ENROLL

Baird Jarman

Carol Donelan

Sophomore Priority. Extra Time required for screenings

Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: CAMS 110.WL0 (Synonym 49157)

Dimitrios Pavlounis

Extra Time Evening Screenings

Carol Donelan

After Americans grasped the enormity of the Depression and World War II, the glossy fantasies of 1930s cinema seemed hollow indeed. During the 1940s, the movies, our true national pastime, took a nosedive into pessimism. The result? A collection of exceptional films chocked full of tough guys and bad women lurking in the shadows of nasty urban landscapes. This course focuses on classic as well as neo-noir from a variety of perspectives, including genre and mode, visual style and narrative structure, postwar culture and politics, and gender and race.

Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.

Dimitrios Pavlounis

The phrase “going to the movies” is perhaps more meaningless than ever. Not only do the proliferation of screens, ubiquity of cinematic conventions, and ease of media access make it seem as though we are always-already at the movies, but the definition of what a movie is seems to be in constant flux. This course addresses the issue of twenty-first century film culture by exploring how emerging media technologies have reconfigured the meaning and function of cinema in the “digital age.” Topics include media convergence, digital bodies, video games and VR, digital exhibition and distribution, social media, cinephilia, and fandom.

Extra Time Required

Kofi Owusu

Pierre Hecker

Crosslisted with ENGL 244

Cross-listed with ENGL 244.00

Peter Balaam

Jessica Leiman

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, sex, 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 the age. Authors include Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Austen, M. Shelley, and E. Bronte.

Susan Jaret McKinstry

Elizabeth McKinsey

Michael Kowalewski

Pierre Hecker

Crosslisted with ENGL 144

Arnab Chakladar

Susan Jaret McKinstry

Prerequisite: One English Foundations course and one prior 6 credit English course

First Year Students Cannot Register

Kofi Owusu

Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or instructor permission

Gregory Smith

We will put on our explorer's gear, make sure our dues are paid up to the Society for the Propagation of the Irreal, and venture into the magical worlds of Vladimir Nabokov, the greatest novelist of the second half of the twentieth-century (the Chair will entertain objections only from Señor Garcia Marquez). We will lovingly pet the fauna of the Russian novels, inhale the exotic flora of the American novels, and fly from Terra to Antiterra where accommodations for fifteen intrepid souls have been booked at The Enchanted Hunters.

Prerequisite: English 295 and one 300 level English Course

Scott Carpenter

What better place to study notions of gender, identity, class, race (and more) than in the performative arena of the theater? In this class we’ll examine a broad range of plays while staging excerpts of many of them. What is the importance of blocking and costume? How do modernizations and other modifications affect the reception of a dramatic work? We’ll put these questions to the test while engaging with such authors as Molière, Marivaux, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Reza.

Prerequisite: French 204 or equivalent

Sandra Rousseau

Persepolis, Syngue Sabour, Le rocher de Tanios—three prize-wining texts written in French by authors whose native tongue was not French but Arabic or Farsi. In this class we will direct our attention to the close—albeit problematic—relations between France and the Middle East (broadly considered) through an analysis of cultural and literary objects. What has this “French connection” meant for the Middle-Eastern and for French culture?

Prerequisite: One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission

Sigi Leonhard

This course is structured around the theater productions of the fall season in Berlin. Our group will attend six to eight performances of German language plays, ranging from the Enlightenment to the post-war period. In preparation for each outing, students will read and discuss the original play, and study its historical and literary context. In the course of the term, we will hone our skills as theater spectators and learn how to describe and critique different performance styles and directorial choices.

Prerequisite: German 103 or equivalent

Participation in Carleton OCS Berlin Program

Noboru Tomonari

Ronald Rodman

An introduction to the materials of western tonal music, with an emphasis on harmonic structure and syntax. It also covers phrase structure, musical texture, and small musical forms, along with basic theoretical concepts and vocabulary. Student work involves readings, listening assignments, analytical exercises, and short composition projects.

Prerequisite: The ability to read music fluently in one clef

Andy Flory

Jose Cerna-Bazan

Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or equivalent

Jorge Brioso

Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or equivalent

Palmar Alvarez-Blanco

Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or equivalent

Becky Boling

In Translation

Humberto Huergo

This course offers an introduction to Spanish art from el Greco to the present. Classes are taught in some of the finest museums and churches of Spain, including the Prado Museum, the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Toledo Cathedral in Toledo, and the Church of Santo Tomé.

Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or equivalent

Participation in Carleton OCS Madrid Program

Humberto Huergo

More than a study of the image of Madrid in Spanish literature, this course examines the actual experience of living in a cosmopolitan city through a variety of disciplines, including Urban Studies, Geography, Architecture, Sociology, and Spanish poetry and fiction. Special attention will be given to imaginative walking and counter-tourist tactics as theorized by Phil Smith and the British psychogeographic movement.

Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or above

Participation in Carleton OCS Madrid Program

Jose Cerna-Bazan

Prerequisite: Spanish 205