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HIEU 708 - Ancient History
Introduces non-literary materials of use to the historian in correcting and/or amplifying the literary record, including inscriptions, papyri, coins, etc. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 711 - Medieval History
Reading and discussion of selected topics in medieval history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 721 - The Renaissance
Studies European politics and society from the commercial revolution to Cateau Cambresis. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 722 - The Age of Reformation
Surveys current problems in the history of the religion, science, philosophy, politics, economics, and social structure. Covers Europe (especially England, France, Germany, and Italy), 1350-1750. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 723 - Early Modern Europe
A colloquium on central topics of European history, 1400-1789, emphasizing developments in social, political, economic, and cultural history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 724 - Popular Religion 1300-1800
Traditionally, the history of religion was limited to the study of formal theology and ecclesiastical institutions. It has now become common to ask what the religious ideas and experience of ordinary people was, and to examine the connection between formal dogma and lay piety. Course introduces some of the most exciting works of this new direction and establishes bridges between history and religious studies, between the late medieval and early modern periods, and between intellectual and social history. Cross-listed as RELC 724. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 726 - Early Modern England
Readings and discussion on special topics in the period 1485 to 1760. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 727 - Early Modern Inquisitions
Close examination of the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions: their initial and later targets, the theological and legal premises on which they operated, the ways in which modern scholars can use surviving Inquisition records. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate students or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 729 - Modern European Social History
A comparative approach to major changes and problems in political, social, and cultural history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 730 - History of Science
Introduces the historiography of science, and especially to new approaches which integrate the history of the natural and social sciences into intellectual, social, political, and economic history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 731 - The Enlightenment
Intensive reading and discussion of the primary and secondary literature. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 732 - Europe in the Eighteenth Century and Revolutionary Period
Intensive readings on Europe, 1715-1799, emphasizing the origins of the French Revolution. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 733 - The Fortune of Gender in Early Modern Europe
After tracing the emergence in the 1790s of the history of women and a decade later the history of gender as coherent modes of investigation, we shall examine recent developments and tensions in these fields by discussing important monographs and collections of essays. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 739 - Europe Since 1789
Intensive reading and discussion of topics in comparative European history since 1789. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 740 - Nineteenth-Century Europe
Intensive reading and discussion of the secondary literature. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 741 - European Economic History
Intensive reading and discussion of topics in European economic history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 745 - Twentieth-Century Europe
Intensive reading in selected topics, emphasizing new or emerging nations in Europe. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 750 - Modern France
A reading course devoted to the historiography of France 1700. Emphasizes recent trends in the literature. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: HIEU 350 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 756 - Victorian England
Selected topics in the history of England from 1815 to the late 19th century. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 761 - Russia 1894-1917
Russia in the revolutionary era, 1894-1917. Study of Russian society, its institutions, culture, and the revolutionary forces confronting the Tsarist regime in the reign of Nicholas II. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 766 - Russian Social and Cultural History, 1815 to the Present
A comparative approach, through readings and discussion, to trends in social and cultural history during the last century of the monarchy and in the Soviet period. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 778 - Modern European Intellectual History
Selected literature in modern European intellectual history, broadly defined. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 801 - Ancient History
Topics to be chosen by the instructor. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 802 - Intermediate Research Seminar
For master’s candidates in European history emphasizing individual research projects. Allows students to complete their master’s essays. Provides training in research techniques and general historiographical issues. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: An 800-level course or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 811 - Medieval History
Credits: 3
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HIEU 821 - The Renaissance
Credits: 3
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HIEU 822 - The Reformation
A research seminar. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 823 - Early Modern Europe
A research seminar in topics pertaining to the history of Europe in the
16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Offered as required. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 824 - Early Modern Europe
A research seminar in topics pertaining to the history of Europe in the
16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Offered as required. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 825 - History of Russian Empire
Topics to be chosen by the instructor. Offered as required. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 826 - Early Modern England
Credits: 3
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HIEU 833 - Saints and Society
This seminar examines Christian holy people in medieval and early modern Europe, and in other regions coming under European influence. With emphasis on change over time, topics include popular perceptions and official definitions of holiness, literary and artistic genres in which holiness was represented, differences between the Catholic Church’s and other denominations’ use of holy people. Major research paper required. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate student status in History or another humanities discipline.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 840 - Nineteenth-Century European History
Reading and research in selected topics, with emphasis on Germany and Austria. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 845 - Twentieth-Century Europe
A research seminar. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 846 - Twentieth-Century Europe and Russia
For students working in any geographical area of 20th-century Europe. Topics selected by students in consultation with instructor. Helps students begin research for M.A. theses and doctoral dissertations. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 856 - Victorian England
A research seminar. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 864 - Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy
Offered as required. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 865 - Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy
Offered as required. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 867 - Russian History
A discussion of selected problems in Russian history during the late Imperial and Soviet periods with emphasis upon political, social, and cultural history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIEU 878 - Modern European Intellectual History
A research seminar. (IR)
Credits: 3
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FREN 101G - Reading
Preparatory course in grammar and translation for graduate students who need to take a reading exam in French. Students who complete FREN 101G should be able to read and translate French texts with the proper dictionaries and grammar resources. Not a course in speaking, writing, or listening comprehension. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Open only to graduate students.
Credits: 0
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FREN 501 - Development of French Language Skills
Grammar, stylistics, composition, and translation (thème et version). (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: at least two courses at the 400 level with an average grade of B+.
Credits: 3
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FREN 508 - Introduction to Reading Old French
Readings from several varieties of Old French, including the Île-de-France, Picard, and Anglo-Norman dialects. Considers the derivation of French from Latin. Taught in English. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Good reading knowledge of modern French.
Credits: 3
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FREN 509 - Introduction to Old Provencal Language and Literature
Old Provencal (alias Old Occitan) as a grammatical system with some attention to its derivation from Latin. Readings of simple prose texts followed by poetic selections of the troubadours. Taught in English. (SI)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: FREN 508 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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FREN 510 - Medieval Literature in Modern French I
Introduces literary forms, habits of style and thought, and conditions of composition from the late eleventh century to the late thirteenth. Chanson de Roland, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, lyric poetry, etc. (E)
Credits: 3
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FREN 511 - Medieval Literature in Modern French II
An inquiry into the literary culture of the period from the late thirteenth century to the late fifteenth. Topics include the Roman de la Rose, Joinville, and Froissart; the development of drama; new lyric forms, early humanism; Villon; and problems of literary history and hermeneutics for a neglected period in French culture. (O)
Credits: 3
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FREN 520 - Literature of the Sixteenth Century: Poetry
Studies the developments in theory and practice of French Renaissance poetry and poetics as seen in works by the Rhetoriqueurs, including Marot, Sebillet, Sceve, Labe, Du Bellay, Ronsard, and d’Aubigne. (O)
Credits: 3
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FREN 521 - Literature of the Sixteenth Century: Prose
Studies important trends in Renaissance thought and style as seen in the works of major prose writers including Erasmus, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, and Montaigne. (E)
Credits: 3
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FREN 527 - French Phonetics and Phonology
Studies the French sound system, both in theory and practice. Provides essential articulatory phonetics, distinctive features, morphophonemics, prosodics and contrastive analysis. Practice in the production, recognition, and transcription of speech sounds. Opportunity for the correction and improvement of individual problems in French pronunciation. Involves classroom and laboratory instruction. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Not open to undergraduates who have taken FREN 427 or the equivalent.
Credits: 3
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FREN 529 - Applied Linguistics: French
A synchronic study of the structure of French to be made through a contrastive analysis of French as a target language and English as a source language. Analysis considers syntax primarily; some elements of semantics also are considered. The theoretical assumptions lead to practical procedures applicable in a teaching situation. (SI)
Credits: 3
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FREN 530 - Literature of the Seventeenth Century
Studies art forms and society during the baroque and classical periods
of French literary history. Readings in theater, fiction, rhetoric, and
poetry. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 531 - Literature of the Seventeenth Century
Studies art forms and society during the baroque and classical periods
of French literary history. Readings in theater, fiction, rhetoric, and
poetry. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 540 - Literature of the Eighteenth Century I
Religious, moral, and political thinking as reflected in the works of Bayle, Fontenelle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Helvetius, and others. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 541 - Literature of the Eighteenth Century II
Developing trends in traditional genres (drama, novel, poetry), as reflected in the works of Le Sage, Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Diderot, Chenier, Voltaire, Prevost, Rousseau, and others. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 545 - Topics in Cultural Studies
Interdisciplinary seminar in French and Francophone culture. Topics vary. (IR)
Credits: 3
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FREN 550 - Literature of the Nineteenth Century
Studies romanticism, realism, naturalism, and symbolism. Analyzes
representative texts of de Staël, Chateaubriand, Constant, Lamartine,
Hugo, Vigny, Musset, Sand, Nerval, Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal, Zola,
Huysmans, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Mallarmé. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 551 - Literature of the Nineteenth Century
Studies romanticism, realism, naturalism, and symbolism. Analyzes
representative texts of de Staël, Chateaubriand, Constant, Lamartine,
Hugo, Vigny, Musset, Sand, Nerval, Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal, Zola,
Huysmans, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Mallarmé. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 560 - Literature of the Twentieth Century
Principal literary movements and representative authors in the novel. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 561 - Literature of the Twentieth Century
Principal literary movements and representative authors in drama and poetry. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 570 - African Literature
Studies the principal movements and representative authors writing in French in Northern, Central, and Western Africa, with special reference to the islands of Madagascar and Mauritius. Includes the literary and social history of those regions. (O)
Credits: 3
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FREN 571 - New World Literature
Introduces the French-language literatures of Canada and the Caribbean in their historical and esthetic context. Includes drama, fiction and poetry. FREN 571 or 570 are normally a prerequisite to advanced work in Francophone literature at the 800 level. (E)
Credits: 3
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FREN 580 - Literature and Society
Studies French cultural manifestations (literature, arts, education, popular culture) from various socio-historical perspectives. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 593 - Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization (S)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in French or at least two courses at the 400-level with grades of B+ or better
Credits: 3
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FREN 594 - Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization (S)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in French or at least two courses at the 400-level with grades of B+ or better
Credits: 3
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FREN 598 - Thesis Research
Preliminary research for master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. (SI)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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FREN 599 - Thesis (M.A.)
Composition and defense of master’s thesis. (SI)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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FREN 700 - Proseminar
Required of all graduate students in French unless exempted by the graduate advisor. Studies the motivations, ideas, and methods of literary theory, criticism and historiography (including genre studies); and the materials and methods of literary research. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in French or at least two courses at the 400 level with grades of B+ or better
Credits: 3
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FREN 702 - Linguistics
Introduces linguistic theory with applications to pedagogical and literary studies. (IR)
Credits: 3
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FREN 704 - Theories and Methods of Language Teaching
Introduces the pedagogical approaches currently practiced in second-language courses at the university level. Critically examines the theories underlying various methodologies, and their relation to teaching. Assignments include development and critique of pedagogical material; peer observation and analysis; and a final teaching portfolio project. (Y)
Credits: 1 to 3
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FREN 710 - Old French
Credits: 3
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FREN 711 - History of the French Language
Studies the development of the French language from its origin to the present day with an examination of the oldest linguistic documents. Given in French or English as appropriate. (IR)
Credits: 3
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FREN 712 - Old Provencal I, II
Old Provencal I, II
Credits: 3
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FREN 713 - Old Provencal I, II
Old Provencal I, II
Credits: 3
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FREN 810 - Seminar in Medieval Literature
(a) Chansons de geste, chroniques, memories.
(b) Vies des saints, romans.
(c) Poesie non-narrative, theatre.
(d) Satire et humanisme. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: FREN 508.
Credits: 3
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FREN 820 - Seminar in Sixteenth-Century Literature
(a) Rabelais.
(b) Montaigne. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 830 - Seminar in Seventeenth-Century Literature
(a) Moliere.
(b) Racine.
(c) Corneille.
(d) The Moralists.
(e) The Lyric of the early seventeenth century.
(f) La Fontaine.
(g) Contes et Nouvelles. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 840 - Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Theater.
(d) Novel.
(e) Rousseau.
(f) Marivaux. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 850 - Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Zola.
(c) Balzac.
(d) Stendhal.
(e) Symbolist Theater.
(f) Naturalistic Novel.
(g) Musset.
(h) Hugo.
(i) Baudelaire and Nerval.
(j) La Decadence.
(k) Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarme.
(l) George Sand.
(m) Vigny. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 860 - Seminar in Twentieth-Century Literature
(a) Proust.
(b) Gide.
(c) Theater.
(d) Roman-fleuve.
(e) Existentialism.
(f) New Novel.
(g) Valery.
(h) Dada and Surrealism.
(i) Supervielle and St. John Perse. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 870 - Seminar in Francophone Literature
Studies the Francophone literature of Africa, with special emphasis on post-World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights. Examines the role of cultural and literary reviews in the historical and ideological development. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FREN 880 - Selected Topics in French Civilization
In-depth studies of cultural topics and research methodologies in French civilization. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: FREN 580 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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FREN 893 - Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Credits: 3
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FREN 894 - Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Independent Study/Selected Topics in French Literature and/or Civilization
Credits: 3
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FREN 897 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. (Y)
Credits: 3 to 12
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FREN 997 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. (Y)
Credits: 3 to 12
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FREN 999 - Dissertation Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. (Y)
Credits: 3 to 12
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French in Translation |
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FRTR 790 - Comparative Caribbean Culture
Comparative examination of contemporary culture in the Caribbean region with an emphasis on literature. Considers historical writing (essays), musical forms, and film as manifestations of the process of creolization in the area. Questions of ethnic diversity and nation-building are central to the course. (Y)
Credits: 3
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FRTR 791 - Comparative Caribbean Literature
A comparative examination of postcolonialism and postmodernism in the Caribbean region, emphasizing the dynamics of center and margin. Texts are taken from the anglophone, francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 503 - Readings in Chinese Religion
Examines selected readings from a specific text, figure, or theme. Readings emphasize possible structures of religious language and their translation. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 506 - Interpretation of Myth
An interdisciplinary study of myth, focusing on structuralist, hermeneutical, and history of religion methodologies. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 507 - Interpretation Theory
Analyzes existentialist, phenomenological, structuralist, literary, historical, and psychological approaches to the interpretation of texts, especially narrative religious texts; and the interactions of language, history, and understanding. (O)
Credits: 3
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RELG 508 - Seminar on Religion and American Culture I
Historical examination of Americans’ religious identities in relation to the dominant values of American social and intellectual life, with particular attention to the concept of community. Subjects include Puritanism, the Mennonites, the Shakers, Mormonism, and the growth of Evangelicalism. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: A course in either American history or American religious history. Open to upper-level undergraduates.
Credits: 3
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RELG 514 - Seminar on a Major Religious Thinker
Studies the relationship between philosophical and religious thought as seen in a selected philosopher or theologian. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 515 - Issues in Religious Ethics
Studies selected issues such as mysticism and morality, conscience, natural law, nonviolence, and methodology in religious ethics. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 517 - Seminar in History of Religions
Introduces the basic thinkers in the field of history of religions and to fundamental problems in the study of religious sociology, mythology, and ritual. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 518 - Seminar in Philosophical Theology
Studies ideas of God in Western thought from Plato through Descartes. (O)
Credits: 3
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RELG 524 - Problems in Philosophy of Religion
Examines classic and contemporary discussions of problems in the philosophy of religion. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 541 - Seminar in Social and Political Thought
An examination of the social and political thought of selected religious thinkers. (O)
Credits: 3
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RELG 563 - Seminar: Issues in the Study of Religion and Literature
Analyzes, in terms of fundamental theory, the purposes, problems, and possibilities of interdisciplinary work in religion and literary criticism. (S)
Credits: 3
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RELG 569 - Contemporary Religious Movements
Studies the psychological, sociological, and political dimensions of conversion and ideological commitment in selected contemporary religious movements. (IR)
Credits: 3
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