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ARBC 387 The One Thousand and One Nights 6 credits
This course is an exploration of the world of the Thousand and One Nights, the most renowned Arabic literary work of all time. The marvelous tales spun by Shahrazad have captured and excited the imagination of readers and listeners–both Arab and non-Arab–for centuries. In class, we will read in Arabic, selections from the Nights, and engage some of the scholarly debates surrounding this timeless work. We will discuss the question of its origin in folklore and popular culture and the mystery of its “authorship,” as well as the winding tale of its reception, adaptation and translation. Readings and class discussions will be in both Arabic and English.
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed the following course(s): ARBC 206 with a grade C- or better.
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ARBC 387.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Yaron Klein 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 102 Introduction to Art History II 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from the fifteenth century through the present. The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, humanist and Reformation redefinitions of art in the Italian and Northern Renaissance, realism, modernity and tradition, the tension between self-expression and the art market, and the use of art for political purposes.
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ARTH 102.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Vanessa Reubendale 🏫
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 120 Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and West Asia 6 credits
This course will provide students with foundational knowledge in the art, architecture and archaeology of Egypt, East Africa, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Iran and Central Asia from the Neolithic through Late Antiquity (ca. 7,000 B.C.E. – 650 C.E.). Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between the visual material and the social, intellectual, political and religious contexts in which it developed and functioned. In this regard, students will also gain an understanding of the evolution of, and exchanges and differences among, the visual cultures of these time periods and regions. It will also expose them to the preconditions for contemporary geopolitics in the region.
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ARTH 120.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Johnathan Hardy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 235 Revival, Revelation, and Re-animation: The Art of Europe’s “Renaissance” 6 credits
This course examines European artistic production in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. The aim of the course is to introduce diverse forms of artistic production, as well as to analyze the religious, social, and political role of art in the period. While attending to the specificities of workshop practices, production techniques, materials, content, and form of the objects under discussion, the course also interrogates the ways in which these objects are and, at times, are not representative of the “Renaissance.”
- Spring 2026
- IS, International 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 235.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 240 Art Since 1945 6 credits
Art from abstract expressionism to the present, with particular focus on issues such as the modernist artist-hero; the emergence of alternative or non-traditional media; the influence of the women’s movement and the gay/lesbian liberation movement on contemporary art; and postmodern theory and practice.
- Spring 2026
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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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 240.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Vanessa Reubendale 🏫
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 260 Planning Utopia: Ideal Cities in Theory and Practice 6 credits
This course will survey the history of ideal plans for the built urban environment. Particular attention will be given to examples from about 1850 to the present. Projects chosen by students will greatly influence the course content, but subjects likely to receive sustained attention include: Renaissance ideal cities, conceptions of public and private space, civic rituals, the industrial city, Baron Haussmann’s renovations of Paris, suburbanization, the Garden City movement, zoning legislation, Le Corbusier’s Ville Contemporaine, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City, New Urbanism and urban renewal, and planned capitals such as Brasília, Canberra, Chandigarh, and Washington, D.C.
- Spring 2026
- 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 260.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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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 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 298.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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
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CAMS 110.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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Sophomore Priority.
Extra Time Required: For screenings
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CAMS 211 Film History II 6 credits
This course charts the continued rise and development of cinema 1948-1968, focusing on monuments of world cinema and their industrial, cultural, aesthetic and political contexts. Topics include postwar Hollywood, melodrama, authorship, film style, labor strikes, runaway production, censorship, communist paranoia and the blacklist, film noir, Italian neorealism, widescreen aesthetics, the French New Wave, art cinema, Fellini, Bergman, the Polish School, the Czech New Wave, Japanese and Indian cinema, political filmmaking in the Third World, and the New Hollywood Cinema. Requirements include class attendance and participation, readings, evening film screenings, and various written assignments and exams.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
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CAMS 211.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 231 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Korean Cinema 3 credits
In recent decades, Korean cinema has emerged from the shadow of Japanese and Hong Kong cinema to become a globally significant and influential force. In this class students will study the history and aesthetics of Korean cinema, its global circulation, and its place in the imagining, representation and critique of Korean identity.
2nd Five Weeks
Extra Time Required
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul | New Media OCS Program
- Second Five Weeks, Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Film, Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul program.
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CAMS 233 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: K-Drama 3 credits
The mass appeal of Korean television dramas, or K-Drama, now radiates well beyond the borders of the Korean peninsula. Korean dramas are among the most popular offerings on streaming networks around the world. In this class students will learn about the history, social contexts and major genres of these forms of popular culture and the interplay of their popularity in Korea and beyond.
2nd Five Weeks
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul
- Second Five Weeks, Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Film, Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul program.
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CAMS 320 Sound Studies Seminar 6 credits
This course presents the broader field of Sound Studies, its debates and issues. Drawing on a diverse set of interdisciplinary perspectives, the seminar explores the range of academic work on sound to examine the relationship between sound and listening, sound and perception, sound and memory, and sound and modern thought. Topics addressed include but are not limited to sound technologies and industries, acoustic perception, sound and image relations, sound in media, philosophies of listening, sound semiotics, speech and communication, voice and subject formation, sound art, the social history of noise, and hearing cultures.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 110 with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 320.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 133 1:50pm-3:35pm
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CHIN 360 Classical Chinese 6 credits
This course introduces to students the essentials of classical Chinese through a close reading of authentic materials. A wide range of genres, including prose, poems, idioms, and short stories, will be introduced to enrich students’ understanding of various writing conventions and styles. The historical, cultural, and literary forces that shape these cultural works also will be examined.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis LP Language Requirement
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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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CHIN 360.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Lei Yang 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CLAS 111 Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture Program: Myth and Reception 6 credits
This course aims to familiarize students with important Greek mythological stories and figures as represented in Greek literature and art. During the course students will be introduced to select methods of studying and interpreting myths and will explore how myths helped the Greeks organize their understanding of the world and approach issues and problems that affected the lives of individuals and communities. Students will study the way in which myths have been received, interpreted, re-imagined, and rendered into artwork, theatrical performances, opera, and dance pieces in modern times and will discuss their relevance today.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Greece at a Crossroads program.
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CLAS 116 Greek Drama in Performance 6 credits
What is drama? When and where were the first systematic theatrical performances put on? What can Athenian tragedies and comedies teach us about the classical world and today’s societies? This course will explore the always-relevant world of Ancient Greek theater, its history and development, through the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. We will decode the structure and content of Greek tragedies and comedies, ponder their place in the Athenian society and the modern world, and investigate the role of both ancient and contemporary productions in addressing critical questions on the construction and performance of individual and communal identities.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CLAS 116.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Cecilia Cozzi 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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DANC 270 Performance As Ceremony 6 credits
This course re-frames Dance history and practice through the lens of “performance as ceremony,” foregrounding embodied knowledge as a site of cultural memory, resistance, and futurity. Students will examine Indigenous, Africanist, Latinx, and Asian modernisms, centering choreographers, performers, and theorists who challenge dominant narratives and the legacies of cultural appropriation. With particular attention to Indigenous contemporary performance and its cultural and historical contexts, students will engage in seminar discussions, embodied research, and site-based performance practices. Indigenous guest artist/scholar visits, and attendance at performances will be part of the class.
Extra Time Required: 1-2 field trips to performances in the Twin Cities
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ENGL 112 Introduction to the Novel 6 credits
This course explores the history and form of the British novel, tracing its development from a strange, sensational experiment in the eighteenth century to a dominant literary genre today. Among the questions that we will consider: What is a novel? What makes it such a popular form of entertainment? How does the novel participate in ongoing conversations about family, sex, class, race, and nation? How did a genre once considered a source of moral corruption become a legitimate literary form? Authors include: Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Bram Stoker, Virginia Woolf, and Jackie Kay.
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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.
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ENGL 214 Revenge Tragedy 3 credits
Madness, murder, conspiracy, poison, incest, rape, ghosts, and lots of blood: the fashion for revenge tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean England led to the creation of some of the most brilliant, violent, funny, and deeply strange plays in the history of the language. Authors may include Cary, Chapman, Ford, Marston, Middleton, Kyd, Tourneur, and Webster.
- First Five Weeks, Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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ENGL 218 The Gothic Spirit 6 credits
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the rise of the Gothic, a genre populated by brooding hero-villains, vulnerable virgins, mad monks, ghosts, and monsters. In this course, we will examine the conventions and concerns of the Gothic, addressing its preoccupation with terror, transgression, sex, otherness, and the supernatural. As we situate this genre within its literary and historical context, we will consider its relationship to realism and Romanticism, and we will explore how it reflects the political and cultural anxieties of its age. Authors include Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Emily Bronte.
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ENGL 219 Global Shakespeare 3 credits
Shakespeare’s plays have been reimagined and repurposed all over the world, performed on seven continents, and translated into over 100 languages. The course explores how issues of globalization, nationalism, translation (both cultural and linguistic), and (de)colonization inform our understanding of these wonderfully varied adaptations and appropriations. We will examine the social, political, and aesthetic implications of a range of international stage, film, and literary versions as we consider how other cultures respond to the hegemonic original. No prior experience with Shakespeare is necessary.
Second 5 weeks
- Second Five Weeks, Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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ENGL 222 The Art of Jane Austen 6 credits
All of Jane Austen's fiction will be read; the works she did not complete or choose to publish during her lifetime will be studied in an attempt to understand the art of her mature comic masterpieces, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion.
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ENGL 223 American Transcendentalism 6 credits
Attempts to discern the nineteenth-century Zeitgeist come down, Emerson says, to a “practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live?” This interdisciplinary course will investigate the works of the American Transcendentalist movement in its restless discontent with the conventional, its eclectic search for better ways of thinking and living. We will engage major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman alongside documents of the scientific, religious, and political changes that shaped their era and provoked their responses.
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ENGL 246 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Beyond Bollywood 3 credits
While the output of the popular Hindi film industry of Mumbai, also known as Bollywood, has global reach and renown, other genres of films produced in Mumbai are not as well-known or studied. In this course, students will encounter independent feature films, documentaries and short films that will expand their understanding of the larger world of Hindi cinema in particular, and Indian cinema more broadly.
First Five Weeks
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul, 5 week course
- First Five Weeks, Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Film, Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul program.
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ENGL 248 Visions of California 6 credits
An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which California has been imagined in literature, art, film and popular culture from pre-contact to the present. We will explore the state both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor–whether of promise or disintegration–for the rest of the country. Authors read will include Muir, Steinbeck, Chandler, West, and Didion. Weekly film showings will include Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown and Blade Runner.
Extra Time required.
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ENGL 272 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Representing Mumbai 3 credits
In Mumbai we will read a range of poems, short stories, novels and non-fiction that take Mumbai/Bombay as their setting and discuss the ways in which the heterogeneous cosmopolitanisms of the city are both represented and re-articulated in writing on the city. While our focus will be on Mumbai/Bombay, the course will also function as an introduction to twentieth century and contemporary Indian writing.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul
First Five Weeks
- First Five Weeks, Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Film, Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul program.
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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 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 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 344 Reading Queerly 6 credits
What might it mean to cultivate a queer relationship to reading? Is it a question of identity? That is, does a queer critic read queerly? Might it be a matter of argument? Is reading against the grain inherently queer? Or could it be that queer reading is defined by an affective relationship to the text? We will explore a range of multimedia primary sources and foundational works of queer literary criticism, considering how reading emerged as a privileged site for articulating and embodying queerness. Primary sources range from Henry James and Shakespeare to David Bowie, Prince, and Taylor Swift.
- Spring 2026
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One ENGL Foundations course with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 359 Contemporary World Literature 6 credits
Our focus is on contemporary writers. Specifically, we will privilege genre-bending fiction published within the last two decades in which we encounter a continuum, not a line of demarcation, between us and them, insider and outsider, here and there, then and now, femaleness and maleness, North and South, the local and the global. Authors to be read include Zinzi Clemmons, Teju Cole, Esi Edugyan, Mohsin Hamid, Tommy Orange, Zadie Smith, and Colson Whitehead.
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 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 395 The Romantic Mode 6 credits
In literary study, Romanticism is frequently presented as an historical period, an era beginning in the aftermath of the French Revolution and coming to an end in the development of 19th-C realism and 20th-C. modernism. Following recent Marxist reconfigurations, in this Advanced Seminar we will construe Romanticism as a mode of thought and expression released from period and never having come to an end at all. An interdisciplinary, international, and anti-capitalist approach to the topic with contributions from philosophy, painting, music, and politics, and with primary sources of literary art drawn from Shakespeare to the present.
Repeatable: Course is repeatable provided the topics are different.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 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 240 Imagining North Africa: Arabs, Berbers, and Beurs 6 credits
How have North African identities been represented in literature and film? How has the sustained presence of French language, and culture in the region shaped how North African authors and directors envision their relationship with their land, their languages, and their identities? This class is an introduction to literature and film from the Francophone Maghreb. Through careful and thoughtful analysis of canonical and contemporary sources, students will question how North African identities have evolved with and against French racial categories, and most importantly how they have transformed the aesthetics and politics of Francophone cultural productions.
- Spring 2026
- 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 240.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 345 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 345 9:40am-10:40am
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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.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program and student has completed any of the following course(s): FREN 204 or higher level course with a grade of C- or better.
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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.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program and student has completed any of the following course(s): FREN 204 or higher level course with a grade of C- or better.
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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.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program and student has completed any of the following course(s): FREN 204 or higher level course with a grade of C- or better.
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FREN 303 That’s Entertainment! 6 credits
Blaise Pascal wrote, “[t]he only thing that consoles us from our miseries is our diversion. And yet, it is the greatest of our miseries.” In other words, amusement is a way of avoiding one’s own unhappiness. Is the role of entertainment to escape reality? If so, what role do politics play in shaping the cultural scene? Read the queer fairy tales of Madame de Murat, listen to French podcasts currently topping charts, and discuss theatrical performances in Charleston’s French Quarter as you examine the interaction between politics and play from the Middle Ages to the present day. Conducted in French.
- Spring 2026
- 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 303.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Katharine Hargrave 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WHasenstab 109 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 109 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program and student has completed any of the following course(s): FREN 204 or higher level course with a grade of C- or better.
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GERM 150 German Music and Culture from Mozart to Rammstein 6 credits
What is “German”? Why are certain figures considered German and other identities are excluded–and how might we critically reconsider these categories through a study of “German” music? In this course, we survey significant developments in German-language culture, broadly defined, from the 1600s to the twenty-first century. Taught in English.
In Translation
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GERM 150.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GERM 264 German Studies in Austria Program: Theater and Opera in Vienna 6 credits
Vienna is full of world-class theater and opera that simply cannot be missed. In this class, you’ll learn about important dramas and their authors and then see the works performed live at theaters in the city–you’ll also get the chance to go backstage and tour several theaters up close! Informed by historical background and theoretical approaches, we’ll discuss the performances, their sociopolitical relevance, and situate them within various contexts.
Open only to participants in OCS German in Austria program.
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS German Studies in Austria program.
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GERM 265 German Studies in Austria Program: The Nation through Art: East-Central European Music, Literature, and Visual Arts 6 credits
How does art, in various forms, shape our understanding of a nation? What does it mean for a place to have a national language, music, painting, architecture, and so on? And what are the peculiarities of these questions in the context of Austria, which was once the center of a vast ethnically and culturally diverse empire? This class explores how art forms can both create and express national cultures while covering the history of East-Central Europe.
Open only to participants in OCS German Studies in Austria Program
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS German Studies in Austria program.
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GERM 322 German Studies in Austria Program: Remembering and Forgetting: Austrian Literature 6 credits
What stories are told about Austria and its history? What stories are forgotten, and why? In this course, we’ll learn about Austrian history, culture, and politics through the region's literature and cultural institutions. Through deep engagement with multimedia texts (novels, short stories, films, poems), students encounter Austrian cultural production and criticism while also strengthening German language skills. Site visits, museum trips, and excursions in Vienna and beyond complement our analysis.
Requires participation in OCS Program: German Studies in Austria
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS German Studies in Austria program.
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GRK 230 Homer: The Odyssey 6 credits
Homer is perhaps the foundational poet of the western canon, and his work has been justly admired since its emergence out of the oral tradition of bardic recitation in the eighth century BCE. This course will sample key events and passages from the Odyssey, exploring the fascinating linguistic and metrical features of the epic dialect, as well as the major thematic elements of this timeless story of homecoming.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Greece at a Crossroads program.
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MUSC 123 The American Film Musical 6 credits
A survey of film musicals from their beginnings in the 1920s to the present. The course will cover the definition and attributes of film musicals, how a film musical differs from a film with music, and then continue with a historical survey of various eras of musicals, such as early sound film musicals, the film musical at its zenith, the adaptation of Broadway musicals to the screen, and current postmodern musicals and animated musicals by Disney and Pixar. The course will also discuss how musicals convey evolving cultural attitudes of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, as well as good vs. evil.
Extra Time
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MUSC 123.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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MUSC 126 America’s Music 6 credits
A survey of American music with particular attention to the interaction of the folk, popular, and classical realms. No musical experience required.
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MUSC 126.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center M215 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center M215 9:40am-10:40am
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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, writing computer code to create harmonies and timbres, and an extended music analysis project using empirical methods.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): MUSC 110 with grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 204.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:40am
- FWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:30am
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RUSS 336 Who’s Pushkin? Whose Pushkin? 6 credits
Who was Pushkin? Reform-minded liberal, Russian patriot, proud descendant of African nobility, the Russian Shakespeare, all or none of the above? In the eyes of Russians, is he still—was he ever?— “our everything”? A study of Pushkin’s lyric poetry, his novel in verse Eugene Onegin and other works in the context of his contested legacy. Conducted in Russian.
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): RUSS 205 with a grade of C- or better.
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RUSS 336.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Laura Goering 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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 2026
- 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 205.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Ingrid Luna 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 2:20pm-3:20pm
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THEA 225 Theater History and Theory 6 credits
Throughout history, theatrical performance has been both a reflection of cultural values and a platform for envisioning social change. In this course, students will examine the theatre of the people: popular theatre, theatre that directly engages with the community in which it lives, and theatre that is woven into the rituals of the culture. This includes ancient Greek tragedy, medieval cycle plays, Yoruban Egungun Masquerade, commedia dell’arte, Japanese Kabuki, Elizabethan theatre, and American popular and grassroots performance. Class sessions will combine lecture, discussion, and performances of historical texts.
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THEA 225.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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