Culture and the Arts

Day/Time TBA Instructor Carranza A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and...

Day/Time TR 1:30–2:45pm Instructor Mitchell Examines the historical events in Europe A.D. 800 to A.D. 1100, and the resulting heroic legacy in medieval Icelandic sagas. The course focuses on Viking Age figures as warriors, kings, poets, outlaws and...

Day/Time R 12:00–2:45pm Instructor Mitchell Examines Nordic folklore and folklife, with an emphasis on narratives, supernatural beliefs, and material culture from the 15th to the early 20th centuries, interpreted against additional sources of information...

Day/Time T 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA This seminar considers the Frankfurt School's deliberations on film, radio, television, and mass culture. We will devote the majority of the course to three seminal figures: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin...

Day/Time MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM Instructor TBA Is the so-called American dream dead? The notion once essentialized the grand promise of a better, fuller, and richer life. At the present moment, however, it seems to have lost its evocative power as a...

Day/Time W 3:00–5:00pm Instructor Sütterlin How do we respond to a traumatic event? Denial, acceptance, blame, reconciliation… there are many stances we can take toward a harmful act we have experienced or committed in the past. When entire populations...

Day/Time T 12:00–2:45pm Instructor Sütterlin To explore key literary, cultural and critical theories, we pose questions through readings of classic and contemporary theorists, from Aristotle to Kant, Schiller, Arendt, Barthes, Foucault, Glissant, Ortiz...

Day/Time M-Th 9:00-10:15am Instructor Broomé A basic course focusing on listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. During fall term, pronunciation and listening comprehension will be emphasized, as well as regular writing assignments. Literary...