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.

This course looks at how film directors from post-World War II Eastern Europe, after moving to the “West,” used literature to make films in a different industry and for different Western audiences.

This class explores literary expressions of cross-cultural interactions between European and Non-European cultures in the Middle Ages, as well as representations of "Otherness."

What do we dream of? How do we share our dreams? In China, as around the world, the last century has seen ceaseless change in the tools for recording and communicating visions both public and private.

This course will teach you how to think about adventure narratives in a new way. The course introduces the long adventure narratives of South Asia, with reference to the Middle and Near East.