Location: 1628 UH; Phone: (312) 996-4412.
Last generated: Wednesday, May 01 2024 09:01 PM UTC
NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing
Location: 1628 UH; Phone: (312) 996-4412.
Last generated: Wednesday, May 01 2024 09:01 PM UTC
NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing
3 hours. Taught in English.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42712 | LCD | 03:30 PM - 04:45 PM | TR | 187 | 2BSB | Underhill, K | Meet on campus | |
| "Heaven & Hell" ** Lucifer comes to modern-day Warsaw looking for a job, but no one will hire him. What is an unemployed devil to do? In Kafkas parable Before the Law, a man from the country waits a lifetime to gain entry to the law: will the doorkeeper ever let him through? Poor Bontshe The Silent, abused and downtrodden his entire life, makes it to heaven where a court of angels weighs his suffering, and rewards him his hearts desire: a warm roll with butter. In dead towns and underworld dreamscapes of the modern Central and East European short story, the living mingle with the dead, wrestle with angels, and bargain for salvation. How can we understand the presence of these themes in works of modern secular literature? In this class we will read masterpieces of the short story in translation from Polish, Russian, German, and Yiddish, and explore together modern literary representations of hope and faith, punishment and reward, regret at the retreat of the metaphysical and rational age; justice, redemption, and apocalypse. | ||||||||
3 OR 4 hours. Same as HIST 435. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of European history or consent of the instructor.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35871 | LCD | 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM | M | 307 | 2LH | Mogilner, M | Meet on campus | |
| 3 hours Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago. | ||||||||
| 35873 | LCD | 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM | M | 307 | 2LH | Mogilner, M | Meet on campus | |
| 4 hours Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago. | ||||||||
4 hours. Same as GER 515. May be repeated. Taught in English. Students will be asked to watch films outside of class.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33507 | LCD | 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM | W | A005 | 2LCA | Hall, S | Meet on campus | |
| "Weimar Cinema Then and Now" ** Through historical background readings, review of recent scholarship in the field, and weekly film viewings via Blackboard, this course will explore German film culture between 1918 and 1933. We will study many of the so-called canonical classics (including The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, and M) alongside recent archival restorations and re-discoveries of previously fragmented, missing, or overlooked films. We will also interrogate popular culture's enduring fascination with Weimar Cinema (e.g., music videos, streaming television such as Babylon Berlin, etc.) In addition to providing an opportunity to delve into the study of Weimar Cinema as a specialized field, the class will offer an introduction or review of film analysis terminology and techniques for performing archival researchboth online and in person. Themes will include (but not be limited to) media and democracy; gender and sexuality; technologies of cultural production; economics and industry structures; the aesthetics of emotions; and the politics of images. | ||||||||
4 hours. Taught in English. May be repeated if topics vary and with approval from the Director of Graduate Studies.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43733 | LCD | 04:30 PM - 07:00 PM | W | 321 | 2LH | Markowski, M | Meet on campus | |
| "World, Globe, Earth: Figures of Universalization in the Contemporary Culture" ** When did the idea of the world emerge? How does the world differ from the globe? Why and how globalization took over? What is Earth in the age of globalization? What does world literature mean in the age of total connectivity? Does such a thing as global literature exist? Is international better than national? Going back and forth between ancient and contemporary times and across the broad spectrum of cultures, the seminar will try to systemize the conceptual repertoire related to the tension between the particular and the universal in contemporary critical vocabulary. Is it better for us to defend our specific belonging to a culture, a language, or a nation, or would it be much better to yield to what goes beyond the unique and unites the seemingly incompatible? What is the role of translations in establishing the global literary market? Does such a thing as the republic of letters exist? We will base our analyses on literary and critical texts, bringing together old and new interventions in the field and trying to connect different cultures and languages. | ||||||||
0 TO 16 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Students may apply a maximum of 26 credit hours toward the degree. Previously listed as SLAV 599. Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree and consent of the Director of Graduate Studies.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43373 | C1 | ARRANGED | Kendall, M | |||||
| 43374 | C2 | ARRANGED | Markowski, M | |||||
| 43375 | C3 | ARRANGED | Underhill, K | |||||
| 43376 | C4 | ARRANGED | Vaingurt, J |