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COM LIT 10SPORTS & LITERATURESTAFFCL 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 10REFUGEES& DETENTIONMOR, L.
COM LIT 60AWORLD LITERATURENEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 105CALIFORNIA LITGAMBER, 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 123DECOLONZNG CLASSICSGIANNOPOULOU, Z.
COM LIT 130WOMEN MYSTICSCOLMENARES GON, D.
COM LIT 143LIT, ART, MEDIAFARBMAN, H.
COM LIT 160INDIGENOUS FILMGAMBER, 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 199INDPT STDY COMP LITTERADA, R.
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITSTAFF
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITRAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITSCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITMOR, L.
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITHARRIES, M.
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITCOLMENARES GON, D.
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITCARROLL, A.
COM LIT 199INDPT STDY COMP LITAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 210PLANETARY SURVIVALSCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 210BAROQUE FIGURATIONSCOLMENARES GON, D.
COM LIT 210PSYCH. DIGITL WRLDSAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 280APROFESSIONALIZATIONAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCESTAFF
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCETERADA, R.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCESCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCERAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCENEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEMOR, L.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEGOLDBERG, D.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCECARROLL, A.
COM LIT 290READING&CONFERENCEAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGNEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGRAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGSCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGTERADA, R.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGSTAFF
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGMOR, L.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGGOLDBERG, D.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGABBAS, A.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGCARROLL, A.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGFARBMAN, H.
COM LIT 291GUIDED READINGGAMBER, J.
COM LIT 292TEACHING PRACTICUMJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHRAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHSCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHTERADA, R.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHTHIONG'O, N.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHMALABOU, C.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHABBAS, A.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHNEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHMOR, L.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHSANTIAGO, A.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHCARROLL, A.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHFARBMAN, H.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHGOLDBERG, D.
COM LIT 298PRE-DISS RESEARCHJARRATT, S.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHNEWMAN, J.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHRAHIMIEH, N.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHSCHWAB, G.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHTERADA, R.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHLONG, M.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHRADHAKRISHNAN, R.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHSTAFF
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHMOR, L.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHJOHNSON, A.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHJARRATT, S.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHGOLDBERG, D.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHGAMBER, J.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHFARBMAN, H.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHCARROLL, A.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHAMIRAN, E.
COM LIT 299DISSERTATN RESEARCHABBAS, A.
COM LIT 399UNIVERSITY TEACHINGFARBMAN, H.