CLAS 586 Classical Mythology
Taught by Professor Beck
TTh 2-3:15

CPLT 702-001 [=ENGL 734] Modern Literary Theory
Taught by Professor Steele
T 5:30-8:00
This course looks at the major problematics for the study of critical theory from the Enlightenment to the present. Students will be introduced to the theoretical approaches to history, language, subjectivity, aesthetics, ethics and politics that define the modern and postmodern eras. The course begins with the crises of modernity and the systematic response to the dilemmas of the Enlightenment proposed by Kant. The course moves historically from then on examining important paradigms of thought from Hegel to contemporary thinkers.

Students will be asked to write a 20 page term paper in which they bring a theory or theories to bear on their particular area of interest, make an oral presentation (15 minutes maximum), and do a take-home final exam .

CPLT 750B-001 [=RUSS 598B] Topics: Russian Lit. & Film Theory
Taught by Professor Ogden
TTh 12:30 - 1:45

CPLT 880-001 Seminar/Hegel, Literary History, and Theory [=PHIL 723]
Taught by Professor Donougho
W 5:30-8:15
This course examines the bearing of the German Idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel upon literature and literary theory. We shall read both Hegel’s own texts—his Phenomenology of Spirit and the Lectures on Aesthetics, in particular—and some of the examples he discusses or thematizes—e.g. Sophocles Antigone, Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot, and Dante. We shall also ask whether and how far Hegel, rightly understood rather than caricatured (as so often), offers a useful perspective on contemporary theory and literary history, more typically seen under the signs (perhaps) of postcolonialism, cultural studies, or feminism, etc. The class will begin with a necessarily brief look at Hegelian dialectic, as presented in an early essay on “Natural Right” (which applies a tragic model of history) and later in the “Lordship/Bondage” section of the Phenomenology. We shall then shift to a full discussion of Hegel and Greek tragedy, in the Phenomenology (it appears both substantively as Greek ethical life and formally as cultic genre), and in the Berlin Aesthetics. Some attention will be paid to the Romantic context (Schelling, Schlegel). We’ll look at particular treatments of some works (Diderot, Goethe’s Faust Part 1, Dante’s Divine Comedy). Finally we shall look at how Hegel bears upon contemporary theory; depending on participants’ interests, we might take up Hegel and e.g. Bakhtin, Adorno, Jameson, or Luhmann.

No special knowledge of the philosophical or literary background will be presupposed, nor will knowledge of German. I would however like to call upon students’ expertise and interest in particular topics. Last (but not least), although Hegel language is renowned for its obscurity and complexity, it is (I’d claim) surprisingly accessible and also necessary for an understanding of literary theory.

Texts: -selections from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
-selections from Hegel’s Aesthetics (I’ll make xeroxes available)
Sophocles, Antigone (Penguin)

FORL 511-001 Teaching Foreign Language in Secondary School
Taught by Professor Ducate
M 4:30 - 7:00
This course will provide present and future teachers with an introduction to the skills, tasks, and technologies that can be used to enhance foreign language instruction. The content of the course will focus on both practical and theoretical aspects of foreign language teaching within the framework of various methods and approaches associated with foreign language instruction in secondary schools. Through peer teaching, members of the class will have the opportunity to put theory into practice and gain experience planning and teaching lessons in the target language. The seminar format requires that everyone contribute actively to class discussions where diversity of opinion is expected and encouraged

FORL 703C-001 1:25 - 2:40 PM MWF Ye
FORL 703F-001 1:25 - 2:40 PM MWF Grimes
FORL 703J-001 1:25 - 2:40 PM MWF Sakakibara
FORL 703P-001 12:30 -1:45 PM MWF de Oliveira
FORL 703S-001 3:30-5:00 PM TTh Evans
FORL 703S-002 1:25-3:30 PM MW Evans

FORL 772 Technology in Foreign Language Education [=LING 797]
Taught by Professor Lomicka
W 5:00- 7:45
This course will acquaint graduate students with the principles and practices concerning the use of technology in foreign language education. Its main focus will be to explore the connection between Second Language Acquisition theories and the implementation of current Internet and multimedia technologies. Specifically, we will examine ways in which technology can be used to support the development of communicative competence as learners engage in the process of acquiring another language. Open to students of any specialization, this course aims to cover the essentials that language educators need in the field of second/foreign language education.

FORL 774B Tch Intm
Taught by Professor Day
TBA

FREN 501-001 La France Contemporaine
Taught by Professor Edmiston TTh 11:00-12:15
This course is designed to give students an overview of contemporary France, beginning with basic geography followed by the political, social, and cultural environments, with emphasis on recent developments that have emerged in the nineteen-eighties and -nineties. History will be treated thematically and incidentally. At the end of this course, students should have sufficient knowledge to understand events discussed in the French media. Text: Edmiston and Dumenil, La France contemporaine, 3rd edition (2004). Grade will be based on quizzes, listening exercises, a mid-term and a final examination. Graduate students will present a final project.

FREN 730-001 Discovering the "Triangular Circuit: Itineraries & Exchanges in Francophone Literature [=CPLT 750G]
Taught by Professor Garane
TTh 4:00-5:15
mais non l'inégal soleil ne me suffit plus
enroule-toi, vent, autour de ma nouvelle croissance
pose-toi sur mes doigts mesurés...
je te livre l'intourist du circuit triangulaire

but no the unequal sun is not enough for me
coil, wind, around my new growth
light on my cadenced fingers...
to you I surrender the nontourist of the triangular circuit

--Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal/ Notebook of a Return to My Native Land
The texts to be studied in this course each treat the problem of geographic displacement, whether because of slavery, colonialism, or immigration. These works portray characters who have been displaced from their “homelands” and placed into a postcolonial system of international relations. For the West Indian writers studied in the course, this “triangular circuit” is constituted by France, Africa, and the West Indies. For others, the “triangular circuit” is constituted by a “homeland,” whether mythical or “real,” Europe (France or Belgium), and the cultural “elsewhere” of hybridity.

The format of the course includes lectures, student presentations, and class discussions. There will be a final exam, and students will write a 15-20 page research paper. The course is taught in English. Students taking the course for French credit will read the works in French, write the research paper in French, and take the final exam in French.

Required Texts:
Aimé Césaire, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal / Notebook of a Return to My Native Land
Senghor, Léopold. Chants d'ombre (in Oeuvre poétique)/ Poems of Lépold Senghor
Kane, Cheikh Hamidou. L'Aventure ambiguë/ The Ambiguous Adventure
Kourouma, Ahmadou. Les Soleils des indépendances / The Suns of Independence
Condé, Maryse. En Attendant le bonheur (Hérémakhonon) / Heremakhonon
Ken Bugul, Le Baobab fou / The Abandoned Baobab
Abdourahman Waberi, Le pays sans ombre /The Land Without Shadows
Simone Schwarz-Bart, Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle/The Bridge of Beyond
Assia Djebar, Ombre sultane / A Sister to Scheherazade
Fatima Mernissi, Rêves de femmes / Dreams of Trespass
Gisèle Pinneau, L’espérance-macadam / Macadam Dreams

FREN 777-001 Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Lang in College
Dumenil TBA

GERM 500 Survey of German Culture
Taught By Professor Ivory
TTh 12:30-1:45
Survey of the most significant aspects of German culture from Roman times to the late 20th century, including the visual arts, music, philosophy, and film, but with special emphasis on providing a coherent overview of literary periods and movements. Readings in the course will include a short history of Germany and a brief survey of literary history as well as select, usually non-literary, texts providing significant additional insight into German-speaking culture.

GERM 705-001 History of German Language
Taught by Professor Goblirsch
MW 2:00-3:15
Relationship of German to the other Germanic languages. Phonological and morphological development of German. Attention also to syntax, vocabulary, dialects and the development of standard German.

GERM 777-001 Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College
Ducate TBA
Observations and meetings to discuss issues that arise in the German courses students are teaching. This course will not count toward the M.A. or M.A.T. degree.

LATN 508-001 Ovid -Metamorphoses
Taught by Professor Briggs
MW 3:30-4:45

Class will be run primarily as a seminar, although I will start each session by providing necessary background information and an introduction to new concepts, schools, and terminology. Students will read a core text for each class and prepare thoughts and questions for discussion. Writing assignments will allow students to apply forms of analysis that we have studied to particular works of literature, film, etc.

RUSS 598D Contemporary Russian Women Writers
Taught by Professor Solovieva
TTh 9:30-10:45
This course is designed to improve students’ comprehension, reading, and self-expression skills in Russian by focusing on such Russian women writers as Ludmila Petrushevskaia, Ludmila Ulitskaia, Tatyana Tolstaya, and Viktoria Tokareva etc. In the last two decades Russia has undergone dramatic changes ranging from disintegration of the Soviet Empire to the rapid development of new trends in literature and culture. This course will explore these new trends, with a focus on Russian women’s perspectives in contemporary Russia. The course will examine different genres including autobiographies, short stories, poetry, lyrics, and interviews, as well as cinema and pop-culture artifacts.

All readings and most discussions will be in Russian, though research papers and some discussion in English will be allowed.

SPAN 711-001 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
Taught by Professor Marsh
M 5:30-8:00
This course starts from the premise that literary and cultural production is born of a complex set of circumstances and theory exists as a means of coming to terms with that complexity. Anyone who suggests otherwise is merely employing an older, more consolidated, theory. It is a consequence – and in recognition – of such sophisticated difficulty that over the last 25 years the term “interdisciplinarity” has entered our critical vocabulary. More than just a fashionable buzzword, interdisciplinarity assumes that nothing can be seen in isolation. Culture, moreover, is invariably inflected by the structures of power; by hybridity, by conquest, by gender, sexual orientation, race and class, all of which are in turn shot through with historical, economic, ideological and psychological factors. The aim of this course is to map the various theoretical paradigms that have emerged throughout the 20th century and to consider them in the light of Spanish and Latin American culture. The course will be taught in Spanish.

SPAN 732-Nineteenth-Century Spanish Prose & Poetry
Taught by Professor Charlebois
W 5:30-8:00
This course will be conducted in seminar style (with emphasis on theoretical and critical readings, such as, for example, Octavio Paz's Los hijos del limo, Juan Oleza's essays on Realism, and Dario Villanueva's most recent book on mimesis and the Realist tradition). Creative works to be studied will include both the prose and poetry of the Romantic and Realist [literary] movements which define nineteenth-century Spanish letters. To be studied will be the works of such Spanish writers as, among others, Mariano Jose de Larra, Mesonero Romanos, Jose de Espronceda, Rosalia de Castro, Benito Perez Galdos, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Clarin, and Blasco Ibanez. Spanish will be the language of instruction.

SPAN 777-001 Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College Taught by Professor Dernoshek
W 10:10-11