CMPL Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
14394	CMPL 120 - 001 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	MoWe 11:15AM - 12:05PM	JESSICA WOLFE	Wilson Hall-Rm 0107	45/50	1/10	46/60	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 3 units.
14395	CMPL 120 - 601 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Amy Chan	TBA	10/15	Seats filled	10/15	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 0 units.
14396	CMPL 120 - 602 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Amy Chan	Peabody Hall-Rm 2060	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 0 units.
14397	CMPL 120 - 603 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Maggie Miller	Phillips Hall-Rm 0208	14/15	Seats filled	14/15	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 0 units.
14398	CMPL 120 - 604 Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions	Fr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Maggie Miller	Wilson Hall-Rm 0202	7/15	Seats filled	7/15	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Major works of literature central to the formation of Western culture from antiquity to 1750. Considers epic, lyric, drama, and prose; core authors such as Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. 0 units.
14385	CMPL 144 - 001 Engaging Film and Media	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Rick Warner	Fetzer Hall-Rm 0109	Seats filled	1/8	53/60	10/999
Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 3 units.
14386	CMPL 144 - 601 Engaging Film and Media	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Rose Steptoe	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1370	8/15	Seats filled	8/15	6/999
Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units.
14387	CMPL 144 - 602 Engaging Film and Media	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Rose Steptoe	Bingham Hall-Rm 3006	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	1/999
Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units.
14388	CMPL 144 - 603 Engaging Film and Media	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Jonathan Albrite	Phillips Hall-Rm 0206	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	3/999
Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units.
14389	CMPL 144 - 604 Engaging Film and Media	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Jonathan Albrite	Alumni Bldg-Rm 0308	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	0/999
Description: This viewing-intensive course introduces students to topics and traditions in film and other media. 0 units.
14390	CMPL 223 - 001 Global Authors: Cervantes	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	MARSHA COLLINS	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	7/35	Seats filled	7/35	0/999
Description: Fulfills a major core requirement. Close study of Cervantes' Don Quixote, its reception and impact on varied works of world literature. 3 units.
15382	CMPL 238 - 001 From Martial Arts to Street Dance: Rebellion with Chinese Characteristics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Keren He	New West-Rm 0219	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	1/999
Description: This course leverages the trope of martial arts to examine forms of resistance and counterculture in the Chinese-speaking world. Contextualizing visual representations of martial arts within moments of profound sociopolitical transformations in China and beyond, we will explore the many complexities and dilemmas of political action, in particular the tension between justice and violence, emotion and motion, self-assertion and self-sacrifice, traditional chivalry and radical commitment, as well as between local allegiance and transnational alliance. 3 units.
13118	CMPL 250 - 001 Approaches to Comparative Literature	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Sheera Talpaz	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0304	11/35	Seats filled	11/35	0/999
Description: This communications-intensive course familiarizes students with the theory and practice of comparative literature: the history of literary theory; translation; and literature combined with disciplines such as music, architecture, and philosophy. 3 units.
9928	CMPL 251 - 001 Introduction to Literary Theory	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Rebecka Rutledge Fisher	TBA	7/25	Seats filled	7/25	0/999
Description: Familiarizes students with the theory and practice of comparative literature. Against a background of classical poetics and rhetoric, explores various modern literary theories, including Russian formalism, Frankfurt School, feminism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, new historicism, and others. All reading in theory is paired with that of literary texts drawn from a wide range of literary periods and national traditions. 3 units.
15486	CMPL 255H - 001 The Feast in Film, Fiction, and Philosophy	We 3:35PM - 6:35PM	INGER BRODEY	Dey Hall-Rm 0209	Seats filled	11/18	11/18
Description: Comparative and interdisciplinary study of feasting and its philosophical underpinnings, with special attention to the multiple purposes and nuances of food and feasting in literature, film, and the visual arts. 3 units.
12677	CMPL 259 - 001 Ideology and Aesthetics: Marxism and Literature	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	David Pike	Dey Hall-Rm 0404	8/10	Seats filled	8/10	0/999
Description: This seminar provides students with a general introduction to Marxist thought with particular attention to its critical importance for interpreting the role of ideology in modern literature. Readings and class discussions in English. Previously taught as GSLL 251. 3 units.
15013	CMPL 261 - 001 India and Orientalism	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	PAMELA LOTHSPEICH	New West-Rm 0219	4/10	Seats filled	4/10	0/999
Description: This course examines the history of Orientalism with respect to India, and in particular, the ways in which the people and cultures of India have been (mis)represented by Europeans and North Americans in fiction, travel writing, TV shows, and films, from the colonial period to the present. 3 units.
14391	CMPL 262 - 001 Film and Politics	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Daelena Tinnin-Gadson	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	Seats filled	Seats filled	35/35	5/999
Description: This course investigates the complex relations between cinema and politics in particular national and/or global contexts. Examining not merely films with narratives about politically charged themes but also the political and ideological nature of filmic representation itself, this course focuses on questions that link politics and aesthetics. 3 units.
15017	CMPL 279 - 001 Once Upon A Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Childhood, Then and Now	MoWe 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Ruth von Bernuth	Dey Hall-Rm 0305	16/29	Seats filled	16/29	0/999
Description: Considers fairy tales from several different national traditions and historical periods against the backdrop of folklore, literature, psychoanalysis, and the socializing forces directed at children. Students may not receive credit for both GERM 279/CMPL 279 and GSLL 54. 3 units.
15018	CMPL 279 - 601 Once Upon A Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Childhood, Then and Now	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	To be Announced	Bingham Hall-Rm 3006	9/15	Seats filled	9/15	0/999
Description: Considers fairy tales from several different national traditions and historical periods against the backdrop of folklore, literature, psychoanalysis, and the socializing forces directed at children. Students may not receive credit for both GERM 279/CMPL 279 and GSLL 54. 0 units.
15019	CMPL 279 - 602 Once Upon A Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Childhood, Then and Now	Fr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	To be Announced	Bingham Hall-Rm 3014	7/15	Seats filled	7/15	0/999
Description: Considers fairy tales from several different national traditions and historical periods against the backdrop of folklore, literature, psychoanalysis, and the socializing forces directed at children. Students may not receive credit for both GERM 279/CMPL 279 and GSLL 54. 0 units.
10884	CMPL 280 - 001 Film Genres	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Rick Warner	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0302	34/35	Seats filled	34/35	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to the methods of genre theory and analysis as they pertain to cinema. The course may either provide a survey of several different genres or examine a particular genre in depth as it has evolved historically. National and/or transnational dimensions of popular genres may be emphasized. 3 units.
15411	CMPL 388 - 001 History of French Cinema I: 1895-1950	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	HASSAN MELEHY	Dey Hall-Rm 0201	3/8	Seats filled	3/8
Description: Study of French cinema from 1895 through 1950, including early French film, silent cinema, surrealism, poetic realism, and postwar cinema. Concepts and vocabulary for film criticism. Conducted in English. Recommended preparation: FREN 260 or CMPL 143 or the equivalent. 3 units.
13117	CMPL 390 - 001 Special Topics in Comparative Literature	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Sheera Talpaz	Murphey Hall-Rm 0204	1/25	Seats filled	1/25
Description: Course topics vary from semester to semester. 3 units.
12471	CMPL 466 - 001 Modernism	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Shinjini Chattopadhyay	Murphey Hall-Rm 0204	17/25	Seats filled	17/25	0/999
Description: An exploration of the period concept of modernism in European literature, with attention to central works in poetry, narrative, and drama, and including parallel developments in the visual arts. 3 units.
9929	CMPL 489 - 001 Empire and Diplomacy	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Ted Leinbaugh	Stone Center-Rm 0210	3/15	Seats filled	3/15	0/999
Description: Examines the history of the British Empire and the role of peace, war, defense, diplomacy, and letters in shaping Britain's presence on the world stage. 3 units.
15015	CMPL 535 - 001 The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	YARON SHEMER	Phillips Hall-Rm 0247	2/10	Seats filled	2/10	0/999
Description: This course explores the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts in which films are made and exhibited and focuses on shared intra-regional cinematic trends pertaining to discourse, aesthetics, and production. 3 units.