Comparative Literature Program - Course Descriptions

Term: F25W25S25F24W24S24F23W23S23Y23Z23F22W22S22Y22Z22F21W21S21Y21Z21F20W20S20Y20Z20F19W19S19F18W18S18Y18Z18F17S17Y17Z17 

Fall Quarter

Dept	Course No and Title	Instructor
COM LIT (F25)	10  SPORTS & LITERATURE	STAFF
CL 10: Sports and Literature From ancient epics to modern stadiums, sports have always been more than games—they are sites of spectacle, myth-making, identity formation, and resistance. This interdisciplinary course explores how athletic competition becomes a stage on which larger cultural, political, and ideological battles are played out. Whether in the funeral games of Homer’s Iliad, Leni Riefenstahl’s widely acclaimed Nazi sports propaganda films, or the highly publicized tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, sports are a socially significant practice, central to the way we tell stories about ourselves and others. Each section of the course introduces students to a new set of sports-related questions as much of interest to anthropology as literary studies. Engaging literary texts, films, and theoretical readings, we will ask how concepts like race, gender, and nationality circulate through athletic bodies in motion. In short: why do sports matter so much, and to whom?
COM LIT (F25)	10  REFUGEES& DETENTION	MOR, L.
No detailed description available.
COM LIT (F25)	60A  WORLD LITERATURE	NEWMAN, J.
No detailed description available.
COM LIT (F25)	105  CALIFORNIA LIT	GAMBER, J.
CL 105: California Literature “California is a story.” So begins Deborah Miranda’s Indigenous memoir Bad Indians. What kinds of stories shape our state? What do those stories tell us about our relationships to place and to each other? This course will examine both realist and speculative literatures not only set in California, but in which the state plays a major role. We’ll pay attention to texts by Native American, African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Arab American authors and the ways their narratives augment and complicate various constructions of what California is, has been, and should be.
COM LIT (F25)	123  DECOLONZNG CLASSICS	GIANNOPOULOU, Z.
No detailed description available.
COM LIT (F25)	130  WOMEN MYSTICS	COLMENARES GON, D.
No detailed description available.
COM LIT (F25)	143  LIT, ART, MEDIA	FARBMAN, H.
No detailed description available.
COM LIT (F25)	160  INDIGENOUS FILM	GAMBER, J.
CL 160: Global Indigenous Film This class engages in central issues of Indigeneity and explores contemporary film, video games, and literature created by Indigenous people from nations including those currently called Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Sweden. Primary questions we will address this include: What does it mean to be Indigenous? How do contemporary Indigenous people represent themselves? What issues are important to specific Indigenous communities? What issues are important across Indigenous communities? We will further pay particular attention to representations of gender and sexuality and human relationships to the other-than-human across these works.
COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	AMIRAN, E.
No detailed description available.
COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	CARROLL, A.
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COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	COLMENARES GON, D.
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COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	JOHNSON, A.
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COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	HARRIES, M.
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COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	MOR, L.
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COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	RAHIMIEH, N.
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COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	SCHWAB, G.
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COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	TERADA, R.
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COM LIT (F25)	199  INDPT STDY COMP LIT	STAFF
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