printer friendly pageCOMPLIT 194: Independent Research
(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Bender, J. (PI)
;
Berman, R. (PI)
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Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Bender, J. (PI)
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Berman, R. (PI)
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Brookshaw, D. (PI)
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Cohen, M. (PI)
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Daub, A. (PI)
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Dierkes, P. (PI)
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Eshel, A. (PI)
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Greene, R. (PI)
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Greenleaf, M. (PI)
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Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
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Karahan, B. (PI)
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Key, A. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
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Lee, H. (PI)
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Moretti, F. (PI)
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Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
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Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
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Parker, P. (PI)
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Saldivar, J. (PI)
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Saldivar, R. (PI)
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Wang, B. (PI)
COMPLIT 204: Indigenous Poetics and the Politics of Resistance (NATIVEAM 204)
In 1969 a group of university students and Native activists calling themselves the Indians of All Tribes gathered on Alcatraz Island in an act of political protest that would turn out to be the longest occupation of U.S. lands in the nation's history. Claiming title to the territory under a nineteenth-century treaty, the Indians of All Tribes broadcasted their protest through an independent radio show and newsletter that included important political and poetic writings by the activists. This course builds outward from the Occupation of Alcatraz to understand the deep historical relationship between political resistance and poetic expression in Indigenous communities. We will read broadly on poetics and Indigenous political theory, beginning with non-alphabetic writings and Indigenous understandings of communal and political life, and concluding with formally innovative collections by Indigenous poets working on issues like climate justice and language revitalization.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Hickey, A. (PI)
COMPLIT 208: The Cosmopolitan Introvert: Modern Greek Poetry and its Itinerants
Overview of the last century of Greek poetry with emphasis on modernism. Approximately 20 modern Greek poets (starting with Cavafy and Nobel laureates Seferis and Elytis and moving to more modern writers) are read and compared to other major European and American writers. The themes of the cosmopolitan itinerant and of the introvert, often co-existing in the same poet, connect these idiosyncratic voices. The course uses translations and requires no knowledge of Greek but original texts can also be shared with interested students. Note: The course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Ioannidis, J. (PI)
COMPLIT 216: Jazz and Literature (AFRICAAM 216)
This course explores the special connection between jazz and literature. In texts that range from American novels to the poetry of African independence movements, jazz emerges at once as a structuring principle (as in Toni Morrison's Jazz and James Baldwin's The Amen Corner) and a unifying theme (for example, Noémia de Sousa's "A Billie Holiday, Cantora"). It is also part of a larger philosophical discussion on rhythm that connects to deep questions of selfhood, ethics, democracy, listening, and vital force. If you love jazz and want to dig deeper into its possibilities or want to find new ways to express literature's power, this class provides the venue. The rest is, as Sonny Rollins put it, "creation and surprise."
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
COMPLIT 245: Introductory Ottoman Turkish
This course is an introduction to basic orthographic conventions and grammatical characteristics of Ottoman Turkish through readings in printed material from the 19th and 20th centuries. Selected readings will range from poetry to prose, from state documents, newspaper and journal articles to reference works. Course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Prior knowledge of modern Turkish is required (Completion of
COMPLIT 248A,
COMPLIT 248B Reading Turkish I&II and
COMPLIT 248C Advanced Turkish OR AMELANG 184 & 185 First & Second Year Turkish OR a solid knowledge of Turkish grammar.) Please contact the instructor for more information.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Karahan, B. (PI)
COMPLIT 248A: Reading Turkish I
Reading Turkish I is an introduction to the structures of the Turkish language necessary for reading. It is designed to develop reading competence in Turkish for graduate students. Undergraduates should consult the instructor before enrolling for the course. Essential grammar, syntax points, vocabulary, and reading skills will be emphasized. This is not a traditional language course that takes an integrated four-skill approach; since the goal is advanced reading level, the focus is mainly on grammar, reading comprehension, and translation. With full concentration on reading, we will be able to cover advanced material in a short amount of time. The course is conducted in English, but students will be exposed to the sounds of Turkish, and will have the opportunity to practice pronunciation in class. nnCOMPLIT 248A Reading Turkish I is followed by
COMPLIT 248B Reading Turkish II in the Winter and
COMPLIT 248C Advanced Turkish for Research in the Spring."
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Karahan, B. (PI)
COMPLIT 249A: The Iranian Cinema: Image and Meaning (GLOBAL 249A)
This course will focus on the analysis of ten Iranian films with the view of placing them in discourse on the semiotics of Iranian art and culture. The course will also look at the influence of a wide array of cinematic traditions from European, American, and Asian masters on Iranian cinema. Note: This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Beyzaie, B. (PI)
COMPLIT 303: Early Modern Prose Fictions (ENGLISH 302)
The course considers the English and European prose fictions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--romances, picaresques, pastorals, narratives of social class, and other genres--in the context of Renaissance and present-day theories of fiction. How is narrative form conditioned by social reality, and in turn how does it provide a zone for reflection on that reality in terms different from those of the more codified genres of drama and poetry?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Greene, R. (PI)
COMPLIT 315: Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye (COMPLIT 115, SLAVIC 156, SLAVIC 356)
How did the triumphant author of "the great American novel"
Lolita evolve from the young author writing at white heat for the tiny sad Russian emigration in Berlin? We will read his short stories and the novels
The Luzhin Defense, Invitation to a Beheading, Lolita, Lolita the film, and
Pale Fire, to see how Nabokov generated his sinister-playful forms as a buoyant answer to the "hypermodern" visual and film culture of pre-WWII Berlin, and then to America's all-pervading postwar "normalcy" in his pathological comic masterpieces
Lolita and
Pale Fire. Buy texts in translation at the Bookstore; Slavic grad students will supplement with reading and extra sessions in original Russian.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-5
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
COMPLIT 323: The Renaissance Atlantic
The seminar questions common ideas about early-modern Europe and the "modernity" then established. It looks at Africa, the Americas and Europe as equal partners in making what is now called the Renaissance. Among these ideas are those of the "subject" and the "other," of "history," fiction, "science," "literature," etc. We will discuss issues of cultural exchange; colonialism and postcolonialism; history and orature; the "fictive imagination" and the politics of "literature"; formations of "methodical" knowledge; and the very idea of Renaissance and all it entails for people's still-normative understanding of Euro-modernity. We will do this chiefly through texts from Africa and the Americas, as well as Spanish, English and French Europe. We look at invasion, cultural imposition, indigenous cultures and back-formation of European culture, and the aforementioned concepts and issues as they set certain kinds of cultural creations in place whose continuing dominance and supposed "universality" needs querying.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Reiss, T. (PI)
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