Comparative Literature Program - Course Descriptions
Spring Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| COM LIT (S26) | 10 THEATER/FILM/MEDIA | HARRIES, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 60C CULTURAL STUDIES | CARROLL, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 105 NATIVE AM AUTOBIO | CARROLL, A. |
| CL 105: Native American Autobiographies This course examines autobiographies by Native American people to learn about the histories of Indigenous individuals and communities from their own perspectives. Students will engage with historical and political contexts, including US attempts to abolish Indigenous Peoples’ sovereignty and treaty rights; Indian Removal and the reservation system; colonial migration and settlement; federal Indian assimilation policy; and Indigenous Peoples’ continuing presence and resistance to ongoing US settler colonialism. Students will gain an introduction to uniquely Native American autobiographical forms, including as-told-to narratives; mixed genre works; visual texts; and storytelling methods that blend oral traditions, mythography, and cosmology with personal experience. Course materials include autobiography, memoir, mixed genre works, and academic essays by artists and scholars from the Dakota, Kiowa, Kumeyaay, Laguna Pueblo, Osage, and Pequot nations. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 132 FASCISM | FARBMAN, H. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 140 POSTPUNK | HARRIES, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 143 CONTEM KOREAN WOMEN | CHOI, C. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 144 THE STRANGER | FITOUSSI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 150 WOMEN WRITE THECITY | DIMENDBERG, E. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 150 SEPHARDIC WORLDS | BARON-BLOCH, R. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 190W ANTHROPOCENE TALES | JOHNSON, A. |
| CL 190W: Tales from the Anthropocene What do I mean by Tales from the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene is one of the names used to describe our current geologic epoch as one marked by significant human impact on Earth’s ecosystems, climate and geology. We will take our cue from a book by Amitav Ghosh called The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) in which he raises the question about the role of literature and the arts in facing processes of climate change and environmental degradation and the increased perception of fragility of the world. How, he asks, do the forms and genres we have inherited limit our capacity to engage with phenomena that seem too improbable or unthinkable, too other-worldly or uncanny, or which simply belong to time-scales so vast that we don't have the means to handle them? Starting with Ghosh’s question, we will explore the representational and conceptual challenges presented by environmental and material processes that fall outside the scope and scale of our practices of representation and how artistic practices might help rework the perceptual and conceptual habits that have dominated our relationship to our environment. In the first half of the course we will read other theoretical essays, short stories, a novel and explore a few examples of visual culture (films, photographs and other artistic exhibits). The second half will involve more time dedicated to your own research on this topic. As a designated upper-division writing seminar, the course will also devote substantial time to improving student writing; we will use Joseph Williams & Joseph Bizup’s Lessons in Clarity and Grace as our main resource for this purpose. We will conclude with a mini-conference in which you present your work to the rest of the class. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | AMIRAN, E. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | CARROLL, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | CARTER, J. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | COLMENARES GON, D. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | JOHNSON, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | MOR, L. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | RAHIMIEH, N. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | SCHWAB, G. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | TERADA, R. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| COM LIT (S26) | 199 INDPT STDY COMP LIT | THIONG'O, N. |
| No detailed description available. | ||