Reads Joyce's Ulysses in depth, and within modern history and modernist culture. Considers contemporary contexts and the theoretical corpus to which the novel has given rise. Explore relationships between artistic creativity and the imagination of new political and social possibilities.
Taking Joyce's novel as a model, students build intellectual and creative responses to the difficulties and opportunities of late capitalism.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | G-113 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | G-113 |
Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | G-102 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | G-102 |
Through writing poetry and analyzing examples, students become familiar with poetic forms and techniques. This workshop, led by a publishing writer, includes weekly peer critique of poems written for the course. Students explore what makes a poem moving, evocative, and imbued with a sense of music, no matter what the approach: lyric, narrative, surreal, or experimental.May be taken twice for credit.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 10:35 | 13:30 | G-102 |
This workshop gives students the opportunity to explore through reading, research and writing assignments an array of creative nonfiction forms, including memoir, travel writing, food and nature writing, and social essays. Assignments help students strengthen their ability to create the self as character, a first-person narrator who leads the reader into the world of personal experiences and research. The course explores narrative structure, description, characterization, dialogue, and tension, all key elements in making writing spirited and appealing. The workshop also includes guest speakers and field exercises in Paris. May be taken twice for credit.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 12:10 | 15:05 | G-113 |
This workshop offers an introduction to literary and cultural translation between French and English. Students encounter, through practical exercises, key differences between French and English linguistic and cultural forms, and find ways to resolve and explore these differences in their literary translation and in their creative writing. Practice in translation is supplemented by reflection on translation.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 09:00 | 11:55 | G-113 |
Have you yearned to start a novel, a collection of related short stories or narrative essays, a memoir, or a series of poems? This cross-genre, seminar-style course is designed for students who want to pursue larger, more advanced creative writing projects. Students will submit project proposals for discussion and approval, and then present significant installments of writing at regular intervals during the semester. Revisions will be required along with student-professor individual conferences. Readings will be used as guiding examples, and required reaction papers will be tailored to individual projects. May be taken twice for credit.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Thursday | 16:55 | 19:50 | G-102 |
Under the supervision of the major advisor, students prepare a portfolio of at least 5 essays from their major courses, along with relevant work in other courses, and identify, evaluate and justify the personal focus of their work in an introductory essay. Examined orally by a panel of faculty.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 01:00 | 01:30 | TBD-S |
This course is designed to give you strong technical and conceptual skills in video production. This course will prepare you for future video work in film, journalism, media and communications, studio art, and can be useful across many other disciplines. You will learn to create several complete film and audio projects, each challenging you to explore new skills. Class time will be divided into lectures, screenings, and mostly in-class labs and critique. Homework will consist of readings, writing responses, shooting, editing and screenings.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-501 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-501 |
This course provides a survey of the media and its function in today’s society. It introduces students to the basic concepts and tools necessary to think critically about media institutions and practices. In addition to the analysis of diverse media texts, the course considers wider strategies and trends in marketing, distribution, audience formation and the consequences of globalization. By semester’s end, students will understand the basic structures of today’s media and be able to provide advanced analysis that weighs the social and political implications of its products.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-104 |
Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-104 |
This course provides a survey of the media and its function in today’s society. It introduces students to the basic concepts and tools necessary to think critically about media institutions and practices. In addition to the analysis of diverse media texts, the course considers wider strategies and trends in marketing, distribution, audience formation and the consequences of globalization. By semester’s end, students will understand the basic structures of today’s media and be able to provide advanced analysis that weighs the social and political implications of its products.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 15:20 | 16:40 | Q-A101 |
Thursday | 15:20 | 16:40 | Q-A101 |