Literature in Translation (LITTRANS) 1 LITTRANS/GEN&WS 205 — WOMEN IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION LITERATURE IN 3-4 credits. TRANSLATION (LITTRANS) Enroll Info: None Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities LITTRANS 201 — SURVEY OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN req LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION I Level - Intermediate 3 credits. L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Pushkin to Tolstoy; reading and lecture in English. Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: None Last Taught: Fall 2019 Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities LITTRANS 207 — SLAVIC SCIENCE FICTION THROUGH LITERATURE AND req FILM Level - Elementary 3 credits. L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Repeatable for Credit: No Science Fiction (SF) is typically thought of as an American (or Last Taught: Fall 2020 American-British) genre. This course explores the rich tradition of Slavic contributions to SF. We will survey early and contemporary works in the LITTRANS 202 — SURVEY OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN Czech, Polish, and Russian contexts, most of which are little known in the LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION II US but are nonetheless fundamental to SF as a world genre. Alongside 3 credits. reading these works, we will discuss and analyze film adaptations Dostoevsky to the present, reading and lecture in English. Enroll Info: that have, in some cases, become more famous than written texts None themselves. Enroll Info: None Requisites: None Requisites: None Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities req req Level - Elementary Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Repeatable for Credit: No Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 Last Taught: Spring 2021 LITTRANS 203 — SURVEY OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITTRANS 208 — THE WRITINGS OF VACLAV HAVEL: CRTITIQUE OF LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION I MODERN SOCIETY 4 credits. 3 credits. Pushkin to Tolstoy; reading and lecture in English; 4th hour discussion Survey and critical analysis of the writings of Vaclav Havel from the section for Communication-B credit. Enroll Info: None 1960's through the 1990's: plays, philosophical and dissident essays, Requisites: None selected speeches as president. Readings in English. Enroll Info: None Course Designation: Gen Ed - Communication Part B Requisites: None Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities req Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities Level - Elementary req L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Level - Elementary Repeatable for Credit: No L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Last Taught: Fall 2020 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2018 LITTRANS 204 — SURVEY OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION II 4 credits. Chekhov to the present; reading and lecture in English; 4th hour discussion section for Communication-B credit. Enroll Info: None Requisites: None Course Designation: Gen Ed - Communication Part B Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities req Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 2 Literature in Translation (LITTRANS) LITTRANS 209 — MASTERPIECES OF FRENCH LITERATURE AND LITTRANS 214 — LITERATURES OF CENTRAL ASIA IN TRANSLATION CULTURE 3 credits. 3-4 credits. Critical survey of the development of medieval and modern literatures A study of representative masterpieces of French and Francophone of the peoples of Central Asia from pre-Islamic times to the present with literature drawn from at least four different centuries. Emphasis on selected readings in English translation. Enroll Info: None the interpretation of texts, important themes, and the ways literature Requisites: None expresses psychological and sociocultural realities. In past years Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities the syllabus has included tragedies by Jean Racine, comedies by req Moliere, novels by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Honore de Balzac, Guy de Level - Intermediate Maupassant and Maryse Conde, and stories by Gustave Flaubert and L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Albert Camus. Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: None Last Taught: Fall 2017 Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities req LITTRANS 215 — POLISH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: 14TH TO THE Level - Elementary MID-19TH CENTURY L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S 3 credits. Repeatable for Credit: No The Beginnings, Baroque, Enlightenment and Romanticism. Enroll Info: Last Taught: Fall 2020 None LITTRANS 211 — MODERN INDIAN LITERATURES IN TRASLATION Requisites: None 3 credits. Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities req Introduction for intermediate and advanced students to the systematic Level - Elementary study of the literatures of India produced since about A.D. 1800, using a L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S selection of poetry, fiction, drama, and/or nonfictional prose in translation Repeatable for Credit: No from representative literary languages of the subcontinent. Enroll Info: Last Taught: Fall 2019 None Requisites: None LITTRANS 218 — POLISH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: LATE 19TH Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities AND 20TH CENTURIES req 3 credits. Level - Intermediate A survey of the main currents in Polish literature since 1863. Enroll Info: L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: None Last Taught: Fall 2014 Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities LITTRANS 213 — LOVE AND SEX IN ITALIAN COMEDY req 3-4 credits. Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Through the close reading and discussion of selected major plays, Repeatable for Credit: No this course explores Italian comedy and dramatic literature across the Last Taught: Spring 2019 centuries, from its Roman origins to contemporary examples. Students will read and discuss texts representative of the major comedic modes LITTRANS 220 — CHEKHOV IN TRANSLATION (e.g. erudite, improvised, etc.), paying close attention to language and 3-4 credits. structure, genre debates, character typologies, performance history, and Enroll Info: So st the cultural-historical contexts that informed playwrights. Discussion and Requisites: None targeted writing assignments will aim at cultivating in students a deeper Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities understanding of Italian sensibilities and cultural attitudes regarding req humor and satire, love and sex, tragedy within comedy, history, gender Level - Intermediate politics, public/private space, social customs, class, and other issues. L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: None Last Taught: Fall 2020 Course Designation: Gen Ed - Communication Part B Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities req Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Repeatable for Credit: No Literature in Translation (LITTRANS) 3 LITTRANS 221 — GOGOL IN TRANSLATION LITTRANS 226 — INTRODUCTION TO LUSO-AFRO-BRAZILIAN 3-4 credits. LITERATURE 3 credits. Enroll Info: So st Requisites: None Introduction to the cultural and literary practices of the Portuguese- Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities speaking world. Readings include novels, short stories, and poetry from req Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa. All readings and lectures in Level - Intermediate English. Enroll Info: None L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: No Course Designation: Gen Ed - Communication Part B Last Taught: Spring 2020 Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities req Level - Intermediate LITTRANS 222 — DOSTOEVSKY IN TRANSLATION L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S 3-4 credits. Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2020 Major works, lecture in English. Enroll Info: So st or cons inst Requisites: None LITTRANS/CLASSICS/JEWISH/RELIG ST 227 — INTRODUCTION TO Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities BIBLICAL LITERATURE (IN ENGLISH) req 4 credits. Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Introduction to the literature and literary history of the Old Testament, Repeatable for Credit: No Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Talmud, and Midrashim. Enroll Info: Not Last Taught: Fall 2020 open to students that have completed HEBR ST 217 Requisites: None LITTRANS/ENGL 223 — VLADIMIR NABOKOV: RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN Course Designation: Breadth - Literature. Counts toward the Humanities WRITINGS req 3 credits. Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S The major novels of Vladimir Nabokov studied in the context of Russian Repeatable for Credit: No and American literatures. Nabokov as a quintessential artist in exile, Last Taught: Summer 2021 whose work explores loss of language, country and home.