Courses in English Translation

No foreign language knowledge required

These courses are open to all students, and are especially recommended to those majoring in World Literature and Culture Studies.

LACS 224 Introduction to Arab and Middle Eastern Cinema
LACS 225 Contemporary Arabic Novels
LACS 226 Writing the Body in Arabic Literature

LACS 325 Americans in Paris/Parisians in America
LACS 320 French Cinema

LACS 254 Franz Kafka
LACS 255 Exile from Nazi Germany
LACS 256 Berlin, Vienna, Prague
LACS 257 New German Cinema
LACS 258 Burnt Books: Literature and Nazi Germany
LACS 265 German History through Literature and Film
LACS 266 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
LACS 264 Literature and the Law in the German Tradition
LACS 267 The Modern German Novel

LACS 290 Italian Cinema
LACS 272 Mafia
LACS 274 Foods in Italian History, Society, and Art
LACS 335 Dante: The Divine Comedy
LACS 276 Enlightenment and Romanticism in Italy
LACS 278 Italy and America
LACS 236 Modern Italy

LACS 282 Dostoevsky
LACS 284 Fantasy and Realism in Russian Literature
LACS 285 Love, Sex, and War in Tolstoy
LACS 286 Soul, Flesh, and the Russian Mystique
LACS 287 Russian and Soviet Theater
LACS 288 Who Am I and Where Am I Going

LACS 240 Latin American Literature and Film in Translation
LACS 241 Prisms of Modernity: Inquiry, Discovery, Possession
LACS 242 Self, Society, and Writing in Contemporary Latin American ‘Autoficcion’
LACS 244 Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean in Translation
LACS 246 Latino Literature in the United States
LACS 248 The Alchemy of Identity: Culture-Planning and Civil Society in Barcelona, 1850-2000.

INTS 236 Japanese Crime Fiction

INTS 237 Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature

LACS 219 Israeli Film and Visual Media
LACS 220 Modern Israeli Literature and Jewish Heritage