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Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

In the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, we encourage the broadening of linguistic skills in foreign languages, as well as the acquisition of new languages, from elementary to advanced levels of study. We teach Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. In our departmental and interdepartmental programs, faculty and students explore both national traditions and global connections as reflected in languages, films, digital media, and the arts and cultures around the world. Addressing international issues and concerns in cultures other than English-speaking ones produces knowledge, argumentation skills, dialogue, and debate; flexible thinking and written argumentation; global rather than local ideas, and an openness to difference.

Information about faculty and research can be found on the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures website.

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The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures does not offer doctoral or master’s degree programs.

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Advanced-level courses are available for students enrolled in other graduate programs at the University.

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Comparative Literature

  • CLTR 402B. Holocaust: Affect and Absence
  • CLTR 414M. Atomic Creatures: Godzilla
  • CLTR 414N. Tourist Japan
  • CLTR 415B. Russian Cinema After the Fall
  • CLTR 416A. Latin American Film
  • CLTR 417B. Race and Gender in Popular Film
  • CLTR 421. Mutilated Bodies: From Traditions to Cutting-Edge Technologies
  • CLTR 429A. Biographies of Emancipation in the Black World
  • CLTR 429B. Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities
  • CLTR 430. Film as Object
  • CLTR 430A. French Social Thought
  • CLTR 431E. Black Paris
  • CLTR 434. Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century
  • CLTR 438. On the Move: Ethnographic Films
  • CLTR 438A. Revolutions and Revolt
  • CLTR 440A. Philosophy of Music
  • CLTR 441A. Performance Studies
  • CLTR 442B. Capitalism, Culture, Controversy: The Revolutionary Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • CLTR 447A. Politics and Culture in Fascist Italy
  • CLTR 450. Nabokov – Unusual Émigré
  • CLTR 452. Bright Lights, Big City
  • CLTR 455C. Chekhov and the Modern Short Story
  • CLTR 462. Art History Colloquium
  • CLTR 475. French Philosophy Since 1960
  • CLTR 477. Postmodernism: Fiction, Philosophy, Media
  • CLTR 480. Aesthetics
  • CLTR 484. Translation and World Literature
  • CLTR 487. Studies in Translation
  • CLTR 492. French Feminisms
  • CLTR 494. Italian Neorealist Directors: Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti
  • CLTR 592. Languages Learning and Teaching

French

  • FREN 412. French Literature in Translation
  • FREN 427. Laughing Matters: Comedy in Early Modern France
  • FREN 428. Humanitarianism and Social Insecurities
  • FREN 432. Hugo’s “Les Miserables”
  • FREN 434. Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century
  • FREN 437. Performance Studies
  • FREN 443. Mutilated Bodies: From Traditions to Cutting-Edge Technologies
  • FREN 444. Crimes of Passion: Love and Death on the Classical French Stage
  • FREN 447. Black Paris
  • FREN 449 . Napoleon: Image, Myth, History
  • FREN 457. Sex, Lies, and Secrets: Libertinism in Early Modern France
  • FREN 462. French Philosophy Since 1960
  • FREN 465. Aesthetics
  • FREN 471. Introduction to the Francophone Literature
  • FREN 474. Caribbean Novel and Its Theory
  • FREN 477. Postmodernism: Fiction, Philosophy, Media
  • FREN 492. French Feminisms
  • FREN 493. Modern French Theory
  • FREN 494. Queer Theory
  • FREN 496. Philosophy of Music

German

  • GRMN 424. Woman Writers and Rebels
  • GRMN 438. Revolutions and Revolt
  • GRMN 447. Holocaust: Affect and Absence
  • GRMN 448. On the Move: Ethnographic Films
  • GRMN 452. Bright Lights, Big City

Japanese

  • JPNS 407. Film as Object
  • JPNS 414. Atomic Creatures: Godzilla
  • JPNS 419. Tourist Japan
  • JPNS 445. Japanese Science Fiction and Planetary Possible Futures
  • JPNS 485. Director Studies: Akira Kurosawa
  • JPNS 494. Hayao Miyazaki and Planet Ghibli

Spanish

  • SPAN 415. Don Quixote: Book, Myth, Image
  • SPAN 418. Saints, Sinners, and Sovereigns
  • SPAN 449D. Bunel, Dali, Lorca
  • SPAN 449E. Reading Fable, Telling Tales
  • SPAN 451. Quemaremos el cielo si es preciso: Subversive Narratives of the Afro-Caribbean
  • SPAN 457. Spanish American Theater and Poetry
  • SPAN 462H. Spanish American Crime Fiction
  • SPAN 466. The Spanish American Gothic
  • SPAN 482. Si el Norte Fuera el Sur: Latinx Literature and Thought
  • SPAN 487A. Latin American Film
  • SPAN 488. Spanish Film
  • SPAN 499. What If…?