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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: 05/02/2008	Junior/Senior			Spring
American Places Revised: 11/25/2008 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
Art of Conversation	Sophomore to Senior	Fall
NEW! Autobiography	All level		Winter
Changing China Revised: 03/27/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Critical Experiments Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior			Spring
Data and Information: Computational Linguistics Revised: 09/18/2008	All level	Fall
Death Considered	Junior/Senior	Fall
NEW! Ecology of Language and Place Revised: 02/23/2009 Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior		Winter	Spring
NEW! Embodying the Book	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
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: 05/02/2008 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
Imagining the Body Revised: 04/07/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter
NEW! Immigrant Voices: Writing, Labor and Community Stories	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Immigration: History, Law and Controversy Revised: 11/25/2008 Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
India: Tradition & Beyond Accepts Spring Enrollment	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Individual Study: American Studies, Non-Fiction Writing	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
NEW! Individual Study: Classical Literature, Art, and Philosophy	Sophomore to Senior			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
NEW! Individual Study: Human Development Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior			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: 08/04/2008 Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter
NEW! Into the Woods: Communities, Conflicts, Alliances Revised: 08/29/2008	Lower Division	Fall
NEW! Inventing the Citizen: The History of Political Action and its Limits in Western Europe	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Japanese Film: Characteristics and Aesthetic Tradition	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
NEW! Language and Power Revised: 12/04/2008	Lower Division			Spring
Language Matters: Persuasive Language in Popular Culture Revised: 12/05/2008 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level		Winter
Looking Backward: America in the Twentieth Century Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Marx and Marxisms	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Materiality and the Religious Impulse Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
NEW! Money, Finance and Power	All level			Spring
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: 11/17/2008	Lower Division	Fall	Winter
Postmodernity and Postmodernism: Barth, Pynchon, DeLillo, Murakami and World Cinema	Sophomore to Senior	Fall
NEW! Projects in Visual Arts Professions	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
NEW! Prolegomena To A Future Poetics	All level		Winter	Spring
(Re)Imagining the Middle East Revised: 02/24/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
CANCELLED Renaissance Italy: a Case Study for Aesthetic Theory	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Russia and Eurasia: Empires and Enduring Legacies Revised: 02/09/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	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
NEW! SOS: Renaissance Italy as a Case Study for Aesthetic Theory Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior			Spring
Spain and the Americas: Cultural Crossings Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
Student Originated Studies: Community-Based Learning Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior	Fall
NEW! Student Originated Studies: Community Learning	Sophomore to Senior		Winter
NEW! Student Originated Studies: Human Development Revised: 03/09/2009 Accepts Spring Enrollment	Junior/Senior			Spring
NEW! Telling the Untold Story: Studies in Storymaking and Storytelling Revised: 12/10/2008 Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
NEW! Threads and Tears and Finnegans (end) Wake (begin) Experiments and Music in Dance	All level			Spring
Undergraduate Research in the Humanities Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior			Spring
NEW! What's What and What Isn't? Faculty Signature Required Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
Work and the Human Condition Revised: 02/23/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Writer's Workshop Revised: 03/30/2009 Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior		Winter	Spring
Writing for Change Revised: 08/26/2008	Sophomore to Senior	Fall