Feb 19, 2025

2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog

2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

World Cultures and Literatures, B.A.

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College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences > Department of Modern and Classical Languages > World Cultures and Literatures, B.A.

The B.A. degree in World Cultures and Literatures is an interdisciplinary major in the department of Modern & Classical Languages. Students acquire expertise in a foreign language and cross-cultural communication skills through advanced coursework in foreign languages and world or area literary and cultural studies.

In addition to the other requirements for the Bachelor of Arts, students will complete 27 semester hours in the specific track they select. Required courses for each track are specified below.

The Bachelor of Arts in World Cultures and Literatures offers the following tracks:

Ancient Studies
German Studies
Global Cinema Studies
Francophone Cultures Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Studies in Global Modernity

Majors must earn at least a 2.50 cumulative grade point average in all courses counting toward the major track requirements.

Ancient Studies Track

6) 12.0 Credit Hours

Twelve credit hours chosen according to the student’s declared program emphasis (with approval of WCL undergraduate director), selected from the following list:

ARTH 2381 - Classical Art Credit Hours: 3.0
ARTH 2382 - Medieval Art and Society Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 2366 - Who Owns Antiquity? The Battle Over Our Cultural Heritage Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3307 - Greek and Roman Myths of Heroes Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3308 - Myths and Cult of the Greek Gods Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3345 - Myth and Performance in Greek Tragedy Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3366 - The Trojan War Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3371 - Ancient Comedy and Its Influence Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3374 - Women in the Ancient World Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3375 - Roman, Jew, and Christian: The Politics and Sociology of Religion in the First Century A.D. Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3380 - Epic Masculinity: Ideologies of Manhood in Ancient Epic and Modern Film Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 3381 - From Homer to Hollywood: Archaic and Classical Greek Themes in Modern Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 4350 - Age of Augustus Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 4370 - Comparative Epic Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 4374 - Sex and Gender in Antiquity Credit Hours: 3.0
CLAS 4375 - Gender and Race in Greek Myths Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 2301 - Western World Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 2360 - Western World Literature - Honors Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 3300 - Ancient and Classical Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 3302 - Medieval Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 3309 - Renaissance Drama Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 3323 - Development of Literary Criticism and Theory Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 4360 - Bible as Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 4366 - Introduction to Folklore Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 4370 - Folktale Credit Hours: 3.0
HIST 2351 - Western Civilization to 1450 Credit Hours: 3.0
HIST 2361 - The Study of Early Civilizations Credit Hours: 3.0
HIST 3379 - World Civilizations to 1500 Credit Hours: 3.0
HIST 3339 - Ancient Greece Credit Hours: 3.0
HIST 3340 - Ancient Rome Credit Hours: 3.0
HIST 4335 - Greek and Roman Historians Credit Hours: 3.0
HIST 4350 - Alexander the Great Credit Hours: 3.0
HON 2301 - The Human Situation: Antiquity Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 3355 - Women East and West: Global Representations of Female Divinities Credit Hours: 3.0

German Studies Track

1) 9.0 Credit Hours in:

GERM 3333 - German Conversation and Composition Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3330 - Reading German Texts Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3334 - German Conversation and Composition Credit Hours: 3.0

2) 6.0 Credit Hours

Six credit hours selected from the following list:

GERM 3362 - Paris - Berlin: Tales of Two Cities Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3363 - Themes in German Drama Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3364 - Writing Holocausts: The Literatures of Genocide Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3380 - German Women Film Directors Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3381 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3382 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3384 - Fascism and German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3385 - East German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3386 - Films of Fassbinder Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 4364 - History of Drama in Northern and Central Europe Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 3369 - Science Fiction in Literature and Film Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
HIST 3357 - Modern Germany, 1815-1918 Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
HIST 3358 - Modern Germany Since 1918 Credit Hours: 3.0
POLS 3324 - Government and Politics in Contemporary Germany Credit Hours: 3.0

3) 3.0 Credit Hours

Three credit hours selected from the following list:

GERM 3331 - Introduction to German Literature I Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3332 - Introduction to German Literature II Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3397 - Selected Topics in German Language, Culture, Civilization, and Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3329 - Introduction to Translation Credit Hours: 3.0

4) 6.0 Credit Hours

Six credit hours of 4000-level GERM courses (taught in German), selected from the following list:

GERM 4329 - Advanced Translation Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4356 - Romanticism Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4357 - German Literature 1890-1945 Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4358 - German Literature Since 1945 Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4359 - Germany since Reunification Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4361 - Advanced Writing and Reading Across Disciplines Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4373 - German Cultural History I: From the Beginnings to World War I Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4374 - German Cultural History II: The Twentieth Century Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4397 - Selected Topics in German Language and Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 4370 - Vienna 1900 - The Birth of the Modern Credit Hours: 3.0

5) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I Credit Hours: 3.0

Global Cinema Studies Track

1) 6.0 Credit Hours in:

WCL 2351 - World Cultures Through Literature and Art Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 2352 - World Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0

2) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
WCL 4352 - Frames of Modernity II - Postmodernity and Globalization Credit Hours: 3.0

3) 6.0 Credit Hours

Six hours at the 3000-level taught in a foreign language.

4) 9.0 Credit Hours

Nine credit hours of film courses selected from the following list:

CHNS 3350 - Chinese Culture Through Films Credit Hours: 3.0
FREN 3319 - History of French Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
FREN 3322 - Cinema of French-Speaking Africa Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3381 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3380 - German Women Film Directors Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3382 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3384 - Fascism and German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3385 - East German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3386 - Films of Fassbinder Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3387 - Films of Herzog Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3388 - Films of Wenders Credit Hours: 3.0
GERM 3395 - Topics in German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
HIST 3397 - Sel Tops-African History Credit Hours: 3.0
Topic:
- Pictures and Words: Palestine-Israel Conflict Through Film
ITAL 3306 - Italian Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
RUSS 3307 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema: Collapse of the Soviet Realm and Revival of National Identity Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 4365 - World Fiction & Reportage Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 4356 - World Film & Film Theory Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 3371 - Cities in Film and the Arts Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 3372 - Indian Film: Bollywood and Beyond Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 3373 - Gender and Sexuality in World Film Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 3364 - World TV Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 3366 - Latin American and Latino Film Studies Credit Hours: 3.0
WCL 3367 - National Cinema in a Global Perspective Credit Hours: 3.0

5) 3.0 Credit Hours

Three credit hours selected from the following list:

COMM 3370 - History of Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
COMM 2370 - Introduction to Motion Pictures Credit Hours: 3.0
SOC 3340 - Sociology of Film Credit Hours: 3.0
ENGL 4373 - Film, Text, and Politics Credit Hours: 3.0
ARTH 3396 - Selected Topics in Critical Studies in Film and Video Credit Hours: 3.0

Francophone Cultures Studies Track

1) 6.0 Credit Hours in:

FREN 3313 - Advanced Grammar and Composition Credit Hours: 3.0
plus additional course at the 3000-level (taught in French) Credit Hours: 3.0