Courses

• CAS LI 452: Humanism and the Renaissance
  Political, humanistic, and artistic writings of the Renaissance. Readings include Pico della Mirandola, Castiglione, Erasmus, Vasari, Bruno. Discussions and texts in English.
• CAS LI 453: Autobiography and the Confessional Novel
  Discussion of Italian autobiographical and confessional novels, concentrating on theoretical questions of self-representation and the differences between confession and autobiography. Authors read: Capuana, D'Annunzio, Svevo, and Aleramo.
• CAS LI 459: Primo Levi Within Holocaust Literature
  A study of Primo Levi's writings and scientific, theological, and philosophical approaches to the Holocaust. Other theorists (Arendt, Wiesel, Muller-Hill) and other survivors' testimonies (Delbo, Borowski, Fink) are read in conjunction with Levi's works. Also offered as CAS RN 459 and CAS XL 459.
• CAS LI 473: The Masters of Italian Cinema
  The creative work of Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Bertolucci, and De Sica as expressions of a specific cultural perspective on Italian life of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Additional focus on several novels and screen plays that have influenced the work of the directors.
• CAS LI 491: Directed Study: Italian
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LI 492: Directed Study: Italian
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LI 553: Petrarch and the Tradition of Love Poetry
  Petrarch's Canzoniere and earlier philosophical love poems in Italian. Study of later English, French, Spanish poems in the Petrarchan style. Bilingual texts available.
• CAS LI 555: Dante's Hell
  A close reading of one text, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, with attention to its medieval contexts: philosophical, theological and historical. Analysis of the poetic means by which Dante represents both human evil and human hope. Bi-lingual text. Lectures and discussion in English. Also offered as CAS RN 555 and CAS XL 383.
• CAS LI 556: Dante: The Divine Comedy II: Purgatorio and Paradiso
  Focus on the literary, philosophical, and theological ideas Dante uses to represent his experience of himself and of human nature. Bi-lingual texts. Lectures and discussions in English. Also offered as CAS RN 556.
• CAS LI 590: Topics in Modern Italian Literature and Criticism
  Topic for Spring 2011: TBA.
• CAS LJ 111: First-Semester Japanese
  Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises.
• CAS LJ 112: Second-Semester Japanese
  Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises.
• CAS LJ 211: Third-Semester Japanese
  Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111, 112 with an introduction to reading and composition.
• CAS LJ 212: Fourth-Semester Japanese
  Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111, 112 with an introduction to reading and composition. Satisfactory completion of CAS LJ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
• CAS LJ 250: Masterpieces of Japanese Literature (in English translation)
  An introduction to Japanese literary history. Topics include mythic beginnings, conceptions of nature and death, flowering of a court aesthetic, the writer as hermit-sage, the Tokugawa stage and its love suicides. Use of literary and visual materials.
• CAS LJ 281: Japanese Civilization (in English translation)
  Survey of Japanese history, art, and contemporary culture.
• CAS LJ 282: The Samurai in Myth and History
  Explores how samurai, Japan's (in)famous warrior class, defined themselves, and how others have portrayed them in literature, art, plays, film, and animation from ancient times to the present. Investigates why samurai ideals have become the most widely recognized Japanese "tradition." Also offered as CAS HI 381.
• CAS LJ 283: Modern Japanese Culture in Cinema (in English translation)
  Major modern Japanese films are interpreted in the light of Japanese culture. Film scripts and the important literary sources are read in English; films are shown with subtitles.
• CAS LJ 303: Third-Year Modern Japanese I
  Reading modern texts. Development of writing and speaking skills. Regular compositions required. Readings from newspapers and journals on contemporary social, political, economic, and cultural topics. Second semester (LJ 304): selections from fiction and nonfiction.
• CAS LJ 304: Third-Year Modern Japanese II
  Reading modern texts. Development of writing and speaking skills. Regular compositions required. Selections from fiction and nonfiction.

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