DANCE PRODUCTION

A laboratory course based on the preparation and performance of department productions. Students may elect to fulfill course requirements from a wide array of production related responsibilities, including stage crew. It may not be used for performance or choreography. May be taken four times for credit, with a maximum of two credits per semester.

SPECIAL STUDIES

For qualified juniors and seniors. Admission by permission of the instructor and the chair of the department. Departmental permission forms required. May be substituted for DAN 399 with permission of the department. May be taken twice for credit.

SPECIAL STUDIES

Advanced research, translation work or other scholarly project, normally building on work from a previous course with a faculty member appointed in comparative literature. Offered both semesters, with the permission of the instructor and of the program director. Qualified juniors and seniors should contact the instructor during the prior semester and must submit written proposals; to the director by the end of the first week of classes. The student presents her work publicly at the Collaborations event in April. Credits: 4

SEM:PROBLEMS IN LITERARY THEOR

Topics course. The concept of cosmopolitanism has recently gone through a process of democratization. Dismissing the singular "cosmopolitanism" as a form of Eurocentric universalism, critics today study a plurality of cosmopolitanisms, focusing on transnational experiences, both elite and subaltern, Western and non-Western. How can we study comparative literature within this new framework? If the Western canon is no longer setting the standards, what are the new aesthetic values?

INTRO TO HOMERIC EPIC

An introduction to Homeric Greek via selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey. May be repeated for credit, provided that the topic is not the same. Prerequisite: 212 or permission of the instructor. Attention to features of oral style and epic diction, to the structure of the poem, and to the anger and evolution of Achilles, the quintessential Homeric hero.
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