent recognition. You will become familiarized with current topics in Hispanic phonetics and phonology via readings, music and movies. You will also have the opportunity to design and carry out an experiment.
View Syllabus
Spanish 3319B: The Acquisition of Spanish
This course has three branches: review of experimental research as carried out by others; experimental research as conceived and carried out by you; and application to real life situations, the community. in the first of these we will review, based on the textbook and recent articles, what we know about second language acquisition. For the second part, in groups you will develop a research project that you will carry out and report on. For the third part you will work with a member of the community that wants to practice English. View Syllabus
Spanish 3901G: Women Filmmakers
This course will explore the notion of film authorship in relation to its utterances and implications when associated to the praxis of women film directors, with a special emphasis on contemporary Hipanic voices. While troubling the notion of women's cinema, its definition, limits and limitations, a wide range of case studies - filsm emerging from dissimilar contexts of production and reception - will be mostly read and discussed in the light of feminist approaches to questions about gender and representation. In this sense, the course will also offer a historical and critical overview of feminist scholarship within film studies and of the ongoing debates in this ares of study. This course is also cross-listed with WS 3375G and Film 3311G
View Syllabus
Spanish 3902F: Pre-Contact American Art and Architure
This course will introduce students to the arts of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America from the Prehistoric times until the early colonial era. Relying on a thematic organization, we will consider how artworks, whether weavings, baskets, ceramics, sculptures, paintings, or architecture, reflect the worldviews of the indigenous Americans who created and used them. By using an interdisciplinary approach, we will study these cultures and artworks from the perspectives of art history, anthropology, archaeology, history, and ethnography. Our interdisciplinary perspective will assist us in partially reconstructing the cultural practices of these American societies prior to contact with the Europeans who arrived in the sixteenth century.
This course is cross listed with CLC 2297F and VAH 2266F.
View Syllabus
--CANCELLED-- Spanish 3903G: Literary Creativity in the Digital Age / Creatividad Literaria en la Era Digital
Have you heard of Wattpad? Join this online storytelling community and discover why this Toronto-based platform is the preferred option for readers of your generation all over the world. In this course, you will become a writer in the digital age. Explore the app or the website and write your own story, read your classmates’ and others’ stories, vote and comment on them, follow your favorite authors and get your own followers. Everything from your phone or your computer! You will learn how these new social interactions between readers and writers are changing the literary production and publication system. The course will showcase successful cases that made the leap to the literary and film industries. You could be the next! In this course, we will also reflect critically on the role of Wattpad and Artificial Intelligence in the future of literary creativity. Could a machine ever write a bestseller? Syllabus coming soon!
4000 Level
Spanish 4500G: Senior Research Project
Chicken soup for a cold or flu is not a recent concept but an age-old remedy. Centred on the theme “Food and Medicine in the Middle Ages” develop your own research project. Avenues to explore may range from medieval ideas about nutrition, sick-dishes, foodstuffs and drugs, to cooking and dining practices, regional preferences and intercultural influences. Choose the medium of presentation that best suits your topic.
Cross listed with CLC/GER/ITA 4500G
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Other Modern Languages
Arabic
Arabic 1030: Arabic for Beginners
Arabic 1030 is designed for students with no or very little background in Arabic. It develops the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing through the application of grammatical structures and vocabulary development. Students will learn the Arabic script and sound system, enabling them to read and write simple texts. Besides teaching grammar and language skills, the course will introduce to students some aspects of Arabic culture.
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Arabic 1035
Arabic 1035 is designed for students who have some previous background in Arabic, but not sufficient to allow them to register for Intermediate Arabic 2250. The course aims to further the development of the ability to use Modern Standard Arabic orally and in reading and writing, and expand vocabulary. The course will also assist students to gain a fundamental grasp of Arabic structures, and to have enough familiarity with Arabic culture and customs, and their distinctiveness from that of North America.
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Arabic 2250: Intermediate Arabic
Arabic 2250 is designed to build upon skills in reading and writing developed in earlier courses. Students will gain increased vocabulary and a greater understanding of more complex grammatical structures. They will also widen their working vocabulary, learn key grammatical points, and practice conversation and dictation. Students will be able to approach prose, fiction, and non-fiction written in Arabic, and will continue to be introduced to Arabic Culture.
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Arabic 1030 is designed for students with no or very little background in Arabic. It develops the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing through the application of grammatical structures and vocabulary development. Students will learn the Arabic script and sound system, enabling them to read and write simple texts. Besides teaching grammar and language skills, the course will introduce to students some aspects of Arabic culture.
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Arabic 1035
Arabic 1035 is designed for students who have some previous background in Arabic, but not sufficient to allow them to register for Intermediate Arabic 2250. The course aims to further the development of the ability to use Modern Standard Arabic orally and in reading and writing, and expand vocabulary. The course will also assist students to gain a fundamental grasp of Arabic structures, and to have enough familiarity with Arabic culture and customs, and their distinctiveness from that of North America.
View Syllabus
Arabic 2250: Intermediate Arabic
Arabic 2250 is designed to build upon skills in reading and writing developed in earlier courses. Students will gain increased vocabulary and a greater understanding of more complex grammatical structures. They will also widen their working vocabulary, learn key grammatical points, and practice conversation and dictation. Students will be able to approach prose, fiction, and non-fiction written in Arabic, and will continue to be introduced to Arabic Culture.
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Hindi
Hindi 1030/1035: Hindi for Beginners
Hindi is the language of one of the greatest civilizations in the history of the world. Besides its incredible ties to history, philosophy, science and art, the vibrant culture that uses it as the means of communication has far reaching influence in all our societies, from food to music and literature, from painting and sculpture to film. Canada, in particular, has a long history of close ties to India, and many of our artists are Indo-Canadian. Come and learn Hindi and savor the rich culture that it represents. View Syllabus
Hindi is the language of one of the greatest civilizations in the history of the world. Besides its incredible ties to history, philosophy, science and art, the vibrant culture that uses it as the means of communication has far reaching influence in all our societies, from food to music and literature, from painting and sculpture to film. Canada, in particular, has a long history of close ties to India, and many of our artists are Indo-Canadian. Come and learn Hindi and savor the rich culture that it represents. View Syllabus
Japanese
Japanese 1036: Japanese for Beginners
By having knowledge of Japanese language, you will be able to enjoy and experience many aspects of Japanese culture - sushi, Anime, and Japanese technology, to name a few – so why not start now? This course is designed to build basic Japanese language ability by developing grammatical accuracy, comprehension and communicative ability in the four basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), and also to encourage awareness and understanding of Japanese culture. View Syllabus
Japanese 2260: Intermediate Japanese
This is a continuation of Japanese 1036. This course is designed to expand your basic communicative abilities in the four basic language skills, emphasizing the practical use of the language, and also to further enhance general knowledge and understanding of Japanese culture and social appropriateness. For instance, when do we use casual form and polite form? In this course, the students will strengthen their Japanese skills by taking into account factors such as the proper time, place and occasion to use a certain form and will put this into practice. View Syllabus
By having knowledge of Japanese language, you will be able to enjoy and experience many aspects of Japanese culture - sushi, Anime, and Japanese technology, to name a few – so why not start now? This course is designed to build basic Japanese language ability by developing grammatical accuracy, comprehension and communicative ability in the four basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), and also to encourage awareness and understanding of Japanese culture. View Syllabus
Japanese 2260: Intermediate Japanese
This is a continuation of Japanese 1036. This course is designed to expand your basic communicative abilities in the four basic language skills, emphasizing the practical use of the language, and also to further enhance general knowledge and understanding of Japanese culture and social appropriateness. For instance, when do we use casual form and polite form? In this course, the students will strengthen their Japanese skills by taking into account factors such as the proper time, place and occasion to use a certain form and will put this into practice. View Syllabus
Persian
Persian 1030/1035: Persian for Beginners
Persian or Farsi, the language spoken in present day Iran, has roots that go back thousands of years. Canada has been enriched by the many contributions of Persian speakers who have immigrated to this country, contributions not only in the realm of business and entrepreneurship but also in art, film, culture and thought. Learning Persian will put you in contact with an ancient civilization and a present day vibrant and diverse society.
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Persian or Farsi, the language spoken in present day Iran, has roots that go back thousands of years. Canada has been enriched by the many contributions of Persian speakers who have immigrated to this country, contributions not only in the realm of business and entrepreneurship but also in art, film, culture and thought. Learning Persian will put you in contact with an ancient civilization and a present day vibrant and diverse society.
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Portuguese
Portuguese 1030/1035: Portuguese for Beginners
Portuguese, its sounds and cadences make one think of music and poetry! It is the language spoken in the ancient cities of Portugal and the vibrant cities of Brazil. Live the diversity that is Portuguese, the excitement of one of the most important emerging economies, the beauty of a culture that combines the rhythms of Africa with the dances of Europe and the poetry of the indigenous people of the America. Learn Portuguese! View Syllabus
Portuguese 2200: Intermediate Portuguese - CANCELLED
Description coming soon.
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Portuguese, its sounds and cadences make one think of music and poetry! It is the language spoken in the ancient cities of Portugal and the vibrant cities of Brazil. Live the diversity that is Portuguese, the excitement of one of the most important emerging economies, the beauty of a culture that combines the rhythms of Africa with the dances of Europe and the poetry of the indigenous people of the America. Learn Portuguese! View Syllabus
Portuguese 2200: Intermediate Portuguese - CANCELLED
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NEW Courses (2017-18)
WLC 1030: World Literatures and Cultures East to West and North to South
Explore the roots of today’s global world through a selection of writers, artists, and works that have changed, challenged, and connected civilizations, past and present. Engage with a variety of visual material inspired by the literary masterworks under examination. Find out how stories - old and recent - relate so forcefully to our lives, how they shape our understanding of love, justice, power, happiness, and other universal aspects of the human condition. Travel from Europe to Asia, from Africa to the Americas; along the way, discover the artistic wonders of some of the capitals of world culture.
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No prerequisite required, can be used as a prerequisite for entry into the Minor in Comparative Literature and Civilization.
Spanish 2901A: World Cultures/Global Screens
By looking at a body of films from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, this course aims to expose students to a wide range of questions and debates around culture and identity, while also relating these matters to circulating discourses about the Global. Depending on each case study, the consecutive units focus on different critical approaches, alternatively addressing questions concerning the representation of racial, ethnic and cultural identities, matters of gender and female authorship, and issues of genre and stardom.
This course is cross listed with CLC 2107A and Film 2195A
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--CANCELLED-- Spanish 2902A: Latin American Cinema
This course will concentrate on Latin American cinemas, referring to a body of films made in different countries insce the advent of sound and the rise of the first studios in the region until today, with a strong emphasis on the most recent productions which have been re-defining the landscape of these varied and rich national film industries and film cultures. Always approaching the texts as social and aesthetic practices, attention will be paid to questions of (national and cultural) identity, film history and historiography, realism and ideology, and issues of race and gender. This course is cross listed with Film 2194A.
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Spanish 3901G: Women Filmmakers
This course will explore the notion of film authorship in relation to its utterances and implications when associated to the praxis of women film directors, with a special emphasis on contemporary Hipanic voices. While troubling the notion of women's cinema, its definition, limits and limitations, a wide range of case studies - films emerging from dissimilar contexts of production and reception - will be mostly read and discussed in the light of feminist approaches to questions about gender and representation. In this sense, the course will also offer a historical and critical overview of feminist scholarship within film studies and of the ongoing debates in this area of study. This course is also cross-listed with WS 3375G and Film 3311G
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