Introduction to the literature of US Latins/os. Includes poetry, prose fiction, essay, and film productions in Spanish. Emphasis on literary currents and their relation to history and culture.

Reading of extensive selections from Cicero's orations. Close analysis of texts, style, structure, content, and context of these works.

Selections in Latin from the Roman poet Vergil's epic, the Aeneid, with analysis of poetic structure, style, and cultural context. Prerequisite: 300-level course in Latin or equivalent with a grade of C or higher.

Not available at this time.

Selections from Greek historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybios, etc. Emphasis on the evolution of historiography in the ancient world. Prerequisite: 300-level course in Greek or equivalent.

This course examines historical, political, social and cultural developments, movements, and transformations in Germany since reunification. Students explore the fall of the Berlin Wall, Holocaust memory and memorialization, the GDR past, reunification, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and how Germans engage with these topics in literature, film, exhibits, memorials, and the media. In addition to the primary sources, course materials will include secondary sources on German history, politics, society, and culture. Conducted in English. (Gen.Ed. I)

Focusing on the development of the dissertation prospectus and its implementation, and on professional skills for the academic job market.

Readings of selected works written in the later Middle Ages in England, exclusive of Chaucer's. Lyrics, drama, dream-vision allegories, romances. The works as poetry and as expressions of medieval consciousness; how authors grapple with the problems of love, war, faith, social corruption and revolution.

A survey of novels written in the British Isles between 1789 and 1901, with emphasis on historical context, form and genre, and themes including industry and empire, gender and class, and religion and science.

Nineteenth-century background: the Irish Renaissance; such major figures as Yeats, Synge, Joyce and O'Casey; recent and contemporary writing. (Gen.Ed. AL)