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AMST 269 Woodstock Nation 6 credits
“If you remember the Sixties, you weren’t there.” We will test the truth of that popular adage by exploring the American youth counterculture of the 1960s, particularly the turbulent period of the late sixties. Using examples from literature, music, and film, we will examine the hope and idealism, the violence, confusion, wacky creativity, and social mores of this seminal decade in American culture. Topics explored will include the Beat Generation, the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, LSD, and the rise of environmentalism, feminism, and Black Power.
Extra time
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ARBC 222 Music in the Middle East 6 credits
The Middle East is home to a great number of musical styles, genres, and traditions. Regional, ideological, and cultural diversity, national identity, and cross-cultural encounters–all express themselves in music. We will explore some of the many musical traditions in the Arab world, from early twentieth century to the present. Class discussions based on readings in English and guided listening. No prior music knowledge required. Interested students with or without musical background can participate in an optional, hands-on Arab music performance workshop, on Western or a few (provided) Middle Eastern instruments throughout the term.
ARBC 222 is cross listed with MEST 222.
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ARBC 222.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARBC 371 Readings in Premodern Arabic Science 3 credits
It is difficult to overstate Arab scientists’ contribution to science. A translation movement from Greek, Persian and Sanskrit into Arabic initiated in the eighth century, led to centuries of innovative scientific investigation, during which Arab scientists reshaped science in a variety of disciplines: from mathematics to astronomy, physics, optics and medicine. Many of their works entered Latin and the European curriculum during the Renaissance. In this reading course we will explore some of the achievements and thought processes in premodern Arabic scientific literature by reading selections from several seminal works. We will examine these in the cultural contexts in which they emerged and to which they contributed, and reflect on modern Western perceptions of this intellectual project. Readings and class discussions will be in both Arabic and English.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARBC 206 or equivalent with a grade of C- or received a score of 206 on the Carleton Arabic Placement exam.
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ARBC 371.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- TWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 214 Queer Art 6 credits
Beyond surveying the rich history of arts by LGBTQA+ individuals, this course takes as its object of study the ways in which the arts have been used to question, undermine, and subvert the gendered and sexual norms of dominant cultures—in short, to queer them. In so doing, such visual and performative practices offer new, alternative models of living and acting in the world based on liberatory politics and aesthetics. This course will consider topics such as: censorship of queer artists; art of the AIDS crisis; activist performance; the sexual politics of public space; and queer intersections of race, class and gender in visual art among others.
Extra time
- Spring 2025
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One Art History (ARTH) course with a grade of C- better.
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ARTH 214.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 216 Revolutionary Image Regimes: Curating Middle Eastern Photographs and Prints after the Digital Turn 6 credits
The Middle East participated in the global revolutionary moment at the turn of the century, when photography and print played a crucial role in the mobilization and memorization of political, social, and cultural change. This course examines a vast range of revolutionary images at the beginning of the twentieth century, their specific contexts, and expressions in the Middle East. The course also investigates the impact of the Digital Turn in Art History and the intricacies of digital exhibitions. The students contribute to a digital exhibition on comparative revolutions hosted by Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online in 2025-26.
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ARTH 216.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Mira Xenia Schwerda 🏫
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 257 Modern Art and the Museum in the Middle East 6 credits
This course focuses on modern art, the museum, and the politics of display and curation in the Middle East. It will examine the development of modern art in the Middle East and take a closer look at specific modern artists and avantgarde movements, including Osman Hamdi Bey, Kamal al-Mulk, Fahrelnissa Zeid, and the Iranian Saqqakhaneh movement. We will examine the institution of the museum and its history. Furthermore, we will explore how modern Middle Eastern art is presented in the Middle East versus the United States or Europe. The course will include guest lectures by curators.
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ARTH 257.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Mira Xenia Schwerda 🏫
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 298 The History of Art History 6 credits
An intensive study of the nature of art history as an intellectual discipline and of the approaches scholars have taken to various art historical problems. Attention as well to principles of current art historical research and writing. Recommended for juniors who have declared art history as a major or a minor.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 298.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 3:10pm-4:20pm
- FLibrary 344 3:30pm-4:30pm
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CAMS 110 Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies 6 credits
This course introduces students to the basic terms, concepts and methods used in cinema studies and helps build critical skills for analyzing films, technologies, industries, styles and genres, narrative strategies and ideologies. Students will develop skills in critical viewing and careful writing via assignments such as a short response essay, a plot segmentation, a shot breakdown, and various narrative and stylistic analysis papers. Classroom discussion focuses on applying critical concepts to a wide range of films. Requirements include two screenings per week.
Sophomore Priority
Extra Time Required: For screenings
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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CAMS 110.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority. Extra Time required for screenings
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CAMS 186 Film Genres 6 credits
In this course, we study a number of popular American film genres: westerns, musicals, gangster films, war films, the woman's film, horror, and science fiction. We analyze past and present examples of each genre, reflect on the cultural functions of genre as well as narrative modes such as fantasy and melodrama, read and discuss genre history and theory, and research how culture is enacted in the naming and categorizing of films. Assignments aim to develop skills in film analysis, research and writing.
Sophomore Priority
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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CAMS 186.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Sophomore Priority, Extra Time for Evening screenings
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CAMS 187 Cult Television and Fan Cultures 6 credits
This course focuses on the history, production, and consumption of cult television. The beginning of the seminar will be focused on critically examining a number of theoretical approaches to the study of genre and fandom. Building on these approaches, the remainder of the course will focus on cult television case studies from the last eight decades. We will draw on recent scholarship to explore how cult television functions textually, industrially, and culturally. Additionally, we will study fan communities on the Internet and consider how fansites, webisodes, and sites like YouTube and Netflix transform television genres.
Extra time for evening screenings
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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CAMS 187.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 214 Film History III 6 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to recent film history, 1970-present, and the multiple permutations of cinema around the globe. The course charts the development of national cinemas since the 1970s while considering the effects of media consolidation and digital convergence. Moreover, the course examines how global cinemas have reacted to and dealt with the formal influence and economic domination of Hollywood on international audiences. Class lectures, screenings, and discussions will consider how cinema has changed from a primarily national phenomenon to a transnational form in the twenty-first century.
Extra Time required for evening Screenings.
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CAMS 214.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 229 “Make It” in Hollywood: CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Experimental Los Angeles 3 credits
Los Angeles is well known as the center of the film and television industry. This course will explore the lesser-know experimental and avant-garde cinematic histories and current practices in Los Angeles through readings and screenings. Site visits will include filmmaker and media artist studios, archives, and film festivals. Students will reflect on their experiences with course materials through short writings and creative projects.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS "Make It" in Hollywood: CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance into the Carleton OCS "Make It" in Hollywood: CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
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CAMS 230 “Make It” in Hollywood: CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Iconic Los Angeles 3 credits
This course explores the second largest city in the United States through its relationship to cinema history. In its complexities and contradictions, romantic notions of “Tinsel Town” coexist with the realities of a multicultural metropolis. Readings, screenings, and field trips will contextualize Los Angeles as a place where the built environment and natural world collide, as well as the center of the American entertainment industry. Short writings will give students the necessary opportunity to reflect and synthesize their experiences.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS "Make It" in Hollywood: CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed the following course(s): CAMS 111 with a grade of C- or better AND acceptance into the Carleton OCS "Make It" in Hollywood: CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
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CHIN 251 Heroes, Heroines, Exceptional Lives in Chinese Biographical Histories 6 credits
Through generic and historical analysis of the two-millennia long biographical tradition in Chinese historical writing, this project explores lives of heroes and heroines, including, but not limited to: dynastic founders, ministers, generals, poets, assassins, and exceptional women. In this introduction to premodern Chinese culture and literature, students will experience, in English translation, some of the most beautiful works of ancient Chinese literature from the second century BCE through the eighteenth century CE. No prior Chinese language study required.
In translation
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CHIN 251.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 10:10am-11:55am
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CHIN 358 Advanced Chinese: Everyday Life in Ancient China 6 credits
Were chopsticks originally eating utensils? Did ancient Chinese sleep on beds and sit on chairs? What did they wear? In this course, students will find answers to questions like those in a series of expository writings concerning various aspects of daily life in ancient Chinese society, while enhancing their proficiency in comprehending authentic materials and producing extended discourse on related topics through a variety of oral and written coursework. This course also provides a fair amount of exposure to common sources for historical studies of China, and thus expands students’ vocabulary and knowledge about Chinese history and archaeology.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CHIN 206 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 300 on the Carleton Chinese Placement exam.
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CLAS 142 “No, Luke, I Am Your Father!”: Being an Heir in the Ancient Family 6 credits
The bond between fathers and sons is prominent in cinematic sagas, from Star Wars to The Lion King. But is it only a modern concern? What can Greek literature teach us about this relationship in today’s societies? This course explores the literary representations of ancient heroic families and traces their portrayals through the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. We will discuss the context and aims of Greek epic, tragedies and comedies, and investigate the representation of familial legacy, examining how sons can shape their own identity and emerge from their parents’ shadows, both then and now.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CLAS 142.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Cecilia Cozzi 🏫
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 115 The Art of Storytelling 6 credits
Jorge Luis Borges is quoted as saying that “unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.” This course focuses attention primarily on the short story as an enduring form. We will read short stories drawn from different literary traditions and from various parts of the world. Stories to be read include those by Aksenov, Atwood, Beckett, Borges, Camus, Cheever, Cisneros, Farah, Fuentes, Gordimer, Ishiguro, Kundera, Mahfouz, Marquez, Moravia, Nabokov, Narayan, Pritchett, Rushdie, Trevor, Welty, and Xue.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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ENGL 202 The Bible as Literature 6 credits
We will approach the Bible not as an archaeological relic, nor as the Word of God, but “as a work of great literary force and authority [that has] shaped the minds and lives of intelligent men and women for two millennia and more.” As one place to investigate such shaping, we will sample how the Bible (especially in the “Authorized” or King James version) has drawn British and American poets and prose writers to borrow and deploy its language and respond creatively to its narratives, images, and visions.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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ENGL 230 Studies in African American Literature: From the 1950s to the Present 6 credits
We will explore developments in African American literature since the 1950s with a focus on literary expression in the Civil Rights Era; on the Black Arts Movement; on the new wave of feminist/womanist writing; and on the experimental and futuristic fictions of the twenty-first century. Authors to be read include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, August Wilson, Charles Johnson, Ntozake Shange, Gloria Naylor, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kevin Young, and Tracy Smith.
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ENGL 255 The Poetics of Disability 6 credits
Scholar Michael Davidson has suggested that “perhaps the closest link between poetry and disability lies in a conundrum within the genre itself: poetry makes language visible by making language strange.” In this class we will read a wide range of poets who tackle ideas of normalcy and “ability” by centering disability consciousness and culture. We will engage with poetry’s capacity as a genre to destabilize our assumptions and generate new imaginaries. Alongside contemporary U.S. poetry, we will study contemporary theory in the field of disability studies in order to better understand the critical conversations around the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability.
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ENGL 295 Critical Methods 6 credits
Required of students majoring in English, this course explores practical and theoretical issues in literary analysis and contemporary criticism.
Not open to first year students.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One English Foundations including (100) course with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the English Literature and Composition AP exam or received a grade of 6 or better on the English Language A: Literature IB exam AND 6 credits from English courses (100-399) not including Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 338 Dickinson, Moore, Bishop 6 credits
An intensive study of lyric invention and innovation in the work of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop. Starting with formalist readings and historicizing the poetic subjects they pursued in common (self and society, loss and knowledge, nature, gender, the senses, the body), we will explore their practice, reception, and influence in relation to changing Modernist poetics, 1860 to 1970, and to specifics of place: Amherst, Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Key West, and Brazil.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One English Foundations including (100) course with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the English Literature and Composition AP exam or received a grade of 6 or better on the English Language A: Literature IB exam AND 6 credits from English courses (100-399) not including Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 395 Frankenstein’s Progeny 6 credits
Written in 1816 when she was only eighteen years old, Mary Shelley’s brilliant and controversial Frankenstein has not only lived on but has sparked two centuries’ worth of adaptations, interpretations, and creative re-imaginings, including recent fiction by Saadawi, McGill, and Tsai, an essay on transgender rage by Stryker, episodes of Black Mirror, and the novel and film Poor Things. We’ll study how several such radical revisions of the novel explore and extend its prescient themes of gender, sexuality, monstrosity, race, the ethics of science, women’s rights, and social justice.- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student must have completed any of the following course(s): ENGL 295 and one 300 level ENGL course with grade of C- or better.
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FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean 6 credits
Reading and discussion of literary works, with analysis of social, historical and political issues, with an emphasis on cultural and literary movements such as Négritude (El Negrismo, in Cuba) and their role in shaping ideas of self-determination, Nationalism and Independence in the French colonies of the Caribbean and Black Africa. We will read works by Aimé Césaire (Martinique), Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), Léon Gontran Damas (French Guiana), Jacques Roumain (Haîti), Laye Camara (Guinea), Mongo Béti (Cameroun), Simone Schwartz-Bart (Guadeloupe) and Alain Mabanckou (Congo). Conducted in French.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): FREN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the French Language and Culture AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the French: Language B IB exam or received a score of 205 on the Carleton French Placement exam. .
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FREN 245.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 254 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: French Art in Context 6 credits
Home of some of the finest and best known museums in the world, Paris has long been recognized as a center for artistic activity. Students will have the opportunity to study art from various periods on site, including Impressionism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. In-class lectures and discussions will be complemented by guided visits to the unparalleled collections of the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Centre Pompidou, local art galleries, and other appropriate destinations. Special attention will be paid to the program theme.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
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FREN 255 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Islam in France: Historical Approaches and Current Debates 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the historical, cultural, social, and religious traces of Islam as they have been woven over time into the modern fabric of French society. Through images drawn from film, photography, television, and museum displays, they will discover the important role this cultural contact zone has played in the French experience. The course will take advantage of the resources of the city of Paris and will include excursions to museums as well as cultural and religious centers.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
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FREN 259 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the "Frenchness" and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
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FREN 310 The Art of Scandal 6 credits
What is scandal? Is it a product of the time and place where it occurs, or can it transcend national and temporal boundaries? This course seeks answers to these questions by examining the texts, films, and artistic productions that caused, exposed, or critiqued a scandal. We will explore topics such as passion, lies, revenge, rumor, and murder. From the Affair of the Poisons during the reign of Louis XIV to controversy over France’s literary prize (the Goncourt), we will analyze the evolution of social norms and public opinions in global French culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 200 or 300 level FREN course excluding FREN 204 and Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better.
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FREN 359 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the "Frenchness" and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
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GERM 217 Queer Culture and Movements in Germany from the 19th Century to Present 6 credits
In the nineteenth century, Germany was at the forefront of activism for queer people – until it wasn’t. In this course, we will explore the development and evolution of queer culture and social movements in Germany from the late nineteenth century through to the present. We will analyze a variety of primary texts and visual media, including the first magazines written for a queer audience and first-person accounts by queer people persecuted under the Nazis. We will explore how this history has shaped contemporary queer culture in Germany and how it compares to the Anglophone world. Taught in German.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): GERM 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the German Language and Culture AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the German: Language B IB exam or received a score of 205 on the Carleton German Placement exam.
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GERM 217.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Chloe Vaughn 🏫
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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GRK 226 Heroes and Monsters in Ancient Greek Thought 6 credits
Greek literature abounds in stories of hostile encounters between heroes and monsters. Perseus vs. Medusa, Theseus and the Minotaur, Bellerophon vs. the Chimera are only a few of these stories that feature larger-than-life individuals who confront otherworldly creatures. But why is there such a fascination in the Greek mind? In this course, we will examine such stories in the original Greek, looking at authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, and Lucian, and we will discuss what the socio-cultural constructions of the hero and the monster show us about what it means to be human both in antiquity and in modern times.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): GRK 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 205 on the Carleton Greek Placement exam.
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GRK 226.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 204 9:40am-10:40am
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JAPN 343 Advanced Japanese: Nature in Popular Media 6 credits
This course examines Japanese popular media through an environmental lens, spanning from the thireteenth century to the present. It explores how novels, films, and animation depict the evolving human relationship with the non-human world amidst political, cultural, and philosophical shifts. Topics include modernization, internal colonization, gender dynamics, and industrial disasters, with a focus on canonical authors and global issues. Students develop skills in cultural comprehension through discussions and written assignments.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): JAPN 206 with grade of C- or better.
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JAPN 343.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Chie Tokuyama 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LATN 240 The Tortured Poets: Love Poetry from Catullus to Taylor Swift 6 credits
Poetry has always offered people a way to express their feelings and connect to their emotions, especially those related to love. From the thrill of new romance to the pain of heartbreak, poets find a haven in their art to declare their conflicting feelings and explore the ecstasy of mutual love or the torture of unrequited love. In this course, we will focus on Roman love/elegiac poetry (poems by Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid) in their original language and cultural context, while exploring themes and tropes that define the genre and still inspire modern love poetry and songs.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): LATN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 205 on the Carleton Latin Placement exam.
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LATN 240.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 127 Music and Censorship 6 credits
This course examines the causes, methods and logic behind attempts to censor music by governments, commercial corporations and religious authorities through guided listening, reading, and writing assignments. Lectures focus first on the “entartete musik” of Nazi Germany. Contemporary cases of music censorship are then selected from a wide range of countries, including the United States, South Africa, and Russia. The music studied includes that by Pussy Riot, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, and Richard Wagner.
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MUSC 127.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Hector Valdivia 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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MUSC 204 Theory II: Musical Structures 6 credits
An investigation into the nature of musical sounds and the way they are combined to form rhythms, melodies, harmonies, and form. Topics include the nature of musical pitch, the structure of musical scales and their influence on melody, what gives rise to a sense of tonality, the complexity of rhythmic patterns, and the architecture of musical form. Student work includes building a musical instrument, programming a drum machine, comparing cover versions of popular songs, and an extended music analysis project using empirical methods.
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MUSC 204.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:40am
- FWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:30am
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Prerequisite: Music 101, or permission of the instructor as assessed by a diagnostic exam administered at the start of the term
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MUSC 217 Opera: Stage, Screen, Recording 6 credits
Opera has something for everyone: drama, desire, politics, stagecraft, design. The medium sets life to music and reveals the music within people’s lives. In the spirit of exchange between art and reality, this course looks at the history of opera through a contemporary lens. Centering on a diverse collection of operas—and voices—from past to present, we’ll ask how modern sensibilities animate the music’s production and performance. We’ll bring concepts of relevance, risk, representation, and justice to bear on opera, with attention to media and technology. We’ll listen to recent operatic interpretations and discover how creatives are making opera new.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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MUSC 217.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 313 Video Game Music: History, Interpretation, Practice 6 credits
Over the decades, video game music has evolved from simple beeps and boops into a genre that has garnered millions of fans worldwide. This course traces the history of video game music aesthetics and technology. We will consider how it relates to a variety of musical traditions and engages with broader social issues. We will learn to listen for loops, styles, structures, and function in games via direct engagement with primary sources: the games themselves. The course culminates in the practical application of knowledge via a creative project.
Expected preparation: The ability to read music and a previous music course or instructor permission.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 100, 200, or 300 level MUSC course NOT including lesson or ensemble courses with a grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 313.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RUSS 228 Russophone Studies in Central Asia: Contemporary Kazakhstani Culture and Post-Colonial Identity 6 credits
In this course we will study how contemporary Kazakhstani post-colonial identity is expressed and negotiated in the works of Russophone prose and poetry, as well as in film, theater, contemporary art, and urban space. Other topics will include the changing role of the Russian language in Central Asia, linguistic, gender and cultural hybridity, trauma and (post)memory, cultural, ecological and gender activism. Taught in English.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Russophone Studies in Central Asia program.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Russophone Studies in Central Asia program.
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RUSS 266 The Brothers Karamazov 3 credits
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s last novel, The Brothers Karamazov, is many things: a riveting murder mystery, a probing philosophical treatise, one of the best known novels in world literature, and a complex book worth reading and discussing with serious readers of diverse backgrounds. We will familiarize ourselves with the historical and philosophical context in which it was written, while grappling with the fundamental questions it raises: What does it mean to act morally? Why do humans so often act against their own best interest? How do we reconcile a world of chaos and suffering with the notion of a benevolent god? Conducted entirely in English.
1st Five Weeks
In Translation
- First Five Weeks, Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis CX, Cultural/Literature
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RUSS 266.00 First Five Weeks, Spring 2025
- Faculty: Laura Goering 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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1st 5 weeks, in translation
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RUSS 267 War and Peace 3 credits
Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Lev Tolstoy challenges readers to confront some of the most confounding questions of human existence: How can we reconcile the notion of free will with the seemingly ineluctable forces of history? Is individual moral action possible in war? How can we live a meaningful life in the face of inevitable death? And what might lie after death? In this course we read War and Peace in its cultural and historical context, while also considering how it continues to be relevant to our lives today. Conducted in English. No knowledge of Russian literature or history required.
2nd Five Weeks
In Translation
- Second Five Weeks, Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis CX, Cultural/Literature
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RUSS 267.00 Second Five Weeks, Spring 2025
- Faculty: Laura Goering 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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2nd 5 weeks, in translation
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SPAN 205 Conversation and Composition 6 credits
A course designed to develop the student’s oral and written mastery of Spanish. Advanced study of grammar. Compositions and conversations based on cultural and literary topics. There is also an audio-video component focused on current affairs.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis LP Language Requirement
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): SPAN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the Spanish Literature AP exam or received a score of 4 or better on the Spanish Language AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Spanish IB exam or received a score of 205 on the Carleton Spanish Placement exam.
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SPAN 205.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 3:10pm-4:55pm
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SPAN 208 Coffee and News 2 credits
An excellent opportunity to brush up your Spanish while learning about current issues in Spain and Latin America. The class meets only once a week for an hour. Class requirements include reading specific sections of Spain’s leading newspaper, El País, everyday on the internet (El País), and then meeting once a week to exchange ideas over coffee with a small group of students like yourself.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): SPAN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the Spanish Literature AP exam or received a score of 4 or better on the Spanish Language AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Spanish IB exam or received a score of 205 on the Carleton Spanish Placement exam.
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SPAN 208.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Silvia López 🏫 👤
- Size:10
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
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SPAN 220 Racism, Immigration, and Gender in Contemporary Latin American Narrative 6 credits
This course focuses on contemporary short stories and short novels. We will read some of the most relevant living authors from Latin America including Carlos Gamerro, Pilar Quintana, Kike Ferrari, Yeniter Poleo, Antonio José Ponte, among others. This will expose students to the most pressing issues in today’s Latin America, ranging from gender, violence, racism, and immigration. We will interview at least one of the authors read during the term and discuss the social implications of their literature in today’s world.
In Trans
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): SPAN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the Spanish Literature AP exam or received a score of 4 or better on the Spanish Language AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Spanish IB exam or received a score of 205 on the Carleton Spanish Placement exam.
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SPAN 220.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Héctor Melo Ruiz 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 263 History of Human Rights 6 credits
This course proposes a genealogical study of the concept of Human Rights. The course will begin with the debates in sixteenth century Spain about the theological, political and juridical rights of "Indians" and its consequences in current Latin America. The course will cover four centuries and the following topics will be discussed: the debates about poverty in sixteenth century Spain; the birth of the concept of tolerance in the eighteenth century; the creation of the modern political constitution in the United States, France and Spain; the debates about women's rights, abortion and euthanasia, etc.
The course is taught in Spanish.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): SPAN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the Spanish Literature AP exam or received a score of 4 or better on the Spanish Language AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Spanish IB exam or received a score of 205 on the Carleton Spanish Placement exam.
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SPAN 263.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty: Jorge Brioso 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:15pm-3:00pm