This class is about the journeys of millions of people who leave their homelands hoping to start their lives somewhere else, in flight from harsh conditions or in pursuit of personal growth.

This is a course in literary and cultural studies focused on a selection of novels, short stories, memoirs and poetry by Scandinavian women writers. 

In this course, students will look at and analyze comics from around the world as a way to understand the intersection of culture and literature around love, drama, comedy, epics, romance, and more.

In this course, we will explore the history of musical experience in Germany and beyond.

Examine real and metaphoric underworlds in literature and films about the afterlife, the heroic journey, guilt, grief, violence, and redemption.

Examines one or more problems, themes, and/or figures in the developing body of Chicano literature.

We will marvel at how fairy tales are part of a transcultural and transnational ecologies of storytelling that stretch from 16th century Italy to present-day Coast Salish nations.

Discover the rich and complex relationship between science and
literature from the seventeenth century to the present day.

This course explores the powerful blend of verbal and visual expression in graphic novels and animations focused on the Middle East.

Icelandic sagas and poetry about Vikings in the context of thirteenth-century society.