CMPL Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Wait List
11955	CMPL 55 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Comics as Literature	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Elyse Crystall	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 526B	22/23 (23 total)	Seats filled
Description: Comic books, Manga, and the graphic novel have almost vanished from the realm of serious literature. Recently, graphic literature has addressed controversial topics and reached readers across the globe. We will explore graphic literature's unique ability to be a medium for the marginal and oppressed in the 21st century. 3 units.
14603	CMPL 120 - 001 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:10PM	JESSICA WOLFE	Davie Hall-Rm 0112	65/80 (80 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 3 units.
14605	CMPL 120 - 601 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Erik Maloney	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	18/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 0 units.
14606	CMPL 120 - 602 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Erik Maloney	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1370	18/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 0 units.
14607	CMPL 120 - 603 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	Fr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Emma Duvall	Murphey Hall-Rm 0204	11/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 0 units.
14608	CMPL 120 - 604 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	Fr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Emma Duvall	Peabody Hall-Rm 2066	18/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 0 units.
14192	CMPL 122 - 001 Great Books I: Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity to 1750	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	MARSHA COLLINS	Dey Hall-Rm 0404	34/35 (35 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course offers students a survey of mutually supportive developments in literature and the visual arts from classical antiquity until around 1700. Fulfills a major core requirement. 3 units.
9227	CMPL 143 - 001 History of Global Cinema	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:20AM	INGA POLLMANN	Peabody Hall-Rm 1040	54/66 (80 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the field of global cinema and, thence, to the methods of comparativist film study. 3 units.
9403	CMPL 143 - 601 History of Global Cinema	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Che Sokol	Murphey Hall-Rm 0202	17/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the field of global cinema and, thence, to the methods of comparativist film study. 0 units.
9404	CMPL 143 - 602 History of Global Cinema	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Che Sokol	Peabody Hall-Rm 2094	Seats filled (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the field of global cinema and, thence, to the methods of comparativist film study. 0 units.
9405	CMPL 143 - 603 History of Global Cinema	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Jonathan Albrite	Tate-Turner-Kuralt -Rm 0113	15/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the field of global cinema and, thence, to the methods of comparativist film study. 0 units.
9406	CMPL 143 - 604 History of Global Cinema	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Jonathan Albrite	Kenan Labs-Rm B121	16/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the field of global cinema and, thence, to the methods of comparativist film study. 0 units.
11903	CMPL 232 - 001 Imagining the City in Modern Korea: Text, Image, Space	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	I Jonathan Kief	Graham Memorial-Rm 0038	Seats filled (10 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to modern Korea through the lens of the city. It explores the changing shape of urban space on the Korean peninsula as well as the central role that visions of the city and of city life have played in the development of modern Korean literature, television, and film. 3 units.
10573	CMPL 246 - 001 Body Politics in Modern Korean Literature	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	I Jonathan Kief	New West-Rm 0219	8/10 (10 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course surveys twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korean literature through the lens of representations of the body. Bringing together works of fiction, poetry, drama, and secondary scholarship, it explores how modern Korean literature has imagined the body, defined its multiple natures and identities, and delineated its shifting boundaries. 3 units.
14194	CMPL 251 - 001 Introduction to Literary Theory	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	SHAYNE LEGASSIE	Dey Hall-Rm 0412	17/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Familiarizes students with the theory and practice of comparative literature. Against a background of classical poetics and rhetoric, explores various modern literary theories, including Russian formalism, Frankfurt School, feminism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, new historicism, and others. All reading in theory is paired with that of literary texts drawn from a wide range of literary periods and national traditions. 3 units.
12499	CMPL 280 - 001 Film Genres	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	HENRY VEGGIAN	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	28/35 (35 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to the methods of genre theory and analysis as they pertain to cinema. The course may either provide a survey of several different genres or examine a particular genre in depth as it has evolved historically. National and/or transnational dimensions of popular genres may be emphasized. 3 units.
14371	CMPL 288 - 001 Graphic Medicine: The Intersection of Health and Comics	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	PRISCILLA LAYNE	Dey Hall-Rm 0404	12/15 (15 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: We will explore the unique possibilities of comics in the form of graphic medicine: namely comics that thematize physical and mental health. How do comic artists work through issues of trauma and pain? How do artists with chronic illness and disabilities articulate their experience through comics? This course engages with the Medical Humanities, seeking to bring together students of medicine along with students of the humanities to contemplate how we communicate physical and mental illness. 3 units.
14864	CMPL 387 - 001 French New Wave Cinema	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	HASSAN MELEHY	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0103	7/8 (8 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Films of the major directors of the French New Wave of the 1950s through the 1970s, including Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Eric Rohmer. Examination of earlier films informing these directors. The impact of the New Wave on global cinema. In English. Recommended preparation: FREN 260 or CMPL 143 or the equivalent. 3 units.
12597	CMPL 395 - 001 Research, Creativity, and Innovation in the Humanities	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Pedro Lopes de Almeida	Dey Hall-Rm 303A	4/10 (10 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course serves as an introduction to research methodologies, theories, and the university resources available to students seeking to perform cutting-edge research in the humanities. The goal of the course is to produce a substantial research project. The capacities developed in this course as well as the project itself could be used as the basis for grants, scholarships, internship applications, or an honors thesis. Taught in English. 3 units.
14682	CMPL 411 - 001 Critical Theory	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Daelena Tinnin-Gadson	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0107	12/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Overview of those realms of modern and contemporary thought and writing that are known as, and closely associated with, "critical theory." 3 units.
14365	CMPL 442 - 001 Postcolonial Literature of the Middle East	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Claudia Yaghoobi	Global Education, F-Rm 1009	9/10 (10 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to postcolonial literature and theory. The main focus in the course is on literary texts and literary analysis. However, we will use postcolonial theory to engage critically with the primary texts within a postcolonial framework. We will explore language, identity, physical and mental colonization, and decolonization. 3 units.
15017	CMPL 463 - 002 Cinema and Surrealism	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Rick Warner	Dey Hall-Rm 0201	Seats filled (23 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course examines surrealism as an inter-art development between the First and Second World Wars. Taking a comparativist view, it focuses mainly on cinema but explores surrealist literature, painting, and sculpture as well. Much of the course traces the continuing relevance of surrealist practices in contemporary cinema. 3 units.
15149	CMPL 489 - 001 Empire and Diplomacy	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Ted Leinbaugh	Global Education, F-Rm 1009	Seats filled (17 total)	Seats filled
Description: Examines the history of the British Empire and the role of peace, war, defense, diplomacy, and letters in shaping Britain's presence on the world stage. 3 units.
12340	CMPL 495 - 001 Advanced Seminar	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	SHAYNE LEGASSIE	Phillips Hall-Rm 0212	5/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This seminar allows comparative literature majors to work on an independent project to synthesize their curricular experience, and it introduces them to current, broadly applicable issues in comparative literature. Previously offered as CMPL 500. 3 units.
15119	CMPL 535 - 001 The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	YARON SHEMER	Phillips Hall-Rm 0328	5/11 (11 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course explores the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts in which films are made and exhibited and focuses on shared intra-regional cinematic trends pertaining to discourse, aesthetics, and production. 3 units.
14197	CMPL 841 - 001 History of Literary Criticism I: The Origins of Theory and Criticism	Th 2:00PM - 5:00PM	ERIC DOWNING	Murphey Hall-Rm 0222	14/15 (15 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Traces major strains in literary criticism and theory from classical antiquity to the 18th century, pairing primary critical texts with contemporary literary examples and modern day theoretical responses. Authors read include: Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Horace, Augustine, and Burke; Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Dante, and Pope; and Auerbach, Derrida, Ricoeur, and Benjamin. 3 units.