May 15, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Theatre

  
  • THEA 4693 - Professional Stage Management Internship

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: THEA 3393  or consent of instructor.

    Supervised internship performing duties in a professional company.


Training and Development

  
  • TRDE 4396 - Internship Training & Developm

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0

Turkish

  
  • TURK 1501 - Beginning Turkish I

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 5    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Turkish. Introduction to modern spoken and written Turkish. Emphasis on oral skills with introduction to the written language.

  
  • TURK 1502 - Beginning Turkish II

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 5    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of TURK 1501  with a minimum grade of C- in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or by placement exam immediately prior to enrollment.

    Expansion of the listening and oral skills with added reading and writing emphasis.

  
  • TURK 2301 - Intermediate Turkish I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of TURK 1502  with a minimum grade of C- in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or by placement exam immediately prior to enrollment.

    Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • TURK 2302 - Intermediate Turkish II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of TURK 2301  with a minimum grade of C- in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or by placement exam immediately prior to enrollment.

    Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • TURK 3350 - Turkish and Middle Eastern Culture in Literature and Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303  and ENGL 1304 .

    Representative Turkish literature and film reflecting varied aspects of Turkish and Middle Eastern Cultures. Taught in English.


University Studies

  
  • UNIV 1302 - University Experience

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0

Vietnamese

  
  • VIET 1501 - Elementary Vietnamese I

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: restricted to nonnative speakers of Vietnamese.

    Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • VIET 1502 - Elementary Vietnamese II

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: successful completion of VIET 1501  in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment, or consent of instructor.

    Continued development of listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • VIET 2301 - Intermediate Vietnamese I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of VIET 1502  in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment, or consent of instructor.

    Continued development of listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • VIET 2302 - Intermediate Vietnamese II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of VIET 2301  in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment, or consent of instructor.

    Continued development of listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • VIET 3300 - The Global Vietnamese Diaspora

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Theorizing and conceptualizing the dimensions, the characterizations, and the trajectories of the global diasporic Vietnamese community.

  
  • VIET 3331 - Introduction to Vietnamese Culture: Modernity and Media of Imagining

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Introduction to modern Vietnamese culture with focus on the role of various media in the development of political consciousness.

    Typically Offered: Spring


Visual Studies

  
  • VIST 1300 - Introduction to Visual Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Components on vision and light; the philosophy of art; aesthetics; modes of interpretation; and the use of visual sources in ethnographic investigation.

  
  • VIST 4300 - Senior Project in Visual Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: VIST 1300  and nine hours from the list of approved course work for the Visual Studies minor.

    Capstone course for the Visual Studies minor. Project to include either substantial research or internship placement that demonstrates competence in Visual Studies.


Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

  
  • WGSS 2350 - Introduction To Women’s Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly WOST 2350 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  

    Gender dynamics and women’s experiences, social roles and expressions across western and world societies in the arts, religion, history, literature, science, politics and the family.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WGSS 2360 - Introduction to GLBT Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly GLBT 2360 - Introduction to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  

    GLBT people’s experiences, social roles, identity formation, and expressions across different cultures and societies, in the arts, religion, history, literature, politics, and the family.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WGSS 3321 - Gender in Transnational Perspective

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent. WGSS 2350  or WGSS 2360 , or by permission of instructor.

    This course explores the impact of globalization on the gendered experiences of individuals in varied contexts around the world, with particular focus on women of color and sexual minorities.

  
  • WGSS 3322 - Intersectionalities of Race, Class, Age, Disability & Gender

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent. WGSS 2350  or WGSS 2360 , or by permission of instructor.

    This course explores the ways in which intersectionalities among gender and other identity markers, including race, class, age, and dis/ability, affect the experience, rights, privileges and opportunities afforded people in the US and other societies around the globe.

  
  • WGSS 3350 - Gender, Society & Feminist Theory

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent. WGSS 2350  or WGSS 2360 , or by permission of instructor.

    This foundational course explores the genealogy of writings essential to gender justice work, past and present. The course employs intersectionality as a framework for analysis of the ways in which race, sexuality, class, nation & dis/abilities inform individuals’ experience of gender.

  
  • WGSS 3360 - Sexuality and Queer Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent. WGSS 2350  or WGSS 2360 , or by permission of instructor.

    An introduction to the fields of queer theory and sexuality studies.

  
  • WGSS 3395 - Selected Topics in Women’s Studies

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly WOST 3395 Selected Topics in Women’s Studies
    May be repeated up to two times for credit when topics vary.

  
  • WGSS 3396 - Selected Topics GLBT Studies

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: three semester hours in GLBT Studies or consent of instructor.

    Topics in GLBT Studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • WGSS 3398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly WOST 3398 Independent Study
    Prerequisite: consent of director.

    May be repeated for credit up to two times.

  
  • WGSS 4350 - Issues in Feminist Research

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent. WGSS (3350 or 3360) AND (3321 or 3322) or permission of instructor and at least 2 WGSS approved crosslisted electives.

    This course provides students with a grounding in feminist research methods. The research for the course’s major project assignment will normally be conducted in the Shuart Women’s Archive in the UH Library, with exceptions as judged appropriate by the instructor.

  
  • WGSS 4360 - Capstone Internship Course

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent. WGSS 3350  or WGSS 3360  or permission of the instructor. Student should be a registered WGSS major and have completed all or most of their other required coursework for the major.

    THE WGSS Capstone Internship Course involves the student working in an approved gender-equity-focused local advocacy or service nonprofit or business. In addition the student will document their work and write a paper analyzing it within a disciplinary framework arranged in advance with the course’s faculty supervisor. The student will hold at least 4 meetings with the faculty supervisor over the semester, and work regularly with a supervisor based in the nonprofit or business itself.

  
  • WGSS 4395 - Selected Topics in Women’s Studies

    Credit Hours: 0.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly WOST 4395 Selected Topics in Women’s Studies
    May be repeated up to two times for credit when topics vary.

  
  • WGSS 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    May be repeated up to two times for credit up to two times.


World Cultures and Literatures

  
  • WCL 1101 - Introduction to the Study of Languages

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: none.

    Introduction to linguistic features, concepts, and theories relevant to foreign language learners. Concurrent enrollment in a beginning-level foreign language course recommended but not required.

  
  • WCL 1102 - Introduction to World Cultures

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: none.

    Introduction to themes, topics, and traditions in world literatures and cultures with emphasis on historical or contemporary transnational and global issues. Concurrent enrollment in a beginning-level foreign language course recommended but not required.

  
  • WCL 2351 - World Cultures Through Literature and Art

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 

    Works of literature, painting, film, to explain contemporary global/local developments, conflicts.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WCL 2352 - World Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Major cinematic works from Latin America, Asia, Middle-East, Europe, and Australia in relation to contemporary topics such as globalization and migrations.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WCL 2370 - Cultures of India

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Introduction and exploration of cultural diversity and identity of South Asia. Emphasis on transnationalism, modernity, and development.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WCL 2380 - Introduction to Jewish Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Introduction to Jewish culture through literature, history, and arts.

  
  • WCL 3341 - Early Islamic Society: Literature and Thought

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Study of texts reflecting various trends in religious, political, philosophical, social and economic developments in early Islamic Civilization.

  
  • WCL 3347 - Is Life Worth Living? A History of Nihilism

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Survey of key thinkers who have treated the nature and consequences of political and philosophical nihilism. Along with classical texts by Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Conrad we will also read contemporary works by Camus and O’Connor.

  
  • WCL 3348 - Enlightenment Stories

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Survey of key 18th century European philosophers focusing on their novels, treatises, and dialogues. Along with primary texts, course also includes secondary sources. Research paper based on original sources is required.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 3351 - Introduction to Latino Cultural Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Basic cultural dimensions of U.S. Latino communities through literature and the arts, including ethnic minority formation, immigration and transnational processes.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WCL 3355 - Women East and West: Global Representations of Female Divinities

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: WCL 2351  or WCL 2352  or permission of instructor.

    Representations of female deities from an East -West perspective.

  
  • WCL 3362 - U.S. Latino Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Major trends, traits, works, authors, and issues of Chicano, and other Latino literatures.

  
  • WCL 3364 - World TV

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Major TV Series and Miniseries from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Australia concerning contemporary issues. TV Fiction as a global art form.

  
  • WCL 3365 - World Fiction & Reportage

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Recent works of transnational literature or national literature with transnational appeal, including both fiction and reportage that highlight world issues and global awareness.

  
  • WCL 3366 - Latin American and Latino Film Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Latin American, Latino films, telenovelas and TV documentaries. Issues regarding immigration, urban/rural, ethnic, gender and class, border and transnational, poverty, violence, and aesthetics. Taught in English.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  
  • WCL 3367 - National Cinema in a Global Perspective

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    National cinema in its relationship with global film industry, international production and transnational issues.

  
  • WCL 3368 - Pop Cultures and World Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Popular culture in its diverse forms with particular focus on visual media. Genres including films, music, reality television, social media, graphic novels, and literature.

  
  • WCL 3369 - Science Fiction in Literature and Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 .

    Survey of science-fiction literature and film since 1945, including the Golden Age, the New Wave, Cyberpunk, and beyond.

  
  • WCL 3371 - Cities in Film and the Arts

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Cities and urban life worldwide from the advent of modernity to postmodernity and globalization, as expressed in visual arts, film, theory and literature.

  
  • WCL 3372 - Indian Film: Bollywood and Beyond

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Exploration of the history, development, and evolution of Indian Film since Partition, the Golden Age, and New Wave through essay and film.

  
  • WCL 3373 - Gender and Sexuality in World Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Introduction to representations of gender and sexuality in important films from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle-East, Europe, and Australia, and to major developments in global feminist film theory.

  
  • WCL 3374 - Jewish Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Jewish culture, tradition, and history through film.

  
  • WCL 3376 - Visual Stories - Local and the Global

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: WCL 2351  or WCL 2352  or consent of instructor.

    Globalization of Houston is documented and analyzed conducting a visual and textual ethnography.

  
  • WCL 3377 - The Modern Middle East: Literature, Politics, and Ideas

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Survey of major landmarks in the literature and thought of the Middle East after 1798, examining them in the context of the region’s political history.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • WCL 3380 - American Jewish Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Exploration of American Jewish culture from Eastern European immigration to the present. Analysis of literature, film, popular materials and everyday practices that illustrate the transformation of Jewish immigrants into American Jews.

  
  • WCL 3381 - Global Representations of HIV/AIDS

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Examination of representations of HIV/AIDS in literature and film from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle-East, Europe, and Australia, focusing on their relations to cultural responses to the epidemic.

  
  • WCL 3382 - Global Queer Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Exploration of queer culture in a global context through major historical and present-day works of literature, art, and film.

  
  • WCL 3384 - Jewish Women Through Biography

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Study of Jewish women’s history through the ages and across cultures.

  
  • WCL 3392 - Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Basic dimensions of Latin American cultural processes. Focus on indigenous/Spanish/African/Asian heritages and transformations; including mestizaje, transculturation, hybridization. Globalization and transnational patterns.

  
  • WCL 3397 - Selected Topics in World Cultures & Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Topics in world cultures and literature. may be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • WCL 4301 - Culture and Communication: Methods in Linguistic Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing.

    Multiple methodologies that exist for researching language as a mode of communication and interaction within the field of linguistic anthropology.

  
  • WCL 4322 - Seminar in Scholarly Production

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: WCL 2351  or WCL 2352  or consent of instructor.

    Advanced manuscript writing, critique and selection, editing, translating, proofing, and other skills relevant to scholarly publication. Related to WCL’s Global CASA and LACASA Publications series and Urban Research Initiative.

  
  • WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and WCL 2351  or WCL 2352  or permission of instructor.

    Major theoretical trends in Western & non-Western culture from the French Revolution to World War II.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4352 - Frames of Modernity II - Postmodernity and Globalization

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Major cultural trends in World Cultures from WWII to the present time: Existentialism, Structuralism, Postmodernism, Deconstruction, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Globalization Studies, and Cultural Perspectives from Non-Western Areas.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4353 - Frames of Modernity III: Classics and Modernity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors. Taught in English.

  
  • WCL 4356 - World Film & Film Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    An introduction to the major trends in film criticism and film theory, from the 1920s to the present time, exemplified by classic world films that have generated critical debate.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4362 - Seminar in Latin American and Latino Literatures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Works of Latin American and Latino literature in translation in relation to other U.S. and worldwide literary works as well as different theoretical frames.

  
  • WCL 4364 - History of Drama in Northern and Central Europe

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: senior standing or consent of instructor.

    Historical and critical analysis of European theater from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Readings include dramas and theoretical essays as a means for understanding and representing cultural norms.

  
  • WCL 4365 - World Fiction & Reportage

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Recent works of transnational literature or national literature with transnational appeal, including both fiction and reportage that highlight world issues and global awareness.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4367 - Voices from Exile and Diaspora

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and junior standing.

    Examines the experience of exile, displacement, and diaspora reflected in 20th-21st century literature and film and theoretical approaches to migration and diaspora.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • WCL 4374 - Sex and Gender in Antiquity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and junior standing.

    Issues of sex and gender in ancient Greece and Rome through the study of literature, art, and science. Works of Latin American and Latino literature in translation in relation to other U.S. and worldwide literary works as well as different theoretical frames.

  
  • WCL 4378 - Cultures of Dissent: A Global Perspective

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor.

    Global opposition movements as reflected in literary, autobiographical, and theoretical writings of 19th through 21st century authors as well as in film and the visual arts.

  
  • WCL 4379 - Critical Theory and Globalization

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Intensive study of critical theory in light of globalization, migration shifts, and late 20th century social theory and literary criticism.

  
  • WCL 4380 - Jewish Expulsion and Aftermath: Spain, 1492 and After

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor.

    Study of events leading to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 and its consequences.

  
  • WCL 4381 - Seminar in Latin American and Latino Cultural Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Key themes and debates regarding Latin American/Latino cultural processes in the arts, politics, and everyday life. Modernity/postmodernity, coloniality/postcoloniality, globalization, urban, border, transnational, ethnic, genera, and subaltern perspectives. Taught in English.

  
  • WCL 4394 - Sexuality in Latino Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Sexual relationships in Latino culture, gender theory, art, politics, everyday life, transnational perspectives.

  
  • WCL 4396 - Special Topics in World Cultures and Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Topics in cultural and literary theory, criticism and history, major cultural trends in postmodernity and globalization. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • WCL 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
 

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