printer friendly pageDLCL 302: The Learning and Teaching of Second-Language Literatures
Focuses on the research on advanced level reading and writing in second language contexts with a special focus on upper-level cultural texts. Discussion of second language writing and reading assessment including a writing familiarization workshop. Participants will focus on their cognizant language and literature for the completion of their assignments. Prerequisite:
DLCL 301.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
DLCL 303: Language Program Management
Administrative Internship in Language Program Management. Experiences can include, but are not limited to, the following: Shadow faculty and staff in select areas of administration and supervision within the Language Center and DLCL; Placement testing and student advisement; Technology in teaching and learning; Processes for teacher observation and feedback; Procedures in staff supervision and Human Resources; Course scheduling, budgeting, staffing, and searches; Interface with external programs (e.g. BOSP, Bechtel, CTL).
Terms: Win, Sum
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
DLCL 311: Professional Workshop
Meets regularly throughout the year to discuss issues in the professional study of literature. Topics include the academic job market and the challenges of research and teaching at different types of institutions. Supervised by the graduate affairs committee of the DLCL. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Surwillo, L. (PI)
DLCL 320: Humanities Education in the Changing University (COMPLIT 275, GERMAN 250)
Advanced study in the humanities faces changes within fields, the university and the wider culture. Considers the debate over the status of the humanities with regard to historical genealogies and current innovations. Particular attention on changes in doctoral education. Topics include: origins of the research university; disciplines and specialization; liberal education in conflict with professionalization; literature and literacy education; interdisciplinarity as a challenge to departments; education policy; digital humanities; accountability in education, assessment and student-centered pedagogies.
Last offered: Winter 2013
DLCL 321: Classical Seminar: Rethinking Classics (CLASSICS 244)
Literary and philosophical texts from Antiquity (including Homer, the Greek tragedians, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and Augustine). In each case, we will examine the cultural contexts in which each text was composed (e.g. political regimes and ideologies; attitudes towards gender and sexuality; hierarchies of class and status; discourses on "barbarians" and resident aliens). We will study various theoretical approaches to these books in an effort to "rethink" these texts in the 21st century.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Nightingale, A. (PI)
DLCL 322: Medieval Seminar
The cultural,literary, and artistic evolution of the Middle Ages. The barbarian invasions and the Germanic ethos, the Celtic heritage,and the monastic tradition. Romanesque art and architecture,pilgrimages,and the Crusades. Gothic aesthetics, chivalry and courtly love, scholasticism, and the rise of universities. The late Middle Ages, humanism, and the threshold of the Renaissance. Texts include: Beowulf, Mabinogion, Song of Roland, Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot and Yvain, Dante's Divine Comedy, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.nn3-5 units
DLCL 323: Early Modern Seminar (ITALIAN 220)
Explores some of the key texts of European early modernity and the critical paradigms according to which the idea of the "Renaissance" has been formed, analyzed, and questioned since the 19th century. Will aim to provide a broad introduction to Early Modern studies from the point of view of the Italian Renaissance and its reception in different European contexts. Taught in English.
Last offered: Autumn 2012
DLCL 324: The Enlightenment (FRENCH 244, HISTORY 234, HISTORY 334, HISTORY 432A, HUMNTIES 324)
The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
;
Riskin, J. (PI)
DLCL 325: Modern Seminar
The postmodern condition as post-WWII rupture in Western tradition; moral, political, cultural, and aesthetical dimensions. Sources include literature, philosophy, essays, films, and painting. Authors and artists include: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, Alain Resnais, Samuel Beckett, Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, David Riesman, Georges Perec, Juliet Mitchell, and Francis Bacon. *Please note: course meets 9/6/16-9/16/16
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Surwillo, L. (PI)
DLCL 333: Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (PHIL 333)
May be repeat for credit
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 20 units total)
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
;
Hills, D. (PI)
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