This quarter we will immerse ourselves in the reading of poems in order to learn how poems are made and received.

This course looks at how films by East European directors employed literary works of different genres to create some of the best and most internationally recognized films of these directors’ careers.

This course studies literature and film associated with the 1947 Partition of British India into the modern nations of India and Pakistan, which produced a mass migration of 15 million people.

Folklore has existed since humans began talking many thousands of years ago. Because folklore is common, widespread, and long lived, it is THE KEY to understanding who human beings are!

This course draws on mythic sources from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, and Israel (think 2000 - 500 BCE). We'll talk about why ancient peoples made myths and how they used them.

Covers science fiction in film and literature of Central and Eastern Europe as shaped by world wars, totalitarianisms, and revolutions.

This course covers works from the Renaissance, which marks a radical re-orientation in how human beings would think about their place in the universe

Discover the story of Rama and Sita, the Ramayana. This most famous adventure and love story is influential till this day not just in South Asia, its area of origin, but all over Asia.