Spring 2006

The Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures offers the following courses in Latin. For further information, please contact the department office at 632-7440, or send an e-mail to Prof, Tim Westphalen, Department of European Languages, Humanities 1055.

All courses are 3 credits

European Studies

EUR 101-G Foundation of European Culture
The course presents students with the thinking from a variety of disciplines that influenced the development of the diverse national cultures of Europe. Students are exposed to a chronological representation of the major ways that classical Greek, Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic cultures contributes to the making of individual national cultures and identities of the major countries of Europe.
TuTh: 12:50-2:10 — T. Westphalen

EUR 201-I Development of European Culture
An introduction to important literary works that arose from major European cultural and intellectual movements and an examination of their continued influence on the modern world.
TuTh: 3:50-5:10 — T. Westphalen

EUR 390-I Special Topics in European Studies
Semester topic: .Humanism: Birth of Modern Europe
Tu-Th: 3:50-5:10 — P. Carravetta

HUE 269 Allegory of Love

Semester topic: History of Beauty

Tu-Th: 5:20-6:40 — Grenkov

HUF 219-I Modern France
An overview of French civilization seen through its diverse manifestations in various cultural fields. The heritage of French society is analyzed through the arts, philosophy, science, literature, and theatre.
Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of DEC. category B
Tu-Th: 3:50-5:20 — TBA

HUG 321-I DEATH OR DISHONOR
MW: 2:20-3:40 — T. Kerth

HUI 216-I Italian Civilization Through the Ages

The historical development of civilization in Italy with reference to literature and connection to artistic expression such as visual art, music, and theatre.

MW: 3:50-5:10 — A. Fedi/H. Schnittger

HUI 231-D Sex and Politics in Italian Cinema

This course will examine the great works of Italian cinema in the light of two important themes in Post-War Italy: sex and politics. The discussions will focus on the cinematic representations of gender, class, and sexual politics as well as the films' contextual relationship with Italian history, society and culture. Readings will include selected works of film history, criticism, and theory.

MW: 2:20-5:10 — J. Reich

HUI 234-G Introduction to 20th-Century Drama

A study of avant-garde drama through the analysis of texts by Marinetti, Bontempelli, Pirandello, Betti, Beckett, Ionesco, and Tenessee Williams. Important questions such as identity and diversity are discussed from a variety of perspectives within the social, psychological, sexual, and multicultural context of our time.
Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of DEC. category B or equivalent

TuTh: 3:50-5:10 — L. Fontanella

HUI 235-G Sex, Love and Tragedy in Early Italian Literature

A study of the interaction between the sexes in contrast with man's spiritual needs in the major works of early Italian literature. Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, Boccaccio's Decameron and Petrarch's poetry will be analyzed.

Remark: Meets English major requirements

Advisory Prerequisite: Completion of DEC category B or equivalent.

TuTh 2:20-3:40 — C. Franco / L. Arcilesi

HUL 324 Romance Linguistics
The linguistic evolution and synchronic grammar of the Romance languages are studied. The course is conducted in English
MF: 12:40-2:10-10:30 — L. Repetti

HUR 142-B Culture and Revolution

This course introduces students to twentieth-century Russian literature by examining its relationship to the politics of the October revolution, and by analyzing related issues such as the fate of the individual human being in society and the role of the artist within a collective. The course offers analyses of literary texts: novels, poems and dramas, as well as visual arts, which exemplify both the positive dreams of the time of the revolution, and the imagined and real horrors that came in its aftermath.

MW: 2:20:20-3:40 — I Kalinoska

HUR 232-/EGL 232 -I Rebels and Tyrants

An exploration of literary rebels and tyrants central to Russian and Anglo-American traditions. The subversive tactics of such writers as Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Sir Walter Scott, Solzhenitsyn, and Salinger are appraised in the light of the dominant social, political and aesthetic systems they confront.

Advisory Prerequisite: One DEC category B course.

TUTH: 9:50-11:10 — N. Rzhevsky

HUR 249-I Russia Today
Contemporary cultural trends in terms of their historic social and political context. Recent responses to historical changes such as the break up of the Soviet Union and its relation to the the forces that brought about the Russian revolution, the new economic order, and the search for Russian national identity are explored in literature, the arts, and media.
Tu-TH: 12-50-2:10 — TBA

Latin Courses

LAT 112-S3 Elementary Latin I

An intensive course designed to prepare the beginning student to translate Latin that may be needed for use in undergraduate or graduate study. Focus of the course is on the fundamentals of grammar and the techniques of translation. No student who has two or more years of Latin in high school or who has otherwise acquired an equivalent proficiency will be permitted to enroll in LAT 111 without written permission from the course supervisor.

MWF: 10:40-11:35 — A. Godfrey

LAT 354 Literature of the Roman Empire

Prerequisite: 200-level Latin course

W: 5:10-8:10 — A. Godfrey

LAT 447 Directed Readings in Latin (1-4 credits)

May be repeated

Mandatory Prerequisite: Permission of minor coordinator

HTBA — A. Godfrey

LAT 495 Honors Latin

HTBA — A. Godfrey

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