2008-09 Catalog

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Culture, Text and Language

Culture, Text and Language programs invite students to engage in academic study of what it means it be human and to participate in social life. Its faculty prize rigorous reflective inquiry and integrative understanding. Through study of cultures, students explore the webs of meaning that individuals and groups use to make sense of their experience and the world. Through study of texts, they learn to interpret the embodiments of these meanings in forms ranging from enduring works to popular media and the artful practices of everyday life. Through study of languages, they become proficient in the means of communication in different societies and discover the beauty and power of words. Learn more...

Programs Switch to "View by Quarter"

After Nietzsche: Arts, Literature, Philosophy in the Wanderer's Shadow
Revised: 06/03/2008
Junior/Senior     Spring
American Places
Revised: 08/07/2008
All level Fall Winter Spring
Art of Conversation Sophomore to Senior Fall    
NEW! Autobiography All level   Winter  
Changing China
Revised: 08/27/2008
All level Fall Winter Spring
Data and Information: Computational Linguistics All level Fall    
Death Considered Junior/Senior Fall    
NEW! The English Romantics Junior/Senior   Winter  
Gender and Culture: Studies in Japanese and American Literature and Popular Culture All level     Spring
Gender and Sexuality: History, Culture, and Politics
Revised: 08/27/2008
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Imagining the Body
Revised: 07/22/2008
Lower Division Fall Winter  
Immigration: History, Law and Controversy
Revised: 08/26/2008
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
India: Tradition & Beyond Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Individual Study: Cultural Studies
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior     Spring
Individual Study: Fiber Arts, Installation, Non-Western Art History, Native American Studies, Creative Writing: Poetry, and Multicultural American Literature
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Individual Study: Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Individual Study: Japanese Studies, Film and Study Abroad
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior     Spring
NEW! Individual Study: Philosophy and Creative Writing
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall    
Inescapable Beauty, Elusive Sublime
Revised: 08/26/2008
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter  
NEW! Into the Woods: Communities, Conflicts, Alliances
Revised: 08/29/2008
Lower Division Fall    
Japanese Film: Characteristics and Aesthetic Tradition Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
NEW! Language and Power
Revised: 07/07/2008
Lower Division     Spring
Language Matters: Persuasive Language in Popular Culture All level   Winter  
Looking Backward: America in the Twentieth Century All level Fall Winter Spring
Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Materiality and the Religious Impulse All level Fall Winter  
Nietzsche: Life, Times, Work
Revised: 05/02/2008
Junior/Senior   Winter  
CANCELLED The Opening Of The Field: Ecopoetics, Ecology and Ideas All level   Winter Spring
PerformanceWorks: Telling Stories
Revised: 08/27/2008
Lower Division Fall Winter  
Postmodernity and Postmodernism: Barth, Pynchon, DeLillo, Murakami and World Cinema Sophomore to Senior Fall    
NEW! Prolegomena To A Future Poetics All level   Winter Spring
(Re)Imagining the Middle East
Revised: 08/25/2008
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Russia and Eurasia: Empires and Enduring Legacies
Revised: 08/25/2008
All level Fall Winter Spring
Self and Culture: Studies in Japanese and American Literature and Cinema All level   Winter  
NEW! Shifting the Lens: Race, Class, Gender and Power Beyond Black and White All level     Spring
Spain and the Americas: Cultural Crossings All level Fall Winter  
Student Originated Studies: Community-Based Learning
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall    
NEW! Student Originated Studies: Human Development
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior     Spring
NEW! Telling the Untold Story: Studies in Storymaking and Storytelling Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior     Spring
NEW! What's What and What Isn't? Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Work and the Human Condition
Revised: 08/26/2008
All level Fall Winter Spring
Writing for Change
Revised: 08/26/2008
Sophomore to Senior Fall