CMPL Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
12272	CMPL 120 - 001 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	JESSICA WOLFE	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	32/35	Seats filled	32/35	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.
8564	CMPL 143 - 001 History of Global Cinema	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Martin Johnson, Carson Watlington	Fetzer Hall-Rm 0109	40/49	Seats filled	41/50	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.
15138	CMPL 220H - 001 Global Authors: Jane Austen	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	INGER BRODEY	Murphey Hall-Rm 0302	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. This course examines the fiction of Jane Austen and her literary and cultural influence across the globe. We will see echoes of Austen in novels and films from around the world and explore how her work transcends generational, cultural, and geographical boundaries. What is the secret of her global appeal? 3 units.
15209	CMPL 250 - 001 Approaches to Comparative Literature	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Sheera Talpaz	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	11/35	Seats filled	11/35	0/999
Description: This communications-intensive course familiarizes students with the theory and practice of comparative literature: the history of literary theory; translation; and literature combined with disciplines such as music, architecture, and philosophy. 3 units.
12020	CMPL 251 - 001 Introduction to Literary Theory	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	SHAYNE LEGASSIE	Murphey Hall-Rm 0112	11/25	Seats filled	11/25	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.
14911	CMPL 263 - 001 European Exile Cinema	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	INGA POLLMANN	Dey Hall-Rm 0404	3/15	Seats filled	3/15	0/999
Description: This course examines the work of one or several film directors who went into exile during the Third Reich to discuss: How does the experience of exile influence film style? What are theories and histories of exile and exile cinema, and how do they relate to other approaches to film, via national film histories, genre, style, etc.? How does a biography of exile relate to so-called auteur theory? Readings and Discussions in English. 3 units.
15009	CMPL 279 - 001 Once Upon A Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Childhood, Then and Now	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Tobias Wilke	Kenan Labs-Rm B125	14/16	Seats filled	14/16	0/999
Description: Considers fairy tales from several different national traditions and historical periods against the backdrop of folklore, literature, psychoanalysis, and the socializing forces directed at children. Students may not receive credit for both GERM 279/CMPL 279 and GSLL 54. 3 units.
10814	CMPL 280 - 001 Film Genres	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	GREGORY FLAXMAN	Wilson Hall-Rm 0217	22/35	Seats filled	22/35	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.
15147	CMPL 280 - 002 Film Genres	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	INGA POLLMANN	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1374	14/35	Seats filled	14/35	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.
14985	CMPL 282 - 001 Russian Literature in World Cinema	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Stanislav Shvabrin	Dey Hall-Rm 0404	10/15	Seats filled	10/15	0/999
Description: Survey of masterpieces of Russian literature in the context of their transcultural cinematic adaptations. Lectures and readings in English. 3 units.
14603	CMPL 454 - 001 Literature of the Continental Renaissance in Translation	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	MARSHA COLLINS	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	8/25	Seats filled	8/25	0/999
Description: Discussion of the major works of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Ariosto, Tasso, Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, Cervantes, and Erasmus. 3 units.
15020	CMPL 469 - 001 Milan Kundera and World Literature	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Eliza Rose	Dey Hall-Rm 0404	5/15	Seats filled	5/15	0/999
Description: This course traces Milan Kundera's literary path from his communist poetic youth to his present postmodern Francophilia. His work will be compared with those authors he considers his predecessors and influences in European literature. Taught in English. Some readings in Czech for qualified students. 3 units.
14604	CMPL 473 - 001 Drama, Pageantry, and Spectacle in Medieval Europe	Mo 3:35PM - 6:35PM	H.M. Cushman	Dey Hall-Rm 0302	18/20	Seats filled	18/20	0/999
Description: An introduction to many different forms of medieval drama and pageantry, including plays, tournaments, public executions, and religious processions. Plays, artwork, and texts from a range of Western European countries, ranging in date from the eighth to the 16th centuries, may be considered. 3 units.
14983	CMPL 477 - 001 Wicked Desire: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, on Page and Screen	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Stanislav Shvabrin	Wilson Hall-Rm 0202	9/15	Seats filled	9/15	0/999
Description: Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita (1955) became a global phenomenon due to its unflinching portrayal of pedophilia. This course will delve deeper into the novel's moral complexity, its international context, and its reflection in mass culture, including movies by Stanley Kubrick (1962) and Adrian Lyne (1997). Taught in English; some readings in Russian for qualified students. 3 units.
12628	CMPL 489 - 001 Empire and Diplomacy	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Ted Leinbaugh	Global Education, F-Rm 1009	10/16	Seats filled	10/16	0/999
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.
15211	CMPL 490 - 001 Special Topics	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Sheera Talpaz	Murphey Hall-Rm 0204	10/25	Seats filled	10/25	0/999
Description: Topics vary from semester to semester. 3 units.
10719	CMPL 495 - 001 Advanced Seminar	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	SHAYNE LEGASSIE	Dey Hall-Rm 0203	10/20	Seats filled	10/20	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.
14605	CMPL 520 - 001 Cinema, Painting, and The Frame	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	GREGORY FLAXMAN	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 526B	8/20	Seats filled	8/20	0/999
Description: This course comparatively explores the relationship between cinema and painting. Drawing on methods and concepts from art history, and considering photography as an intermediary between painting and film, this course considers the aesthetic, political, and philosophical dimensions of the frame. 3 units.
14816	CMPL 527 - 001 Cold War Culture in East Asia: Transnational and Intermedial Connections	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	I Jonathan Kief	New West-Rm 0219	8/10	Seats filled	8/10	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to the specific contours that the Cold War accrued in East Asia. Focusing on literature and film, it explores what the fall of the Japanese Empire and the emergence of the post-1945 world meant across the region. 3 units.
15206	CMPL 866 - 001 Melancholia	Mo 4:40PM - 7:10PM	Aleksandra Prica	Dey Hall-Rm 0412	5/10	Seats filled	5/10	0/999
Description: This seminar will examine the historical variability of melancholy as it relates to works of visual art and literature, as well as philosophical, religious, psychological, and medical discourses from French, German, Italian and English-speaking Europe. Emphasis will be placed on German literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century and on exploring the inherent melancholy of its modes of imagination, expression, and representation. 3 units.