Literary and Cultural Studies

LCST 101 Rome Program: Elementary Italian This highly-recommended language course will emphasize basic listening and speaking skills. Students will be challenged to utilize their new language skills in everyday situations. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Rome OCS program next term. 3 credits; NE; Not offered 2015-16

LCST 101 Turkey Program: Survival Turkish This course will introduce students to the basics of spoken and written Turkish. This will give students an investment in the culture of the place and allow them to interact with their surroundings with some degree of familiarity. 3 credits; NE; Spring; Adeeb Khalid

LCST 245 Introduction to Critical Methods: Structure, Gender, Culture What does it mean to interpret? What questions do we ask of texts and images, and how do we go about finding our answers? In this course we will examine a number of strategies for reading works (such as novels, stories, images, films), drawing on a variety of national traditions. Topics include rhetoric, translation, post-structuralism, cultural studies, and gender studies. Prerequisite: At least one 200- or 300-level course in Literary/Artistic Analysis (in any language) or instructor permission. 6 credits; LA, WR2, IS; Winter; John B Lyon