Each year, the Rainbow Project Committee announces its annual Rainbow List. These titles reflect significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-gendered and queer-questioning (GLBTQ) experience for young people from birth to age 18. This course analyzes some of that literature in addition to other expressions and representations of GLBTQ children and youth (film, television, digital media, music, […]
Analyzes representations of children's and youths' alterity in picture books, graphic novels, novels, life writing, documentary and fiction films, photographs, art, advertising, and non-fiction for children and adults. Alterity refers to the "Other," marginalized through gender, sexuality, race, class, physical and mental (dis)abilities, religion, nation, and the difference between being human and being animal, cyborg, […]
Offers a picture of the cultural life of three variant Chinese communities through an analysis of major works of literature and film, as well as an understanding of the interaction between these groups and the contemporary globalized context.
A survey of legal concepts, practices, and narratives in the ancient world (Greece, Rome, and the Near East). Students will learn how the law is shaped by culture and history and how law and legal values are expressed in language, literature, rituals, and art. PRIOR TO FALL 2014: Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3109 6.0; AP/HUMA […]
Analyzes interrelationships between literary, visual, and performative arts in children's picture books. Explores relationships between adult and child readers as they mutually make meaning in picture book reading experiences. Studies children's picture books' thematic breadth; diverse word-image relationships; historical development; genres (non-fiction, fiction, wordless, verse, graphic novels); and masters (including Beatrix Potter, Maurice Sendak, Chris […]
This course analyzes changing constructions of childhood and adolescence in children's literature and adaptations of these constructions in film versions. Issues of 'translation' are highlighted both in critical readings and through the pairing of literary and film texts. Note: Internet access is required for this course.
Examines selected traditions of imagining cities in European literature and film. It introduces students to the most significant source material and theories in the European tradition and provides examples of how narratives and visual representations have come to shape our understanding of the urban. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3605 6.00.
This course examines concepts and relationships among history, literature and nature in Europe and North America. Previously offered as: AP/MIST 3536 3.00 Course credit exclusion: AP/REI 3536 3.00 (prior to Fall 2013). PRIOR TO FALL 2008: Course credit exclusions: AK/EN 3536 3.00.
Feminist filmmakers deploy film as a provocative cultural form to explore women's complex social and cultural locations and issues. This course explores theoretical and practical points of contact between feminism and film to encourage new readings of the intricate subject women. Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HUMA 3523 3.00, AP/CLTR 3523 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2013: Course […]
Women have been creating their own significant rituals both inside and outside established religious movements for centuries. This course explores this phenomenon and analyzes a variety of contemporary women's rituals in light of contemporary feminist ritual theory and methodology. Previously offered as: AP/WMST 3519 6.00.