Courses

MLC 235 Special Topics in Japanese Film

Discussion and analysis of Japanese films with emphasis on understanding the cultural and historical aspects of Japan through cinematic representations.

Prerequisite(s): Japanese 102.

Unit(s): 1

MLC 256 Psychoanalysis, Literature and Culture

General introduction to use of psychoanalytic techniques to analyze literature and culture. Readings from Freud and post-Freudian theorists used to interpret variety of literary texts, as well as films, ads, and other examples from popular culture.

General Education Requirement: (FSLT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 260 Nature, Nurture, Neurons: Science and Society in 20th Century East European Literature

Selected readings in 20th century Czech and Polish literature. Analysis of primary texts (in translation) focuses on the representation of both science and socialism as powerful ideological forces.

Prerequisite(s): English 103.

General Education Requirement: (FSLT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 321 Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Introduction to Russian literature and critical literary analysis. Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and others.

General Education Requirement: (FSLT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 322 Introduction to Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Russian Literature

Introduction to Russian literature and critical literary analysis. Includes Modernism, Soviet Socialist Realism and contemporary Russian fiction.

General Education Requirement: (FSLT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 331 Russian Cinema

General introduction to Russian cinema focusing on the significant portion of Russian cinema within the context of European and world cinemas. Emphasizes historical and theoretical contributions of Russian cinema and traces development of cinema in Russia from Protazanov and Eisentein to Tarkovsky, Todorovsky, Mikhalkov and Sokurov. Different variants of course that would appear in alternate years will have variety of topical foci such as Russian and European cinema, World War II, ideology and art in film, Soviet social realism, literature and cinema, Shakespeare in Russian cinema, the auteur in Russian cinema, Russian female directors, the female image in Russian cinema, Stalin and Lenin in film, etc.

Unit(s): 1

MLC 332 Conscience and Consciousness in 19th Century Russian Painting

Survey and analytical study of significant periods of Russian painting, focusing on interconnections between philosophy, literature, spirituality and ideology in Russian painting during various historical periods and developments in Russian culture and intellectual history.

General Education Requirement: (FSHT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 335 Bolsheviks, Bombs and Ballet: Soviet Culture and Civilization

Survey of intellectual and scientific life, artistic movements, and popular culture under communism in the Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary focus on the arts, music, science, and literature with attention complicated relations between official and private culture.

General Education Requirement: (FSHT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 340 European Romanticism

Comparative study of the major international currents in European romanticism, drawing from the literary traditions of England, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia.

General Education Requirement: (FSLT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 350 Introductory Linguistics

General, historical and/or descriptive linguistics.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Communication Skills II-Language requirement

Unit(s): 1

MLC 351 Contemporary Literary Theory

A broad survey of literary theory, with textual applications, and including structuralism, Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and new historicism.

General Education Requirement: (FSLT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 357 The Idea of the Renaissance: Self, History and Knowledge

A comparative and interdisciplinary investigation of the period in European history known as the Renaissance through the lens of some its most well-known and compelling works.

Unit(s): 1

MLC 358 Desire and Identity in the Renaissance: The Lyric Tradition

A comparative investigation of Italian, French, and English Renaissance lyric poetry. (Same as English 309.)

General Education Requirement: (FSLT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 360 Representing the Holocaust

Critical analyses of visual and textual representations of the Holocaust in an international context. The course raises questions about the limits and meaning of Holocaust representations as well as their ideological and moral implications.

Prerequisite(s): English 103.

Unit(s): 1

MLC 365 German Film in Context

Survey of German cinema from the 1930s to the present emphasizing the historical and cultural context in which the films were produced.

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.

General Education Requirement: (FSLT)

Unit(s): 1

MLC 388 Individual Internship

Internship experiences outside of the department in fields related to MLC programs. No more than 1.5 units of internship in any one department and 3.5 units of internship overall may be counted toward required degree units.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of department.

Unit(s): .5-1

MLC 389 Practice Assistantship

Students lead practice sessions associated with the elementary and intermediate language sequences outside of the regularly-taught program languages. The practice assistantship does not count as credit toward the major or minor. Up to one unit can be applied toward graduation credit.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of department.

Unit(s): .25

MLC 397 Selected Topics

Special interest topics offered at department's discretion.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of department.

Unit(s): 1

MLC 410 The Teaching of a Modern Second Language

Theory and practice of teaching modern second language, including English as second language, at the K-12 levels. Designed to enable teachers to meet state licensure requirements.

Prerequisite(s): For MLC: Completion of a modern literatures and cultures minr or the equivalent, or permission of department. For education minors seeking licensure in Spanish that requires MLC 410: the completion of a Latin American and Iberian Studies minor, the equivalent, or permission of the Latin American and Iberian studies department.

Unit(s): 1

MLC 411 Teaching Japanese as a Second Language

Analyze Japanese syntax and develop skills for teaching Japanese. Taught in English.

Prerequisite(s): Japanese 202.

Unit(s): 1

MLC 497 Selected Topics

Experimental and special interest topics offered at department's discretion.

Unit(s): 1

MLC 495 Independent Study

Special projects individually pursued under supervision of faculty member.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of department.

Unit(s): .5-1