Courses

• 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. 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 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.
• CAS LJ 320: Conversational Japanese
  Advanced training to increase fluency in spoken Japanese with an emphasis on different levels of politeness in speech and cultural awareness. Role playing; vocabulary and expression building; and aural comprehension. Concurrent enrollment in a four-skills language course is encouraged.
• CAS LJ 350: Readings in Modern Japanese Fiction
  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
  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
  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
  
• CAS LJ 402: Sr Indep Work
  
• CAS LJ 403: Fourth-Year Japanese I
  Advanced-level reading and discussion in Japanese of selected articles from scholarly journals, essays, and short stories; compositions written in Japanese on topics from readings.

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