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WCL 3362 - U.S. Latino Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Major trends, traits, works, authors, and issues of Chicano, and other Latino literatures.
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WCL 3364 - World TV Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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.
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WCL 3365 - World Fiction & Reportage Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Recent works of transnational literature or national literature with transnational appeal, including both fiction and reportage that highlight world issues and global awareness.
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WCL 3366 - Latin American and Latino Film Studies Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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
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WCL 3367 - National Cinema in a Global Perspective Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
National cinema in its relationship with global film industry, international production and transnational issues.
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WCL 3368 - Pop Cultures and World Media Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Popular culture in its diverse forms with particular focus on visual media. Genres including films, music, reality television, social media, graphic novels, and literature.
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WCL 3369 - Science Fiction in Literature and Film Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 .
Description
Survey of science-fiction literature and film since 1945, including the Golden Age, the New Wave, Cyberpunk, and beyond.
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WCL 3371 - Cities in Film and the Arts Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Cities and urban life worldwide from the advent of modernity to postmodernity and globalization, as expressed in visual arts, film, theory and literature.
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WCL 3372 - Indian Film: Bollywood and Beyond Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Exploration of the history, development, and evolution of Indian Film since Partition, the Golden Age, and New Wave through essay and film.
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WCL 3373 - Gender and Sexuality in World Film Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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.
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WCL 3374 - Jewish Film Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Jewish culture, tradition, and history through film.
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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.
Description
Globalization of Houston is documented and analyzed conducting a visual and textual ethnography.
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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 .
Description
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
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WCL 3380 - American Jewish Culture Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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.
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WCL 3381 - Global Representations of HIV/AIDS Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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.
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WCL 3382 - Global Queer Culture Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Exploration of queer culture in a global context through major historical and present-day works of literature, art, and film.
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WCL 3384 - Jewish Women Through Biography Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Study of Jewish women’s history through the ages and across cultures.
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WCL 3392 - Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Basic dimensions of Latin American cultural processes. Focus on indigenous/Spanish/African/Asian heritages and transformations; including mestizaje, transculturation, hybridization. Globalization and transnational patterns.
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WCL 3397 - Selected Topics in World Cultures & Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Topics in world cultures and literature.
may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Note: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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WCL 4301 - Culture and Communication: Methods in Linguistic Anthropology Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: junior standing.
Description
Multiple methodologies that exist for researching language as a mode of communication and interaction within the field of linguistic anthropology.
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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.
Description
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.
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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.
Description
Major theoretical trends in Western & non-Western culture from the French Revolution to World War II.
Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
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WCL 4352 - Frames of Modernity II - Postmodernity and Globalization Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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
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WCL 4353 - Frames of Modernity III: Classics and Modernity Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors. Taught in English.
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WCL 4356 - World Film & Film Theory Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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
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WCL 4362 - Seminar in Latin American and Latino Literatures Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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.
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WCL 4363 - The Supernatural and Film Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Study of the Supernatural as represented in film.
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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.
Description
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.
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WCL 4365 - World Fiction & Reportage Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
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
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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.
Description
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
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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.
Description
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.
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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.
Description
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.
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WCL 4379 - Critical Theory and Globalization Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Intensive study of critical theory in light of globalization, migration shifts, and late 20th century social theory and literary criticism.
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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.
Description
Study of events leading to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 and its consequences.
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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 .
Description
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.
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WCL 4394 - Sexuality in Latino Culture Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Sexual relationships in Latino culture, gender theory, art, politics, everyday life, transnational perspectives.
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WCL 4396 - Special Topics in World Cultures and Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .
Description
Topics in cultural and literary theory, criticism and history, major cultural trends in postmodernity and globalization.
May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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WCL 4398 - Independent Study Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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