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LLC 401 - Elementary Language Study I
Credits:
4.00
Generic course introduces students to a foreign language
and culture through speaking, listening, reading, writing,
labs and films. Designed for students without previous
training in the specified language. 401-402 taken together
satisfies the foreign language requirement. Special fee.
LLC 402 - Elementary Language Study II
Credits:
4.00
See description for LLC 401. Special fee.
LLC 440 - Cultural Approaches to Film and Fascism
Credits:
4.00
Taking a transnational perspective, this course examines
the phenomenon of fascism through its cinematic
representation. Analyzes definitions of fascism, narrative
representations of fascism and the role of propaganda in
fascism. Special fee.
LLC 444 - Walls: Mortar and Metaphor
Credits:
4.00
Introduces the critical habits and skills of inquiry-based
learning. As a General Education 8 course in Literature
and Ideas it focuses on the wall as a "concrete" aspect of
everyday material culture and as a metaphorical site of
cultural and ideological definition, experience, memory and
expression in diverse contexts. Students keep a journal,
write a research paper in multiple drafts and write a final
essay. Writing intensive.
LLC 444A - Love and Nation in German Film
Credits:
4.00
In this course, we look at German films from the early
Weimar period to the present. Our main question is: What
connections exist between love stories and the creation of
national identity in films from different periods of German
history? We learn to read films as an aesthetic text with a
narrative and form and as an historical text with a social
and political function. Special fee. Writing intensive.
LLC 444B - France and the European Union in a Global World
Credits:
4.00
Encourages students in their freshman year of college-level
education to move beyond the US borders, to make
connections with the diversity of European cultures, and to
think as citizens of a global world. This introductory
course focuses on contemporary France from the perspective
of a long European historical and cultural tradition, as
well as in the new context of post-May 29, 2005. (French
vote against the EU Constitution) The icons on both sides
of the Euro banknotes serve as illustrations of the scope
of this course: bridges will be established between
European countries, and windows will open onto 21st
Century France at a critical crossroad. This course
ultimately leads students to ask themselves new questions
about their own history, identity and culture. Special fee.
Writing intensive.
LLC 444C - World of Salvador Dali
Credits:
4.00
Students investigate essential components of modern culture
and Western tradition through the mind, art and writing of
Salvador Dali. This interdisciplinary course poses
fundamental, universal questions about human existence
including death, rebirth, eternity and God, sexuality and
love as well as the irrational dark side of our psyche.
Certain cultural movements such as the Surrealist movement,
Freudian psychoanalysis, the Gothic tradition and modern
scientific discoveries and concepts are also explored.
Special fee. Writing intensive.
LLC 444D - Love in Disguise
Credits:
4.00
This course is designed around the theme of love in
disguise, which we will study in French dramas (in
translation) from the 17th to the 20th centuries. In each
play one or more characters use a disguise to obtain or
confirm a romantic attachment and each play uses disguise
in a somewhat different manner. The course considers the
French drama over four centuries through a coherent body of
texts. As time allows, we will view films based on these
plays and/or have brief performances of selected passages.
Students are required to participate actively in this
course (attendance, participation in class discussion, and
text presentation). Students are also required to attend a
performance of the University's Celebrity Series. Writing
intensive.
LLC 444E - Italians Come to America: Representing Emigration and Immigration on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Credits:
4.00
Course is designed around the phenomenon of emigration from
Italy to the United States over the last century or so,
with particular attention to the time period between the
end of the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth
century. While core media under examination are literature
and film, we also draw on historical, anthropological,
political and sociological readings to help us consider the
many issues involved.
LLC 450 - Film and Communism
Credits:
4.00
Examines Communist mythology from its birth to its
deconstruction through film. Particular attention is
focused on the instructive nature of Soviet film
(1917-1991) and the cultural idioms used in this medium,
but the course also examines Liberation Cinema and leftist
filmmaking in the West. Films, readings, lectures,
discussion. No prerequisites. Special fee.
LLC 503 - Intermediate Language Study I
Credits:
4.00
Generic language course. Review of grammar with emphasis on
listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing.
Increasing attention to contemporary cultural texts of the
given language. Prereq: LLC 401-402 or equivalent or by
permission of instructor. Satisfies foreign language
requirement. Lab and films. Special fee.
LLC 504 - Intermediate Language Study II
Credits:
4.00
Generic language course. Review of grammar with emphasis
on listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and
writing. Increasing attention to contemporary cultural
texts of the given language. Prereq: LLC 503 or permission.
Satisfies foreign language requirement. Lab and films.
Special fee.
LLC #540 - Film History
Credits:
4.00
Examines the historical development of film from a global
perspective and the emergence of national cinemas as well
as the cross-cultural influences that have produced the
modern transnational film industry. Special fee.
LLC 642 - Theory and Practice of Translation
Credits:
4.00
This course is designed both as an introduction to various
theories and philosophies of translation and as an
intensive workshop on different types of translation
(literary, technical, professional, business, and health
related, etc.). Translation is both a simple matter of
transferring content and an intensely complex process of
adapting linguistic, tonal, and cultural components of
communication. The course works extensively on the craft of
translation while developing detailed analyses of the
theoretical and philosophical implications of choices made.
Students complete various translation exercises and develop
a significant final project. It is open to students at
different levels of language ability but requires at least
an itermediate competency. Students work at their own
level. Taught in English. Prereq: Intermediate language or
permission.
LLC 791 - Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
Credits:
4.00
Objectives, methods and techniques in teaching foreign
languages from elementary grades through college.
Discussion, demonstration, preparation of instructional
materials, microteaching of the language skills, including
developments in computer-aided instruction. Special fee.
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