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COMPLIT 131: Coming of Age in the Middle Ages
It is often said that adolescence is a modern invention, and that people in earlier times expected children to act like adults as soon as they were physically able to do so. But the literature that survives from the European Middle Ages reveals a deep preoccupation with questions of how to form socially-competent individuals. What role did literature play in disseminating norms and models for adult behavior? This course introduces students to a range of works from 1100 to 1500CE that portray the process of becoming an adult or prescribe what it should look like: behavior manuals, treatises, epic narratives, romances, and literary 'letters' from parents to children. Students gain familiarity with a range of historic genres and develop skills in close reading and critical analysis. Readings are in English.
COMPLIT 133A: Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, AFRICAST 132, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)
This course explores texts and films from Francophone Africa and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course will explore the connections between Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb and the Caribbean through both foundational and contemporary works while considering their engagement with the historical and political contexts in which they were produced. This course will also serve to improve students' speaking and writing skills in French while sharpening their knowledge of the linguistic and conceptual tools needed to conduct literary analysis. The diverse topics discussed in the course will include national and cultural identity, race and class, gender and sexuality, orality and textuality, transnationalism and migration, colonialism and decolonization, history and memory, and the politics of language. Readings include the works of writers and filmmakers such as Djibril Tamsir Niane, Léopold Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Albert Memmi, Patrick Chamoiseau, Leonora Miano, Leila Slimani, Dani Laferrière and Ousmane Sembène. Taught in French. Students are highly encouraged to complete FRENLANG 124 or to successfully test above this level through the Language Center. This course fulfills the Writing in the Major (WIM) requirement.
Terms: Aut, Sum | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: MacKinnon, C. (PI) ; Olatunji, Z. (PI) ; Seck, F. (PI)
COMPLIT 133A | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 18316 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | SEM | Remote: Synchronous
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Mon, Wed 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM at Remote with MacKinnon, C. (PI); Seck, F. (PI)
Instructors: MacKinnon, C. (PI); Seck, F. (PI)
COMPLIT 133A | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 2960 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | SEM | Remote: Synchronous
06/21/2021 - 08/27/2021 - at Remote with Olatunji, Z. (PI)
Instructors: Olatunji, Z. (PI)
COMPLIT 134A: Classics of Persian Literature (COMPLIT 234)
Why do poems that were written hundreds of years ago still capture the imagination? How is love configured in the texts of a distant culture? Who sings the tales and who are the heroes? This course offers an introduction to the central works of Persian literature, from the 10th century to the present, across the genres of epic, romance, lyric, and novel. As we become acquainted with texts from a millennium of literary history, we will touch upon questions of performance (music and dance), storytelling, profane and divine love, the nature of spiritual quests, the development of narrative and poetic form, the formal and ethical aspects of translation, and, finally, the meaning of modernity in a non-Western context. Readings include: the Book of Kings by Ferdowsi (d.1020); Layla and Majnun by Nezami (d.1209); The Conference of the Birds by Attar (d.1221); selections from the Masnavi and Divan of Rumi (d.1273); the Rose Garden by Sa`di (d.1292), selections from the Divan of Hafez (d.1390); The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (d.1951); and selected modern poems. Taught in English.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: Huber, M. (PI) ; Shuchmacher Endebo, N. (TA)
COMPLIT 134A | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 23968 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | SEM | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 2
01/11/2021 - 03/19/2021 Mon, Wed 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM at Remote with Huber, M. (PI); Shuchmacher Endebo, N. (TA)
Instructors: Huber, M. (PI); Shuchmacher Endebo, N. (TA)
COMPLIT 142: The Literature of the Americas (AMSTUD 142, CSRE 142, ENGLISH 172E)
A wide-ranging overview of the literatures of the Americas inncomparative perspective, emphasizing continuities and crises that are common to North American, Central American, and South American literatures as well as the distinctive national and cultural elements of a diverse array of primary works. Topics include the definitions of such concepts as empire and colonialism, the encounters between worldviews of European and indigenous peoples, the emergence of creole and racially mixed populations, slavery, the New World voice, myths of America as paradise or utopia, the coming of modernism, twentieth-century avant-gardes, and distinctive modern episodes--the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, magic realism, Noigandres--in unaccustomed conversation with each other.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Saldivar, R. (PI)
COMPLIT 142 | 5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II | Class # 24025 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | LEC | Remote: Synchronous
03/29/2021 - 06/04/2021 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at Remote with Saldivar, R. (PI)
COMPLIT 142B: Translating Japan, Translating the West (JAPAN 121, JAPAN 221)
Translation lies at the heart of all intercultural exchange. This course introduces students to the specific ways in which translation has shaped the image of Japan in the West, the image of the West in Japan, and Japan's self-image in the modern period. What texts and concepts were translated by each side, how, and to what effect? No prior knowledge of Japanese language necessary.
Last offered: Winter 2020 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
COMPLIT 145: Reflection on the Other: The Arab Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film (AMELANG 126, JEWISHST 106)
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
COMPLIT 145 | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 4394 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | SEM | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 9
01/11/2021 - 03/19/2021 Mon, Wed 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM at Remote with Shemtov, V. (PI)
COMPLIT 148: Transcultural Perspectives of South-East Asian Music and Arts (COMPLIT 267, FRENCH 260A, MUSIC 146N, MUSIC 246N)
This course will explore the links between aspects of South-East Asian cultures and their influence on modern and contemporary Western art and literature, particularly in France; examples of this influence include Claude Debussy (Gamelan music), Jacques Charpentier (Karnatak music), Auguste Rodin (Khmer art) and Antonin Artaud (Balinese theater). In the course of these interdisciplinary analyses - focalized on music and dance but not limited to it - we will confront key notions in relation to transculturality: orientalism, appropriation, auto-ethnography, nostalgia, exoticism and cosmopolitanism. We will also consider transculturality interior to contemporary creation, through the work of contemporary composers such as Tran Kim Ngoc, Chinary Ung and Tôn-Thât Tiêt. Viewings of sculptures, marionette theater, ballet, opera and cinema will also play an integral role. To satisfy a Ways requirement, this course must be taken for at least 3 units. In AY 2020-21, a letter grade or `CR¿ grade satisfies the Ways requirement. WIM credit in Music at 4 units and a letter grade.
Instructors: Kretz, H. (PI)
COMPLIT 148 | 2-4 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 31484 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | SEM | Remote: Synchronous
01/11/2021 - 03/19/2021 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at Remote with Kretz, H. (PI)
COMPLIT 149: The Laboring of Diaspora & Border Literary Cultures (CSRE 149, ILAC 149)
Focus is given to emergent theories of culture and on comparative literary and cultural studies. How do we treat culture as a social force? How do we go about reading the presence of social contexts within cultural texts? How do ethno-racial writers re-imagine the nation as a site with many "cognitive maps" in which the nation-state is not congruent with cultural identity? How do diaspora and border narratives/texts strive for comparative theoretical scope while remaining rooted in specific local histories. Note: This course must be taken for a letter grade to be eligible for WAYS credit. In AY 2020-21, a "CR" grade will satisfy the WAYS requirement.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Saldivar, J. (PI) ; Wager, J. (TA)
COMPLIT 149 | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 2208 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | SEM | Remote: Synchronous
03/29/2021 - 06/04/2021 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at Remote with Saldivar, J. (PI); Wager, J. (TA)
Instructors: Saldivar, J. (PI); Wager, J. (TA)
COMPLIT 154A: Film & Philosophy (ENGLISH 154F, FRENCH 154, ITALIAN 154, PHIL 193C, PHIL 293C)
Issues of authenticity, morality, personal identity, and the value of truth explored through film; philosophical investigation of the filmic medium itself. Screenings to include Blade Runner (Scott), Do The Right Thing (Lee), The Seventh Seal (Bergman), Fight Club (Fincher), La Jetée (Marker), Memento (Nolan), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Kaufman). Taught in English.
Instructors: Dannenberg, J. (PI) ; Landy, J. (PI) ; Jaarte, M. (TA) ... more instructors for COMPLIT 154A »
Instructors: Dannenberg, J. (PI) ; Landy, J. (PI) ; Jaarte, M. (TA) ; Salvidea, G. (TA) ; Soler, C. (TA) ; Zurita, V. (TA)
COMPLIT 154A | 3 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Class # 32614 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | LEC | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 38
01/11/2021 - 03/19/2021 Wed 2:30 PM - 4:20 PM at Remote with Dannenberg, J. (PI); Landy, J. (PI); Jaarte, M. (TA); Salvidea, G. (TA); Soler, C. (TA); Zurita, V. (TA)
Instructors: Dannenberg, J. (PI); Landy, J. (PI); Jaarte, M. (TA); Salvidea, G. (TA); Soler, C. (TA); Zurita, V. (TA)
COMPLIT 155A: The Mafia in Society, Film, and Fiction (ITALIAN 155)
The mafia has become a global problem through its infiltration of international business, and its model of organized crime has spread all over the world from its origins in Sicily. At the same time, film and fiction remain fascinated by a romantic, heroic vision of the mafia. Compares both Italian and American fantasies of the Mafia to its history and impact on Italian and global culture. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Wittman, L. (PI)
COMPLIT 155A | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI | Class # 23952 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | SEM | Remote: Synchronous
03/29/2021 - 06/04/2021 Tue, Thu 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM at Remote with Wittman, L. (PI)
COMPLIT 155A | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI | Class # 23953 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | DIS | Remote: Synchronous