Courses and Schedules

Fall 2008 Schedule of Classes (LLC classes only)

Fall 2008 Course Descriptions (LLC classes only)

Summer 2008 Schedule of Classes (all classes at UAlbany, search by language)

Spring 2008 Schedule of Classes (LLC classes only)

NEW CLASSES - FALL 2008!

AARA 201 Intermediate Arabic I

TFRE 201 Honors Course: Women in Medieval France: Study of women in 5 th-15 th Century France seen through literature, history & the arts, examining the roles of women & their occupations against the backdrop of prevailing ideas. Taught in English.

AFRE 499 Francophone Women: In Their Own Words and Images: Explores women writers & filmmakers from Sub-Saharan Africa, N Africa & the Caribbean & their world views via short stories, novels & films showing how women negotiate in systems & structures (marriage, polygamy, enslavement & colonization) to make change. Taught in French.

AFRE 513 History of the French Language: From 2 perspectives: external (social and political forces exerting change over time) and internal (phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes). Students will gain some fluency in reading Old and Middle French texts. Taught in French.

AFRE 605 Immigrants in France: A massive presence of non-European immigrants puts France’s proclaimed universalism to the test, leading to questions of culture and national identity. Immigrants’ stories and complex socio-cultural challenges posed by a century of immigration will be explored. Taught in French.

ACLG 101 Elementary Greek I (classic): For beginners

ALLC 610/ENG 642 Theory Reading Literature: Study of selected theoretical works by French writers of the post-structuralist period with special emphasis on approaches to the literary text. Taught in English.

ALLC 620 Borges: Reading Borges’ prose and poetry to trace his appropriations of the western literary and philosophical canon and discuss how he distorts chronological successions, geographical determination and genre boundaries in the process. Taught in English.

ARUS 280 Soviet and Russian Cinema: Viewing and analysis of various periods—“silent,” theoreticians and director-experimenters, Stalinist, “Thaws,” glasnost, and post-Soviet Russia, paying particular attention to 2 themes, 1) relationship between film theory and practice and 2) relationship between film and its political-social context, and exploring how film-makers achieved effects with imposed constraints and what a film may reveal about the prevailing ideological and social myths. Taught in English.

ARUS 642 Gogol: Examining Nikolai Gogol and the rise of Russian prose in the 1830-1840s with 3 objectives: describing the period (social/artist concerns, literary genres, debates, stylistic idiosyncrasies), reading Gogol’s prose fiction, surveying critical arguments about the meaning of his work. Taught in Russian.

ASPN 446 Literature and Human Rights: Focusing on Spanish-American works (20-21 st Centuries) addressing violations of human rights (persecution, forced exile, dictatorships, genocides). Taught in Spanish.

ASPN 444/594 Spanish Sociolinguists: Study of the complex relationship between language and society in parts of the Spanish-speaking world. Taught in Spanish.

ASPN 515 Imagined Spaces: Exploring through literature, movies and theoretical essays how specific Spanish cities and urban spaces have been represented, constructed, utilized, dreamt of, written about and filmed. Taught in Spanish.

ASPN 529 Literature and Cultures of the Borderlands: Examining the notion of the border in literary and theoretical texts of the last 30 years, with the frontier as metaphor, rhetoric device and social reality. Works from the Caribbean and Mexican writers. Taught in Spanish.

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