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.
This course explores Russian, Polish, and Czech literature, film, animation, and art that engages with the fascinating and terrifying world of the things we fear.
Is compassion the foundation of human morality or a dangerously unreliable emotion? This course explores how different media foster empathy for commonly held enemies or discriminated groups.
Discuss poetry from around the world and write original poems. You will discover and cultivate the artist within while exploring poetry as a vehicle for engaging in cross-cultural dialogue.
5 credits A&H
•ANCIENT•MEDIEVAL•RENAISSANCE•ROMANTIC•MODERN•
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.
We will be discussing and comparing two major Epic poems, the Iliad on Ancient Greek side and the Mahābhārata on the Indian side. These works can tell a lot about emotions, in Antiquity and today.
Icelandic sagas and poetry about Vikings in the context of thirteenth-century society.