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LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Country
France
Host Institution
University of Lyon 2
Program(s)
University of Lyon
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History French Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
155
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
LITERATURE AND HISTORY
UCEAP Transcript Title
LITERATURE &HISTORY
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

This course consists of weekly lectures accompanied by readings and film viewings outside the classroom. Each week, it studies and explores a different writer, literary genre, or event pertaining to the French Revolution through a rhetorical and literary lens. Authors include Victor Hugo, the Chenier brothers, Michelet, and Chateaubriand.

Language(s) of Instruction
French
Host Institution Course Number
23DAABO1
Host Institution Course Title
LITTÉRATURE ET HISTOIRE CM
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
University of Lyon
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Lettres
Course Last Reviewed
2021-2022

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CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES
Country
South Africa
Host Institution
University of Cape Town
Program(s)
University of Cape Town
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
English Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
119
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES
UCEAP Transcript Title
CONTEMPORARY LIT
UCEAP Quarter Units
10.00
UCEAP Semester Units
6.70
Course Description

This course introduces students to a range of current ideas and questions within Literary Studies. The course reflects on some of the most important debates and approaches within contemporary literary and cultural studies. The course considers how cultural forms engage with the question of "‘the contemporary" or "the here and now", both within our current South African moment and across other historical periods and places. What new forms and canons are emerging for twenty-first-century readers and writers in an unstable world? The lecture series is complemented by small-group seminars that are closely tied to the wide-ranging research interests and creative work of staff and senior postgraduates

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
ELL3001S
Host Institution Course Title
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES
Host Institution Campus
University of Cape Town
Host Institution Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES
Course Last Reviewed
2022-2023

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INTRODUCTION TO THE TOUGHT OF JACQUES DERRIDA AND FEMINIST THEORIES
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Women’s & Gender Studies Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
126
UCEAP Course Suffix
A
UCEAP Official Title
INTRODUCTION TO THE TOUGHT OF JACQUES DERRIDA AND FEMINIST THEORIES
UCEAP Transcript Title
JACQUES DERRIDA
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.70
Course Description

This course is divided into three parts. Part one offers a history and introduction to literary theory that made possible the emergence of post-structuralism. Part two discusses Jacques Derrida, his foundational texts, and the theory of deconstruction. The final part of the course examines feminist theories in literature.

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
3505
Host Institution Course Title
TEORIA DE LA LITERATURA 5: BREVISIMA INTRODUCCION AL PENSAMIENTO DE JAQUES DERRIDA Y A LAS TEORIAS FEMINISTAS
Host Institution Campus
CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
LENGUA Y LITERATURAS HISPANICAS
Course Last Reviewed
2022-2023

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CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE POLITICS OF VISUALIZING THE PAST
Country
Netherlands
Host Institution
Maastricht University – University College Maastricht
Program(s)
University College Maastricht
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History Comparative Literature Anthropology
UCEAP Course Number
104
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE POLITICS OF VISUALIZING THE PAST
UCEAP Transcript Title
CULTURAL MEMORY
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

This course covers the theoretical approaches and methodological components within cultural memory studies concerned with minoritarian groups and affect/emotion: e.g. Nora, Stoler, Rigney, Trouillot, Said, Azoulay, Sharpe, Hartman, Muñoz, Mbembe, Campt, Arondekar. It provides an introduction into archives (theory) and memory, especially in relation to power by introducing the political and academic assessment of the post-colonial dimension of cultural memory, and the queer dimension of historical scholarship.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
HUM2056
Host Institution Course Title
CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE POLITICS OF VISUALIZING THE PAST
Host Institution Campus
University College Maastricht
Host Institution Faculty
Humanities
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Course Last Reviewed
2024-2025

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GOING DUTCH: LITERARY REFLECTIONS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY
Country
Netherlands
Host Institution
Maastricht University - Center for European Studies
Program(s)
Biological and Life Sciences,Psychology and Neuroscience,Public Health and Pre-Med,Biological and Life Sciences, Maastricht,Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Dutch Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
112
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
GOING DUTCH: LITERARY REFLECTIONS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY
UCEAP Transcript Title
DUTCH & FLEMISH LIT
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

This course invites students to explore the history of the Netherlands and Belgium guided by literary texts reaching back to the seventeenth century and moving to the twentieth century (using English translations). From the fight for independence against Spanish oppression into the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish culture when the Netherlands became a European superpower, through the changes of industrialization in the nineteenth century, on into the twentieth century with Modernism, Fascism, the German occupation in World War II and the ensuing times of the Cold War. The selected texts for this class, written by leading Dutch and Flemish authors and recognized as being part of World Literature, provide an authentic view of the history and culture of the “low countries” within the European context. Starting with Vondel and his dramatized discussion of cultural and religious struggles in the seventeenth century, followed by a portrait of Holland in the nineteenth century, the literary journey reaches the realms of decadence at the turn of the century. The turbulent events of the twentieth century and the effect they had on the “low countries” is then explored from Dutch and Flemish perspectives, including comic book-art, a movie viewing, the depiction of the Maastricht region in fiction and vice versa views from the United States with Williams Carlos Williams and Joseph Heller. Artistic concepts and writing styles from Symbolism to Post-modernism are central elements of the class discussion, together with the continuing presence of the Dutch and Flemish past. The class comes with a day-long academic field trip to the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bruges in Belgium, exploring and tasting one of the European capitals of Decadence.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
LIT2005
Host Institution Course Title
GOING DUTCH: LITERARY REFLECTIONS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Center for European Studies
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
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SPANISH LITERATURE
Country
France
Host Institution
University of Lyon 2
Program(s)
University of Lyon
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Spanish French Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
114
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
SPANISH LITERATURE
UCEAP Transcript Title
SPANISH LITERATURE
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

This course examines concepts of contemporary Spanish literature and the process for translating the works from Spanish to French. 

Language(s) of Instruction
Host Institution Course Number
3DTRESL5
Host Institution Course Title
LITTÉRATURE ESPAGNOLE
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
Lyon 2
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Course Last Reviewed
2021-2022

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POSTCOLONIALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM
Country
Netherlands
Host Institution
Utrecht University
Program(s)
Utrecht University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
English Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
116
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
POSTCOLONIALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM
UCEAP Transcript Title
POSTCOLONIAL&COSMO
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course offers a study of literary depictions of subjectivity that have been developed in the past four decades in the fields of postcolonial theory and cosmopolitanism. Both postcolonialism and contemporary cosmopolitanism are responses to essentialist and colonial ideas of the subject. The course discusses how cosmopolitanism has been revised and rethought from a postcolonial perspective, often also defined as cosmopolitanism from below or vernacular cosmopolitanism. The course explores theoretical debates and contestations around the concepts of cosmopolitanism and postcolonialism, and analyzes how these mediate and impact our reading of literary texts, particularly the depiction of selfhood in these texts, from a comparative perspective. Colonial as well as postcolonial literary innovation and hybridity is analyzed. The course addresses texts in the integral context of world literature. The course requires that students have previous experience in writing academically about literary texts as a prerequisite.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
LI3V14103
Host Institution Course Title
POSTCOLONIALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
Humanities
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Languages, Literature and Communication
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LITERATURE AND MODERNITY
Country
Brazil
Host Institution
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Program(s)
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
111
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
LITERATURE AND MODERNITY
UCEAP Transcript Title
LIT & MODERNITY
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course analyzes the concept of literary modernity. It discusses tradition and rupture in Brazilian literary production. This class explores the formation of the historical vanguards and the concepts of movement, regionalisms, and universalisms.
Language(s) of Instruction
Portuguese
Host Institution Course Number
LET 1856
Host Institution Course Title
LITERATURA E MODERNIDADE
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
PUC-Rio
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Departamento de Letras
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AMERICANS IN PARIS FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE COLD WAR: A HISTORY OF CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS
Country
France
Host Institution
Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po)
Program(s)
Sciences Po Paris
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History Comparative Literature Art History
UCEAP Course Number
128
UCEAP Course Suffix
F
UCEAP Official Title
AMERICANS IN PARIS FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE COLD WAR: A HISTORY OF CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS
UCEAP Transcript Title
AMERICANS IN PARIS
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description
The course aims to understand the complex relation of American artists and intellectuals to the French capital as well as their involvement in its cultural life throughout the twentieth century. Among them, many are now celebrated for their contribution to American visual arts and literature: Man Ray, Ernest Hemingway, and James Baldwin are probably among the most famous of them. The course draws on recent approaches in cultural and international art history to better understand the itineraries of these artists and writers. Students gain a general knowledge of major French and American artistic movements. The course also seeks to help them develop a critical approach to historical documents and narratives. Required reading includes BECOMING AMERICANS IN PARIS: TRANSATLANTIC POLITICS AND CULTURE BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS by L. Blower, PARIS, CAPITALE DE L'AMÉRIQUE: L'AVANT-GARDE AMÉRICAINE À PARIS by Sophie Lévy, PARIS NOIR: AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE CITY OF LIGHT by Tyler Stovall, and THE CONTINUAL PILGRIMAGE, AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS, 1944-1960 by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
DHUM 1440A
Host Institution Course Title
AMERICANS IN PARIS FROM WW1 TO THE COLD WAR: A HISTORY OF CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
English Elective
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Humanities
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KOREAN MODERNITY AND POPULAR CULTURE
Country
Korea, South
Host Institution
Yonsei University
Program(s)
Yonsei University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Sociology Comparative Literature Asian Studies
UCEAP Course Number
147
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
KOREAN MODERNITY AND POPULAR CULTURE
UCEAP Transcript Title
KOR MOD POP CULTURE
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description
Korea emerged as the site of political turmoil ever since World War II. As the only divided country in the world today, the nation has been and still is largely identified with political instability. Since East Asia has become a significant part of global economy and politics in the late 1980s and Korea became one of the most dynamic countries among the so-called four Asian Tigers, scholarly attention was given to the rapid industrialization and exceptional high growth in economy in Korea. Ever since the 1990s, however, scholars and critics in the field of Korean Studies have become interested in cultural production known as hallyu (Korean cultural wave). As the compressed modernity enabled modernization within just several decades after the Korean War, Korea has quickly turned from a society importing western cultures to a nation actively producing multiple contents in popular culture. The purpose of this course is to understand modernity in Korean society and how the Korean modernity has affected production of Korean popular culture. Each week, we examine how contemporary Korean literature, cinema, television drama, performing arts, K-pop industry, advertisement, sports, and government's strategy of branding national image reflect sociopolitical dynamics of Korean modernity. By the end of the course, students understand concepts of modernity and characteristics of Korean modernity in relation to contemporary Korean culture and society.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
CLC3108
Host Institution Course Title
KOREAN MODERNITY AND POPULAR CULTURE
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Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Comparative Literature & Culture
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