Courses

• CAS LI 473: The Masters of Italian Cinema
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LI 303.
  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
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of department and CAS Room 105.
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LI 492: Directed Study: Italian
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of department and CAS Room 105.
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LI 555: Dante's Hell
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LI 350 or CAS LI 351 or CAS LI 352.
  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
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LI 350 or CAS LI 351 or CAS LI 352.
  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 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
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 111.
  Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises.
• CAS LJ 211: Third-Semester Japanese
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 112; or equivalent.
  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
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 211; or equivalent.
  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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS LJ 251: Modern Japanese Literature (in English translation)
  Introduction to modern Japanese literature. Naturalism and its critics, rise of the I-novel, Taishô aestheticism, proletarian literature, postwar and post-recession crises of cultural identity, cell phone novels. Works by Natsume Sôseki, Hayashi Fumiko, Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, Oe Kenzaburo, and Tsushima Yûko.
• 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 370.
• 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
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 212.
  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
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 303.
  Reading modern texts. Development of writing and speaking skills. Regular compositions required. Selections from fiction and nonfiction.
• CAS LJ 314: Classical Chinese I for Students of East Asia
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 212 or CAS LC 112; or advanced Korean with consent of instructor.
  Introductory readings in Classical Chinese for students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Learn the shared literary language of premodern East Asia and read masterpieces of East Asian philosophy, history, poetry, and fiction in the original. Also offered as CAS LC 314 and LK 314.
• CAS LJ 350: Readings in Modern Japanese Fiction
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 212.
  Readings in modern fiction and essays, from Akutagawa to Murakami, to deepen knowledge of Japanese language and encounter Japanese literature in its contemporary context. Readings and discussions in Japanese.
• CAS LJ 385: Intensive Kanji
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 211; or more than 300 Kanji.
  Supplements vocabulary and idiom for students beyond third-semester Japanese. Students learn to read and write the 1006 Kyôiku Kanji and recognize an additional 939 Jôyô Kanji in everyday Japanese. Concurrent enrollment in a four-skills language course encouraged.
• CAS LJ 386: Japanese Translation/Interpretation Workshop
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LJ 212; , or CASLJ211 and consent of instructor.
  To enhance students' knowledge of Japanese by developing practical skills of translating and interpreting. Students practice translating many types of texts, using various dictionaries and internet sources, and interpreting in different situations.
• CAS LJ 401: Sr Indep Work