Comparative Literature
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COLT 211 Comparative World Literature (4) July 20–August 14. “Apocalypse”: Exploration of filmic and literary accounts of “the end of the world as we know it.” How do films and texts such as The Terminator, Waiting for Godot, 28 Days Later, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road challenge what we know about the world and ourselves Rayneard.
COLT 211 Comparative World Literature (4) June 22–July 17. “Modern Occult Literature”: Explores the practice of occult magic as depicted in essays and fiction. Projects include traditional literacy analysis as well as the compilation of a “grimoire’’ or spell book. McCann.
COLT 211 Comparative World Literature (4) August 17–September 11. ‘‘Surprises and Twists’’: From Sophocles to M. Night Shyamalan, authors and audiences have relished the unexpected. Explores the function and effect of surprise in television, film, and literature. Lisiecki.
COLT 212 Comparative World Cinema (4) June 22–July 17. “Road Trips and World Travelers’’: Increasingly, we live in a world on the move. Scheduled movies present members of a global village participating in traveling, migration, and road trips. Films include Y tu mamá también, 2046, and Run, Lola, Run. Chang.
COLT 360 Gender and Identity in Literature (4) July 20–August 14. “Divided Selves’’: Identity implies a unified sense of self, but what happens when one is torn by competing affiliations: race, gender, nationality, sexuality Authors to be studied include Hawthorne, Calvino, Marmon Silko. Rachmuth.
COLT 403 Thesis (1–12R)
COLT 405 Reading and Conference: [Topic] (1–21R)
COLT 601 Research: [Topic] (1–16R)
COLT 603 Dissertation (1–16R)
COLT 605 Reading and Conference: [Topic] (1–16R)
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