Explore folk stories, fairy tales, and other traditional European narratives, from their origins in oral storytelling to modern literary forms that transmit and transform folk traditions for modern readers.
(FL 195: with minimum grade of D- or FR 102: with minimum grade of D- or GER 102: with minimum grade of D- or SPAN 102: with minimum grade of D-)
Study of literature addressing perceptions of cultural affinity and difference among nations and ethnicities within Europe and at its frontiers. Possible factors for consideration may include race, nationalism, religion, gender, socioeconomic class, (im)migration and minorities.
(FL 195: with minimum grade of D- or FR 102: with minimum grade of D- or GER 102: with minimum grade of D- or SPAN 102: with minimum grade of D-)
Examine the experience of war, portrayed in literature and/or film, which has played a transformative and traumatic role in the political and human geography of continental Europe.
(FL 195: with minimum grade of D- or FR 102: with minimum grade of D- or GER 102: with minimum grade of D- or SPAN 102: with minimum grade of D-)
This course is devoted to the analysis of similarities, developments, and divergences among related dialects and/or branches of Western European languages.
(FL 195: with minimum grade of D- or FR 102: with minimum grade of D- or GER 102: with minimum grade of D- or SPAN 102: with minimum grade of D-)