CWL 151

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Cross-Cultural Thematics

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Credit: 3 hours.

Explores a combination of western and non-western literature through the focus on a shared theme, exploring differences in treatment both within and among different cultures. Two such thematic focuses are offered in rotation; one on concepts of love and one on ways of writing about death. Both themes introduce students to a wide array of famous texts from different cultures and also offer some varied perspectives for their own inevitable thoughts on these major topics.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary. Students may register in more than one section per term.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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CWL 151 class schedule data for fall 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
64970	Lecture-Discussion	AH	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	1120 Foreign Languages Building	Carr, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts course. Section Title: Madness & Western Literature Section Info: CWL 151: "Madness and Western Literature" What is sanity? How has western literature linked madness to depictions of creativity, sovereignty, and mass revolt? How have those depictions changed throughout history? In pursuit of answers, we will explore: the drama of Ancient Greece and Elizabethan England, depictions of mass hysteria in nineteenth-century France, American Gothic tales, Jazz Age stories of disaffection and degeneration - alongside much, much more.
57569	Lecture-Discussion Lecture-Discussion	RM RM	1:00PM -1:50PM 6:00PM -8:50PM	MW M	169 Davenport Hall 1120 Foreign Languages Building	Mehta, R Mehta, R	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/19/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts course. Section Title: From Hollywood to Bollywood Section Info: From Hollywood to Bollywood Description: ?From Hollywood to Bollywood? is an introduction to cinema in a global and cross-cultural context. With globalization, national cinemas ? with fixed boundaries and markers in the past ? have been re-defined, opening up to sights, sounds, techniques, and capital from all over the world. How have cinematic traditions fared in their interaction with the global flow of capital? Using comparative methodology, this course will engage with the content and context of a film every week. Films will be chosen from diverse sources, with Hollywood and Bollywood as the primary points of reference. Open to all majors, this course satisfies Gen-Ed requirements in the Literature and Arts category.
65538	Lecture-Discussion	VW	2:00PM -4:50PM	TR	123 English Building	Weiss, V	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/19/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts course. Section Title: Israeli Cinema and TV Section Info: Zionist ideology proclaimed that Israel would provide a melting-�?pot environment for the immigrants arriving to the new country? the disparate cultures and experiences that formed the new immigrants? heritage would be replaced by a communal identity ? everyone would share in the common culture, speaking Hebrew, singing nationalist songs, dancing national dances and participating in the new reality. Yet, the plurality and diversity of Israeli society, religious and secular, European, African or Middle Eastern, Arab or Jew, rich or poor, straight or gay has been preserved in the documentaries and films that constitute Israeli Cinema. This course will examine a medium that emerged from the 1930s, but gained strength after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, that has recorded Israeli culture in its secularity and diversity. This course considers the various ways the filmic medium has portrayed Israel?s complex matrix of cultural identities. The different sessions address some of the major factors shaping Israeli culture (e.g., contemporary immigration; engagements with the Palestinian Other; gender politics; and queer identity). We will examine cinematic styles and trends, great directors including Amos Gitai, Daniel Wachsmann, Michal Bat-�?Adam and Michal Aviad.