Poetry as Translation--Borders and Bridges: Activities for this course will include lectures/discussions on the theory of translation stressing specific problems of working with different languages, cultures, poetic traditions, and cognitive studies agendas (including theoretical utterances by Dreyden, Benjamin, Nabokov, and Brodsky); Regular critics/close discussions of the participants, translations, following their work in progress; Invited guest workshops. Students must demonstrate proficiency in a world language. The result of this course will be a portfolio of their poetic translations.