Department of Romance Languages & Literature

Chair:
Marisel Moreno

Director of Graduate Studies in Italian:
Charles L. Leavitt IV

Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish:
Pedro Aguilera Mellado

Director of Undergraduate Studies:
Keith Schaefer

Graduate Liaison of French:
Pedro Aguilera Mellado

Associate Directors of Undergraduate Studies:
French—Claire Reising
Italian—Kathleen Boyle
Portuguese—Marcio Bahia
Spanish—Katherine Oswald

Professors:
Thomas F. Anderson; Theodore J. Cachey Jr.; Carlos A. Jáuregui; Joshua Lund; Marisel C. Moreno; María Rosa Olivera-Williams; Alison Rice

Associate Professors:
Pedro Aguilera Mellado; Allison Bigelow; Fr. Gregory Haake; Ben Heller; Charles Leavitt; Vanesa Miseres; Juan Vitulli

Assistant Professors:
Laura Banella; Sara Boezio; Rebecca Bowen; Pierre-Elliot Caswell; Madison Mainwaring; Johannes Junge Ruhland

Teaching Professors:
Marcio Bahia; Tatiana Botero; Kathleen Boyle; Rachel Parroquin; Shauna Williams

Associate Teaching Professors:
Ana Fauri; Leonardo Francalanci; Borja Gama de Cossío; Monica Jancha; Ana López Aguilera; Katherine Oswald; Andrea Topash Ríos; Claire Reising; Anne Schaefer; Keith Schaefer; Patrick Vivirito

Assistant Teaching Professors and Concurrent Lecturers:
Azeb Haileselassie; Valentina Graziuso; Tessa Gurney; María Ruiz García

Program of Studies

The Romance languages derive from Vulgar Latin spoken throughout the Roman Empire. A major course of study is offered in French, Italian, and Spanish. Minors are offered in French, Italian, and Portuguese. The study of languages, literatures, and cultures provides educational opportunities relevant to an increasingly interdependent world. A crucial component of a liberal education, the acquisition of language skills enhances our powers of communication and serves to introduce us to the enduring cultural achievements of other peoples. Moreover, the study of languages, literatures, and cultures broadens our mental horizons, encourages us to think and act more globally, and stimulates our understanding of the traditions of other people. Elementary and intermediate courses develop the students’ ability to understand, speak, read, and write French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish language with facility and confidence.

Upper-division courses present a wealth of literary, historical, and cultural traditions and emphasize the nature and development of cultures. Many courses focus on the literature and culture of certain historical periods. Others trace the development of literary genres or examine a theme across periods and genres. All courses inculcate the critical and analytical skills necessary for an informed interpretation of texts. Participation in Notre Dame’s international study programs in Brazil, Chile, France, Italy, Mexico, and Spain (see the International Study Programs section of this Bulletin) is highly recommended although not required to pursue a major in Romance languages and literatures. Majors and supplementary majors in French, Italian, and Spanish must complete 50 percent of their credit hours in the major in residency at Notre Dame and meet the following program requirements. For current information visit the department website: romancelanguages.nd.edu.

The Department of Romance Languages and Literature offers their courses under the subject codes of: Romance Languages and Literature (LLRO), French (ROFR), Italian (ROIT), Portuguese (ROPO), and Spanish (ROSP). Courses associated with their academic programs may be found below. The scheduled classes for a given semester may be found at classearch.nd.edu.

Romance Languages & Literature (LLRO)

LLRO 10101 Beginning Quechua I (3-6 Credit Hours)

The principal aims of this beginning-level Quechua Language course are to encourage the development of competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and to generate cultural understanding. LLRO 10101 is followed by LLRO 10102.

LLRO 10102 Beginning Quechua II (3-6 Credit Hours)

LLRO 10112 Creole Language and Culture I (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces students to the vivid, sonorous language of Kreyòl, or Creole, and to the fascinating culture of its speakers. This intensive, beginning-level course is intended for students with no knowledge of Creole. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical and phonetic techniques. Our study of Kreyòl is closely linked to our anthropological exploration of how the language is tied to Caribbean society and culture. The course takes a holistic, anthropological approach to the history, political economy, and religion of Haiti. In addition to class work, audio recordings, music and video enhance the study of the Haitian language and culture.

LLRO 10118 Creole Language and Culture Beginning II (3 Credit Hours)

This course celebrates the vivid, sonorous language of Kreyòl and the histories, cultures and agencies of its speakers. Students in the class gain communicative competence in the language through development of basic conversational, reading and writing skills. Meanwhile, we engage a critical, anthropologically informed study of Haitian experiences of colonialism, revolution, development, education, race, gender, kinship, and transnational migration. Audio recordings, music, film, art, and food enhance our study of the language and culture. The class welcomes students who have some familiarity with Kreyòl, have taken Beginning I Creole Language and Culture, or have competence in French. The course is the second segment of a four-course sequence through the Intermediate II level.

LLRO 10650 Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom (LTBC) (1 Credit Hour)

LTBC is an interdisciplinary and experiential-learning 1 credit course on refugee issues and basic principles of foreign language pedagogy (how to teach a foreign language). Its purpose is to teach you about refugee crises in the world, and provide you with the knowledge and professional development needed to work as coaches/teaching assistants in language courses for refugees. Open to students who will have at least a 102 level by the end of the Spring 2023 semester. Co-taught by Tiziana Serafini and Suzanne Shanahan, Director of the Center of Social Concerns. A selected number of students from the LTBC course will be given the possibility to work as teaching assistants with Professor Serafini in a Basic Italian course that will be offered in the Summer of 2023 to African refugees planning to study in Italian universities.

LLRO 11301 Beginning Quechua I (1-3 Credit Hours)

This course is for learners who have not taken Quechua before and are starting as complete beginners. Each year, a native Quechua speaker on the Fulbright program come to ND to be the instructor for the Quechua sections. Students will practice the four main linguistic skill areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking in the context of learning about the Quechua people, culture in the Andes mountains, and more.

LLRO 11302 Beginning Quechua II (1-3 Credit Hours)

Building on Quechua I foundations, students will continue to practice the four main linguistic skill areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking by building vocabulary, engaging in role plays and simulated conversations, writing for the purpose of achieving tasks, and gist listening. Each year, a native Quechua speaker on the Fulbright program come to ND to be the instructor for the Quechua sections. Students can expect authentic learning from a cultural ambassador to round out their foundations of learning the Quechua language.

LLRO 11303 Int/Adv Spoken Quechua (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is for learners who have completed Beginning Quechua I and II. As a traditionally spoken indigenous language, learners of Quechua often focus most on speaking and listening skills. This class will build on the foundations covered in the first year of Quechua courses and continue to incorporate grammar structures with limited activities related to reading or writing in Quechua. Primary attention will be placed on listening comprehension and speaking/pronunciation. Repeatable for advanced learners.

LLRO 11304 Int/Adv Quechua Reading and Writing (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is for learners who have completed Beginning Quechua I and II. Although Quechua is a traditionally spoken indigenous language, reading and writing can be empowering and important for documenting endangered languages. This class will build on the foundations covered in the first year of Quechua courses and incorporate literature authored by Quechua people. Repeatable for advanced learners.

LLRO 11305 Topics in Quechua Language and Culture (1 Credit Hour)

This is a topics course that covers a variety of cultural learning lectures and discussions related to the Quechua indigenous people. Led by our visiting Fulbright instructor, participants will have the opportunity to gain authentic insights, perspectives, and experiences from a Quechua person. Conducted in English, no Quechua language proficiency required.

LLRO 13186 Literature University Seminar (3 Credit Hours)

An introduction to the seminar method of instruction, emphasizing the analysis of literary texts.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: USEM - University Seminar, WKAL - Core Art & Literature

Students in the Holy Cross College or St. Mary's College colleges may not enroll.

LLRO 20212 Intermediate Creole I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is intended for students who have completed Beginning level Creole or who have attained equivalent competence in the language. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical and phonetic techniques. Our study of Kreyòl is closely linked to our exploration of how the language is tied to Caribbean society and culture. Evaluation of student achievement and proficiency will be conducted both informally and formally during and at the conclusion of the course. Those looking to develop or improve their language skills are welcome to the class. The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who intend to work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.

Prerequisites: LLRO 20112 or ROFR 20680

LLRO 20222 Intermediate Creole II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is intended for students who have taken one semester of Intermediate Creole Language and Culture. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with enhanced reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical variety and phonetic acumen. Our study of Kreyòl is integrated with an exploration of how the language is tied to Haitian society, culture, economy and politics and history. Evaluation of student achievement and proficiency will be conducted both informally and formally during and at the conclusion of the course. Those looking to develop or improve their language skills are welcome to the class. The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who intend to work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.

LLRO 20420 Urban Ethics (3 Credit Hours)

What are cities, and how do they work? How do present (and how will future) societies respond to the challenges of pollution, sustainable development, exploitation of natural resources, equal access to infrastructure, education and welfare, human rights, food production and distribution, and energy consumption? This course welcomes students to reflect on these questions and respond to these challenges through the emerging field of urban ethics. Through lectures and readings, we will ask: 1.) Can we define an “ancient urban ethics?" 2.) Which disciplines are involved in urban ethics, and what strategies—from environmental to social ethics—should inform it? 3.) What policies, planning documents, and environmental and information technologies from the past and present can we avail from around the world to understand urban ethics? To ground our discussions, we will read excerpts from classical literature, philosophy, and cross-disciplinary works. We will also engage resources including maps, drawings, art, photographs, and videos. As we will discover through discussion and participation, urban ethics is a field in which everyone is involved.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKSP - Core 2nd Philosophy

LLRO 20612 Genesis of the Italian-American Identity (3 Credit Hours)

At the turn of the twentieth century the US experienced one of the largest immigration waves in its history. Millions of Italian immigrants who made their way through Ellis Island at the time would leave a permanent imprint on the American landscape and social texture, just as the American experience would shape their identity. This course explores in an interdisciplinary way the many cultural aspects that define Italian-Americans, including religion, language, family structure and gender roles, traditions and celebrations, cuisine, political and social worldview, and artistic representations. The aim of this course is for students to analyze how these cultural facets created the Italian-American identity.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

LLRO 20650 From the "Sea in the Middle": Medieval Mediterranean’s Stories (3 Credit Hours)

In the intricate and interconnected society of the Late Middle Ages in the Mediterranean Basin (12th-15th Centuries), the short story emerged as a dominant literary genre, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries. The Mediterranean’s bustling commercial networks served as a conduit for stories, knowledge, and people, bridging distant shores. During this era, Italians held sway as the Mediterranean’s foremost commercial and naval power, a dominance reflected in the multitude of short story collections written from the 12th to the 14th Centuries. Figures like Giovanni Boccaccio, Franco Sacchetti, and Giovanni Sercambi skillfully portrayed the sociological, geographical, historical, and psychological intricacies of this cultural crossroads. The short story explored diverse themes, including courtly love, the Crusades, the interplay of the three Monotheistic Religions, class struggles, varied perspectives on women’s roles from Spain to the Arabic domains, and encounters between different cultures. This genre provided a window into the era’s multifaceted facets. This course aims to delve into the historical tapestry of the multiethnic and multicultural Italian peninsula during the Late Middle Ages. Through Italian short stories, we will explore its cultures, geography, and traditions, gaining insights into this captivating period.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 24811 Experiencing Rome through community-based learning (1 Credit Hour)

The course is offered as a S/U grade course. This course facilitates and promotes meaningful civic engagement with the city of Rome; as such, it has been designated as a Community-engaged learning Course. Community-engaged learning (CEL) is a form of experiential education that integrates community engagement with instruction and reflection, deepening and enhancing the learning that takes place both in and outside the classroom. Themes for this course will vary by semester. Examples include: Migration and Refugee crisis in Italy; the Italian Education system from a comparative perspective. Through guided readings, visits to local organizations, and interactions with experts in the field, students will have the opportunity to engage with timely topics from multiple perspectives. This one-credit course does not count towards the Italian Major or Minor.

LLRO 30076 Disease and the American Experience (3 Credit Hours)

This class is dedicated to the contemplation and analysis of American (in the hemispheric sense) narratives that trace the trajectory of outbreaks of widespread illness to their subsequent mitigation. A major source of reflection and analysis will be the instructors experience nursing in an ICU during the first and second COVID-19 surges in New York City. Drawing upon literature, film, philosophy, history, and medical science, the focus will be on medicine and healing as a hinge point between politics and life. The class will analyze medicine as power; specifically, in what Michel Foucault described as biopower or ?making live and letting die.? In short, we will study theories, practices and stories of healing. However, instead of focusing on European texts such as Bocaccios The Decameron (1353), Shelley's The Last Man (1826), or Albert Camus's The Plague (1947), this class draws on the tensions between the Eurocentric canon and its deconstruction in the Americas (Machado de Assis, Bellatin, Cuarón, Poe, Cazals, Porter). These tensions manifest at the points where bare life and political life converge, where class, race, geography, and the economics of healing complicate an intervention so simple as quarantine. Nevertheless, and as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, some whose daily circulation provide essential goods and services to society cannot afford to quarantine, and it is their stories that fall outside the scope of Europe's literary grasp.

LLRO 30219 Societal Challenges in Europe: Global Responses to a Changing World (3 Credit Hours)

EURO 30219: "Societal Challenges in Europe: Global Responses to a Changing World" (3 credits) Prof. Maro Grazzi Economic policy affects us all. That is why the best approach to solving the challenges that arise from it is an interdisciplinary one. From political science to economics to global affairs, each discipline offers something to this conversation that transcends national borders. Traditionally, they have operated in silos, but this course seeks to bring them together to address six multidisciplinary challenges facing contemporary society, including: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 (𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝) 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲/𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲— How do societies balance the need for efficiency with a view to preventing or reducing inequality? Is this perceived trade-off actually a trade-off? 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡: 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 — What is the root of innovation? How do external motivators and intrinsic motivations interact to stimulate growth? What is the role of government in these questions, and how has the European Union approached them? 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — How can we protect the environment and ensure a thriving ecosystem for generations to come while meeting our socio-economic needs? What is the relationship between sustainability and innovation in today’s rapidly evolving green tech market? 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬, 𝐀𝐈, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 — To what extent will the rapid iteration of AI technology affect the world of work? How is the deployment of generative AI unique compared to previous automation movements? 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 — How do nations and businesses fit a value chain that occurs across borders? 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩 — How does the growing wage gap, even across firms in the same sector, relate to questions of inequality? Students will learn about how the European Union is addressing each challenge, as well as offering space for reflection on global responses. Students will come away from the course with a strong understanding of how Europe and the world see each topic and the implications for future policy decisions, ethics, and diplomacy.

LLRO 30310 Between the Lines: An Introduction to French Literary Analysis (3 Credit Hours)

In this class you will learn how to interpret a variety of genres and media in different styles and modes of analysis. Not only will you gain proficiency in the traditional French explication de texte, but we will explore various modes of critique, including feminist, post-colonial, and eco-critical frameworks. Through a series of short composition and presentation assignments, you will strengthen your skills in debate and argument in spoken and written French. While one of the aims will be your apprenticeship in close reading, the primary objective will be exploring the rhetorical tools that will empower you to effectively share your perspective with others.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 30312 Creole Migrations (3 Credit Hours)

Creole is the quintessential language of migration. This elective explores the multidirectional interplay of Creole narrative expression and transnational migration. How do Creole texts imagine and influence the experiences of migration, long-distance belonging and immigrant settlement? How, in turn, does the changing experience of diaspora affect the evolution of the vernacular at home (lakay)? In what ways do Creole writers and performers express struggles with xenophobia and racism abroad and oppression and poverty in Haiti? We engage these questions through study of Creole fiction, poetry, theatre, story telling and music. Among the Creole works we explore are the novels and poetry of Maude Heurtelou, Felix Morriseau-Leroi, Baudelaire Pierre, Patrick Sylvain and Denizé Lauture, stories by Jean-Claude Martineau and Kiki Wainwright, musical lyrics of Emeline Michele, Beethova Obas, Ti Corn and Wyclef Jean and Rap Kreyòl groups like Barikad Crew. The class is intended for students who have completed Intermediate Creole II or have reached the equivalent level of competence in speaking, reading and writing the language.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

LLRO 30520 The Role of the Witness in Italian Culture: Testimonies of Fascism, the Mafia, and Terrorism (3 Credit Hours)

Italian literature and cinema have sought throughout the modern era to give testimony and bear witness to the crises of Italian history and society. This course aims to explore the role of the witness and the function of testimony in the representation of the crises of modern Italian society, including Fascism, the Mafia, and Terrorism. Analyzing literature and cinema that bear witness to the anti-Fascist Resistance, the Holocaust, the victims of Mafia violence, and Terrorist attacks, in this course, you will consider questions such as: Who is the witness of the event? Can a fictional character bear witness? What kind of testimony can the witness provide? Can testimony objectively define the event even as it reflects the subjective position of the witness? What are the meanings and the implications of the witness's narration? What role do we, as readers and viewers, have in the testimonial narrative? Together, we will reflect on the political, social, and ethical implications of testimony in the modern age. Among the texts and films we will consider in this course are works by Marco Bellocchio, Italo Calvino, Giacomo Debenedetti, Marco Tullio Giordana, Ada Gobetti, Liana Millu, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Leonardo Sciascia, and Michele Soavi

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 30542 Cinema and Migration (3 Credit Hours)

Cinema and hospitality in a broad sense: how do films embody the art of welcoming, of hosting, of including and caring? Three months after his election in 2013, Pope Francis visited the Island of Lampedusa (Italy), one of the world’s deadliest forefronts of the humanitarian catastrophe often referred to as the global “refugee crisis.” He denounced the “globalization of indifference” in which no one wants to take responsibility for “our brothers and sisters” migrants who suffer and die. Ten years later, while the Pope is again addressing the “crisis” in Marseilles, in the month of August 2023 alone, 2,095 “migrants” have lost their lives in their attempts to cross the Mediterranean Ocean. Through a general concept of “hospitality,” our class will offer a holistic, cinematic approach to a world scene in which an unprecedented number of individuals are forced to flee their homes. We will focus on the (extremely) old notion of hospitality (a decisively matrixial one) and analyze films that put this concept at their core both formally and narratively. One critical goal will be to explore the various cultural understandings and practices that forge the highly cultural, both idiosyncratic and universal art of inviting, including, unconditionally hosting, and caring for the guest, the stranger, the child, the unknown. An ideal of protection, empathy, and compassion without which there is no responsibility, no ethics, all concepts that are the cornerstone of a feminist ethics that will nourish our research. This class will, in most parts, consist of seminar discussions and lectures. Two written assignments, group work, oral presentations as well as active participation in our class will constitute the basic requirements.

LLRO 30600 All Roads Lead to Rome (3 Credit Hours)

This is a three-credit foundational course for students interested in studying about Rome. The course is designed to satisfy the University of Notre Dame's literature, history, and fine arts requirement (old and new core). Students in this course build a foundation for understanding Rome's twenty-eight centuries of history through its cultural production (architectural, artistic, cinematic, and literary) by studying the complexity of its urban network; by examining the ruins of antiquity and the splendors of Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical art and architecture; by tracing the epic adventure that reunited Italy and led to the establishment of Rome as its capital, so that today it is at the heart of both the Italian Republic and the Vatican; by revisiting the tragedies of modern times, including fascism and the civil war; and by learning about the Rome of postwar and contemporary Italy. A writing intensive course, at the end of the semester students submit a research paper on a topic of his or her choosing. Taught in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKHI - Core History, WRIT - Writing Intensive

LLRO 30604 A Cultural History of Italian Fashion (3 Credit Hours)

The course outlines cultural, historical and social factors have contributed to the development of fashion in Italy. After a short introduction about the birth of modern fashion in Europe, the focus is on the development of Italian fashion from 1950 up to the 2000 in comparison with other western fashion styles in France, the United Kingdom, and in the U.S.A. The historical and analytical framework will enable students to acquire a sophisticated understanding of the diachronic and synchronic developments of fashion and the key reasons why fashion is now recognized as an integral part of cultural history all over the world.

LLRO 30605 Images of the Priest in French Culture (3 Credit Hours)

From country pastor to cathedral villain, from merciful bishop to weaselly lecher, the image of the Roman Catholic priest in French culture is nothing if not versatile. But what purpose does that versatility serve? Is the image of the priest simply all things to all people as a matter of utility, an easy target - for good or for ill - that provides to authors, artists, or directors a shortcut to a good laugh or to a character that their audience will love to hate? This course will explore the image of the priest in France from the Middle Ages to the present day in its varied manifestations in literature, film, and art. We will examine what the broad spectrum of representations reveals about the state of the French Church at any given moment in history, about the theology of the priesthood, or about clericalism and anticlericalism in a political or social context. In a moment when the meaning of the priesthood in the Catholic Church and beyond continues to be contested, a study of the French context will yield a deeper understanding of the priest and his role as an embodiment of the Church and its authority. Taught in English, with course materials available both in English and the original French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

LLRO 30710 The Quest for Nature in Italy (3 Credit Hours)

By reading works that range from St. Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures to the existential meditations of Giacomo Leopardi, this course explores how nature—and by extension, the natural order—was conceived and imagined within the Italian peninsula, from the Middle Ages to the Romantic period. We will trace the continuities and evolution of nature as a literary, philosophical, and theological idea and ask how past perspectives can inform our thinking about nature and its associated problems today. Questions to be pursued include: what is nature to begin with, and what parts of reality does it encompass? To what extent does it ground human ethics and craft? What trials and perils do humans face in their efforts to know, to master, and to care for, all things that move and grow? Do natural disasters and other forms of cosmic disarray threaten our belief in the order and goodness of the natural realm? And how do our representations of nature and its inhabitants shape our understanding of them and ultimately, of ourselves?

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 30718 The Literature of the Journey to Italy: From the Renaissance to Today (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the rich traditions of travel writing about Italy, covering the Renaissance through contemporary times. Through readings of major authors—including Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Lord Byron (1788-1824), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), Stendhal (1783-1842), Mark Twain (1835-1910), Henry James (1843-1916), Edith Wharton (1862-1937), D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), and contemporary travel writers—students will explore how Italy has been imagined, experienced, and portrayed. Topics include cultural encounters in Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, and Milan, the artistic inspirations drawn from Italy's immense architectural and artistic heritage, the Grand Tour, the evolution of travel to Italy as a literary genre, and cinematic interpretations of the journey to Italy theme ("Journey to Italy" [1954], directed by Roberto Rossellini; "Roman Holiday" [1953], directed by William Wyler, etc.). The course combines historical perspectives with close textual analysis, investigating how the journey to Italy has influenced European and global literary and cultural traditions.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 33000 Exploring International Economics and Romance Languages (1 Credit Hour)

In this special course designed for inquisitive international economics / romance language majors, students will attend a number of lectures, panels, and seminars on campus during the semester, with a follow-up discussion for each led by either a visitor or a member of the economics or romance languages faculty. Before each session, students will be expected to complete a short reading assignment. At each follow-up session, the students will submit a 1-2 page summary and analysis of the talk, with a critical question for discussion. The goal is to encourage students to enrich their major experience by participating in the intellectual discussions that occur amongst ND and visiting scholars across the campus, distinguished alumni, and professionals in the field.

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR.

LLRO 34105 Rome: Modern City (3 Credit Hours)

This on-site course, which will be conducted in English, aims to introduce students to a sociological analysis of contemporary Rome. It focuses on the changes which are occurring in the city s populations, its neighborhoods and patterns of daily life and commerce, and challenges conventional images of what it is to be a Roman today. On site classes will be held in a variety of neighborhoods in the city in order to analyze the area s role as a social entity and its relationship with the wider urban context. We will examine the issues and problems facing Rome today, such as housing, degradation and renewal, environmental questions, transportation, multiculturalism, wealth and poverty, social conflict and political identities. These issues will be contextualized within theories of urban sociology and also within an explanation of Rome s urban development over the centuries and, in particular, since it became the national capital in 1870. Through readings, film clips, interviews and guest speakers, students will also analyze the way the city is narrated by some of its residents.

LLRO 34186 America: The View from Europe (3 Credit Hours)

In this London Seminar you will investigate how Europeans have seen, understood, and portrayed America from the fifteenth-century voyages of discovery until the present day. Engaging with a diverse array of perspectives and authors—Columbus and Vespucci; Montaigne and Marx; Calvino and Pavese; de Tocqueville and de Beauvoir; Trollope and Woolf—you will reflect on the enduring myths of America that continue to shape our understanding of the New World. Conducting an investigation across a wide variety of texts and genres—letters and travelogues; essays and novels; films and popular songs—you will explore the formation of American identities from without but also from within. Confronting the big questions and the major controversies—about democracy, diversity, equality, liberty, and prosperity—you will evaluate how others understand America, and how Americans understand themselves.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

LLRO 34584 The Company: London and the Political Economy of Empire (3 Credit Hours)

This course is a cultural and critical history of the East India Company: its evolution, its transformations, and its cultural impact, from the city of London to the consolidation of the modern world economy. The East India Company is a curious institutional formation. The result of private merchant consolidation, it actively engaged in the work of the overseas expansion of state power. Conceived as an organ of political economy (namely, trade), it was at the same time a war machine, with private security that morphed into militias and ultimately a colonial force that can only be described as a conquering army. The Company’s power was so massive in scale that the commodity chains that it articulated would transform the human shape of the globe, and so intimate that they would transform everyday London life in ways that ranged from culinary taste to fashion. When we hear the cliché about the sun never setting on the British Empire, what we are really sensing is the echo of the material reach of the Company. The largest prize in the tragic history of violence that we call colonization—India—was both captured and administered by the Company. But the East India Company’s operations moved in all directions, south to Africa, out to East Asia, and west to the Americas, which it also approached from the east, across the Pacific. Working to expand the reach of the crown through its chartered monopolies, at times it stood as the crown’s chief rival for political, economic, and military power.

LLRO 34600 All Roads Lead to Rome (3 Credit Hours)

Is it possible to understand the immense phenomenon of Rome in a semester of site visits, historical studies, literary readings, film viewings and lectures? Of course not. Nevertheless, students in this course will start to understand Rome by experiencing the complexity of its urban network; by studying the ruins of antiquity and the splendors of Renaissance, Baroque and 18th Century Rome; by tracing the epic adventure that reunited Italy and led to the establishment of Rome as its capital after twenty centuries (so that today, Rome is at the heart of two states: the Italian Republic and of Vatican); by revisiting the tragedies of modern times, including fascism and the civil war; and by learning about the Rome of postwar and contemporary Italy.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKHI - Core History, WRIT - Writing Intensive

LLRO 34610 Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power (3 Credit Hours)

This is a three-credit foundational course designed for students studying in Italy. This course is taught in English and on-site over the course of three weeks in an immersive format that includes field trips each week to different cities. The course satisfies the University of Notre Dame's history, literature and fine arts ways of knowing and can be counted toward the minor and major in Italian and the minor in European Studies. Papal Rome between Martin V (1417-1431) and Sixtus V (1585-1590), Florence between Cosimo il Vecchio (1389-1464) and Cosimo I (11519-1574), Este Ferrara, the Mantova of the Gonzagas, Montefeltro Urbino, and the Naples of the Aragonese kings are six vantage points from which to explore the Italian Renaissance as the result of the complex interactions between political power, patronage and the flourishing of a culture, ranging from architecture, the visual arts, literature, philosophy and music that constitutes one of the foundations of modern Europe. When Renaissance Italy was a mosaic of states in competition with each other, based on warfare, easy prey of foreign powers, Italian courts also provided the nourishing humus for humanism to develop, and the intellectual, social and financial infrastructure for an intense networking of ideas and relationships among intellectuals and artists. It was in this environment that a renovated interest for antiquity thrived and the new languages of the arts were codified, tested and established, including a literary language that aspired at giving voice to the common traits and incarnating the unified spirit of a fragmented nation.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 34620 Focus on the Renaissance courts of Italy (1 Credit Hour)

This course is a 1-credit addition to the 3-credit All Roads Lead to Rome course and can be taken only in connection with All Roads. It is a focus on the cities of Florence, which was the crucible of the Renaissance at the court of the Medici family, and Naples, where the Renaissance flourished at the court of the Aragonese kings. Learning goals: Students will be exposed to a variety of intellectual inquiries and methodological approaches: They will learn to recognize the main theoretical approaches to the two fundamental categories of Humanism and Renaissance, and their reception in different historical and cultural contexts. They will be introduced to the historical context of early modern Italy and its main political, social, economic, and cultural features. They will refine the tools and methods of the formal and critical analysis of urban sites, as well as works of architecture, works of art (including painting, mosaics, sculpture), and literary texts. They will engage in a creative approach to the themes and works studied and discussed, through two group assignments aimed at experimenting and becoming more intimately familiar with various literary genres and forms and reflecting from within on the creative process and the technical aspects of different genres and styles. They will be introduced to access, navigate and utilize the resources of archives and research libraries in the fields of history, the fine arts and literature, through a visit to a historical archive/ research library, and to reflect on the nature and methods of research. Requirements: Attendance and participation: 25% Given the immersive, intensive and on-site nature of this course, perfect attendance is required and no unexcused absences will be accepted. The course consists of two field trips (Friday-Sunday) to, respectively, Florence and Naples. Classes will be on-site and divided between lecture and seminar discussion: proactive contribution to class discussions is required. Reading exercises (both written and oral): 25% Students will engage in exercises of analysis and interpretation of buildings, works of art and literary texts, both in writing and through two group presentations. Creative assignment 25% Students engage in a creative group assignment aimed at exploring from within both the creative process and the formal features and rhetorical tools and techniques involved with the production of a specific literary genre among those that we will be studying and discussing (sonnet, canzone, ottava rima, novella, treatises on art/ language, epistolography, historiography). Final exam: 25% The final exam is take-home and it consists of three mini essays: the first on different theories on the main categories and ideas explored during the course and their definitions; the second on the historical context of early modern Italy; the third will be the formal and critical analysis of a site/work of art/literary text.

LLRO 34951 Paris, visual capital Cinema, photography, media (3 Credit Hours)

It could have been the first scene of a naturalistic novel a la Emile Zola: "Paris in the Spring. It is around 8:00am on the Boulevard du Temple near Place de la Republique. A sunny day. A man is having his shoes polished at the corner of this well known Boulevard often referred to as 'Boulevard du crime' throughout the nineteenth Century. This anonymous human being is about to make history... while remaining anonymous. If the event has nothing to do with a crime, it is related to what we, today, call a 'shooting'." On that day in 1838, Louis Daguerre, a former painter, a renown theatre set designer who is fascinated with light effects, takes what is known to be the very first photograph featuring a human being. First photo-shooting ever. And our unknown man is the first photographic "star" in the history of the world. In the footsteps of his friend Nicefore Niepce who took the very first photograph in 1826 (or 27), Daguerre invents the "daguerreotype" whose history coincides with the beginning of a true visual revolution. This revolution known as photography is still shaping today's consciousness to a point that our memory is now inseparable from pictures. By necessity or by accident Daguerre's invention carries another one with it: Paris. Paris becomes a photographic "subject." If we take a close look at Daguerre's 1838 picture, it is the landscape that we still have in front of our eyes when we visit Paris today and beyond that, when we evoke or invoke the name "Paris." In many ways, this is the time when Paris becomes Paris, when the "reality" of a city cannot be distinguished from its representations. If the first photographed human-subject is a Parisian, Paris becomes photography's allegory. Paris is now a persona. It is a theatre set, it is also a stage for Daguerre's protagonists. It will soon become a film set. During the year after his 1838 photograph of the Boulevard du Temple, Daguerre takes dozens of pictures of Paris, his new "subject." This includes the earliest known photo of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris in 1838 or 39. It is also in those years that Hugo (re)invents this old crumbling place of worship and writes his famous novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) that was later subjected to many cinematic adaptations. There is no accident in the fact that Paris makes a decisive entrance in the history of the visual field in what still counts today as the most photographed city in the world. In other words, Paris as we know it cannot be dissociated from its visual existence. And this visual presence is a region of our minds. "Cinema" plays a critical role in this context. The 19th century is coming to an end when on December 28, 1895 in a Salon set on the Boulevard des Capucines, the city of Enlightenments also known as a "City of Lights," becomes the capital of cinema when the Lumière brothers organize the very first film screening in history. And so on... Taught in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 40102 Global Hispaniola: Empire to Exodus (3 Credit Hours)

Images of Hispañiola conjure up extreme contrasts. Romantic, sun-drenched beaches, heroic exploration and discovery, quaint relics, tourists, and happy-go-lucky natives merge in pleasing portraits of one side of the island. Rebellion and revolution, chaos and neglect coalesce menacingly at the other end. This course interrogates the taken-for-granted narrative of the antimony between the Dominican Republic versus Haiti and opens possibilities of recognizing the shared histories, politics, economies, and traditions of the two societies. In the first part of the semester, we examine how Spain’s neglected, undeveloped colony became a rising economic power, while the wealthiest “Pearl of the Antilles,” once freed of slavery and French colonial rule, confronted relentless depletion of its human and material resources. In the second part of the semester, we study the causes of the massive exodus from both countries over the past century. We focus on unanticipated consequences of diaspora, including the inspiration for those “outside” to transcend the borders dividing the “inside” of the island. We learn about innovative formations of transnational communities that span multiple sites linked by constant circulation of digital messages, videos and money, and the comings and goings of people, politicians, and spirits. We appreciate examples of the dynamic, expressive cultures of diasporan Haitians and Dominicans in prose, poetry, film, music, visual arts, and, last but never least, cuisine.

LLRO 40116 Dante II (3 Credit Hours)

Dante I and Dante II are an in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia). Dante I focuses on the Inferno and the minor works; Dante II focuses on the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation. Students may take one semester or both, in either order.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

LLRO 40145 Dante I (3 Credit Hours)

Dante I and Dante II are an in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia). Dante I focuses on the Inferno and the minor works; Dante II focuses on the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation. Students may take one semester or both, in either order.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

LLRO 40210 Imagining Henry VIII (3 Credit Hours)

This course will explore how the reign of Henry VIII has been viewed in the imaginary landscapes of early modern literature (16th-17th centuries) originally written in English, French, and Italian. We will examine poems, plays, short stories, and other narrations as literary constructs that recreate the geographically and/or temporally distant space of England in the Henrician era. All foreign texts discussed as a class will be read in English translation, but will be made available in the original language for students wishing to sharpen their foreign language skills. Students with proficiency in Italian, French or Spanish will also have an opportunity to develop their expertise through personalized assignments and the final project. In addition to our key primary sources, we will read a number of critical analyses of these works. Special attention will be given to writing and research skills. We will also consider one modern film, A Man for All Seasons, to provide some contrast to these early modern written texts. Furthermore, we will also consider material culture, print culture, art (paintings, sculpture, and tapestries), architecture, music, and religion as a complement to the study of literary texts. The College of Arts and Letters and the Nanovic Institute are highly subsidizing an optional fall break trip for students enrolled in this course (more information provided later). The trip would include visits to the National Gallery, Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London, Hever Castle (Anne Boleyn's childhood home), Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, and relevant walking tours of London, to provide greater context to the class and to enrich the final project. IMPORTANT: Students enrolled under ROFR for the French major will be required to write one paper and do some readings in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

LLRO 40224 The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (3 Credit Hours)

What does it mean to paint oneself in prose? This was the great project of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592), a selection of whose famous essays will constitute the object of study in this course. The first essayist and arguably the first real Modern, his texts on subjects as wide-ranging as friendship and fear, as cannibals and coaches, have made him a subject of praise and controversy in equal measure. In this course, we will explore the essays themselves, but also the phenomenon that is Montaigne in French culture and beyond. Taught in English, with texts available both in French and English.

LLRO 40511 Introduction to Film Analysis through Brazilian Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

Students will be able to improve their argumentative and analytical skills through the study of key issues and concepts in film studies. Film form and narrative, gender, class, stereotypes, the film auteur, cultural industry, violence and social denunciation will be some of the topics explored with relevant Brazilian case studies. Special emphasis will be given to the retomada -the rebirth of Brazilian cinema from the mid 1990s on - with in-depth analyses of feature films such as Carlota Joaquina (Carla Camurati, 1995), Central do Brasil (Walter Salles, 1998), CIdade de Deus (Fernando Meirelles, 2002) and Tropa de Elite (José Padilha, 2007); documentary movies such as Edifício Master (Eduardo Coutinho, 2002) and Santiago (João Moreira Salles, 2007) , as well as short movies such as Recife Frio (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2009) and Eu não Quero Voltar Sozinho (Daniel Ribeiro, 2010). Taught in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 40596 Women Filmmakers in Europe: A New Wave (3 Credit Hours)

Shortly after Agnès Varda had passed away on March 29, 2019, the subject made the headlines during the Cannes film festival. In the footsteps of Varda, of Akerman, of Wertmüller and Denis, there is a "New Wave" of women filmmakers in Europe (for example, Maren Ade, Frederikke Aspöck, Ester Gould, Barbara Eder, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Ines Tanovic, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Céline Sciamma, Mati Diop, Alice Winocour...). This "wave" is not only reshaping a whole cinematic tradition and language, it is also profoundly transforming a highly masculine and macho film industry, not to mention... European societies as a whole. We will analyze works, working conditions and modes of production while discussing the lasting impact of the recent feminist movements on the industry. This will offer a window to a European culture and society in which until recently, the word "feminist" had tended to be outmoded...This course is taught in English

LLRO 40598 Cinema of Portugal and Luso-Africa (3 Credit Hours)

This course aims to evaluate how major cultural, social and historical events are portrayed in cinematographic productions of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. We will explore issues such as gender, racial and social disparities, the legacies of dictatorship and the colonial wars, the Luso-African struggles for independence, the role of the language in building a nation, and the influence of the Portuguese culture in its former colonies. Our goal is to investigate how film productions from and about those countries contest hegemonic accounts, and to examine the interconnections between history, memory and cultural identity and praxis. Films such as All is Well, by Pocas Pascoal (Angola), Dribbling Fate, by Fernando Vendrell (Cape Verde), Sleepwalking Land by Teresa Prata (Mozambique), Cats Don't Have Vertigo, by Antonio Pedro Vasconcelos, April Captains, by Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), as well as the documentaries Lusitanian Illusion, by Joao Canijo, and Hope the Pitanga Cherries Grow, by Kiluanje Liberdade and Ondjaki will serve as a vehicle for a deeper and broader understanding of how social, racial and cultural issues play a role in the past and present time in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. Conducted in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 40909 Dangerous Liaisons: Migration, Racial and Cultural Tensions in the Portuguese-African Context (3 Credit Hours)

This course aims to understand some of the aspects that deeply affected the relations between Portugal and Lusophone Africa in the 20th and 21st century through fiction, cinema, essay and primary sources. We will explore issues such as the link between race and migration, the development of cultural identity, the struggle to belong, and the complex connection between Portugal and Africa. Despite the geographical distance, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde share a common legacy of colonialism, racism, gender gap, language and war. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which these struggles are corroborated and/or contradicted by official narratives, and analyze the contemporary context of Portugal-African relations. Conducted in English.

LLRO 40952 The Giant of the South: Brazil in the 21st Century (3 Credit Hours)

What are the new challenges for the Brazilian democracy and human development post-impeachment? What are the current issues in race, religion, class, gender and politics that are shaping the present and the future of the Giant of the South? (offered in English).

LLRO 40953 Contemporary Brazil Beyond Stereotypes (3 Credit Hours)

Images of Brazil often evoke stereotypical images of soccer and carnaval. In this course, we will study these staples of Brazilian culture beyond the shallow confines of stereotypes. History, Sociology, and Cultural Studies will all contribute for an interdisciplinary approach to understand the complexities of Contemporary Brazilian society. (offered in English)

LLRO 44107 Between Religion and Literature: Meaning, Vulnerability and Human Existence (3 Credit Hours)

This course considers the meaning of the word: made flesh, made text, and made literary and theological tradition. In conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Shakespeare, and Toni Morrison, we will ask questions such as: "How does genre inform our notions of truth?"; "What is the relationship between tragedy and comedy in theological reflection?"; "How does human suffering and evil shape how we speak of God?" Such questions will be addressed, in particular, by reflecting on how the texts studied invite us to think about human finitude, failure, and forgiveness. To enrich our discussions, throughout the semester we will also actively engage beyond the classroom in the local area and region, typically this includes attending a play at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre, and a day trip to the University of Cambridge.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

LLRO 44110 Dante and Mass Incarceration (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the relationship between justice and mercy at the intersection of theology, literature, and mass incarceration. This interdisciplinary encounter aims to be mutually illuminating. Whereas theological reflection is often employed as an interpretive lens for diagnosing the injustice of mass incarceration, this course also asks: in what ways might mass incarceration equip us in turn to critique and re-imagine the historical limits and failures of theological reflection? One text that is central to this encounter is Dante Alighieri’s Comedy. Strikingly, it is the same poet who defines hell explicitly in carceral terms as a ‘blind prison’ (Inferno, 10. 58–59; Purgatorio, 22. 103) who garners praise, not least by Pope Francis himself, as a ‘prophet of hope’ uniquely situated to narrate how the infinite mercy of God meets fallen humanity. Together, we will investigate this charged ambiguity between carceral despair and prophetic hope as present in, and via paired readings of, the Comedy and key texts addressing mass incarceration (Michelle Alexander, Dwayne Betts, Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, Vincent Lloyd, Reuben Jonathan Miller, Andrew Skotnicki, et al.), with the goal ultimately of understanding the evolution(s) of justice as variously punitive, restorative, transformative, and authorial.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

LLRO 44692 From the democratic crisis to #MeToo: contemporary issues in the mirror of Antiquity (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on French contemporary issues up until the #MeToo movement; it also discusses social issues in eye eyes of Greek antiquity. This course is conducted in French. It also requires 2 essays and a presentation.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

LLRO 44982 Plagues (3 Credit Hours)

After pollution, frogs, stinging gnats, mosquitoes, anthrax, boils, hail, locusts and thick darkness, there descends the infamous tenth plague, the massacre of the first-born. All are marked for death: the heir of the Pharaoh, the maidservant, the captive, even the cattle in the fields. Only the Lord’s chosen nation shall be excepted. The agent of this ten-plague trajectory of mayhem is not easy to discern—sometimes translated as a “destroyer”, sometimes an “exterminating angel”—but its point is unmistakable: the patient demonstration of the sovereignty of the God of the Israelites. Plagues, as soon as they are invoked in ancient times, are lashed to culture and politics. Why? That is the question at stake in this course. This course focuses on the relation between the historical fact of periodic widespread illness (broadly conceived) and its aesthetic representation in Europe and the Americas. If the fourteenth-century “Black Plague” is remembered in the popular and historical imagination as the mother of all plagues, a highly storied and ritualized pandemic that transformed the politics, culture and identity of the West, then it would be the other half of the globe, America, whose very existence as a geopolitical formation would be founded on an even more vicious plague: the toxic cocktail of fever, nausea and sores that, like a slow-moving apocalypse creeping along over centuries, decimated America’s indigenous inhabitants, hobbling entire civilizations, reducing some regional communities by over 90 per cent. It comes as no surprise that history’s victims of European expansion—marginal communities at home and abroad exploited through projects of resource extraction, swept up into economies of slavery—would come to imagine their fate, again and again, in the terms of plagues. How have artists told and shown this story? What are the dominant discourses that animate stories of plagues? What contradictions does this art confront, and what kind of challenges does it offer, or shrink from? This course will examine a range of materials in search for answers, including narrative literature, film, cultural history and critical theory, and the infinite possibilities afforded by urban London and its long history of pandemic, epidemic and endemic disease.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

French (ROFR)

ROFR 10101 Beginning French I (4 Credit Hours)

For students who have had no previous exposure to French. An introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. An appreciation for French culture is also encouraged through readings and discussions. This course is to be followed by ROFR 10102.

ROFR 10102 Beginning French II (4 Credit Hours)

The second-semester course of the beginning French sequence. Focus is on a balanced approach to acquisition and appreciation of French language and culture. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 231 and 300 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROFR 10101

ROFR 10112 Creole Language and Culture I (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces students to the vivid, sonorous language of Kreyol, or Creole, and to the fascinating culture of its speakers. This intensive, beginning-level course is intended for students with no knowledge of Creole. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical and phonetic techniques. Our study of Kreyol is closely linked to our anthropological exploration of how the language is tied to Caribbean society and culture. The course takes a holistic, anthropological approach to the history, political economy, and religion of Haiti. In addition to class work, audio recordings, music and video enhance the study of the Haitian language and culture.

ROFR 10115 Accelerated Beginning French (6 Credit Hours)

Intensive Beginning French follows a hybrid format. The course is computer-enhanced and involves a combination of the traditional classroom and online instruction. Students will work independently to complete online assignments at home two days a week (Tuesday/Thursday) as well as participate in in-class sessions three days a week (Monday/Wednesday/Friday).

ROFR 10118 Creole Language and Culture Beginning II (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 20201 Intermediate French I (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 20201 course fulfills the language requirement. This is a third-semester second-year language sequence, with equal focus on oral and written production. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of French. Students learn to discuss and write about French cultural topics, current events, and literary texts. This course is to be followed by ROFR 20202. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 301 and 350 to enroll in this class. Students who do not meet the prerequisites need to contact department DUS for approval.

Prerequisites: ROFR 10102 or ROFR 10110 or ROFR 10115

ROFR 20202 Intermediate French II (3 Credit Hours)

A fourth-semester college language course. Includes review and expansion of basic grammatical structures, extensive practice in speaking and writing, and readings and discussions of a variety of literary and nonliterary text of appropriate difficulty. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 351 and 400 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20201

ROFR 20212 Intermediate Creole I (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 20215 Accelerated Intermediate French (6 Credit Hours)

A two-semester sequence of intensive, comprehensive training in the language skills necessary for residence and study in France. Includes review of grammar, readings, civilization, and specific orientation for international study. For students with two to three years of high school French (with satisfactory achievement) preparing for the Angers international study program. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 301 and 350 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: (ROFR 10102 or ROFR 10115) or ROFR 10110

ROFR 20222 Intermediate Creole II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is intended for students who have taken one semester of Intermediate Creole Language and Culture. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with enhanced reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical variety and phonetic acumen. Our study of Kreyol is integrated with an exploration of how the language is tied to Haitian society, culture, economy and politics and history. Evaluation of student achievement and proficiency will be conducted both informally and formally during and at the conclusion of the course. Those looking to develop or improve their language skills are welcome to the class. The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who intend to work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.

ROFR 20300 Conversational French (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to further develop students’ conversational skills and grasp of styles and registers in French. Through French and Francophone films, students will be exposed to contemporary spoken French, as well as current and historical events in the French-speaking world. Spoken French will be practiced through various types of classroom activities and assignments. Through general class discussions, small group conversations, voice recordings, and debates where students learn how to defend their opinion, there will be many opportunities for everyone to express themselves in French. Taught in French. Pre-req: ROFR 20202 or 20215 or a CEFR score between 401 and 500.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 27500

ROFR 20400 Business French (3 Credit Hours)

This course will focus on the practical use of French in an international professional environment. Emphasis will be placed on developing communicative skills and cultural knowledge necessary for the professional world. Students will review relevant structures and vocabulary needed to accomplish specific tasks and skills necessary in a broadly-defined formal professional setting.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300 or ROFR 27500

ROFR 20600 French Identities (3 Credit Hours)

Beret, baguette, Marcel Marceau, Edith Piaf are images and icons that one associates with the French identity. But what does it mean to be French? What does it mean to be Francophone? What is this French "je ne sais quoi" ?This course will focus on the multi-faceted question of French identity in France and in the Francophone world, but also in America. French is intrinsically linked to the history of America and its people, but how? Why is there such an important French presence in the US and what does it mean from an identity standpoint? This course is taught in English, but students counting it towards the French major or minor will complete a portion of the assignments in French.

ROFR 20601 In Sickness and in Health: French for medical professions (3 Credit Hours)

This course, taught in French, is designed for students (and future professionals) interested in the medical field. Participants will develop and acquire skills as well as communication strategies through active, task-based learning activities and authentic situations, taken directly from professional scenarios in the healthcare sector.

ROFR 20608 Read all about it: Media in the French-Speaking World (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores journalism and media from French-speaking countries, deepening students’ understanding of cultural diversity within the Francophone world. Students will analyze media in different forms, such as online newspapers, videos, political cartoons, and social media. Each class unit will explore a current event in a French-speaking nation, examining how topics are presented across various media outlets. We will also gain insights into French and Francophone perspectives on global issues. The course will develop students’ French proficiency, as we build vocabulary to discuss journalism and current affairs. Students will increase reading and listening comprehension skills by analyzing media and will practice writing and speaking through reflections, presentations, and discussions. Taught in French.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300 or ROFR 30310 or ROFR 30320

ROFR 20610 French Food for Thought (3 Credit Hours)

“Let them eat cake” and “bon appétit” are common expressions used in English to either refer to Marie-Antoinette’s faux pas before the hungry revolutionary crowd asking for bread in front of the Versailles palace, or to traditionally tell somebody to enjoy their meal. More than mere food, French cuisine and dishes have become an art and an inspiration throughout the world. But how are food and cuisine at the core of French culture? How is food such a savoir-vivre for the French people? Brillat-Savarin said in the 18th century: “Tell me what you eat: I’ll tell you who you are.” How did/do French people eat? How did/does that define them? This course aims at better understanding the representations and the symbolic aspects of food and cuisine in French culture. Providing starters from the Middle-Ages, we will take our culinary discovery through the tasty 17th century to the spicy 18th century, adding a dash of table manners and theory in the 19th century, to modern diets and regimens, mixing a variety of formats and recipes. Taught in French.

ROFR 20692 "La Beurgeoisie": Race, Class, and Sex in France Today (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on diversity in contemporary France, paying special attention to questions of race, sex, and class, and the challenge of climbing the social ladder in various professions to gain notoriety and respect. We examine films, short stories, and essays in an examination of how traditional French culture is currently evolving thanks to multicultural influences.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 20710 Speak like a Francophone: Introduction to French Pronunciation (3 Credit Hours)

Through a variety of activities (individual and in small groups) that include transcriptions, audio work, and listening practice, students will get to improve their pronunciation. Lab exercises will be conducted in DeBartolo Hall Language Lab. Students will assimilate the material of the target pronunciation (Standard French), through poem/fable readings and récitations. Students will be able to self-assess their progression through a corrective pronunciation using the short film (court-métrage) "14e arrondissement" from the film Paris je t’aime.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300

ROFR 20810 French EL (3 Credit Hours)

This course will give students a hands-on opportunity and experience to use their French language skills at Clay International Academy. Through this service learning, students will assist the main teacher with teaching French to young children. The goals of this course are: 1) provide students authentic learning opportunities to improve their speaking proficiency 2) provide a platform to use their language competence in a professional setting 3) give students valuable teaching experience. This service learning will thus shape student personal, academic and professional journeys.

ROFR 21205 France (Paris and Angers): Atelier (1 Credit Hour)

From living with a host family to exploring a new city, your time abroad will bring you many opportunities and challenges. This pre-study abroad workshop will prepare you for study, residency, and travel in France. You will learn ways to understand and negotiate the challenges of a cultural and linguistic immersion experience. Throughout the class, faculty members and previous study abroad participants will introduce you to the remarkably rich history and culture of France. The workshop will also address practical questions, such as navigating French universities. These presentations will help you engage in your own academic and personal discovery while in France. The class is graded on a “Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory” basis, and no previous knowledge of French is required.

ROFR 22005 French and Francophone Film Series (1 Credit Hour)

The French and Francophone Film Series will meet on Thursday nights in the Browning Cinema to watch a curated series of films sponsored by an Albertine Cinemathèque Festival grant from the FACE Foundation, followed by a discussion with guest speakers.

ROFR 24101 French Language A2 (5 Credit Hours)

This French language course focuses on grammar, speaking, listening, reading, and writing. It is an encompassing French course designed to improve knowledge and understanding of how to utilize the French language.

ROFR 24201 French Language, Intermediate (2.5,3 Credit Hours)

Continued study of spoken and written French for students who would normally have had two or three years in high school and one year intensive at Notre Dame.

ROFR 24202 Intermediate French (2.5,3 Credit Hours)

Continued study of spoken and written French for students with the lowest level of proficiency, as determined by previous courses, testing and observation. Continuation of ROFR 24101.

ROFR 24203 Spoken and Written French (4.5 Credit Hours)

Study of spoken and written French for students at the B1.1 level of proficiency, as determined by previous courses, testing and observation. Coursework includes lessons on oral and written comprehension and expression.

ROFR 24204 French Language Intermediate B1 (2 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on developing intermediate-level proficiency in French, emphasizing the mastery of syntactical structures, oral and written comprehension, and effective communication. Instruction follows the descriptors of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at the B1 level.

ROFR 24205 ERASMUS Language (3 Credit Hours)

The diagnostic assessment classified the learner in this level. The learner therefore knows how to implement with more or less ease all the syntactic and lexical aspects of the level. To progress, gain autonomy and confidence, the learner undertakes to: - Share knowledge, strategies and experiences. - Adopt a posture that facilitates mediation. - Listen to and read the media regularly. - Immerse yourself in French culture and have regular contact with French speakers. - Be diligent. Evaluation and scoring - During the semester, the teacher will assess the progress made through evaluations. - An exam to check the achievements and the level will take place at the end of the semester. - Any unjustified absence from a test will result in a mark equivalent to 0 out of 20.

ROFR 24206 Intensive Oral French (3 Credit Hours)

Small homogeneous group-intensive instruction and drill on various aspects of French language, mainly oral. Orientation and adaptation to life and study in France.

ROFR 24210 Comprehension & Expression II (3 Credit Hours)

Emphasis will be placed on building listening comprehension skills through the recognition of signs of orality in a broad range of audio and video documents. Cultural texts will include interviews and news reports from radio and television, film clips, newspaper commentary and popular lyrics. For lower and intermediate students. Continuation of ROFR 24209.

ROFR 24220 Upper Intermediate French (2 Credit Hours)

Grammar course on subjunctive tense.

ROFR 24222 French Grammar (3 Credit Hours)

A comprehensive review of French grammar and syntax that completes the program of the language sequence.

ROFR 24223 Intermediate French (B2) (3 Credit Hours)

Intermediate French (B2) is a French language course aimed at improving students' grammar, oral proficiency, listening comprehension, and presentation skills in the language. Assignments include research on French history and current events and presentations on those subjects. We also receive written comprehension exams.

ROFR 24300 Oral Expression (3 Credit Hours)

This class will use a broad range of guided communicative activities (debates, role-playing, expository presentations) to help the student develop a more spontaneous and idiomatically correct form of self-expression.

ROFR 24301 Oral Expression II (3 Credit Hours)

Continuation of ROFR 24300 This class will use a broad range of guided communicative activities (debates, role-playing, expository presentations) to help the student develop a more spontaneous and idiomatically correct form of self-expression.

ROFR 24302 Oral Comprehension (3 Credit Hours)

An intermediate course that enphasizes the recognition of the oral signs sustaining the discourse. Explanations through lectures and laboratory practice.

ROFR 24307 Theatrical Practice II (1 Credit Hour)

This course is an introduction to work on the stage. Students will discover individual and collective tools for acting. Coursework will also give students a common vocabulary to ask the essential questions about the work on the rest of their curriculum. Students will learn acting tools and put those tools into practice while working scenes of both the classic and modern repertoire.

ROFR 24308 Keyboard II (1 Credit Hour)

This course, taught in french, covers the basics of keyboard use for music majors. Course work involves practicing given exercises to improve sight-reading, understanding and application of chords, and accompaniment.

ROFR 24333 Intermediate French Conversation and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

The objective of the course is to improve oral and written skills in production and comprehension. Prerequisites: Having had the opportunity to study French for at least four semesters at university as well as in high school. Having acquired certain fundamentals to strengthen and complete. Teaching method: The course sessions favor the language in context (communication) by bringing the four skills into play, and make room for the cultural and civilizational aspect. In addition to the courses, students will carry out self-correcting training modules online by logging onto the Moodle platform. This work complements face-to-face courses as well as assessments and work at home.

ROFR 24334 Intermediate French Conversation and Writing (2.5 Credit Hours)

This is a fifth-semester intermediate conversation and writing course. Students read and discuss news and media in French.

ROFR 24360 Writing in French I (3 Credit Hours)

An advanced writing course in French, with special emphasis on acquiring the vocabulary and stylistic structures specific to various written forms of communication.

ROFR 24361 Writing in French (3 Credit Hours)

An advanced writing course in French, with special emphasis on acquiring the vocabulary and stylistic structures specific to various written forms of communication.

ROFR 24362 Competences Ecrits (3 Credit Hours)

This three-credit Writing Skills course (at French level B1.22) focuses on strengthening written expression in French through regular practice with formal letters, personal narratives, summaries, and organized argumentative essays. Students develop clarity, structure, and revision skills through regular drafting and feedback, making it consistent with a writing-intensive curriculum.

ROFR 24449 Business French - Adv Lev (3 Credit Hours)

Taught as "Français des affaires, 330-411" at host institution. An in-depth study of the language and culture of French business, this course will consider the structure of economic enterprises, their relations with clients and suppliers, their marketing strategies and instruments of communication. Taken in conjunction with ECON 34772/SOC 34552 this course prepares students for the Diplôme de Français des Affaires-1er degré of the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris.

ROFR 24500 French Language - Advanced B2 (2 Credit Hours)

French language course for the B2 level, focusing upon oral and written comprehension and communication.

ROFR 24620 Sociocultural Studies-Intermed (3 Credit Hours)

A cultural tour of the French provinces through a historical, artistic, and gastronomic approach. Readings at an intermediate level will help define the identity of each region, as well as their contribution to the national mosaic known as the hexagonal France of today. This course counts as a cognate towards a French major.

ROFR 24621 Sociocultural Studies II: Int. (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 24650 Sociocult Studies Adv Lev (3 Credit Hours)

Intended for students with advanced language skills, this course focuses on the rhythms and structures of everyday life (work, school, politics, food, fashion, the media) and on patterns of behavior characteristic of the French.

ROFR 24690 Francophone World Literature - 19th Century (3 Credit Hours)

- Hover over a panel of the defining works of French literature of the nineteenth century - Learn to work on the writer and his work. - Discover the features of literary movements of the century: romanticism, realism, symbolism and naturalism through the evolution of the thinking of reference writers and best hero. - To acquire an entire classical work and adaptations. - Linking literatures and artistic productions of the century. - Beginning Francophone literature in the context of the century.

ROFR 24692 Twentieth-Century Francophone World Literature: At the Crossroads of Contemporary Literature (3 Credit Hours)

Goals - Study a collection of fundamental French literary works of the 20th Century - Examine the connections between social events, the author at work, and the author's final work - Discover the characteristics of literary movements of the century: Symbolism, Surrealism, Existentialism, Absurdism, Nouveau Roman, The Golden Twenties, and The Roman Recherche - Study the original texts and their adaptations - Write in the style of 20th century writers - Understand the new literary influences and use them in creative writing - Be exposed to Francophone literatures in the context of the 20th century

ROFR 24703 French Phonetics Adv Level (3 Credit Hours)

Introduction to theoretical aspects of French phonetics with application to correction of student's spoken French.

ROFR 24750 French/English Translation Intermediate Level (3 Credit Hours)

Taught as "Traduction, 320" at host institution. Translation from novels, newspapers, and magazines to find French equivalents for English words and expressions. For lower and intermediate students.

ROFR 24751 Engl to French Trans-Inter Lvl (3 Credit Hours)

Continuation of ROFR 24750. Translation from novels, newspapers and magazines to find French equivalents for English words and expressions.

ROFR 30310 Between the Lines: An Introduction to French Literary Analysis (3 Credit Hours)

Through hands-on discussions, writing activities, and presentations, all in French, students will learn the nuts and bolts of textual analysis and strategies for elaborating and supporting interpretations. They will also familiarize themselves with a wide range of literary and cultural works from French and Francophone cultures across the ages.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300 or ROFR 27500 or ROFR 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30312 Creole Migrations (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30320 Creative Writing in French (3 Credit Hours)

This course, taught in French, is designed for students who wish to improve their writing skills, and for students who seek additional assistance with grammar. It is aimed at students who are already at the 30000 or 40000 level in French. We will study different methods and styles of writing in French and conduct writing workshops in class. Throughout the course, we will: -Review and reinforce your knowledge of grammar -Study different methods and styles of writing in French -Improve your reading comprehension and your spoken and written French This course is recommended for the minor, major, or supplementary major in French. Students are recommended to take Conversational French or another 20000-level elective before taking this course.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300 or ROFR 27500 or ROFR 30310

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30505 La Chanson française (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine the rich traditions of French folk, popular and liturgical music. Songs (secular and religious) and musical styles from the Medieval to the modern period will be considered in examples of specific songs as well as in songbooks from the 18th century to the present. Among the themes considered will be: the role of music and songs in the establishment of cultural identity and in the process of cultural transmission, the role of songs and music in various films and texts, the musical adaptation of poetic texts and the fitting of lyrics (secular and sacred) to classical or popular melodies. In this class, emphasis will be on pronunciation and articulation of song lyrics and in some cases on the development of harmonies on simple melodies. No musical experience or knowledge is necessary. French level 20202 or higher is required. Taught in French. Readings will include works of: Hémon, Makine, Baudelaire, Nerval, and others as well as several films.

ROFR 30605 Images of the Priest in French Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

ROFR 30680 The French and Their Discontents: Legacies of Revolution (3 Credit Hours)

From the sans-culottes of the French Revolution to the gilets jaunes (2018-....) and beyond, this course will examine how the people of France have voiced their dissatisfaction with the status quo and with their leaders, and elicited lasting political and social changes. Drawing from historical sources, films, fiction, and art, we will track and analyze recurring themes, images, and representations of French unrest and resistance to societies of control from 1789 to the present. We will also consider how gender, race, class, and socio-economic status intersect with the desire to see change and hinder or make possible the ability to obtain it. We will investigate the legacies of and challenges to French republican values (valeurs républicaines) and the debates around universalism in order to question what it means to be French today. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30710 Expressions of France: Humor through the Ages (3 Credit Hours)

The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, described life outside civilization as "nasty, brutish, and short." During the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and seventeenth century, life inside civilization was more or less the same. Laughter offered a comfort, a means of escape, or of critique. From the carnivalesque to satire, the comic tradition tells us much about the hopes, fears, and the mortally serious of all of these periods. In this course, students will discover the richness of the comic tradition and how it manifests itself in all its gravity. Taught in French.

Prerequisites: ROFR 30310 or ROFR 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30712 Expressions of France: Love and Marriage in French Literature before 1800 (3 Credit Hours)

We tend to think about marriage as uniting two persons who love each other — but how did love and marriage combine before “love marriages” were a thing? In this course, taught in French, you will read and learn about some of the masterpieces of French literature from before 1800 to answer this question. By analyzing and contextualizing some key literary works, you will learn how love and marriage were often viewed as incompatible; what it took to combine the two; how jealous husbands dealt with open relationships; how faking one’s death, cross-dressing, or hiding in a religious house might have been the best way to escape an unwanted marriage; and how people in love strove to get married to consecrate their union. By the end of the course, you will walk away with a strengthened sense of the French literary canon and you will be ready to take advanced French literature and culture courses. Students are encouraged though not required to have taken ROFR 30310 “Between the Lines” prior to or during this course. Students in their Senior year should consider taking courses at the 40000 level instead.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30720 Overview of French Literature and Culture II (3 Credit Hours)

Reading of selections and complete works of outstanding French authors from major genres and periods. All majors are required to take this sequence, or equivalent advanced courses. Students are expected to have already taken 30310 or to take ROFR 30310 concurrently with the first survey taken.

Prerequisites: ROFR 30310 or ROFR 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30770 Liars and Impostors (3 Credit Hours)

The act or the art of lying always appears to be stigmatized. But why lie? What makes a person a liar or what exactly is an impostor? Are they the same? It is around these questions that this course revolves. Readings from the Odyssey to Dangerous Liaisons, as well as popular series like Pretty Little Liars and documentaries, will help us understand and define this human trait. Taught in French.

ROFR 30781 French Politics Today: The 2022 Presidential Election in Context (3 Credit Hours)

In this class, we will examine the French presidential election that will take place in April 2022. To better understand its stakes, we will study the French political system, the institutions of the Fifth Republic, and recent electoral history. We will also consider key questions that are currently debated in France: work and unemployment, environmental issues, French secularism, the future of social programs, education, immigration, and France's place in the European Union. Taught in French.

ROFR 33360 Sorin Translation and Digital Exhibit (1 Credit Hour)

In this course, under the guidance and supervision of French Studies faculty and the University Archives, students will transcribe and translate (French to English) the letters sent and received by Father Edward Sorin between the years 1839-1893. These letters will become part of a digital exhibit on the history of the University of Notre Dame.

ROFR 33501 Singing the French Liturgy (1 Credit Hour)

With a view to establishing a regular choral group and building a repertoire of hymns for the monthly French Masses, this one-credit class will focus on learning, practicing and rehearsing about 35 hymns from which the entrance, offertory, communion, and concluding musical pieces for the Mass will be drawn. Practice in pronunciation and articulation and developing harmonies on simple melodies will account for the greater portion of the classroom activities. Musical expertise, experience or ability is less important than a good level of French (20202 or higher) and a willingness to participate. Participation in the choir of the French Mass is encouraged though not obligatory for the enrolled students.

Course may be repeated.

ROFR 33502 French Liturgical Choir II (1 Credit Hour)

This one-credit course is dedicated to cultivating a rich appreciation of liturgical music and of the Holy Mass in the French and global francophone tradition. It will include two tracks. For students who have not already taken ROFR 33501 "Les Chants de Messe," the course is an introduction to the range of the French sacred music tradition. You will develop great confidence in your ability to read, recite, and sing in French and make time to refine your pronunciation and intonation in ways few other classes can afford. For students who have already taken "Les Chants de Messe" in a previous semester, the course will be dedicated to taking on greater leadership and responsibility towards the cultural treasure of French liturgical music. In consultation with the professor, students will propose and execute a capstone project. It may range from conducting the choir for one or more of the semesterly masses in the Basilica to composing and performing/recording an original work of French sacred music. Students enrolled in the course are not required to attend the four French masses of the semester to get full credit for participation.

Course may be repeated.

ROFR 34127 Climate Justice: A Legal and Political Revolution (3 Credit Hours)

This climate justice course aims to make students aware of the importance of climate litigation, and the legal revolution that it constitutes: more than 2,500 trials around the world. But also its capacity to infuse other disputes, that of environmental health and that of nature. Through a completely innovative alliance between civil society (non-governmental organizations but also local authorities) and the supreme courts of many countries (and all continents), national climate litigation with an international vocation is being developed. It is based both on international conventions and on major human rights texts, and is the creator of completely new concepts such as that of the rights of future generations.

ROFR 34220 French Grammar - Advanced (3 Credit Hours)

A comprehensive review of French grammar and syntax that completes the program of the language sequence at the Advanced level.

ROFR 34222 French Grammar Level 5 (2 Credit Hours)

The course "French Grammar Level 5" consists of the following program: Le conditionnel (formation and use) Expression of hypothesis Expression of opposition and concession Methods of evaluation: Two exams, each represents 50% of the grade

ROFR 34300 French Culture through its Cinema (2 Credit Hours)

This course offers an introduction to film analysis and the history of French cinema. Students will study significant aesthetic movements, such as La Nouvelle Vague, cinematic genres, and the works of influential filmmakers.

ROFR 34301 French Lang Advanced Level (3 Credit Hours)

Most advanced level of further study of spoken and written French, for students with the highest level of language proficiency.

ROFR 34302 Advanced French (3 Credit Hours)

Study of spoken and written French at the advanced level, for students with the highest level of language proficiency. Continuation of ROFR 34301.

ROFR 34303 French B2 (1.5-3 Credit Hours)

The purpose of this class is to get more proficient in French using oral comprehension and writing assignments as well as learning more grammar techniques to use in French.

ROFR 34310 Texts MT (3 Credit Hours)

The aim of the Texts programme is to introduce students to textual analysis by critically engaging with a variety of key texts from different genres (prose fiction, poetry, theatre, cinema) in French and Francophone culture.

ROFR 34312 French Literature 2 (2-3 Credit Hours)

This course is the extension of "textual analysis" and is focused on the study of literature of the Romantic period. Two works are analyzed in the course: Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit, folio edition. V. Hugo, Les Miserables, folio edition.

ROFR 34315 Methodology Literary Exercises (2 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for international students who are in the department of comparative literature and modern letters/languages. The work will be based solely on literary texts. The course will teach students how to write literary commentary and essays on literary topics according to the French academic university system. The work will be based on: literary texts, exam and competitive exam topics (high school diploma, CAPES, ENS, etc.). It will focus on guided learning of certain literary exercises from the French secondary and higher education curriculum. The goals of this course are for students to be able to distinguish between the literary exercises practiced in the French system, understand the expectations specific to each exercise, and practice certain exercises.

ROFR 34321 Modern French (2 Credit Hours)

This course introduces the fundamentals of morphological and semantic analysis, starting with the lexical unit. It focuses on identifying and describing lexical units from semantic and formal viewpoints, including the analysis of the lexical unit itself and its components (semantic and morpheme analysis) as well as the sentence level. It also addresses the study of polysemy and its differentiation from homonymy, and finally, the description of semantic relationships between lexical units such as synonymy, antonymy, and hypernymy.

ROFR 34324 University French B2 C1 (2 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to equip students with essential language, methodological, and writing skills critical for academic success. it aimes to enhance students' abilities in creating structured, well-argued texts, formulating research questions, and effectively presenting both orally and in writing. The course also focuses on linguistic proficiency, specifically in grammar.

ROFR 34326 French Language and Culture (C3) (3 Credit Hours)

Objectives: Advanced or experienced users can integrate into a French university structure independently by practicing various tasks (note-taking, structuring oral and written discourse in relation to their field of study, synthesizing information, etc.). Written comprehension: Identify the parts of a long document; understand and establish links between the ideas in a document. Identify the overall structure of a document. Oral comprehension: Distinguish between facts, comments, arguments, and examples in a document in order to be able to reformulate to report and explain the essential points. Written expression: Construct an articulated narrative in various communication contexts. Express and justify an opinion. Oral expression: Develop a continuous, coherent, and structured speech adapted to the communication situation. Speak in a way that can be understood. Express and justify an opinion.

ROFR 34365 Eng/French Trans - Adv Level (3 Credit Hours)

Translation from novels, newspapers and magazines to find French equivalents for English words and expressions. Advanced students only

ROFR 34366 French/English Translation Advanced (3 Credit Hours)

Translation from novels, newspapers and magazines to find French equivalents for English words and expressions. Advanced students only.

ROFR 34400 Marketing International (2 Credit Hours)

The course is based on collaborative learning, as it promotes the development of critical thinking through discussion, clarification of ideas, and evaluation of others' ideas, which is crucial for designing solid global marketing programs. The course is a mix of lectures and class discussions as well as group exercises and class presentations. Real-life examples and cases are used to illustrate international marketing concepts. Students will be paired, preferably with students of mixed nationalities, and will be required to complete two large group assignments, which will be graded. Each team will present its findings to the class. Global Marketing within the Firm - Initiation of Internationalization - Internationalization Theories - Global Marketing Research - The Political and Economic Environment - The Sociocultural Environment - The International Market Selection Process

ROFR 34410 The Business of Marketing, Champagne, and Luxury (3 Credit Hours)

The Business of Marketing, Champagne, and Luxury explores the cultural history of the Champagne market in France, with particular attention paid to the production and history behind the Reims region Champagne houses. This interactive course facilitates deeper cultural understanding of how the Champagne industry developed in France.

ROFR 34500 Introduction to the History of Art Four Figures of the Lion (3 Credit Hours)

This introduction to the history of art aims to observe, describe, decipher, contextualize and analyze in depth four representations of the lion preserved at the Musee d'Orsay. These four representations in painting, sculpture and photography will be linked to many others. They will serve to familiarize oneself with a history of art at the crossroads of the human and social sciences, which draws on history, philosophy, literature, anthropology, psychology, economics or ecology. The preferred subject, the king of animals, invites us to think about a species which does not speak our language and which has its own world. Associated over the long term of history with power but also with governance and even human excess, it refers to a rich imagination which opens onto these key words: human non human, animal and animality, nature and artifice, menagerie and zoo, hunting, power and might. Our contemporary issues will inevitably be invoked because it is with our current mentality that we perceive the works of the past. However, we must strive to think of the past as a mysterious continent to be discovered, where the convictions of our time were far from being shared.

ROFR 34501 Choir II (1 Credit Hour)

The university choir singing course focuses on teaching vocal techniques for group singing. Over the course of 18 hours each semester, students perform a variety of choral works, including classical pieces and world music. The course emphasizes memorization, as students sing without sheet music. Evaluations are based on active participation in rehearsals and performance in a final concert. Rehearsals provide an interactive learning space where students can receive feedback to improve their vocal technique and musical interpretation. Whether you're an experienced singer or a beginner, this choir singing course offers a stimulating musical experience to enhance your vocal skills and understanding of choral music. Taught in French.

ROFR 34552 Fundamental of Art History (1.5 Credit Hours)

The course of fundamentals of the History of art III proposes to study the production Italian artistic between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from thematic approaches and plural methodological methods that aim to observe the emergence of new discourses and interactions between major Italian centers (Florence, Rome, Venice). Questions of imitation of nature, reception of antiquity, techniques, relationship to the sponsors, will be explored through different artistic mediums (architecture, painting, sculpture, engraving) with particular attention to the context of creation of origin, both artistic and socio-political. At a time when art history is thought of essentially in terms of trade, this privileged relationship with Italy is obviously envisaged on a European scale with an opening on the Italian tropism which dominates the French Renaissance but also because of a common cultural heritage where ancient and medieval legacies. This course is taught in French.

ROFR 34600 Intensive Advanced French (3 Credit Hours)

This is the advanced version of the Intermediate French course offered through this program. It is on the same timeline but covers more advanced topics for students who have more French experience.

ROFR 34601 The Religious in Contemporary Western Societies (2.5-3 Credit Hours)

The course will show how religion has changed in the Western world over the past few decades, particularly under the pressure of population exchanges (migratory movements), social developments, philosophical and theological reflections. The course will include three entries: - The religion of individuals: the recompositions of belief have profoundly modified the forms of religious adherence, leaving room for a double process of deinstitutionalization and subjectivation of belief. - The religion of institutions: secularization and pluralization have led to internal changes in the religious world, in the field of territorial arrangements (reorganization of parishes for example), decision-making (synods) or doctrinal. - State religion: . What are the relations between theology and politics today? . How have the regimes of public regulation of belief (regimes of secularism) been recomposed? An analytical and historical presentation of the specific characteristics of each religion will be given, whenever necessary, at the different stages of this journey.

ROFR 34602 History of Music II (1.5 Credit Hours)

This course addresses a wide range of musical practices during the middle ages and the renaissance (12th-16th centuries) along with their transmission and cultural and historical contexts. Each historical chapter is completed with a meeting of the analysis class during which the musical language is shown via one or several characteristic compositions. The course focuses on the history of music in France during this period.

ROFR 34603 French News, Media and the Press (2 Credit Hours)

The course on "the news" is made up of 22 hours of class meant to give students a better understanding of the news and French media, particularly the written press (newspapers). Proposed activities will include the following: -Look at events from the week through photos -Deepen the understanding of a topic by reading a French newspaper -Analyze the first page of the daily French papers With these three daily activities students will develop French skills: the first will work on their oral expression, the second their written comprehension and reformulation of ideas, and the third to work with the language by looking at the front page titles. -Listen to pieces of television news broadcasts or radio broadcasts

ROFR 34604 French News, Media & Economics (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, we will be looking at several contemporary French Issues through the eyes of the French Media. Issues include the French Economy, the Yellow Vest Protests, and the French political system

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 34605 French and the Media (3 Credit Hours)

This workshop is for C1 advanced level C1 students and aims to allow them to reflect on cultural, linguistic and lexical differences through a comparative approach of different French media.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 34606 French, Politics, and Society (3 Credit Hours)

Hybrid political history, political law, political science: from our institutional heritage, how is the political life organized in France in 2019 after an unprecedented upheaval, how are articulated constitutional text and institutional practice, new and old political world? Representative democracy is questioned, referendum democracy points. The rules of the electoral competition are changing, but the presidential imperium remains or even strengthens. In this environment, how is a majority organized, an opposition to Parliament? Why revise the Constitution, why some failures, why question our institutions again? Three applications will make it possible to evoke the course of the law (the reform of the cumulation of mandates), the evaluation of the law (the Benalla affair) and ethics in politics (the laws of 11 October 2013 and 15 September 2017 ). Finally, the functioning of the parliamentary debate will be apprehended by a role play on a current legislative topic. In addition, a political or parliamentary news item will be made as needed.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 34607 Creator God (1 Credit Hour)

Its place in the biblical narrative and in the Creed, as well as its assumption in the liturgy, make "creation" a fundamental theme that invites man to profess God as creator. Enlightened by the paschal mystery of the new Adam whose universe the Spirit renews to the glory of the Father, the course unfolds the vast fields of the relationship between God and the world. Based on a broad and precise biblical theology, the course reflects the relevance and balances offered by the title of creator to speak of God. From then on, the course can address the magisterial contents which are clarified in the context of answers to heretics and then in controversies even in questions raised by the contemporary area. Attentive to the balance between creation and salvation, between Providence and autonomy, the course offers elements to think faithfully about the teaching of the Church the mystery of covenant questions of the status of matter an adjusted anthropology, the conditions of a right relationship between science and faith, points of attention to address the ecological question.

ROFR 34608 Analysis IV (1 Credit Hour)

In close connection with the courses in the history of "romantic" music, this course in analysis proposes to introduce students to the most characteristic musical elements of this era. Through extracts from representative works, the inclusion of the works in the context of the time as well as the various approaches and means implemented by the main composers are discussed. We listen to and analyse quintessential works of Romantic music.

ROFR 34660 French Language Advanced with Memoire (3 Credit Hours)

Study of spoken and written French at the advanced level, for students with the highest level of language proficiency. A 15 page term paper is required.

ROFR 34680 The History Workshop (3 Credit Hours)

The objective of this workshop is to introduce students to public and scientific debates around the colonial past and gender studies, methods of investigation and writing of contemporary history, from three areas of research: historical approaches to the colonial past, the use of gender studies and the new history of colonial wars. Each research theme will be the subject of 4 two-hour sessions. Each theme will be organized in three stages: introduction to the field of research (first session), discussions and presentations around reading sheets and reports of scientific articles (second session), confrontation with the archives (last two sessions).

ROFR 34691 Francophone World Lit (19th) B2/C1 (3 Credit Hours)

This course includes the following objectives: -View the status of women through literary movements: Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism and Symbolism. -Close reading of whole works: 2 novels, 1 collection of poems, and 1 short story -Excerpts of additional works -Comprehension of the specificities of the female character / hero -Discovering the writings of 19th century female writers -Introduction to re/writes and methodology of the commentary -Analysis of literary texts and their characteristics -Presentation of a research paper or report -Influence of the 19th century literary movements on the female francophone writers

ROFR 34692 French Literature of the 20th Century (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on Literature of the 20th Century Francophone World and aims to achieve the following goals: Study two literary works in depth; Read excerpts from additional literary works; Understand the characters' introspection; Master the main literary movements; Be exposed to re; writings and movie adaptations of the works; Master the comparative method of commentary or essay writing and literary analysis; Give a presentation tied to the themes of the course; and Integrate a participative activity.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROFR 34693 The Interweaving of Gender and Class in Contemporary Societies (2.5-3 Credit Hours)

This course analyzes the articulation between gender and class. In addition to the growing importance of issues related to gender and class in our contemporary societies, this course aims to open up new perspectives through the joint study of these social relationships. By focusing on men and women from different social groups, in various social spheres (family, work, politics), the sessions question the apparent evidence of social categories (men, women, upper classes, popular classes). The course is based on the reading of theoretical and empirical texts and will be attentive to historical developments and national variations of the social relations studied.

ROFR 34721 Literary History 2 (18th - 21st century) (2 Credit Hours)

This course offers a complete overview of the history of French literature from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century, which highlights both the intellectual links between these different periods and our contemporary world, and their specificities. As in the first semester, students are expected to prepare for each session by using the course video clips and reading the texts collected in the brochure. Similarly, personal work on writing files on authors and literary currents, as well as reading works of literary history, is expected.

ROFR 34730 Domestic violence, sexual violence: how is it handled by the criminal justice system? (3 Credit Hours)

It is often difficult to talk about the topic of domestic and sexual violence and the consequences that occur with such serious crimes. Each case is unique in its own way, and justice is demanded to restore the balances that have been broken and condemned, if the offense is constituted with respect to the fundamental principles of law (principle of adversarial proceedings, presumption of innocence, and right to a fair trial). Therefore, this seminar, after identifying the constitutional elements of these different offenses punishable by the Penal Code, will focus on their treatment through the application of law. This class will highly engage in debate as we go through the different issues and offenses and how the law is applied in different circumstances.

ROFR 34740 Experimental Methods in Studying Political Behavior (3 Credit Hours)

This class examines elections and voting behavior within the French context, analyzing how citizens vote and act. Using French elections as a primary case study, this class introduces main theories regarding methodology.

ROFR 34750 Communication et Image semiotique (2 Credit Hours)

This course explores how images create meaning beyond mere imitation, engaging with communication strategies. It examines visual representation and meaning through semiotic analysis, addressing advertising, cultural communication, and iconic news imagery.

ROFR 34770 Wars of the 20th Century (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines how warfare transformed across the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the growing involvement of civilian populations, both as participants and as targets. Rather than a traditional battle history course, it approaches war through a wide range of sources, especially written documents and visual material, to understand conflict from the inside and from perspectives often overlooked in standard curricula. Students analyze war through themes such as the technical evolution of weaponry, the medical reality of war injuries, and the everyday experience of societies living through conflict. The course follows a three-part chronological structure: conflicts up to 1945, the period from 1945 to 1991, and wars since 1991. Case studies include World War I and the home front, the Spanish Civil War, World War II as a war against civilians, decolonization conflicts, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Gulf War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and post Cold War conflicts including in sub-Saharan Africa. The course also emphasizes discussion and student-led presentations as part of the learning process.

ROFR 34780 Media, Civil Resistance, Civil Disobedience (3 Credit Hours)

Our history is crossed by civil resistance/civil disobedience movements whose characteristics, struggles, tools and weapons are developed, transmitted, and reinvented over time. This notion is at the heart of current events, witnessing movements of citizen protest, social opposition, Marches (for the climate) and other actions of disobedience. From Thoreau to Gandhi, from Martin Luther King to the Extinction Rebellion movement, from Radio Londres (1940-1944) to the fight for the defense of Larzac (1971-1981), from the English suffragettes to the Arab Spring, from the Folles de la Place de Mayo to Occupy Wall Street, from the Otpor movement in Serbia to Joshua Wong in Hong Kong, how are these specific movements born and nourished? How do the media play a role in the development or resonance of these actions, from the press of yesteryear to modern media? Analysis, story and deciphering of what we call 'civil resistance/civil disobedience' and the forms taken today, in democratic countries and in authoritarian countries, in the light of history, between yesterday and today.

ROFR 34800 Advanced French: Gastronomy and Politics (3 Credit Hours)

This C1+ seminar focus on the topics concerning the connection between the gastronomy and politics, focuses primarily on case studies of France. The goal is to improve the speaking, listening comprehension, writing and reading comprehension.

ROFR 34853 Political Role of History: Analysis of Traumatic Experiences (2.5-3 Credit Hours)

Based on films and documentaries, this teaching returns to the question of the political role of history by focusing in particular on contexts that have generated traumatic collective and individual experiences. From a multidisciplinary approach - history, sociology, political science, socio-psychology, etc. -, this course will focus on the Holocaust, the period of occupation in France, the Algerian War, Videla's Argentina, the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, etc. The course thus proposes to address issues related to memory issues and the history of the present time.

ROFR 34880 A Political History of Hollywood Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the political and ideological dimensions of Hollywood cinema, examining how its industrial structure, genre system, and star culture have shaped representations of American values, power, and the American Dream from the 1920s to today.

ROFR 34950 Postcolonial Paris: Contemporary French Culture in Literature and the Arts (2.5,3 Credit Hours)

The course concentrates on the ways contemporary "French" cultures are reconsidered and redefined by writers and artists from outside France. The course materials include novels by immigrants and second-generation immigrants, critical articles and book chapters by contemporary scholars and politicians, as well as films. We seek to closely "read" the city not only in textual form, but also in its current reconfigurations, as we take to the street and other public spaces to observe the present aspect of the city for ourselves. Dialogue with Parisians we meet, in addition to exchanges with invited speakers, are intended to contribute to a well-rounded experience that allows students to benefit from the opportunities for interaction that Paris affords. Taught in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROFR 40115 Why Arguing Is Good for You: Debating Love and Gender in Medieval French (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, taught in French, you will examine how love and gender were debated in French and Occitan literatures from before 1500. Debates appear everywhere and they often convey the idea that arguing is intellectually, socially, and emotionally beneficial to those involved. So in this class, we will ask ourselves: How might arguing be good for you? Through the lens of debates on love and gender, we will survey some of the most important works of medieval French literature and unpack a range of thought-provoking texts. Questions that we will examine include: What does a woman know that a man doesn’t? Is it better for a man to be faithful while being cheated on or should he be promiscuous? What are the limits of mansplaining? Can a man convince a woman to love him through reasoning? Is the best type of man brave or wise, pushy or patient, braggy or humble? What are the terms of an open relationship? Where does happiness fit in with love and marriage?

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40117 When Humans Meet Animals in Medieval French Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This advanced undergraduate seminar examines the fluid boundaries between humans and non-human animals in medieval French and Occitan literatures. Combining literary texts and manuscripts with modern scholarship and theoretical thinking, we will explore how medieval people thought about animals and placed themselves in relation to them through texts and books. Sources will range from lyrics, bestiaries, and encyclopedic treatises to romances and fables in text and manuscript, and the course includes an optional, free trip to the Newberry Library in Chicago, where we will examine relevant medieval manuscripts and rare prints. The course is taught in French, with readings in modern French or modern English translation.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40210 Imagining Henry VIII (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROFR 40223 Renaissance Lyric Poetry (3 Credit Hours)

This course will constitute an in-depth examination of the French lyric tradition primarily during, but not limited to, the sixteenth century. Students will begin by exploring the Italian origins of the French tradition before tracing its development through the Rhetoriqueurs, the Ecole lyonnaise, the Pleiade, and beyond. Through a close analysis of primary literary texts and through exposure to some salient works of secondary literature, students will not only engage the poetry but also broader questions about imitation, originality, and meaning during a dynamic but somewhat unstable period of literary production. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROFR 40310 Pride Before the Fall: Seventeenth-Century French Theater (3 Credit Hours)

This seminar constitutes quite simply an introduction to seventeenth-century French theater. Considered the golden age for the genre in France, with the ‘Big Three’ playwrights Molière, Corneille, and Racine, this period produced the greatest tragedies and comedies in the French tradition. We will ride the highs of the tragic heroes, descend with them into the depths of their lows, and then learn to laugh at these ups and downs with our study of some of the most famous comedies in Western literature. While we will primarily approach these plays as literature––for the text is usually the star––we will also explore their embodiment as a living, breathing work of art. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40605 Images of the Priest in French Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

ROFR 40610 Vichy France: Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine the period of the Second World War known as the Vichy regime (1940-1944). We will explore France's complex history through sources of the period as well as through representations of the Vichy regime in contemporary cultural productions; course materials will be drawn from primary sources such as testimonies, novels, memoires, newspapers, documentaries, paintings, German and Vichy propaganda. The course will address the myth of "la France résistante" (a resisting France); the relationship of France to its empire in the colonies (de Gaulle and the Free French Forces); anti-Jewish legislation and the deportation of Jews; as well as the memory of the period from amnesia and negationism to the "devoir de mémoire" (the duty to remember). We will conclude the course by exploring the contemporary legacies of such figures as the Général de Gaulle and the Maréchal Pétain in French politics. Taught in French.

ROFR 40635 Phantasmes et fantastique: 19th Century Short Story (3 Credit Hours)

This course will focus on the development of the genre of short narrative during the nineteenth century in France. Representative works of Balzac, Nerval, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Flaubert, Gautier, Mérimée, Maupassant, Nodier and Villiers de l'Isle Adam will be considered. We will examine distinctive features of the various aesthetics of Romanticism, Realism and Symbolism as well as generic considerations relating to the conte fantastique.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40670 Between Past and Future: Responsibility in the Wake of the French Revolution (3 Credit Hours)

What does it mean to be responsible for one's own time? In France, this question has carried particular weight since the French Revolution broke with the monarchy and social hierarchy of the Ancien Régime. If modernity begins with the conviction that one can — indeed should — seize the present in order to shape the future, the Revolution further opened a gap between past and future, forcing an entire society to reckon with a new relationship to time. Where earlier generations had assumed that what was to come would broadly resemble what had been, the future was now radically unknowable: something to be invented and contested. Reflecting later on this new condition, Alexis de Tocqueville would capture the challenge it poses in a striking formula: "When the past no longer illuminates the future, the mind walks in darkness." In French culture, the difficulty of that negotiation is legible in the opposition between distinctively progressive figures meant to guide the people toward the future — from the "intellectuel" incarnated by Emile Zola to the "écrivain engagé" theorized by Jean-Paul Sartre — and a robust reactionary tradition that rejected modernity outright in the name of a return to the past. This course invites students to take a middle stance: to reflect on their own responsibility today by engaging in a true dialogue between past and future. We will do so through French novels, essays, and films, exploring what responsibility means across the crises that define our contemporary moment: from terrorism and the erosion of representative democracy to climate change and the upheavals induced by artificial intelligence. Taught in French.

ROFR 40710 Public Women: Gender, Celebrity, and History (1789-1914) (3 Credit Hours)

Britney Spears. Anna Nicole Smith. Janet Jackson. We thought we knew their tragic stories; we thought they only had themselves to blame. In recent years, however, we have reappraised these maligned women and the pervasive misogyny to which they were subjected in a supposedly post-feminist era. In this seminar, we will examine the gendering of celebrity in France and its former colonies over the course of the long nineteenth century, engaging with legacies of famous women from Marie Antoinette to Aïssa Maïga. Each week, we will study conflicting depictions of a public figure, seeking to understand the structures with which commentators controlled women’s narratives—and how women in turn developed their own strategies of resistance. Drawing from a range of sources including sculptures, choreographies, films, and autobiographies, we will engage with interpretive approaches that interrogate hierarchies of memory, history, and culture. Taught in French.

ROFR 40715 From Whispers to Worldviews: Gossip and the Social Network in Nineteenth-Century France (3 Credit Hours)

The nineteenth century saw the rise of print media and professional institutions. Old-fashioned whisper networks came to be viewed suspiciously as a dangerous, “feminine” pastime for those without lives of their own. Yet the enduring popularity of gossip—in society columns, romans-à-clef, communal laundry rooms, and political caricatures—meant that informal social networks thrived, fueled by a heightened interest in the private lives of famous people. The learning goals of this class extend beyond those of textual analysis and the researched argument to media literacy. Following several scandals across a variety of sources, we will study how information was transmitted via different genres, spaces, and voices in nineteenth-century France, looking at a range of texts from broadsheets to Offenbach operettas. While reinforcing social mores, gossip also provided a means of resistance to the status quo, a way for the marginalized to reframe official narratives and point to the humanity shared across classes and identities. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROFR 40770 Liars and Impostors (3 Credit Hours)

The act or the art of lying always appears to be stigmatized. But why lie? What makes a person a liar or what exactly is an impostor ? Are they the same? It is around these questions that this course revolves. Readings from the Odyssey to Dangerous Liaisons, as well as popular series like Pretty Little Liars and documentaries, will help us understand and define this human trait. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40780 The French at Work: Unemployment and Precarious Jobs (3 Credit Hours)

The enviable “French work week,” long lunch-breaks, the numerous holidays and paid vacations come readily to mind when we think about French policies and attitudes towards work. In this course, we will focus, however, on crucial contemporary issues: unemployment, mental health and corporate culture, and the rise of so-called precarious jobs. Through French literature and film, and with a particular emphasis on representations of gender and racial disparity in certain types of precarious work (nannies, maids, security guards, and nuclear plant workers, among others), we will examine what it takes to work in France today. We will also look at how these questions are discussed in the press, and follow current events and ongoing social movements. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40853 Francophone Peace Studies: Worldwide Activism in Literature and Film (3 Credit Hours)

This course closely examines Francophone works of literature and film that grapple with the difficulties of promoting peace in various locations around the world today. Not only are activism and peacebuilding crucial questions in the creative texts we study, but they are also the focus of discussions that extend "beyond" the text, as we explore the efforts of writers and filmmakers to serve as advocates for positive change in very real ways. Various concepts of "engagement," as well as relationships between language and politics, are at the center of our reflections. There is a substantial theoretical component to this course, including works by French thinkers Pierre Bourdieu, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Serge Margel, alongside the writings of postcolonial critics and recent publications in the area of peace studies. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40855 Francophone Migrations and Nations (3 Credit Hours)

"Francophone Migrations and Nations" examines transnational travel in a contemporary global context affected by factors ranging from climate change to genocide. We will focus on migrant movements in different Francophone settings (ranging from France to Rwanda), providing perspectives on the myriad motivations to leave one's homeland and take up residence elsewhere, and studying the subsequent challenges that migrants face in the places where they end up. Novels, short stories, articles, and a number of films will shed light on the current dynamics and profound questions that are created by migration. We will focus on issues related to language and identity in relation to larger inquiries into human rights and peace studies in a world where a sense of society and a commitment to community are uprooted and unsettled more and more by migrations that put into question the nature of the nation. The course will be taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROFR 40906 French Literature Goes to the Opera (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, the full title of which is Taking Liberties: From Book to Libretto, or French Literature Goes to the Opera and which is taught in French, we will be looking a series of parent texts, written originally in French, and their operatic offspring. Works include The Barber of Seville (Beaumarchais/Rossini); The Marriage of Figaro (Beaumarchais/Mozart); Don Juan (Molière) and Don Giovanni (Mozart); Manon Lescaut (Prévost/Puccini), Carmen (Mérimée/Bizet).

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROFR 40909 A Passion for Fashion: Dressing up French Literature and Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

Whether we "dress for success" or wear our pajamas to the grocery store, the clothes we are putting on our body all have a meaning. Though clothes are an essential part of our everyday life, do we really stop and think about what they really signify, how they are perceived by people who look at them? In urban environments, where millions of fellow city-dwellers can scan the clothes that everyone is wearing, fashion often has a more significant meaning. Dressing up is such a mundane action we barely wonder why we do it, but shouldn't we consider this act an art? Fashion has been a crucial aspect of literature, cinema, paintings, and graphic novels. Text and textile both mediate a form of language, and fashion is indeed an idiom in itself. In this course, you will explore the representation of fashion in literature, cinema and the arts. We will dive into a range of texts, films, paintings, and graphic novels that will enable us to better grasp the importance of clothing surfaces, their meaning, implication, and significance regarding issues related to gender, social class, sexuality, and (post-) colonialism. An individual's identity, personality, and desires are both inscribed on and influenced by the clothes he or she is wearing. The large set of signs that are carried by fashion therefore constitute a closed system of signification, linked with culture itself as well as the senses. The course aims to give students an insight into a broad range of visual and textual materials, as well as to develop their analytical and critical skills. During each class, students will be asked to discuss the themes emerging from the visual and textual materials, supported by the critical readings related to them. The objective of this interdisciplinary course is also, through materials spanning across a broad variety of genres, media, places and periods, to provide the students with an open and intercultural approach of the humanities. Finally, the course aims to develop the students' awareness of their place within a globalized world in which the image of the self - often carried by clothes - is predominant. This puts into perspective the socio-political questions of gender, race, class, colonialism, and sexuality. Taught in French.

ROFR 40940 Prizes, Publishers, Plagiarism: Decolonizing Literary Legacies in French (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on literary works in French that have received illustrious prizes, from the Nobel Prize to the Prix Goncourt, and it examines questions related to the prestige of publishing houses and the role of marketing techniques meant to package and sell books alongside questions of influence and imitation, and of possible accusations of plagiarism. The course’s tripartite emphasis on the ways in which authors and their textual creations are celebrated, circulated, and questioned is complemented by an analysis of how these award-winning attempts to decolonize literature in French constitute a contemporary quest with profound historical and intertextual resonances. We read literary works of a great variety, including novels by Nobel prizewinning authors Annie Ernaux (the first Frenchwoman ever to win this award in 2022) and Jean-Marie Le Clézio, Goncourt prizewinning authors Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (the first Sub-Saharan African to win this award in 2021) and Leïla Slimani, as well as works by other writers who are caught up in telling striking stories that involve intersecting understandings of the complexities of race, class, and gender that have too often been missing from the literary landscape in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40950 Refugees & Migrants: Globally Engaged Learning in French (3 Credit Hours)

This course involves the close study of novels, films, and essays that examine the evolving realities of refugees and migrants in the French-speaking world today. It explores what it means for so many individuals to leave their homeland behind and seek asylum in France, and it focuses on the stories of these global movements and their implications for identities, whether the protagonists wind up in Paris — or in another location, such as South Bend, Indiana. This is the first course of its kind to incorporate engagement with Francophone families who live near Notre Dame and who lack knowledge of the English language and American customs. Once every two weeks, students will meet with local refugees who speak French and need assistance with learning English as well as with a number of other aspects of life in the United States. Tutoring and providing information, as well as assisting in practical tasks like filling out forms will make up some of the activities that students participate in with refugees, but another crucial component of these interactions will entail becoming familiar with their stories and putting them to paper in creative form, in French. Listening to and valorizing the personal narratives of people from Francophone Africa will be an important aspect of the time spent with them, and hearing these oral accounts may give new resonance to the French-language books and films on our syllabus that constitute creative contemporary renditions of migration.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROFR 40958 Global Francophone Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on French-language films that transcend national boundaries, depicting movements - and individuals - that go beyond borders and allow us to understand how current cinematic creations are not limited to "Franco-French" actors and productions, but extend around the globe. We study a number of films that deal with questions of immigration and migration in the French context, recent films that reveal the current multicultural environment within the hexagonal space of France. We also examine films that come from the larger francophone world, from locations such as Algeria and Senegal. Assignments include brief written responses to each of the films under study, an oral presentation, two short papers, and a final paper. We will read two novels that are related to very recent films as well and explore the relationship between the written work and the cinematic creation. The goals of this course are not limited to increasing students' knowledge and understanding of the art (and the politics) of filmmaking; they are also are meant to enhance their appreciation of diverse cultural settings that interact and intersect with France in important ways in a contemporary world marked by postcolonial tensions and "globalized" transnational relations. Taught in French.

ROFR 40960 Worldwide Women Writers in Paris (3 Credit Hours)

Women writers from around the world, from places as diverse as Algeria and Vietnam, Slovenia and South Korea, are currently exerting an influence on the Parisian literary landscape. These singular individuals hail from very different locations, but many of their experiences as French-language authors in the French capital are quite similar, particularly when it comes to perceptions of them as foreigners. Even if they often feel excluded and even ostracized, these writers continue to write, pouring their creative energies into innovative texts that are transforming the publishing world and adding layers of depth to what it means to be a Francophone author today. In this course, we will read a variety of publications by such women writers as Nathacha Appanah, Bessora, Hélène Cixous, Maryse Condé, Julia Kristeva, Anna Moï, Pia Petersen, Zahia Rahmani, Leïla Sebbar, Shumona Sinha, and Brina Svit. Our readings of primary texts will be complemented by a series of interviews with these authors (http://francophonemetronomes.com and an accompanying critical volume (Oxford University Press, December 2021). We will also address the process of literary and academic publishing in our discussions. Taught in French.

ROFR 40970 Tahiti and the Colonial Imagination (3 Credit Hours)

Blue lagoons and white sand beaches: we are all familiar with the idyllic image associated with Tahiti. But do you see the mushroom cloud in the distance? If the island’s beauty is undeniable, the depiction of Tahiti as a tropical paradise is linked to, and makes possible, a darker side: that of two centuries of French colonial occupation and three decades of atomic testing. Where, then, does this representation come from and how was it shaped? How have settler and Indigenous actors sustained and resisted this image? In this class, we will explore the complex and multifaceted representations of Tahiti and its inhabitants through both the European and the Polynesian lenses. From 18th-century philosophical reflections to 19th-century paintings and contemporary novels written by Indigenous Francophone writers, we will discuss and critically analyze the political and environmental stakes of representation in Mā’ohi Nui/French-occupied Polynesia. Taught in French.

ROFR 40975 French and Francophone Environmental Fiction (3 Credit Hours)

Catastrophic floods, destructive hurricanes, record-breaking droughts: as the news and social media get saturated with apocalyptic images, the question of preserving our environment has never seemed more urgent than today. This makes sense, after all, given that we have entered what some scientists have called “the Anthropocene,” a geological epoch dominated by human-induced climate change. Yet, environmental issues have always weighed on the mind of various peoples across different times. During the Enlightenment, for instance, many philosophers criticized how industrialization further disconnected Europeans from the natural world. For enslaved people in the Caribbean, by contrast, forests became sites of cultural vitality, agency, and creativity, whether they remained on the plantations or established fugitive communities. Through a selection of films, novels, essays, poems, short stories, and graphic novels, this class will explore the place of the environment in French and Francophone fiction. Together, we will ask: what do representations of nature across multiple centuries and geographies tell us about our human condition and the societies in which we live? Taught in French.

ROFR 40980 Self and Society in Contemporary French Fiction (3 Credit Hours)

To what extent does society determine our sense of self and our ability to act? Life, after all, is a rather universal thing: we have responsibilities to fulfill, families to take care of, and jobs to do. Yet, we do not all experience life the same way, given that we do not all face the same constraints. For many, freedom of choice feels like an illusion, as if everything had already been decided before one’s birth. Is there such a thing, then, as “social determinism”? Are we ever free to change the course of our existence, and what would it take to do so? In this class, we will explore how the more normative dimensions of society — class, gender, and race in particular — shape our lives through works of contemporary French fiction, films, and sociological essays. Together, we will ask: how might “writing the self” ultimately capture the complexity of a life — one’s own, and that of others? Taught in French.

ROFR 43224 Essays of Michel de Montaigne (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 43910 The Republic and its Doubles (3 Credit Hours)

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité” — with these three words, the French motto is powerfully evocative. Born from the Revolution, France would be a nation whose commitment to justice, equality, and the universality of Human Rights constitute the bedrock of its democracy. Yet, if the revolutionary ideals have been the ideological underpinnings of the Republic for more than two centuries, France was also largely consolidated through its material investments in slavery and colonialism, a historical reality that has been consistently silenced. To what extent, then, can the fictions of universalism continue to hold in light of the past? What might it mean to bring back the imperial and racial memory of France, and think through the postcolonial stakes of its present? How might we think of race and colonialism in a country that denies the reality of both? Through a wide array of artifacts, ranging from political speeches to manifestos, paintings, movies, theoretical texts, and novels, we will explore how colonialism and race — the Republic’s “doubles” — have contributed to the development of France and French identity since the 19th century, but also how contemporary artists, authors, and activists have challenged this haunting legacy in the present. Taught in French.

ROFR 44050 History and Theory of Criticism (2 Credit Hours)

Study of the evolution of literary criticism through articles, discussion, and French literature.

ROFR 44055 History of Writing and Reading (1 Credit Hour)

This course provides an overview of the emergence and evolution of writing and reading in society. It will first address the appearance of writing systems and their diffusion through the study of written media and will propose to study how reading has developed over the centuries, the place of the reader and the methods and practices of reading.

ROFR 44100 Imperial Rome 2 (2 Credit Hours)

In this lecture style class, we are learning about the decline of paganism and the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire. In this class, the professor explains the origins and etymology of the words in French, Latin, and Greek to better contextualize some of the specialized vocabulary that we learn. She also connects our text to and suggests secondary reading from renowned French scholars on the topics taught, placing the history of the late Roman Empire in conversation with French intellectual history.

ROFR 44101 Latin literature and religion in Rome (2 Credit Hours)

This course mixes in depth discussion with a panoramic view of Religion across the various eras of the Roman Empire. This course offers a description of polytheism, henotheism, and monotheism, and their respective places in Roman history. The professor explains the etymological roots of many of the French vocabulary we learn, tracing it back to its Greek and Latin roots. She also suggests secondary reading, and explains how the texts have been passed down and played a role in the literary tradition leading up to modern times. In this lecture style class, we are learning about the decline of paganism and the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire. In this class, the professor explains the origins and etymology of the words in French, Latin, and Greek to better contextualize some of the specialized vocabulary that we learn. She also connects our text to and suggests secondary reading from renowned French scholars on the topics taught, placing the history of the late Roman Empire in conversation with French intellectual history.

ROFR 44200 Cultural Roots (1 Credit Hour)

The course "Cultural Roots" aims to promote a general and transversal humanistic study of so-called "foundational" texts, i.e. texts linked to a linguistic, historical or cultural foundation of the our world heritage. From an interdisciplinary perspective that embraces the literary heritage of older than modern texts, this course will arouse the learner's curiosity for the study of these founding roots, while inviting him to build his own knowledge and his own knowledge Humanists.

ROFR 44300 Literature and Politics: Political Fables, an Art of Variation (3 Credit Hours)

The course starts from a literary approach to political themes based on reflective value and aesthetics of the works. This approach is supplemented by a reading in terms of moral and political philosophy. The reading method approaches the works from one point from an internal and external point of view, situates them in their historical context, finally measures their scope outside of it. The 2022 course will develop a reflection on the genre of the political fable. After a general introduction (addressing Rabelais, Boccalini, Swift, Voltaire, Orwell, Huxley), two famous collections of fables with a philosophical and ironic scope will be the center of a formal, structural and moral analysis: the 12 books of La Fontaine's Fables and the 33 chapters of Tchouang-tseu as the art of variation. In these various philosophical, satirical and didactic fables, the following double dimensions: politics/morality, lucidity/illusion, wisdom/madness, animal/human, direct/indirect allusion, irony/humor. The art of variation will be defined in different arts and different contexts.

ROFR 44360 French - English LV1 editorial translation (2 Credit Hours)

This master's level course is focused on teaching students the general fundamentals of formal translation work. Each class focuses on key topics and skills that are often overlooked by the untrained eye (and even computer!). The course teaches anything from navigating the cultural context of one's audience to producing natural-sounding work, and is evaluated through 2 formal translations and 1 class project for a private client (work is unpaid)

ROFR 44410 Modern History II (2 Credit Hours)

This course explores modern history in France during the XVII century. The two halves of the course focus on daily life for residents in the countryside and the powers of the crown, illustrating a detailed image of religious rituals, eating habits, sanitary crises, taxes, and life in Versailles. Mode of evaluation is through a written essay (in the TD) and oral exam (in the CM) The Counter Revolution will be studied in particular to show its immediate implications, namely the religious and political resistance to the Revolution and the civil war that ravaged the West of France, known as the Vendee War. Studying the Counter Revolution will enrich the definition of the Revolution, one cannot be conceived without the other.

ROFR 44510 Literature, culture and society: Making love (17th century) (3 Credit Hours)

In this class we perform close literary analysis of texts from the XVII century. We study literary devices and how they work and function in the studies text. This class focuses on how love and courtship are presented in texts at the time. This class meets twice a week, two hours each. While the bulk of the work is written homework or essays, there is also a poetry recitation in front of the class.

ROFR 44520 The French 18th Century: An Age of Enchantment? (4 Credit Hours)

This module invites students to study the French eighteenth century from a fresh and critical perspective, by addressing this periods fascination with enchantment, magic and illusions. Through this module, students will probe and eventually debunk the myth that the Enlightenment disenchanted the world.

ROFR 44559 European Policy of France and Germany: Concepts, Visions, Differences (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on French and German history throughout many eras. It is conducted in French and requires oral presentations on historical topics and an expose discussing a topic of choice.

ROFR 44580 History of the Theatre II (1 Credit Hour)

This course is a continuation from last semester's introduction to the history of theatre. From antiquity to modern French playwrights, the course examines the origins of certain genres (most notably, tragedy and comedy) and the way their interpretation has changed according to new developments in French thought and style. The course takes a comparative approach to text analysis which helps mark the distinction between historical conceptions of catharsis, tragedy, vraisemblance, and theatrical rules, and modern French interpretations of these.

ROFR 44590 Greek tragedy today: Rewriting antiquity with Iphigenia by Tiago Rodrigues (3 Credit Hours)

This course, taught in French, involves reading Iphigenie, participating in group exercises and scene work, and writing a short paper. Students will engage with the play's themes and experiment with staging their own version of the play.

ROFR 44595 Cinema and Philosophy (2 Credit Hours)

Study of French culture through French film and philosophy. Consideration of philosophical themes through different cinematic mediums.

ROFR 44610 Literature, Culture and Society XIX Century (3 Credit Hours)

In novels as in poems, lyrical and tragic, love is most often fueled by obstacles and passion seems all the stronger because it is impossible and condemned. Following in the footsteps of Stendhal (and his On Love), Denis de Rougemont has shown in Love and the West this intimate and burning link between love and death, which he traces back to the 12th century and the myth of Tristan and Isolde. Cursed and unhappy lovers are in fact legions in art and literature. However, it is less this "passionate love" as such that we will be interested here than a certain type of obstacle that both exalts and prevents romantic relationships, when the prohibition weighs more particularly on the race, class or sex of the lovers.

ROFR 44692 From the Democratic Crisis to #MeToo: Contemporary Issues in the Mirror of Antiquity (3 Credit Hours)

In this class, we look at the world of Antiquity and how it relates to the downfall of democracy throughout the world today. In looking at ancient texts and political thought, we are able to link it to present day social movements such as #MeToo, to find where democracy is failing.

ROFR 44700 Literature and Ecology (2 Credit Hours)

A study of the relationship between literature and the natural world, with an emphasis placed on French texts.

ROFR 44720 Literary History 2 (18th - 21st Century) 2 (2 Credit Hours)

In this class, we discuss the literature and literary tradition of France from the 18th - 21st centuries. The professor introduces topics of French literary tradition to discuss in relation to modern issues. We learn about the transition between literary movements and how they correspond to major events in French history. We write essays, and do oral presentations in front of the class on a topic given by the professor.

ROFR 44727 Gabriela Mistral and Her World (3 Credit Hours)

The goals of this seminar to be held in Chile in the summer of 2022 are: to analyze Gabriela Mistral's poetic work in relation to her role as a woman poet, teacher, Latin American education reformer, Chilean woman of the first half of the twentieth century, diplomat and intellectual; to reflect on the socio-historical context in which the first Latin American woman Nobel Prize laureate and the only one to date to have achieved such a distinction arose; to investigate how Mistral's aesthetic evolution articulates and responds to political, social and economic experiences in Chile, in particular, and in Latin America, in general; to investigate how Mistral's aesthetic evolution articulates and responds to the political, social and economic experiences in Chile, in particular, and in Latin America, in general; to know and examine the identity proposals that emerge from Mistral's lyrical production, as well as the concepts of "authenticity" and "otherness", both sexual and national. Several questions will move our readings and discussions. For example, is it fruitful to speak of the autonomy of the lyric genre, what place does poetry occupy in the cultural practices of early twentieth century Latin America, how does the more "literary" genre reach the masses, what images does it create for women, children, nature, the homeland, or what does Mistral propose as an intellectual and poet for Latin American culture? Our approaches to this poetry will allow us to understand the history, culture and politics of Chile, the Southern Cone and Latin America. Students will gain a deep understanding of Mistral's development as a writer and historical subject, as well as the geopolitical history in which she writes. Students will refine their ability to think critically about literature; to this end they will receive a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. The course will combine lectures with discussions and excursions to the places where Mistral lived and worked. The language of the class is Spanish.

ROFR 44730 LEurope dans la guerre froide (2 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on the history of the Cold War. This course offers a comprehensive examination of the Cold War from its immediate post-World War II origins to its end, with Europe as the principal object of study. Students will explore political, diplomatic, strategic, and ideological developments shaping global relations in the second half of the 20th century. It will look at the origin and evolution of the Cold War, with the session themes providing a chronological and analytical understanding of it, from the improbable peace of 1945 to the fall of Cold War structures in 1991.

ROFR 44770 Une Histoire Politique de LEurope 1848-1939 (3 Credit Hours)

Students are expected to demonstrate a strong understanding of the major political transformations shaping Europe between 1848 and 1939, including nationalism, liberalism, authoritarianism, democratization, and fascism, and situate these developments within their broader historical and political contexts.

ROFR 44780 Sociology of Electoral Controversies in a Comparative Perspective (3 Credit Hours)

This course, taught in French, examines how technology and materials shape elections and democratic legitimacy. Through a presentation, a final paper, and discussions, students analyze academic papers, documentaries, and case studies.

ROFR 44781 Histoire et droit des etats en europe (3 Credit Hours)

The history and law of States course is a multidisciplinary course which aims to allow students to discover the conditions in which what we call today the State imposed itself in the history of Europe as the main holder of political power, both internally and internationally. This historical process was accomplished from the same legal-political fund: the law, organization and ideology of the Roman Empire, and of the cities which composed it, elements of which the church was the conduit. , at the same time as it offered, through its government and its internal legislation, a model to the emerging States.

ROFR 44782 History of European Integration (3 Credit Hours)

European integration is a historical political process that underwent a series of events and changes throughout a period of time, not something that happened automatically or suddenly. The course covers the period from 1945 to 2024. It allows us to grasp continuities and true changes throughout time, and to be in touch with current events. The course is based on active teaching, short texts, audiovisual archives, and the manual that provides a chronology and description of the events that contributed to the integration of the European Union. The dynamics of the community system are clarified by its return to the context of European societies and political cultures, the economic world and the international system. The historical perspective makes us attentive to what European integration owes to circumstances, to strategies, immediate actions and elections, thus shedding light on the parameters of decision-making current and future.

ROFR 44783 Law and Religion (3 Credit Hours)

The course provides knowledge on the protection of religious freedom and the regulation of cults in our and other legal systems. With a focus on the impact of confessional regulations in the prism of state law and the interaction of identities in intercultural society. At the end of the course, the student acquires mastery of the main systems of relations between State and Churches in the world and knowledge of elements of the domestic law of the numerically most representative religious denominations and their interaction with the social context. Particular attention is consequently given to some significant case studies from an international perspective. At the end of the course, the student is able to highlight the continuous reshaping, in the local-global dynamic, of the relationship between the religious factor and legal systems, between religious orders and state orders.

ROFR 44784 The European Union Facing the Challenges of the Contemporary World (3 Credit Hours)

This course, taught in French, examines the European Union's response to ongoing crises (from the Ukraine War to the Climate Crisis), intensified by President Trump's return in 2025. It explores the EU's efforts to maintain unity during global challenges and is taught through in-class debates, role-playing games, and intense research.

ROFR 44785 Political Sociology of Elites (3 Credit Hours)

This course deals with the major issues in the sociology of elites, based on a reading and discussion of the "classic" authors who founded the analysis of : - circulation/renewal of elites - power elites and ruling classes - who governs in pluralist democracies? The acquisition of this knowledge is designed to develop a critical sense of the major simplifications (the "fault of the elites", the dictatorship of technocracy and the financial oligarchy...) put forward by part of the political class as well as certain media around the elite question. It also includes a practical application of this knowledge, via research carried out by students, through case studies of anti-elitism in France, the UK and the USA (3 Research Topics to choose from).

ROFR 44790 Defense and Citizenship since the French Revolution (3 Credit Hours)

Some symbols perpetuate, in our collective memory, a military past that is not only glorious but directly linked to the very history of the nation. This is in no way exclusive to France, but a common reality in the age of nation-states. To shed light on this reality, the seminar will address, in a period ranging from the French Revolution to the present day, three sets of questions: 1. The problem of recruitment, that is to say the theme of the defense provided by the nation in arms, volunteering and/or conscription as schools of citizenship. 2. War as a test of the solidity of the national bond, particularly under the effect of what has been called the "totalization" of war to designate both the blurring of the distinction between military and civilians and the diversification of forces and means used in armed conflicts. 3. The army in peacetime: a society apart from society? a state within a state? Questions relating to the maintenance of order, therefore legalism, and the submission of the armed forces to civil power will be addressed there.

ROFR 44800 Sociology of Crime (3 Credit Hours)

This course, taught in French, explores crime from a sociological perspective and focuses on how criminal behavior reflects broader social structures rather than just legal definitions. Students will examine topics like deviance, organized crime, and political violence, analyzing how crime interacts with social order, economic systems, and state power.

ROFR 44810 Propaganda and Mass Persuasion (3 Credit Hours)

This course addresses the issues of propaganda and mass persuasion in the contemporary world. Propaganda, because it is a necessity for all political regimes and an essential dimension of mass persuasion, is in fact omnipresent both in authoritarian regimes and in democratic societies. Drawing on knowledge from several disciplines (history, communication, sociology, political science, social psychology, art history, neuroscience), this course puts into perspective the changes in propaganda and persuasion at work since the age of paper until the digital age using a wide variety of media (texts, still images, animated images, sounds, objects, monuments). It is based both on a theoretical approach, which leads to addressing the principles of propaganda and mass persuasion through the main reference texts, and an empirical approach, which results in the analysis of techniques and the effects of propaganda through a series of case studies. This course has a strong methodological dimension in addition to a dissertation and presentation methodology, it offers methods of understanding and critical analysis useful for understanding, in a global perspective, the modalities and techniques of the manufacture of public opinion .

ROFR 44820 Literary Theory Genres and Registers (2 Credit Hours)

This course offers an in-depth exploration of literary genres and stylistic categories in literature. It provides students with a deep theoretical and historical understanding of these classifications. It covers the relationship between literature and reality as defined by various registers, delves into the history and evolution of different genres, and examines the rules and conventions that govern them. Additionally, it challenges traditional genre boundaries, encouraging students to analyze both texts and images.

ROFR 44830 Prison in France: History, Issues and Perspectives (3 Credit Hours)

This course goes into the philosophy and history of imprisonment in France specifically. Learning about the deprivation of liberty and how certain groups have become advocates for prisoner rights in France.

ROFR 44900 The Life Story (1 Credit Hour)

To discover what constitutes a life story in the light of the events that can be going through an individual in his daily life. Identify the scientific methodology of the life story and take ownership of the process to carry out a personal approach. To understand the issues of the life story as a biographical tool, a tool for transmission and tool for the construction of self and meaning.

ROFR 44901 Islam en France et question postcoloniale: une histoire politique (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the political history of Islam in France from decolonization to the present, analyzing how immigration, postcolonial legacies, secularism, discrimination, and security debates have shaped French identity and state, Muslim relations.

ROFR 44910 Modern French Tales (2 Credit Hours)

Reading of Perraut, Grimm, and oral transcriptions of marvelous tales. Theory, analysis, and oral reading of tales.

ROFR 44911 Law and Religion (3 Credit Hours)

This class will take a dive on the legal and social science approach and interaction with the issue and topic of religion. After defining how Law and Religion is a discipline and the relationship between the two, this course will divide itself into three parts. First, we will examine the topic of religion and its relationship with the law through the frameworks of history, sociology, and anthropology. It will trace the major stages of how religion is treated as an object of the social sciences and law. Secondly, we will examine the different consequences that come forth from the different frameworks by discussing international law, French law, and North American law and their interaction with religion. Finally, we will dive deeper into real life cases that will allow us to question how the previously identified are articulated there. Therefore, to conclude, we will look at legal pluralism and the dialogues between religious rights and state rights of religion.

ROFR 44920 Literature and Animality (2 Credit Hours)

This course offers an engaging introduction to literary research, with a focus on animal studies. It is designed in the format of a research seminar. The course encourages a blend of theoretical learning and practical application, providing a comprehensive understanding of the role of animality in literature.

ROFR 44930 Poetics of Shame: Autobiography and Writing (2 Credit Hours)

This class explores the role of shame in autobiographical texts primarily through three main books and complementary texts such as Rousseau's Confessions.

ROFR 44940 Europe on the Move (2 Credit Hours)

This course follows the idea and meaning of Europe. Through literature from all around the world, the course attempts to define the meaning of Europe, if such a definition exists.

ROFR 44950 Sociology of Communication and Media (2 Credit Hours)

Supplement and extension of the course Information Theories of Communication from semester 1, with an emphasis on an approach sociological and on the theme of media. 3 objectives: To understand the major contribution of sociology to the understanding of communication and the media. To reflect on some important theoretical currents and issues in the sociology of communication and media. Understanding the world from some major debates in our contemporary societies.

ROFR 44958 Ultramarine History of France in the 20th and 21st Centuries (2.5-3 Credit Hours)

The intellectual challenge and the historiographic novelty of this course lie in the change of perspective it offers - a contemporary history of France seen from its extra-European extensions which constitute the overseas territories of the Republic. It will thus be a question of revisiting significant moments - social, political, economic and cultural - to grasp the history of national construction in a different way. In this sense, this course is part of the abundant renewal of a history of France, thought beyond the limits of France and articulated to a history of colonial and imperial fact.

ROFR 44960 Economic Sociology (2 Credit Hours)

The course aims to understand how sociology accounts for economic phenomena by showing in particular that economic action is embedded in concrete and complex systems of social relations. Economic sociology in France: a school? (Karl Polanyi, Alain Caille, Jean-Louis Laville, Bernard Eme, Guy Roustant, Luc Boltanski...) The sociology of economic behavior (Max Weber, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Godelier, Pierre Bourdieu).

ROFR 44970 Approaching migration through fieldwork: initiating action research into migration policies (3 Credit Hours)

Begging families on the street, adolescents selling hashish or cigarettes on the sly, young people engaging in prostitution, undocumented migrants working in kitchens, on construction sites, or in agriculture: since the Syrian conflict and the collapse of Libya, these scenes have multiplied in large cities. In Beirut, Istanbul, Algiers, Athens, Palermo, Barcelona, Paris, and Stockholm, these situations reflect the social consequences of migration policies, reception policies (asylum, social and economic integration), and labor relations that are rarely made explicit. This course is based on a so-called "bottom-up" field approach in order to measure the social and societal effects of public policies differently. To illustrate this method, it will rely on various visible situations linked to migration: the reemergence of shantytowns, the increase in unaccompanied minors wandering, etc., in order to analyze the sociological mechanisms at work within migrant groups, host societies, and countries of origin. The aim of this method is to use tools from social science research to be able to evaluate and then propose improvements to existing policies and measures. It is an introduction to action research based on a shared field diagnosis that facilitates the acceptance of change and social innovation.

ROFR 44980 Public Security Policies in France: Actors, Missions, Challenges (3 Credit Hours)

While security is currently one of the major concerns for many French people, this course aims to present to students the main issues relating to public internal security policies in France. After an exhaustive presentation of the players in this sector (national police and gendarmerie, municipal police, firefighters, private security agents in particular), the missions assigned to them and the challenges facing them at the start of the 21st century will be discussed. century. The objective is to enable everyone to identify the main issues relating to internal security in France, to reflect on them in a calm manner, and to develop a constructed and factual argument about this highly sensitive societal issue.

ROFR 44990 Engaging in Poetry (3 Credit Hours)

This seminar introduces students to contemporary French poetry through close readings, creative workshops, and critical reflection, emphasizing poetry as a living practice of expression, experimentation, and engagement with the world.

ROFR 45999 Language-Based Internship (3 Credit Hours)

Students will complete an internship in the country of their choice, working in the target language. Students who participate in the program will: -Increase their marketability in a competitive job market by developing unique skills including intercultural communication, language skills, and other skills that cannot be directly taught in the classroom -Build an international network of contacts in their chosen field -Develop interpersonal skills in addition to the technical skills necessary to compete in a global market -Learn to communicate effectively in a professional setting with people from other languages and cultures

ROFR 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

Course may be repeated.

ROFR 48000 Senior Thesis (1-3 Credit Hours)

This course may cover an in-depth study of a particular author, theme, genre, or century. In addition to primary texts, some critical material will be required reading. This course culminates in a substantial research paper.

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in French and Francophone Studies.

Italian (ROIT)

ROIT 10101 Beginning Italian I (4 Credit Hours)

This is an introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. An appreciation for Italian culture is also encouraged through readings and class discussion. The sequence 10101-10102 is to be followed by ROIT 20201 or ROIT 20215.

ROIT 10102 Beginning Italian II (4 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: ROIT 10101 or ROIT 14101

ROIT 10110 Beginning Italian (6 Credit Hours)

This is a six-credit hybrid introductory language course, which combines traditional classroom with on-line instruction. Students attend class with an instructor (MWF) and work on-line (T-TH). Equal emphasis is placed on spoken and written Italian. The course is followed by ROIT 20201 or 20215.

ROIT 10180 Italian Learning & Teaching Beyond the Classroom: Coaching in Italian for Refugees Learning Experien (1 Credit Hour)

This is a one-credit interdisciplinary and experiential learning course offered through Summer Online in June 2022 to qualified Notre Dame students. This course prepares students to serve as language coaches for immigrants in Italy participating in the Italian for Immigrants non-credit training program. Students will tackle issues of immigration and foreign language pedagogy and will learn how to use their language knowledge for service to the underprivileged. This course is open to all language students who have reached a 102 level in their foreign language. Precedence will be given to students of Italian. Approximately 4 Notre Dame students will be hired to participate in this course. Students who are not hired will be prepared to support language training for immigrants.

ROIT 14101 Beginning Italian I (3-4 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to give students basic communicative ability in Italian. By presenting the language in a variety of authentic contexts, the course also seeks to provide an introduction to Italian culture and society. Students work on all four language skills: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing.

ROIT 14102 Beginning Italian II (3 Credit Hours)

Welcome to ROIT 14102 - Beginning Italian II Online Course. This course focuses on developing students' competency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. ROIT 14102 will be conducted entirely online. You will not need to be physically present on campus in order to be a student in this class. You will need to have access to a computer with a microphone, headphones, a video camera and high speed internet. We will use the latest edition of the Textbook Sentieri published by Vista Higher Learning and the Supersite. You will need to purchase the access to the Supersite with your textbook. Since the course will be held entirely online, it requires students to work independently and follow a very structured syllabus. Each day you will be involved in a variety of online tasks such as reading, listening, completing exercises, posting writing assignments and recording responses on the Supersite. Twice a week during our virtual classroom time, you will meet in real time with your instructors and a small number of classmates. Your instructors will be available for online office hours twice a week.

Prerequisites: ROIT 10101 or ROIT 14101 or ROIT 14105

ROIT 14108 Beginning Italian I (3 Credit Hours)

ROIT 14118 Italian Review for Architecture (4 Credit Hours)

This is an Italian language course specifically for architecture students in Rome that will focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing in the Italophone context. An appreciation for Italian culture is also encouraged through readings, visits, and class discussion.

ROIT 20111 Intensive Italian (6 Credit Hours)

ROIT 20111 is a six-credit hybrid Intensive course that combines second and third semesters of Italian language study, offering both traditional classroom instruction (MWF for 50 minutes each) and on-line work on the textbook Supersite on TTh. This course focuses on refining skills in all communicative aspects of Italian: reading, writing, listening and speaking. By the end of this intensive course, students will be able to better express themselves in Italian, and be culturally aware and engaged users of the language. ROIT 20111 is followed by ROIT 20202.

ROIT 20201 Intermediate Italian I (3 Credit Hours)

Welcome to ROIT 20201 - Intermediate Italian I. This is an intermediate language course focusing on oral and written production. It includes a review of some basic introductory-level grammar and transitions into more difficult features of Italian grammar and vocabulary. Students discuss and write about Italian cultural topics and current events. This course meets three hours per week on MWF and completes the remaining chapters of the Sentieri textbook and online platform.

Prerequisites: ROIT 10102 or ROIT 10106 or ROIT 10110 or ROIT 10115 or ROIT 14102

ROIT 20202 Exploring Italian Culture: Intermediate Italian II (3 Credit Hours)

ROIT 20202 is a fourth-semester Italian course that is designed to develop written and oral communication skills and to prepare students for upper-level courses in the Italian department. Throughout the semester, students will work towards obtaining linguistic fluency while exploring Italian culture through the films of some contemporary well-known directors. Each film will be presented in its historical and cultural context, which will provide us with the starting point of our class discussions. Cultural readings and literary excerpts drawing upon the themes of each unit and the themes presented in the films will be provided to supplement our discussion of the film.

Prerequisites: ROIT 20201 or ROIT 20215

ROIT 20300 Let's Talk Italian (1 Credit Hour)

This mini-course in Italian offers both informal and structured conversation practice. Conversation on Italian politics, society, and culture will be based on authentic materials. This course meets one hour per week for group discussions on contemporary issues and with guest speakers. Conducted in Italian. Recommended for students returning from Italy. Does not count towards Italian major or minor requirements.

Prerequisites: ROIT 20201

Course may be repeated.

ROIT 20612 Genesis of the Italian-American Identity (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

ROIT 20650 From the "Sea in the Middle": Medieval Mediterranean’s Stories (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 20690 The World in Rome: Pathways of Migration and Citizenship (3 Credit Hours)

How and why do some of the roads taken by migrants (including refugees) lead to Rome and Italy? What are the challenges faced by migrants upon their arrival, and on their path to citizenship? How does civil society intervene to mitigate those challenges, and to facilitate mutual integration and engagement? What are the distinctive features of Roman lay and Catholic approaches to migration? The course addresses such questions, building on contemporary Rome both as a compelling case study and as a gateway to the causes, lived experiences, and consequences of global migrations. Migrants' reception and integration happens at the local level, and in interaction with residents and existing communities. Attention to the realities of the host civil society is therefore fundamental: migration is not an issue that can simply be delegated to experts, bureaucrats, and politicians. Students investigate how the experience of the city is at the same time the experience of globalization, embodied in older and new residents' everyday life in the built environment; and they appreciate situated social engagement and its potentialities.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROIT 21205 Pre-Study Abroad (1 Credit Hour)

A mini-course that prepares students accepted for study abroad in Notre Dame's programs in Italy. Students are prepared for various cultural and day-to-day challenges that await them in Italy. Class runs the second half of the semester.

ROIT 24102 Italian Opera (3 Credit Hours)

Rome, Italy (JCU): This course offers the unique opportunity to learn about a very interesting sector of Italian culture. Italian Opera is a cornerstone of Italy's culture, and it has become a topic of global significance as the craft has evolved over the years; however, its importance is often overlooked in the classroom. This course provides a deep dive into the chronological history and development of opera and how it has evolved and changed alongside Italian civilization from the Renaissance to contemporary times.

ROIT 24201 Italian Language Course: Intermediate Level (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who have a knowledge of Italian sufficient to understand clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. and to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst traveling in Italy. It aims to improve students' linguistic knowledge to allow them to understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialization and interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without strain for either party. By the end of this course students will produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. RY - Notre Dame Rome - JCU This course focuses on grammar review and vocabulary expansion. Selected readings and films acquaint students with contemporary Italy.

ROIT 24202 Intermediate Italian II: Italian Writing and Culture Courses (3 Credit Hours)

This fourth-semester course is designed to explore various aspects of Italian culture while consolidating language skills, introdcing more advanced grammar and idioms, and providing experience in speaking and writing. 20202 courses (listed under ROIT 27500) are designed as a bridge to 30000-level courses for students who have completed ROIT 20201 and for students preparing to study in Italy. IC This is the core language course. Emphasis will be placed on significantly increasing competence in all aspects of language skills. In the Multimedia Lab classes students will develop both receptive and productive skills. Regular attendance and active participation will be required. Marks for active participation will be given as a portion of the final language marks. Achievement of Level B2 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. Analyse, discuss, and produce written and aural texts (including digital media texts) on familiar situations in formal and informal contexts.

Prerequisites: ROIT 20201

ROIT 24210 Intermediate Italian for Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

Intermediate Italian for Architecture I is a 2 credit Italian course combined with Italian Experience (1 credit): the course meets twice a week for 1 hour. ROIT 24210 corresponds to the on campus ROIT 20201 incorporating advanced language skills, cultural topics and a focus on language learning abroad, and counting towards the Italian minor/major in Italian. This Italian course has a special focus on the city of Rome, its history and culture, its map/s, neighborhoods, historical sites, monuments, art and architecture, literature and films.

Enrollment limited to students in the Architecture department.

ROIT 24215 Intensive Intermediate Italian (6 Credit Hours)

Taught as IT 203 at host institution. This six-credit course meets four times per week and covers the equivalent of a full year of intermediate language study (Intermediate Italian I and Intermediate Italian II). The course is designed for highly motivated students who wish to consolidate their communicative ability in Italian while developing reading and composition skills.

ROIT 24220 Intermediate Italian II for Architecture (3 Credit Hours)

Intermediate Italian for Architecture II is a 2 credit Italian course combined with Italian Experience (ARCH 34301, 1 credit) and it meets one hour twice a week. ROIT 24220 corresponds to the on campus ROIT 20202 and counts towards the Italian minor and major. This course focuses on advanced language skills, and it is centered on the city of Rome, its history and culture, its map/s, neighborhoods, historical sites, monuments, art and architecture, literature and films. The focus this semester will be on contemporary Rome and how the eternal city is mapped and described through various artistic means as a global city with multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-linguistic identities, its enchanting beauty and its profound contradictions, its aspiration to be a harmonious melting pot and its racism. The literature and films set on the city map will reveal the tension between city center and its peripheries, along with its two opposing tendencies of inclusiveness and marginalization.

Enrollment limited to students in the Architecture department.

ROIT 24221 Intermediate Italian II for Architecture (2 Credit Hours)

This course is created with the Architecture student in mind. Taking Intermediate Italian II 24220 for one-credit in the Fall semester followed by Intermediate Italian II 24221 for two-credits in the Spring, will allow students to advance their Italian language studies while taking full advantage of the city of Rome. ROIT 24220 taken with 24221 is the equivalent to ROIT 20202 Intermediate Italian II.

Enrollment limited to students in the Architecture department.

ROIT 24301 Speaking Italy (1-2 Credit Hours)

ROIT 24305 Italian B2 (1 Credit Hour)

Expand cultural knowledge (level B1 + B2). Develop oral expression and comprehension. Be able to understand and reproduce the content of press articles or short reports, to argue, to discuss and compare.

ROIT 24610 Italian Language and Cultural History (3 Credit Hours)

Intensive Italian language review and cultural historic introduction to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy.

ROIT 30300 Let's Talk Italian II (1 Credit Hour)

This mini-course in Italian meets one hour per week for group discussions on varied contemporary issues in Italian culture, society, and politics. Conducted in Italian. Recommended for students in their third or fourth year of Italian. Does not count towards Italian major or minor requirements.

Prerequisites: ROIT 27500 or ROIT 20215 or ROIT 24202 or ROIT 30310 or ROIT 20202

Course may be repeated.

ROIT 30310 Passage to Italy: Textual Analysis and Advanced Grammar (3 Credit Hours)

In this fifth-semester course you learn to analyze and understand works drawn from the major literary and artistic genres (lyric poetry, prose, theatre, epic, novel, film, opera, contemporary song). At the same time you will review and consolidate your grasp of the Italian language at an advanced level.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30520 The Role of the Witness in Italian Culture: Testimonies of Fascism, the Mafia, and Terrorism (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 30710 The Quest for Nature in Italy (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 30711 Medieval-Renaissance Italian Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course helps you to understand and interpret the most important works of medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, as well as painting, sculpture, architecture, and music, in their historical, social, and cultural context. We will analyze key texts from Cavalcanti, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Poliziano, and Ariosto, among others, and learn to appreciate key works of art and architecture by Duccio, Giotto, Ghiberti, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Alberti, Masaccio, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, among others. The course is taught in Italian, and also aims to help you speak, understand, and write Italian with more confidence, accuracy, and ease. Counts as a Lit-Culture course; required for majors and supplementary majors in the Lit Culture concentration; this course or ROIT 30721 required for majors in the Italian Studies concentration. Cross-listed with MI 30577.

Prerequisites: ROIT 20215 or ROIT 27500

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30713 What is Love? (3 Credit Hours)

What do we mean by the word Love? Is it passion? Madness? Is it friendship? Can it exist only among human beings? Love shapes communities, can promote war or peace, and raises fundamental questions about life. In the pre-modern world, love was conceived as a force that moved the individual and governed not only the body but the entire universe. Love was God and the quest for the Absolute. Love was also desire and the cause of many problems. By reading literature from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (from early lyric to Dante's universal love, Petrarch's exploration of the self, Boccaccio's legitimation of female desire, Michelangelo's homoerotic poetry, Machiavelli's comic impulses, Vittoria Colonna's spiritual rhymes), along with philosophical, religious, and rhetorical texts on love (from Plato and Augustine to Andrea Cappellanus, Richard of St. Victor, and Marsilio Ficino), we will see what has changed and what has persisted, and ultimately come to understand what we mean when we talk about Love.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30715 Fantastic Beasts (3 Credit Hours)

From mythical creatures to demonic bodies and surprisingly bestial humans, this course explores the animals of medieval Italian literature. Why is the horse lascivious? How can a wolf be tamed? Which monsters from Antiquity lurk in the imagination of the Medieval world? To answer these questions and more, students will read extracts from classics of world literature – including Dante’s Divine Comedy, Boccaccio’s Decameron, and Petrarch’s Canzoniere – alongside lesser-studied poems, treatises, and short stories from the heart of the lyric tradition to the soul of medieval monasticism. As well as a strong grounding in the logic and development of the medieval “Bestiary” tradition, students will discover medieval transformations of classical myths and explore the role of non-humans in medieval depictions of the human condition itself, from love to sin and salvation. This course is taught in Italian. Students will have the chance to study selected traditions from visual art, including manuscript illuminations and wall paintings.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30718 The Literature of the Journey to Italy: From the Renaissance to Today (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 30721 Modern Italian Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Renowned for its rich past but full of contradictions that persist to the present day, Italy has one of the most fascinating histories and abundant cultures in the modern world. This course provides a unique perspective onto Italian modernity by exploring the wealth of Italy's modern and contemporary cultural production. We will focus on key issues that unveil the unique "spirit" of modern Italy, such as the weight of the past, the tension between political realism and idealism, the recurrence of social and political crises, immigration, revolution, and youth culture. We will investigate how issues of gender, class, race, identity, and faith have shaped Italian literature, film, and theatre in the modern age. Through the study of texts, films, and other media, the course seeks to understand the development of modern Italy and its future trajectory. Authors studied will include Dario Fo, Natalia Ginzburg, Eugenio Montale, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, Luigi Pirandello, Igiaba Scego, and Elio Vittorini. This course is taught in Italian and satisfies the Ways of Knowing requirements for Advanced Language and Culture as well as Fine Arts and Literature.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30750 Italian Women Writers: Female Voices in Modern and Contemporary Italy (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers a deep dive into the remarkable, yet frequently marginalized, works of women authors in Italian literature from the nineteenth century to contemporary times. How have these writers influenced discourses surrounding women’s emancipation and pressing social issues? What do their contributions reveal about women’s struggle to establish their voices, and claim their identity and power? Through our exploration of novels, poems, and short stories, we will uncover the unique perspectives and influences of these authors, highlighting how they have actively shaped the cultural landscape. The course will be conducted entirely in Italian, providing an immersive experience as we study works that have redefined the Italian literary canon.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 34010 Roman Institutions (3 Credit Hours)

Between institutions and practice: family institutions. Within the whole body of Roman institutions, whose knowledge is entrusted to the students through the study of handbooks, during the course we will analyze, in particular, institutions related to the family life.

ROIT 34051 Made in Italy (3 Credit Hours)

The course analyzes the Italian Business environment, the characteristics of its culture and its inner workings. Students will be able to understand the different types of Italian corporate cultures and the role of family businesses in Italy. The course allows students to assess some of the most popular Italian brands and learn why "made in Italy" is a leading brand in the world, despite recent influences and threats from foreign investors. Company cases and special guests will be an important part of this course and will allow students to relate theory to practice.

ROIT 34150 Rome Practicum in Italian (3 Credit Hours)

Students participate in engaged learning activities in the city of Rome in a variety of educational and institutional settings in keeping with their academic and disciplinary areas of interest. The course includes a weekly meeting called the "Forum" in which students discuss their research projects and engagement activities. In some special cases the practicum can take the form of a 3-credit hour internship.

ROIT 34154 Contemporary Italian Society (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces students to the complexities of contemporary Italian society, taking a primarily bottom-up social science approach by examining a wide variety of contexts and exploring the ways in which Italians express, negotiate and transform their cultural and social identities. By drawing on a growing body of anthropological and sociological research, it provides students with the tools to question rigid and dated assumptions about Italian social life and enables them to analyze its multifaceted, dynamic and often contradictory forms and practices, focusing primarily on the last two decades.

ROIT 34230 Advanced Grammar and Conversation (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to help students gain fluency and confidence in speaking while reviewing the advanced structures of Italian grammar. Contemporary literary and journalistic texts offer an introduction to Italian culture and provide the basis for class discussions geared toward expanding vocabulary and reinforcing the idiomatic use of the language.

ROIT 34301 Speaking Italy (1-2 Credit Hours)

ROIT 34308 Introduction to Professional Translation (3 Credit Hours)

The aim of this class is to examine the war of Russia and Ukraine by looking at their history using political theory and concepts to understand the history of Russia and the rise of Putin and why Russia is attacking Ukraine.

ROIT 34310 Passages to Rome (3 Credit Hours)

The analysis of the most complex structures of grammar and syntax will be performed through reading a selection of contemporary Italian literature and by writing a short story in different controlled stages. This course aims at developing a better knowledge and understanding of the Italian language and at building a competence on basic narrative techniques towards the creation of a "personal" style. Grammar topics include: the structure of transitivity and intransitivity in the relationship between prepositions and verbs, subtle features of the subjunctive, temporal shifts in modal auxiliaries, phraseology and conjunctions in compound constructions. Taught in Italian.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 34320 Advanced Composition (3 Credit Hours)

In this course students will be guided through a variety of types of writing and styles (e.g. journalistic, business and professional, essay.) Although mainly designed for advanced non-native speakers, the course may also be taken by native speakers who wish to improve their writing skills. Students will reinforce their knowledge of grammar and syntax as well as develop vocabulary. In addition, students will learn fundamental writing techniques such as organizing ideas, selecting examples, drawing conclusions and using the appropriate style for the given genre or mode of discourse.

ROIT 34321 Advanced Course in Italian Language and Society (3 Credit Hours)

The analysis of the most complex structures of grammar and syntax will be conducted by reading a selection of articles from the most important Italian newspapers. This course aims at improving lexicon and developing in-depth conversation about current events.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 34325 Italian Language and Gender (3 Credit Hours)

The course focuses on an advanced study of Italian language from a gender perspective. It aims to consolidate the language structures previously acquired as well as apprehend both the sociocultural implications of language, and how the use of language contributes in creating and recreating ideologies. Through exposure to a broad range of texts, students will be involved in the current heated debate concerning the revision of the Italian language in a gender-inclusivity and diversity key.

ROIT 34326 Sociolinguistics: A Changing Language in a Changing Society (3 Credit Hours)

Rome, Italy (JCU): This course seeks to understand the evolution of the Italian language over time. It is taught fully in Italian.

ROIT 34330 For the Love of Knowledge: Cosmos, Body & Soul in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature & Art (3 Credit Hours)

As Dante Alighieri writes at the beginning of the Convivio, “all men [and women] by nature desire to know.” This 3-credit course, taught in Italian, explores how Medieval and Renaissance Italian artists, poets, and intellectuals engaged with the problem of knowledge and its objects. What is the cosmos, and how does it function? What is the place of our world within it? How do we measure and understand our surroundings? What is the relationship between human beings and the universe, between body and mind, and what is the soul? Disciplines such as cosmology, astronomy, geography, philosophy, and theology emerged as ways of acquiring and organizing knowledge about ourselves and the world. At the same time, poetry and the visual arts gave voice to—and preserved—the history of new discoveries and ideas. From Dante, Boccaccio, and Giotto to Alberti, Isotta Nogarola and Moderata Fonte, from Campanella to Bruno and Galileo; from Botticelli and Leonardo to Raphael, Michelangelo, Plautilla Bricci and Guercino, we will examine texts and works of art that place knowledge and its transmission at their center. Students will engage in discussions on the nature of knowledge and the desire to know, consider the classification of different fields of study, and explore diverse modes and contexts of learning. The course also addresses the role of gender in the pursuit of knowledge and the relationship between vernacular language and Latin in shaping how knowledge was categorized, communicated, and transmitted in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.

ROIT 34360 Italian Food Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Italy's deep rooted network of local food knowledge is an excellent example for students to understand what food culture is, how food scenarios changed with industrialization, and how they are evolving further today. This course presents students with the basic tools necessary for better understanding Italian food culture. Its broad perspective encompasses traditional farming and processing techniques, the industrial and global food economy and changing consumption habits. Its anthropological approach draws from classical and modern writing. Italy is world-famous for its produce diversity and vibrant peasant traditions. By exploring the complex set of influences forming the Italian food culture, students will acquire an analytical approach enabling them to read through the other foodscapes that they encounter in their home country or abroad, and eventually choose, value and embrace career paths into the food sector. Even apparently simple, everyday food staples contain layers of significance connecting to the following topics: the peculiar man-nature relationship needed for their production; preserving and cooking techniques; the influences from foreign cooking philosophies and/or crops; the pressure of the global market; and the type of socialization involved during the meal

ROIT 34435 Italian Politics and Society (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the evolution of Italian political culture from 1945 to the present. Highlighting the problems of developing a national identity and the legacies of Fascism and the Resistance in influencing the 1948 Constitution, the course will look at Italys position during the Cold War, the economic miracle of the 1950s, the political conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s, the end of the First Republic and the political scene since 1992, as well as the political influence of such actors as the Vatican and the Mafia.

ROIT 34545 Italian Cinema Since 1945 (3 Credit Hours)

This course will trace the evolution of Italian film from the immediate postwar period to the present. Topics will include neorealism, rosy neorealism, melodrama, comedy Italian style, political films, the representation of Fascism, film and literary interactions, film documentary, the art film, popular comedy, the development of Italian television, the crisis of Italian cinema, Italian-American directors, and Italy in the global audio-visual market. Major directors, film genres, and new approaches to theoretical/critical issues in film scholarship will be stressed. Requirements will include preparation of readings, attendance at mandatory evening film screenings, as well as a number of critical papers and seminar presentations. Conducted in Italian.

ROIT 34560 Image of Rome in Italian Literature and Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

This course, which is held in Italian, explores the image of Rome in Italian twentieth century literature and cinema. Literary and cinematic representations not only mirror in different ways the actual geographical, social, and cultural landscape of a city, but they also participate in shaping its identity and its self-representation. The course aims at providing students with critical keys to understanding this multilayered relationship in its different expressions.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 34570 History of 20th Century Italian Culture (3 Credit Hours)

In this class there are 5 different modules with five different Universita di Bologna professors: History, Fashion, Music, Architecture/Design, Film. Each covers the totality of the 20th century in their given fields. Lecture and Discussion based in Italian.

ROIT 34650 Rome Global Gateway Directed Readings in Italian (3 Credit Hours)

Students undertake independent research projects in Rome in a discipline supervised remotely by Notre Dame faculty at the South Bend campus for three credit hours. Typically students complete a research paper, and their research leads to senior theses and or further studies.

ROIT 34660 Italian Media and Popular Culture (3 Credit Hours)

The course is divided into five major sections designed to accompany students to the major phases of armed conflicts. During each section, the student will be introduced to the major scholars, practitioners, ideas and theoretical works which have attempted to respond to them. The first section begins with an introduction to the various approaches to war and peace in the political science tradition and defines various ways of both understanding and measuring political conflict and peace. The second section considers why wars begin and whether global politics offers any suggestions to preventing armed conflicts. The third section explores why wars last, and what factors, including religious, ethnic, institutional and economic vulnerabilities, impact the length and intensity of wars. The fourth section asks what practitioners and political scientists can teach us about ending wars, including through the use of force, negotiation, education, consciousness-raising, international institutions, non-governmental and religious groups, exhaustion and peace-enforcing. The final section explores strategies to recreate peace, including truth and reconciliation processes, war tribunals and post-conflict reconstruction.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 34710 Fourteenth Century Italian Literature (4 Credit Hours)

The study of Dante's Divina Commedia begun in Second Year continues through reading the Purgatorio, with concentration on some philosophical and theological questions it raises, and a detailed look at some of the more problematic passages which it contains.

ROIT 34720 Introduction to Italian Literature II (3 Credit Hours)

This course, which is a continuation of IT 320, analyzes the major writers of Italy from the 18th century to the present, including such authors as Alfieri, Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi, Verga, Carducci, D'Annunzio, Pascoli, Pirandello, Montale, Pavese, and Moravia. Prerequisite: Placement or IT 301 or permission of the instructor.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 34721 Modern Italian Literature (3 Credit Hours)

The course aims to acquire the ability to understand the history of Italy from the Risorgimento until today, according to a perspective interlacing local, national and supranational dimensions. It will analyse the main political, cultural, social and economical points that characterised the Italian history, with peculiar emphasis on the 1900s.

ROIT 34730 Twentieth Century Italian Women Writers (3 Credit Hours)

This course will deal with the writings of Italian women writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their contribution has been crucial in the shaping of a recognizable, but still not fully acknowledged, tradition of women writers in Italy. Through the particular perspectives of distinguished Italian women writers, the course will explore versions of feminine writing and will introduce gender- and genre-related issues.

ROIT 34750 Literature and Art in the Italian Renaissance (3 Credit Hours)

The aim of the course is to develop specialized knowledge of Renaissance Italian literature and its relationship with the figurative arts, through an in-depth study of the works of authors who have played a key role in both literary and artistic production, according to the most up-to-date research perspectives. At the end of the course, students will interpret the interpretation structure of the historical, historical, and linguistic character for the analysis of Renaissance literature related to artistic production and will be able to apply advanced analytical methodologies to them.

ROIT 35150 RGG Virtual Practicum in Italian (1 Credit Hour)

Students participate in virtual engaged learning activities with organizations in the city of Rome in a variety of educational and institutional settings in keeping with their academic and disciplinary areas of interest. One initial, mid-term and final meeting with the instructor aimed at providing context for guided reflection on the students' experiences as interns with organizations in Rome. Work to be completed in Italian.

ROIT 36000 Directed Reading (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

ROIT 40115 Dante I (3 Credit Hours)

Dante I and Dante II are an in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia). Dante I focuses on the Inferno and the minor works; Dante II focuses on the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation. Students may take one semester or both, in either order.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

ROIT 40116 Dante II (3 Credit Hours)

Dante I and Dante II are an in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia). Dante I focuses on the Inferno and the minor works; Dante II focuses on the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation. Students may take one semester or both, in either order.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 40330 Seeing Things: Vision Across Text and Image in Medieval Italy (3 Credit Hours)

In the Italian Middle Ages, vision was more than a physical process, it was a way of understanding the world, navigating society, and expressing devotion and desire. Fascinated by mystical experience but saturated with social conventions that sought to control as well as to captivate the gaze, theories and mythologies of vision shaped social life and self-expression, illuminating the centuries traditionally known as the “Dark Ages” with a rich discourse on sight and perception. This course explores the theme of vision across texts and images from medieval Italy, investigating whose visions got to be recorded. Readings include poetic, devotional, and scientific texts and the study selected visual artifacts from illuminated manuscripts to major fresco cycles, ecclesiastical artworks, and domestic decorations. In addition to exploring how ‘seeing’ shaped the medieval mind, students will uncover how authors and artists investigated the space between what could be seen and what could only be imagined.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 40350 Boccaccio's Decameron: God, Sex, Money, and Power (3 Credit Hours)

In this course students will make a close and critical reading of Giovanni Boccaccio's collection of one hundred short stories, the Decameron. A founding work of Italian literature, recognized for centuries as its best example of prose writing, its author wanted it to be an ethical manual for critically understanding reality and its political, social, and religious tenets, under the appearance of a mere entertaining work. From the experience of the 1348 Black Plague to daily issues in protocapitalist Florence, from tales of magicians and enchanted gardens to tongue-in-cheek stories, from relationships between husband and wives, children and parents, to those between kings, sultans, and their subjects, Boccaccio's stories allow us to better understand our past, while challenging our views on the self, faith, society, and the other.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROIT 40370 Modernist Italy: Decadence, Avant-garde, and the Crisis of the Self (3 Credit Hours)

The turn of the twentieth century was a period of electrifying transformation. Yet, modernity – promising progress and innovation – also revealed its darker facets: inequality, division, and existential crisis. How did Italy adapt to this rapidly evolving world? This course delves into the vibrant cultural responses of the era, from the introspective works of Nobel Prize-winning authors to the bold, revolutionary manifestos of the avant-garde. We will examine Decadent and Modernist literature alongside disruptive movements like Futurism, uncovering how Italian writers and artists confronted literary and artistic conventions. Through textual and visual analysis, we will explore how the contradictions exposed by Modernism redefined the Italian cultural tradition and continue to resonate in contemporary times. Taught in Italian.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 40380 Italian Trends and Territories of the 20th and 21st Centuries (3 Credit Hours)

This course traces the evolution of Italian identity through a journey across its most iconic literary landscapes—from the sun-drenched ruins of aristocratic Sicily to the industrial heart of Turin, the vibrant, gritty streets of modern Naples, and the multicultural reality of post-colonial Rome. By analyzing key cultural trends such as neo-realism, postmodernism, and the rise of post-colonial voices, students will examine how Italy transformed from a fragmented 19th-century kingdom into a complex, culturally diverse European nation. Six seminal authors anchor the course, mapping the shifting “territory” of the Italian soul across the 20th and 21st centuries. Through a carefully curated selection of complete works and substantial excerpts, students will trace a path from aristocratic decline to a multicultural future. Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard captures Sicily’s fatalistic transition during the Risorgimento, while Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man offers a harrowing, scientific testimony to the Holocaust—Italy’s moral “zero point.” Natalia Ginzburg’s Lessico famigliare preserves the intimate, domestic language of anti-fascist resistance in Turin. The course then pivots to the conceptual and social transformations of the late century: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities abstracts the modern urban experience into a postmodern kaleidoscope; Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels ground the 21st century in the raw socioeconomic and gendered struggles of Naples; and Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono redefines contemporary italianità, mapping a postcolonial Rome that embraces migrant and diasporic identities. Readings from these literary works will be complemented by a selection of musical, artistic, and cinematic materials that deepen our understanding of modern Italy’s evolving cultural landscape.

ROIT 40510 Italian Cinema 1: New Realisms in the Old World (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the history of Italian film from the silent era to the 1960s, an epoch stretching from Francesca Bertini's Assunta Spina to Federico Fellini's La dolce vita. At the center of this period is the age of Italian neorealism, when directors such as Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, and Luchino Visconti invented new ways of looking at the world that radically transformed the history of world cinema. Focusing their attention on issues and individuals that had gone unseen in Fascist and post-Fascist Italy, the neorealists challenged established norms by making the experiences of ordinary Italians increasingly visible, developing techniques for representing reality that continue to influence filmmakers across the globe. We will analyze how questions of class, faith, gender, identity, and ideology intersect on screen as Italian directors explore and attempt to intervene in a rapidly transforming modern world. With a filmography featuring both masterpieces of world cinema and cult classics, this course will investigate how the quest to capture reality reshaped every genre of Italian film, including action & adventure, comedy, crime, documentary, melodrama, mystery, thriller and more. The course is taught in English and all films will have English subtitles.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 40512 Italian Cinema II: The World of Illusions (3 Credit Hours)

This course begins in the 1960s, when Italy stood at the center of the film world, and traces the history of Italian cinema to the present day. We will focus on the heyday of Italian auteurs – Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, and Pier Paolo Pasolini – examining how each brought a singular vision to the collective medium of cinema. Working against the hegemony of Hollywood, Italian filmmakers in the twentieth century created new forms of representation that inspired audiences worldwide. They continue to do so in the new millennium, building on the innovations of illustrious predecessors like Bertolucci and Pontecorvo, Wertmüller and Cavani to reveal new realities to moviegoers across the globe. We will analyze how questions of class, faith, gender, identity, and ideology intersect on screen as Italian directors seek both to expose and to recreate the illusions by which we live. With a filmography featuring both masterpieces of world cinema and cult classics, this course will investigate how pioneering Italian directors reshaped every genre of film, including action & adventure, comedy, crime, documentary, melodrama, mystery, thriller, horror, and more. The course is taught in English and all films will have English subtitles.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 40810 Fascism and Resistance (3 Credit Hours)

In this seminar we will investigate how Fascism emerged in Italy in the twentieth century, and how some Italians resisted the rise of totalitarianism. Reflecting on the role of culture throughout Italy's "difficult modernity," we will examine how leading artists and intellectuals worked to support or to combat the Italian dictatorship. Against the backdrop of the historical crises that both preceded and outlasted the Fascist period, we will engage with Italian literature, cinema, theatre, and art in order to evaluate the complex relationships between culture and power. Authors studied include Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, and Cesare Pavese. Filmmakers studied include Bernardo Bertolucci, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini. Course is taught in Italian

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROIT 40914 Primo Levi: Literature and Life (3 Credit Hours)

Primo Levi has been called "a major, universally recognized, icon in Holocaust literature" (Geerts), indeed "the witness-writer par excellence," because "his narrative, poetry and essays about his time in Auschwitz are among the most widely read and most widely lauded of all writings on the Holocaust" (Gordon). Levi was this and more: witness and storyteller, scientist and writer, he was among the greatest authors and moral authorities of the twentieth century. In this course, taught in Italian, we will read Levi's first and most famous work, Se questo - un uomo (If This is a Man, 1947), a masterpiece and milestone in the Italian tradition, in which Levi recounts his internment in Auschwitz. With Levi, we will ask what it means to live, what it means to be human, in and after the Nazi death camps. With Levi, too, we will broaden our exploration to address vital questions of faith, identity, meaning, truth, responsibility, love, friendship, freedom, diversity, survival, science, and salvation as we read selections from such fundamental works as La tregua (The Truce, 1963); Il sistema periodico (The Periodic Table, 1975); Lillit e altri racconti (Moments of Reprieve, 1978); and I sommersi e i salvati (The Drowned and the Saved, 1986). Throughout the course we will also make use of materials from the Primo Levi Collection of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library, one of the world's foremost collections dedicated to the study of Primo Levi.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 42115 Dante I LAC Discussion Group (1 Credit Hour)

Students of the Italian language are eligible to sign up for an additional single credit discussion section as part of the Languages across the Curriculum (LAC) initiative in the College of Arts and Letters. Choosing this option means that students will read a canto per week of the Comedy in Italian and meet once a week with a section leader who will guide a discussion in Italian and grade some brief writing assignments. The LAC discussion section in Italian associated with this course will be graded on a pass/fail basis and credited to the student's transcript.

ROIT 42116 Dante II LAC Discussion Group (1 Credit Hour)

Students with Italian enrolled in Dante II have the option of also enrolling in a one-credit un/satisfactory Languages Across the Curriculum section, which will meet one hour per week to read and discuss selected passages or cantos in Italian.

ROIT 44061 Philosophy of Language and Communication (3 Credit Hours)

The course deals with the theme of the origin of language. Starting from the comparison between human language and animal communication, two theoretical models will be presented: on the one hand, the model that maintains that human language is in continuity with animal communication systems (in particular, with the communication of monkeys); on the other hand, the theoretical hypothesis that maintains that between human language and animal communication there is an incurable fracture. The goal is to present arguments in favor of the continuous hypothesis through the reference to the idea that language has a gestural origin.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 44111 Dante and Mass Incarceration (3 Credit Hours)

This course seeks understanding of the relationship between justice and mercy at the intersection of theology, literature, and mass incarceration. This interdisciplinary encounter aims to be mutually critical and illuminating. Whereas theological reflection, language, and traditions are often employed as an interpretive lens for diagnosing the injustice of mass incarceration, this course also asks: in what ways might mass incarceration allow us in turn to consider, critique, and re-imagine the conceptual and moral injustices of theological reflection? Central to this intersection, accordingly, is literature, and in the context of the present course, Dante Alighieri's Comedy. This poetic intervention by a late medieval Catholic poet is all the more significant for being unexpected. Indeed, it is noteworthy that our especially Western inherited imaginaries of damnation, purgation, and salvation, not to mention their attendant conceptions of punishment and forgiveness, remain influenced by and indebted to Dante's theological architecture of the Comedy. Thus, on the one hand, it is all the more significant that Dante hell is emphatically carceral: he not only meditates upon those most dehumanized in the lowest circle of hell by means of a story of incarceration, but also refers to hell as such as a blind prison. And yet, on the other, it is equally striking that Dante continues to garner praise, not least by Pope Francis himself, as a prophet of hope uniquely situated to narrate the over-abundant mercy of God in the context of human life. This course, then, aims to explore this charged ambiguity between carceral despair and prophetic hope at the heart of the poem, as a means of refining understanding ultimately the relationship between justice and mercy in interpersonal, civic, and spiritual life. If we can affirm, alongside Cornel West, that justice is what love looks like in public, and if we can affirm, alongside Dante, that mercy is what love looks like for the sinner, then the opposite of justice is not mercy but despair, or the refusal of love. The course as a whole traces this refusal, and its possible repair, via paired readings of the Comedy and on the age of mass incarceration. First, we will consider, alongside the Inferno, Dante's burdened reflections on the nature of human exile, despair, and violence, and their medieval and contemporary instantiation in systems of punishment. Second, we will consider, largely alongside the Purgatorio and Paradiso, Dante's articulation of salvation as the reclamation of human community, realized in practices of justice and mercy, and taking the medieval and contemporary forms of human kinship, citizenship, and prophetic voice. Third, we will conduct a four-fold reflection on conceptions of justice, as variously punitive, restorative, transformative, and ultimately, creative.

ROIT 44207 Italian Contemporary Literature (3-6 Credit Hours)

This course intends to provide a critical and cultural awareness in contemporary Italian literature and civilization. For this purpose, literary texts are always analyzed as open shapes, focusing on the relationships between their tradition and cultural legacies. We will also read together and discuss a corpus of prose works through many examples of comparative analysis and practice on different methods.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 44250 Art and Society in the Middle Ages (3 Credit Hours)

This course aims to illustrate the relationship between Italian art and politics from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century through the analysis of some specific areas. The focus on the political, cultural and artistic background will enable students to understand the work of art especially as a representation of power.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 44320 Communication Skills 1 (4 Credit Hours)

This is the mandatory course for all Italian students in their second year of Honours. The course is divided into three main parts, consisting of three weekly lessons that focus respectively on oral communication, written language, and advanced aspects of Italian usage and grammar. The module aims to develop advanced proficiency, corresponding to levels C1-C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, in both written and spoken Italian and to refine the grammatical and stylistic quality of Italian expression. More specifically, the learning objectives are: 1. Improve expressive skills in writing and speaking. 2. Develop advanced competence in the understanding and use of syntactic, stylistic, and idiomatic structures of the Italian language. 3. Improve the ability to contextualize, critically analyze, and independently explore current issues concerning contemporary Italian society and culture. 4. Develop a broad range of vocabulary related to communication and the critical discussion of complex texts and phenomena, particularly relevant to the topics studied. 5. Improve the ability to translate and recontextualize in Italian reflections and opinions expressed in various linguistic fields and registers. 6. Deepen knowledge of contemporary Italy and the issues that characterize the country at the national and international levels.

ROIT 44390 The Southern Question (4 Credit Hours)

This module focuses on the aggregate of problems known as the Southern Question that arose from the extreme economic, social, and cultural backwardness that characterized the historical development of southern Italy after national unification in 1871. We will investigate the disparities between the North and the South of Italy at the time and devote consideration to the origins and consequences of this divide as well as to the economic and political interests of the Northern elite who ruled the country as well as the responsibilities of the southern cultural elite.

ROIT 44530 STORIA DELLA MUSICA DEL MEDIOEVO E RINASCIMENTO (3 Credit Hours)

The course examines the period from 1590-1612 in the life and musical career of famous Italian renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi. The course focuses on the technical and innovative characteristics of his musical compositions, as well as the poetic structure and content of the Italian texts to which he set his music, most of which during this polyphonic period were taken from Petrarch's poetry. We discuss important historical and geopolitical situations that effected Monteverdi's compositions, as well as details of his personal life.

ROIT 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

ROIT 47000 Special Studies (1-3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed with the purpose of allowing students to engage in an individual or small group study under the direction of a departmental faculty member.

Course may be repeated.

ROIT 48000 Senior Thesis (1-6 Credit Hours)

Portuguese (ROPO)

ROPO 10103 Brazilian Portuguese Language and Culture I (4 Credit Hours)

This beginning Portuguese hybrid course combines the traditional classroom format with online instruction. This course introduces students to contemporary Brazilian and Lusophone cultures through film, music, news media and internet resources. Along with the acquisition of language skills, ROPO 10103 emphasizes the active use of written and spoken Portuguese in context. This course meets three times in the classroom plus online requirements.

ROPO 10104 Beginning Portuguese II (4 Credit Hours)

This is an introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on speaking, listening, reading, and writing. An appreciation for the diverse cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world is also encouraged through readings, music, videos, and class discussion.

Prerequisites: ROPO 10102

ROPO 10105 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers I (3 Credit Hours)

This course sequence is designed for students with at least intermediate-level proficiency in Spanish. Classroom activities emphasize the acquisition of basic language structures, vocabulary, and sound systems, as well as the active use of spoken language in context. Students are introduced to the diverse cultures of the Portuguese-speaking countries through current video, printed media, music, and short fiction. This sequence is followed by ROPO 20201 or ROPO 20202. ROPO 10105 - 10106 and either ROPO 20201 or ROPO 20202 together fulfill the language requirement.

ROPO 10106 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II (3 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: ROPO 10105

ROPO 10115 Intensive Beginning Portuguese (6 Credit Hours)

Designed for highly motivated students this intensive course along with the acquisition of language skills emphasizes the active use of written and spoken Portuguese in communicative contexts: dialogues, songs, movies, TV, etc..Students attend class regularly with an instructor M W & F, and practice Portuguese through daily online activities. ROPO 10115 is followed by ROPO 20201, and together they fulfill the language requirement and prepare students to study abroad in Brazil.

ROPO 14102 Portuguese Initiation Brazilian variant A1 (2 Credit Hours)

This course will allow you to acquire the fundamental structures of the language and its basic lexicon thanks to an active method, focused on interlocution, which is based on short texts reproducing everyday life situations and on exercises. structural, recorded in the laboratory or written. At the end of this first year of learning, you will be able to: - understand familiar vocabulary and simple sentences in short messages, written or oral, relating to everyday situations; - exchange brief and direct information on subjects relating to daily life; - use, orally and in writing, a whole series of sentences to describe/tell in simple terms one's living conditions, activities, hobbies, etc.

ROPO 14103 Beginner Portuguese (2-4 Credit Hours)

Portuguese language course offered through official partner of FGV. Course offered for groups of up to 10 individuals who have a background in Latin Romance languages.

ROPO 20201 Intermediate Portuguese I (3 Credit Hours)

Through selected readings in Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literatures, films, newspaper and magazine articles, and popular music, students discuss a variety of cultural issues and expand their vocabulary. Particular attention is placed on reviewing major topics in Portuguese grammar and on developing students' writing abilities. ROPO 20201 fulfills the language requirement and prepares students to study abroad in Brazil.

Prerequisites: (ROPO 10102 or ROPO 10106 or ROPO 10115 or ROPO 10104)

ROPO 20202 Intermediate Portuguese II (3 Credit Hours)

This is a continuation of ROPO 20201 but it may be taken separately. ROPO 20202 is a fourth-semester language course designed to develop facility in speaking, reading, and writing at an advanced level. Discussions and writing assignments are based on films as well as on short stories, chronicles and newspaper articles.

Prerequisites: ROPO 20201

ROPO 20205 Intensive Intermediate Portuguese (3 Credit Hours)

ROPO 20205 is a 3-credit intensive intermediate course that focuses on developing all communicative skills in Portuguese, that is, reading, writing, listening and speaking. The course will focus on authentic material (short stories, movies, music, TV News, series, soap operas, chronicles, etc.) to prepare students to communicate more effectively in Portuguese. By the end of this intensive course, students will be able to express their ideas in a more sophisticated and advanced level. ROPO 20205 is followed by any 30000 course in Portuguese or above. Pre-requisites: ROPO 10106 (Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II), ROPO 10115 (Intensive Beginning Portuguese) or placement test.

ROPO 24235 Portuguese for Foreigners (3-6 Credit Hours)

Mandatory course for all students studying in Brazil. Course level based on results of placement test.

ROPO 27201 Independent Study: ROPO Intermediate I (1-3 Credit Hours)

This independent study covers the intermediate second-year language sequence with equal focus on oral and writing skills. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of Portuguese. Students learn to discuss and write about Lusophone cultural topics, current events, and literary texts.

ROPO 30551 Brazilian Pop Culture: Music, Television, Cinema & Sports (3 Credit Hours)

Students will hone their oral and written skills through the study of a myriad of the most popular cultural activities in Brazil. MPB, Música Sertaneja, Pop, Funk, Soap Operas, Popular Movies, Soccer and Volleyball will provide students with a rich panorama of Contemporary Pop Culture in Brazil while revealing deeper conflicts and tensions within Brazilian society. Offered in Portuguese.

Prerequisites: ROPO 20202

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30651 Brazilian Music, Culture and Society (3 Credit Hours)

Understanding Brazilian complex social and cultural issues through the study of diverse music genres, from the traditional Samba, Bossa Nova, and MPB to the more contemporary and daring Funk Carioca and Tecnobrega (offered in Portuguese).

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30810 Brazilian Literature in dialogue with new arts and media. (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, students will have a broad introduction to the masterpieces of Brazilian Literature, from colonial times to modernismo. Our corpus will include works by great masters such as Gregório de Matos, José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, and Jorge Amado. Furthermore, the close reading of these texts will be enriched by the analysis of contemporary music, graphic novels, TV shows and movies that adapt, reshape, recycle and remediate Brazilian literary classics. Taught in Portuguese.

Prerequisites: ROPO 20202

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30812 Brazilian Literature - Modernism (3 Credit Hours)

This course will focus on the development of Brazilian Modernist Literature from the Semana de Arte Moderna to the present. We will explore key aspects of Brazilian Modernism, such as the concept of cultural anthropophagy, as well as the tensions between the national and regional identities. Novels, short stories, and poetry by masters of the Brazilian literature will include Mario de Andrade (Macunaíma, Pauliceia Desvairada), Oswald de Andrade (Manifesto Antopófago), Vinícius de Moraes (Nova Antologia Poética), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (A Rosa do Povo), Jorge Amado (Gabriela Cravo e Canela), Clarice Lispector (Laços de Família), Guimarães Rosa (Grande Sertão: Veredas), João Cabral de Melo Neto (Morte e Vida Severina), Nelson Rodrigues (A Vida Como Ela É), and Augusto de Campos (Viva Vaia). Finally, we will explore contemporary authors who recently established themselves in the pantheon of Brazilian Literature: Cristovão Tezza (O Filho Eterno, 2007) and Milton Hatoum (Dois Irmãos, 2000, and Cinzas do Norte, 2005).

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30814 Introduction to Contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian Literature: Trends, Topics and Themes (3 Credit Hours)

In this course we will explore trends, topics and themes present in contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian literature. We will discuss how they reflect contemporary issues in culture and society. We will also analyze the way fictional narratives and poems are reconfigured in the cinema and music of Portugal and Brazil. Gender, race, social disparity and censorship struggles are some of the topics we will discuss.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30816 Women’s Voices in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an introduction to contemporary literature written by women in Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa. We will start by asking the question “What is women’s literature?” and throughout the course we will discuss a variety of literary genres that will aid in our discussions about the portrayal of women’s lives, aspirations, and concerns in literature. We will examine the formal structure of crônicas, short stories, novels, and poetry and will evaluate how women from different cultures portray their role as individuals as well as in family and society. The course will also examine how their fictional works voice similar or differing concerns depending on the writers’ race, class, landscape, and origin. Some of the writers we will study include Natália Correia, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Clarice Lispector, Conceição Evaristo, Cíntia Moscovich, Lídia Jorge, and Paulina Chiziane. Taught in Portuguese.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 34316 Conjuntura Politica Brasileiro e os impactos no Mundo de negocios (2 Credit Hours)

This course aims to observe the operation of the Brazilian political conjuncture by considering institutional characteristics of the political system, long term social and economic changes, and current political and social circumstances. Based on these factors, the course seeks to identify possible impacts of the poitical conjuncture on business progress and investment decisions.

ROPO 34320 Semester Advanced Portuguese Language II (3 Credit Hours)

Provide fundamentals of Portuguese written stylistics and advanced grammatical tools. Enable students to make proper use of language register in different linguistic situations. Sao Paulo, Brazil (PB): This course is designed for advanced learners of Portuguese and emphasizes both linguistic mastery and cultural fluency. Students develop stylistic sophistication, grammatical precision, and critical thinking skills while engaging deeply with Brazilian cultural, social, and political contexts. Through the course book, authentic materials, multimedia resources, and sustained writing practice, students explore Brazil's rich literature, media, history, and contemporary cultural issues, strengthening their ability to communicate effectively in academic, professional, and social settings

ROPO 34415 Latin American: A Geopolitical Guide (2 Credit Hours)

This course discusses the Geopolitical context of Latin American countries with a primary focus on Brazil, and how that will affect international business relations

ROPO 34504 Reading and Textual Production Written in Portuguese Language (4 Credit Hours)

Advanced Portuguese course focused on writing and literary genres

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 34810 Intro to Brazilian Literature - Poetry (4 Credit Hours)

Origin and development of poetry. Characterization of poetry in relation to narrative and dramatic genres. Critical assimilation of the different conceptions about the nature of poetry. Theoretical-practical study of literary prose with emphasis on the short story and the novel. Different perspectives of narrative with a view to the construction of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 34954 Brazil: A Social Mosaic (3 Credit Hours)

In this study abroad program, students will develop an in-depth understanding of the social, ethnic and cultural mosaic that makes up Brazil. History, architecture, arts, language, movies and sports will come together to highlight some of the most vibrant and dynamic societal aspects of this fascinating South American country. This course will also emphasize the social conflicts and struggles that lie behind the stereotypical images of a "touristic" Brazil.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROPO 34955 History, Art, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Portugal (3 Credit Hours)

From the Roman and Muslim roots to the Portuguese Empire, from Monarchy to Democracy, this course examines the impact of history in Portugal's cultural identity. In the course students will discuss how major cultural and historic events played a role in the development of the country, as well as observe the presence of multiple cultural voices in contemporary cultural productions. Students will experience and develop an in-depth perspective of the historical, social, ethnic, and cultural layers that make Portugal a vibrant and unique country. History, architecture, arts, and sports will provide an in-depth perspective of this multicultural country, and the ways in which all these voices come together to make Portugal the center of the Lusophone world. Our course will also emphasize the struggles that the Portuguese society still faces, and the current discussions and solutions found to remediate such inequities. The course will be taught in English.

ROPO 36000 Directed Readings: Portuguese (3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

ROPO 40511 Introduction to Film Analysis through Brazilian Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROPO 40598 Cinema of Portugal and Luso-Africa (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROPO 40750 Portugal Unchained: Politics, Culture, and Resistance from Estado Novo to Democracy (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the political, social, and cultural history of Portugal from the establishment of the Estado Novo dictatorship in 1933 to the consolidation of democracy in the 1980s and beyond. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on historical documents, literature, music, and film, students will explore the mechanisms of authoritarian control, the effects of the colonial wars, the transformative Carnation Revolution of 1974, and the complex process of democratic transition and today’s current political dynamics in the country. Special emphasis will be placed on resistance movements, censorship, and the politics of memory. The course also considers how these legacies continue to shape contemporary Portuguese society and political life today. This course will be taught in English.

ROPO 40810 The Making of a Country: Race and Social Inequality in Brazil (3 Credit Hours)

This course will focus on metanarratives of racial formation in Brazil and their correlation with social inequality. An interdisciplinary approach will be used to examine how the notion of "racial paradise" was created in the first half of the 20th century, and how it has been challenged and deconstructed over the last decades by the Brazilian intelligentsia. (offered in English).

ROPO 40820 Portuguese Pop Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Portugal’s cultural identity has been shaped by a unique interplay of religion, music, and sport—three defining elements encapsulated in the iconic trio: Fado, Futebol, and Fátima. This course explores the historical and contemporary significance of these cultural pillars, examining how they have influenced national identity, collective memory, and social dynamics in Portugal. We will delve into Fado, Portugal’s soulful musical tradition, to understand its role in expressing themes of nostalgia, longing (saudade), and resilience. We will analyze how Futebol (soccer) has transcended sport to become a symbol of national pride and social unity, reflecting class, politics, and globalization. Finally, we will examine the significance of Fátima, one of the most important Catholic pilgrimage sites in the world, as a focal point of Portuguese religiosity and cultural heritage. In the second half of the course, we will shift our focus to Afro-Brazilian influences on contemporary Portuguese culture, exploring how diasporic, colonial legacies, and cultural exchange have shaped Portugal’s modern identity. Through primary sources, music, media, and contemporary debates, students will gain a deeper understanding of Portugal’s evolving cultural identity and the ways in which tradition and modernity intersect in a globalized world. Taught in English.

ROPO 40907 Fút(e)bol: A Cultural History (3 Credit Hours)

O futebol, fútbol, football: The beautiful game, the people’s game, the world’s game. Soccer is the most popular sport on the globe, a massive, international corporate enterprise whose outlays—from player salaries to stadiums—make it by far the biggest business in sport. Soccer is also popular in the other sense, del pueblo, a game played around the world on the smallest pitches imaginable, with improvised nets, bare feet, and any reasonably kickable object standing in as a ball. If sport tells us something about who we are and offers a window into our historical reality, then the massive scope of soccer, perhaps, can tell us something about the world. On the eve of FIFA World Cup 26ä, when the world’s game will be centered in a country that has turned its back on globalization and where the United States, Mexico and Canada will be asked to work together in the name of internationalism, we will take up the modern history of soccer (fútbol, futebol) by focusing on its aesthetics, politics, economics, and interactions with society. Soccer is big enough to comprise the world’s dreams and its nightmares and we will consider its controversies head on: race, gender, class, labor, inequality and social violence will be in play. We’ll also take plenty of time to contemplate the sport as an aesthetic object, and its relations to art, poetry and music. Objects of study include literary and journalistic texts, academic research, and video (films, shows, clips, and so on). This course satisfies electives in both the Spanish major and the Sports, Media and Culture (SMAC) minor. The language of instruction is English. Spanish majors, or students of French or Portuguese, may conduct their assignments in the respective language. Interdisciplinary and comparative work is encouraged.

ROPO 40909 Dangerous Liaisons: Migration, Racial and Cultural Tensions in the Portuguese-African Context (3 Credit Hours)

ROPO 40952 The Giant of the South: Brazil in the 21st Century (3 Credit Hours)

ROPO 40953 Contemporary Brazil Beyond Stereotypes (3 Credit Hours)

Spanish (ROSP)

ROSP 10101 Beginning Spanish I (4 Credit Hours)

This is an introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. An appreciation for Hispanic cultures is also encouraged through readings and class discussion. The sequence is to be followed by ROSP 10102. The first step in obtaining approval for this class is to take the Spanish Language Placement Exam.

ROSP 10102 Beginning Spanish II (4 Credit Hours)

This is an introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. An appreciation for Hispanic cultures is also encouraged through readings and class discussion. The sequence is to be followed by ROSP 20201 or ROSP 20215. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 281 and 340 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 10101

ROSP 10110 Beginning Spanish (6 Credit Hours)

This is a six-credit hybrid introductory language course which combines traditional classroom with online instruction. Students attend class with an instructor (M-W) and work on-line (T-R-F). Equal emphasis is placed on spoken and written Spanish. The course is followed by ROSP 20201 or 20215. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 0 and 340 to enroll in this class.

ROSP 14101 Spanish Studies 1 (3 Credit Hours)

This unit offers an introduction to Spanish grammar and vocabulary to enable students to communicate both orally and in writing in simple situations. It develops cultural and linguistic awareness and focuses on contemporary spoken and written language used in Spain. Students achieve language proficiency equivalent to Level A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The unit leads to SPAN1402 Spanish Studies 2.

ROSP 20201 Intermediate Spanish I (3 Credit Hours)

This is an intermediate second-year language sequence with equal focus on oral and writing skills. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of Spanish. Students learn to discuss and write about Hispanic cultural topics, current events, and literary texts. Student must have a Language Exam Score between 341 and 393 to register for this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 10102 or ROSP 10110 or ROSP 10115 or ROSP 19105

ROSP 20202 Intermediate Spanish II (3 Credit Hours)

This is an intermediate second-year language sequence with equal focus on oral and writing skills. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of Spanish. Students learn to discuss and write about Hispanic cultural topics, current events, and literary texts. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 394 and 439 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20201 or ROSP 20215

ROSP 20215 Intensive Intermediate Spanish (6 Credit Hours)

This course is an accelerated language and culture course, combining the study of more complex language structures, communication tasks and cultural concepts in a stimulating classroom environment. This course covers Intermediate I and II content in one semester, and completes the language requirement. It is also recommended for students who wish to advance their linguistic preparation before studying abroad. Pre-requisites: ROSP 10102, 10110 or by placement.

Prerequisites: ROSP 19105

ROSP 20237 Conversation and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

Intended to develop writing proficiency through literary and nonliterary texts from Spain and Spanish America while continuing to promote the development of oral skills in Spanish.

Prerequisites: ROSP 10101 or ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20220 or ROSP 20603 or ROSP 20604 or ROSP 20605 or ROSP 20608 or ROSP 20660 or ROSP 20661 or ROSP 27500

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 20450 Spanish for Business (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for the student who wants to learn and study Spanish terminology, phrases, and cultural conventions used in business situations in Spain and Latin America.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 30310 or ROSP 30320

ROSP 20460 Spanish for Medical Profession (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces students who have mastered the rudiments of Spanish grammar to a vocabulary allowing them to discuss medicine and health care with the Spanish-speaking population in the United States.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20603 or ROSP 20604 or ROSP 20605 or ROSP 20608 or ROSP 20660 or ROSP 20661

ROSP 20500 Conversation and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Spanish (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for learners who have a personal connection to the Spanish language, having been exposed to it at home or in their community from a young age, and as such already understand and/or speak the language. The main focus is on language awareness, with the goal of enhancing language skills and deepening cultural understanding. Emphasis will be placed on practical language use, cultural exploration, and critical analysis of cultural artifacts. This course is founded on the principle of respecting, validating and legitimizing all modes and registers of speech that students bring with them to the classroom. Students will be introduced to linguistic variants of Spanish in the pursuit to foster awareness of linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects related to Spanish in the United States. The specific objectives are to further develop proficiency/competence in reading and writing skills, while expanding the whole linguistic repertoire needed in academic settings. Students will become aware of certain norms of written Spanish, such as the use of spelling, punctuation, accent marks and certain grammatical points particular to heritage speakers. It will expose students to a variety of text formats: short stories, poetry, songs, visual arts and film from the Spanish-speaking world.

ROSP 20502 La Telenovela (3 Credit Hours)

Telenovelas are a major form of entertainment in Latin America and around the world. In this course, we will study the telenovela in an integrated multidisciplinary learning environment. We will begin by exploring the genre of the telenovela and its significance as a social, cultural, political, and economic force in Latin America and in the United States by reading about the genre (in Spanish) and watching two condensed telenovelas (also in Spanish). We will learn the formulas of the classic telenovela and its archetypal characters. You will demonstrate your understanding of the telenovela and its place in Hispanic culture through writing and discussion, and you will also engage in the linguistic and technical aspects of screenwriting, production (basic videography), acting, and post-production (computer based video and audio editing) techniques through the creation of a class telenovela; This course taught in Spanish.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROSP 20600 Cultural Conversations and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

This is an upper-intermediate cultural conversation and writing course designed to follow the four-semester language sequence and to act as a bridge to more advanced courses. In order to improve oral and writing language skills, this course engages students intellectually by using challenging, authentic materials and focusing on the exchange of ideas. Through the reading, discussion, and analysis of these materials, students will develop more sophisticated oral expression and expository writing as well as critical and abstract thinking skills. Being a content-driven course, topics could include, but are not limited to questions from the domains of politics, history, art, music, literature, film, religion, pop culture, etc. This course may be used as one of the two 20000-level electives for the Spanish major. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 440 and 600 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20450 or ROSP 20460 or ROSP 20810

Course may be repeated.

ROSP 20602 Monstruos y Miedo: Terror, Power and Society in Latino and Latin American Film (3 Credit Hours)

Horror movies have historically been much more than a genre of fear: they can be a powerful medium of social critique and cultural analysis. In this course, students will explore and analyze the genre of horror films beyond surface-level scares – they will learn approaches and theoretical frameworks to unravel the complexity of social, political, and cultural meaning hidden behind monsters, zombies, vampires, and other icons of the genre. We will also investigate the literary tropes and influences for many of these films. Through a multidisciplinary learning environment, students will analyze horror films from Latin America and the United States, studying how these films address issues such as social inequality, racism, sexism, institutional violence, power dynamics, and cultural tensions. The course will combine cinematographic analysis, critical theory, cultural studies, and hands-on audiovisual production.

ROSP 20604 Civilization and Culture of Spain (3 Credit Hours)

This course is a comprehensive study of Spain's cultural identities from prehistoric to contemporary times. Civilization and Culture of Spain offers the possibility of getting to know the most important intellectual aspects of Spanish society while furthering the student's knowledge of the Spanish language. We will examine the geography, the history, the art, the literature, and the social development of Spain from its beginnings to the present period. We will also analyze the salient characteristics of the autonomic regions that represent the Spain of the new millennium. Popular culture will also be introduced in the form of music, typical cuisine, main holidays and celebrations, and relevant traditions. In order to complement the readings and class discussions, students will watch movies or documentaries, create oral presentations and projects, and examine closely each of the most representative communities that comprise Spain today.

Prerequisites: (ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20215 or ROSP 20237 or ROSP 20211 or ROSP 20220)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 20810 Community-Based Spanish: Language, Culture and Community (3 Credit Hours)

This fifth-semester language and culture course is designed for students who want to improve their communication skills in Spanish and broaden their understanding of the Hispanic world through connecting with the local Spanish speaking community. Each section may focus on different topics, such as health care, education, social services, history of immigration, and intercultural competence. The course has a required Community-Based-Learning component in which students engage with the Latino community through placements in such areas as health care, youth mentoring or tutoring programs, English as a New Language (ENL) classes, and facilitating educational workshops with parents. In this course, students integrate their service experiences with the academic components of the class through readings, research, reflective writing, and discussion. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 440 and 600 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20237 or ROSP 20603 or ROSP 20604 or ROSP 20605 or ROSP 20608 or ROSP 20660 or ROSP 20661 or ROSP 27500

ROSP 20815 CEL: Breaking Down the Barriers: Conversations Near and Far (3 Credit Hours)

This is a fifth semester Community-Based Spanish course that bridges the language and literature sequences in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. The course is intended to develop and promote oral and written proficiency, cultural awareness, and community partnerships. In this class, we will embrace low and high tech approaches that yield high impact outcomes by fostering academic growth while combating the global epidemic of social isolation. The class will take you on a journey of connection as you improve your Spanish while exploring a variety of texts, reflective assignments, and community engagement.

ROSP 24175 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (3 Credit Hours)

This subject provides the fundamental knowledge of phonetics and phonology with special focus on the Spanish. Students are expected to learn| how to analyze and produce the sounds of Chilean Spanish; analyze and synthesize the main phenomena, processes and phonological relationships; and detect and analyze the interaction between the society and phonetic-phonological phenomena. These learnings will be made effective through readings independent, expository classes, exercises, independent work and discussion in the class. The evaluation will be through reading controls, tests and practical work

ROSP 24201 Intermediate Spanish I (3 Credit Hours)

ROSP 24202 Intermediate Spanish II (3 Credit Hours)

A continuation of SPAN 201. While continuing the review of grammar, the course emphasizes the development of reading and composition skills in the context of Spanish and Hispanic cultures. Literary readings, newspaper articles, and films, are an essential component of the course.

ROSP 24208 Intermediate Spanish (5 Credit Hours)

THIS SUBJECT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO INTRODUCE THE STUDENT TO GRAMMATICAL TOPICS THAT ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LANGUAGE. THE STUDENT IS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND FREQUENTLY USED PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS RELATED TO AREAS OF EXPERIENCE THAT ARE ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TO THEM (BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILY, SHOPPING, PLACES OF INTEREST, OCCUPATIONS, ETC.) STUDENTS WILL LEARN TO COMMUNICATE WHEN CARRYING OUT SIMPLE AND EVERYDAY TASKS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE MORE THAN SIMPLE AND DIRECT EXCHANGES OF INFORMATION ON ISSUES THAT ARE KNOWN OR USUAL TO THEM. YOU WILL KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE IN SIMPLE TERMS ASPECTS OF YOUR PAST AND YOUR ENVIRONMENT AS WELL AS ISSUES RELATED TO YOUR IMMEDIATE AND FUTURE NEEDS.

ROSP 24209 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 (5 Credit Hours)

In language the four skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing are developed through prepared work and class activities. Language maerial will reflect cultural aspects of the Spanish-speaking world. The module maintains progress from SP1002; there is a learning gradient. In texts, major critical approvaches are studied with reference to the genres of poetry, prose and drama and applied to the critical analysis of specific examples of each from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, drawn from Spain and Spanish America.

ROSP 24210 Spanish Grammar (2 Credit Hours)

Educational goals - Learning translation techniques to improve students' written expression. - Systematic vocabulary acquisition and grammar review through sentences studied. Content Revision and deepening of Spanish grammar: translation exercises (French-Spanish). The sentences to be translated focus on specific grammar points to allow all students to review the basics and consolidate their knowledge.

ROSP 24212 Advanced Spanish (3 Credit Hours)

An advanced Spanish course focused on achieving fluent and effective communication in personal, academic, and professional contexts. Students refine their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills through discussions, readings, and cultural topics related to Latin America and Spain. Emphasis is placed on complex grammatical structures, idiomatic expressions, and intercultural competence at the CEFR B1.1 level.

ROSP 24235 Spanish for Foreigners (3 Credit Hours)

Language and culture through speaking, writing, experiential learning.

ROSP 24236 Spanish communication techniques (2 Credit Hours)

Educational goals - Learning written and oral expression techniques in Spanish. - Acquisition of systematic vocabulary and revision of grammar through exercises understanding and expression Content Revision and deepening of the understanding and written production of the Spanish language: understanding of written texts and audiovisual documents. Oral production will be mainly worked on in the second semester. Program 1 - Youth. 2 - Social movements. 3 - Migration movements. 4 - Woman and work. 5 - Medio ambiente. 6 - Fashion. 7 - Education. 8 - Religion. 9 - Economy. 10 - Turismo.

ROSP 24300 Conversational Spanish (3 Credit Hours)

This course is aimed at students who have completed advanced grammar at the college level but do not have native oral fluency. Special attention is paid to grammar and vocabulary, in addition to notions, functions, and uses of the language in real speaking situations. Classroom instruction includes film viewing and participatory exercises.

ROSP 24305 Communication Oral Spanish III (1 Credit Hour)

The purpose is to achieve effective communication with Spanish-speaking people. In the end From this course, students should be able to: -express oneself in public presentations and through any means of modern communication, with fluency and respecting the conventions in use in the geographic area considered. -Know how to argue coherently and convincingly, adopting a critical stance about your argument. -use a lexicon and appropriate behavior in each situation of social life and professional.

ROSP 24310 Argumentation, Debate, and The Art of Public speaking (3 Credit Hours)

Throughout the study of this course, two scenarios of problem will be examined allowing students to apply the basics of argumentation and the elaboration of different types of discourse in order to achieve effective communication of emotions and ideas, generating a positive impact on their environment and community. 1. Fake news. 2. Freedom of speech.

ROSP 24400 Spanish/Professional Life Devl (3 Credit Hours)

Designed for students for whom Spanish will be a basic tool for their working and professional future. Practical cases provide (1) knowledge of the economy, the labor markets, and Spanish and Latin American professional culture, and (2) linguistics skills (conversation, listening/comprehension, reading, and writing) and the socio-cultural peculiarities of the language that allow for successful use of Spanish in professional life.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202

ROSP 24460 Spanish for Medical Profession (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students interested in professions in health care. It is an online-only course that will be taught completely in Spanish. The principal goal will be to gain confidence approaching and effectively interacting with a Spanish-speaking patient and their family. Meetings consist mainly of class discussions using creative and dynamic activities. Active participation is required. We will use the online version of the A su salud!, published by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additional reading and videos will be placed in Sakai. Other topics and methods include practical terminology, a review of hospital settings, multimedia simulations, recorded doctor-patient interactions, and current medical events. Grammar will focus on the formal way to address a Spanish-speaking patient. The course will also increase awareness of Latino cultural and moral beliefs.

ROSP 24500 Composition (3 Credit Hours)

Development of Spanish writing skills. Beginner and intermediate levels.

ROSP 24505 Approaches to Hispanic Culture through Writing - Mexico Magico (3 Credit Hours)

"This content-driven course is intended for students who want to further broaden their knowledge of the Spanish language and related cultures, as well as improve both their understanding of the Hispanic world and their communication skills in the Spanish language. Development of advanced structures is achieved through intensive practice in speaking and writing. Each course focuses on a different aspect of Hispanic culture. ** students take one or the other (Cultura y Tradicion or Mexico Magico), not both. "

ROSP 24603 Tradition vs Modernity: Understanding Spain Today (3 Credit Hours)

This specialist unit, taught in Spanish, enables learners to consolidate their language competencies in writing, reading, listening and speaking, through a critical analysis of media, literature, movies, music and arts. This survey unit typically covers current issues that allow the students to understand and critically appraise culture and other aspects of Spain nowadays in contrast with traditional Spain, such as youth and employment, politics and immigration, gastronomy and the arts.

ROSP 24661 Mexican Food Culture (3 Credit Hours)

With this course, the student will be able to assess the richness of Mexican gastronomy within the global culinary context, as well as identify eating patterns throughout the history of Mexico.

ROSP 24665 Cultural Diversity in Mexico (3 Credit Hours)

UPAEP - Puebla, Mexico: This course focuses on the objective understanding and interpretation of the diverse cultural expressions in Mexico that drive different social phenomena. Its main focus is the analysis of cultural diversity in Mexico. The main objectives of the course are to observe the multiple ways in which a social group understands its environment, integrating it into its life and decision-making, to enable students to recognize and value the cultural heritage of different groups.

ROSP 24700 Comparison of Spanish and English Grammar (3 Credit Hours)

Intensive study of the phonetics and philology of Spanish aimed at mastering articulation in the language. Pronunciation exercises with the objective of correcting common phonetic problems experienced by the foreign student. Different Spanish dialects will also be analyzed.

ROSP 24705 Colloquial Spanish (3 Credit Hours)

Characteristic phenomena of the Spanish language in its colloquial spoken form. Variations based on age, social and regional background, etc. New lexical, morphological and syntactical coinages.

ROSP 24710 Introduction to the Study of Spanish Linguistics (3 Credit Hours)

The course will cover phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicology, pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and the history of the Spanish language. Students will be introduced to the study of linguistic theory, as well as its relation to social, cultural and literary studies.

ROSP 30017 Introduction to Translation and Interpreting, Theory and Practice (3 Credit Hours)

Students will explore translation theory, ethics, preparations, procedures and techniques by means of Monica Baker's In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation. Together with an advanced language text to improve language skills, and selected readings to provide a strong preparation for meaningful interaction with their community partners, the course will provide real-world opportunities for application and feedback for the skills the students develop. Students will be expected to work with the community partner for 10-12 hours per semester, which typically entails a visit once per week to the partner site.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20450 or ROSP 20460 or ROSP 20600 or ROSP 20810

ROSP 30035 CEL: Immigration and the Construction of Memory (4 Credit Hours)

This is an advanced-intermediate fifth-semester culture-based Spanish course designed for students who want to improve their communication skills in Spanish and broaden their understanding of the Hispanic world. Students will work with selected Latino families to preserve and document their histories, creating a lasting record that they can proudly pass down to future generations. By being involved in this important project, students will not only enhance their language skills, but also their cultural awareness, of and sensitivity to, this growing demographic group, as well as further develop their civic engagement. Through literature, film, current events, and guest speakers, students will develop knowledge about migration issues, family immigration histories, and problems facing our Latino communities in general, and particularly in South Bend. Students through ethical engagements will work on a collaborative creation and preservation of memory (memory of an experience that shapes everyday life and the future). Using storytelling techniques, students will work with families to create a collaborative book detailing their life and path to our community. The dispositions that the students will further develop through this class are a better understanding of the Latino culture and appreciation for our customs, an awareness of the diversity of Latino culture, an intercultural competence as well as a reflective sensibility.

ROSP 30051 CEL: Once Upon a Time: Children's Literature and Community Connections (4 Credit Hours)

Students will be introduced to Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (LIJ) in the Spanish-speaking world through a combination of considerable reading of LIJ across genres and levels and a critical perspective of LIJ via academic text and articles. Books read will include many award winners by prolific writers and illustrators of LIJ, as well as widely known writers for adults who have also written children's books. Among genres read will be folklore, narrative, fiction (representing afro-latino, indigenous and other multi-cultural groups; contemporary, realistic, historical), short story, and poetry. In addition, students will develop criteria for evaluating quality LIJ through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Finally, there is a Community-Based Learning (CBL) component where students will share LIJ with the local Latino community through CBL projects and a reading program with Latino youth. Pre-requiste: ROSP 20202 or above or placement by exam. This course can count as an advanced elective towards the major. Taught in Spanish. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 440 and 600 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20600 or ROSP 20810 or ROSP 30310 or ROSP 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30101 Caribbean Diasporas (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the development of Creole societies in the French, Spanish, Dutch, and British Caribbean in response to colonialism, slavery, migration, nationalism and, most recently, transnationalism. The recent exodus of as much as 20 percent of Caribbean populations to North America and Europe has afforded the rise of new transnational modes of existence. This course will explore the consciousness and experience of Caribbean diasporas through ethnography and history, religion, literature, music, and culinary arts.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

ROSP 30201 Introduction to Latino Studies (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine the Latino experience in the United States, including the historical, cultural, and political foundations of Latino life. We will approach these topics comparatively, thus attention will be given to the various experiences of a multiplicity of Latino groups in the United States. This course has an optional community-engaged learning component with La Casa de Amistad.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History, WKSS - Core Social Science

ROSP 30209 Central American Narratives in the United States (3 Credit Hours)

This course centers the stories and cultural presence of Central Americans in the United States who, despite comprising one of the fastest-growing Latino groups, are often invisible and/or reduced to stereotypes. This course directly addresses this gap by tracing the literary and cultural narratives of Central American life as shaped by migration, transnationalism, labor, and U.S. policy. We will engage the history of Central American experiences of U.S.-led development and intervention in the region. We also study how Central American immigrants have made sense of their lives through literature and the arts, including fiction, poetry, film, theater, and music. Throughout the course, we consider how these narratives contend with race, ethnicity, indigeneity, class, gender, and sexuality. Syllabus will include works by creators from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, and Belize, as well as Garífuna and Maya communities.

ROSP 30310 Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Cultures (3 Credit Hours)

This is an upper-division course for students with advanced preparation. It serves as the introduction to the analysis and explication of Spanish-language literary texts. Short texts in prose, poetry, and theatre from a variety of periods and countries within the Hispanic world are read, presented, and discussed. The course is a prerequisite for the survey courses, and must be completed by the end of the junior year.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20237 or ROSP 20450 or ROSP 20460 or ROSP 20810 or ROSP 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30320 Advanced Grammar and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

Advanced Grammar and Writing offers an intensive review and refinement of Spanish grammar and instructs students in the nuances of specific genres of composition: description, report, complex narration, and argumentation. The composition genres studied directly inform the application of grammar and vocabulary; with respect to vocabulary, special emphasis is placed on problematic translations from English. This course is taught in Spanish.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20215 or ROSP 20237

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30710 Early Peninsular Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

A survey of Spanish literature through 1700. Readings of selected texts in prose, poetry, and theater from the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods. Recommended prerequisite: ROSP 30310.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30713 A Baroque Podcast (3 Credit Hours)

Telling a story can be done in different ways. The stories we tell shape who we are, how we relate to our community, and help us understand the complexities of our culture and our time. Currently, one of the most popular ways to tell a story is the podcast phenomenon, where a group of people research, discuss, and present, using different strategies, an attractive story to an audience eager to learn about and enjoy a good oral narration. This class proposes an original and innovative approach to the literature and culture of the Spanish Baroque. During the semester, we will explore the different ways a life was recounted in the 17th century. At the same time, we will explore the podcast format as a model of contemporary mass communication. The final objective of the class will be to create a series of original podcast episodes, composed by the students, about different figures of the Spanish Baroque.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30715 Imagined Worlds: Now and Then (3 Credit Hours)

Since its first uses in the Sixteenth Century, the term utopia meant both "good place" and "no place." Thus, the concept carried two different ideas in its own meaning, an ideal society and an unreachable one. In the past years, the concept—as well as its opposite, dystopia—has been applied to explain literary representations of imagined worlds that hold a mirror up to our own "real" world. Analyzing and discussing cultural products that create, depict, and represent invented societies is, without a doubt, a good path to understand and to critique key aspects of this complex world we live in today. In this class, we will study Early Modern Hispanic texts (written by Late Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque authors) as well as contemporary fictions (films, short stories, plays) that have in common their way to create and describe imagined/utopian/dystopian universes. We will pay specific attention to descriptions of imagined places in order to see how they explore real tensions around class, gender, society, religion, racial identities, imperial subjects, and power. During the semester, we will read texts written by Cervantes, Colón, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Cortés, Gracián, Vespucio, Nieremberg, and Fuentelapeña and will watch and analyze films such as Children of Men, Blade Runner, Pan's Labyrinth, Avatar, Elysium, among other contemporary works.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30717 Brains, Brawn, and Heart: Women in Medieval Iberian Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine a panorama of vastly differing depictions of women in Medieval Iberia, in texts written almost exclusively by men. Through a selection of prose and verse from the 13th to 16th centuries, we will consider questions such as loyalty and betrayal, submission and rebellion, piety and blasphemy, and love and rejection.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30718 Love, Betrayal, and Vengeance in the Spanish Epic (3 Credit Hours)

This course will address the development of the legends of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (el Cid), the Seven Knights of Lara, and Bernardo del Carpio, from the thirteenth century to the twenty first. Our analysis will center on the portrayals of love and affection, betrayal, and vengeance, and how and why the presentations of such concepts change throughout the legends’ retellings in chronicles, narrative poetry, ballads, theater, and film.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30720 Modern Peninsular Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an invitation to explore problems of social representation and aesthetic expression through contemporary Spanish literature and cultures. Readings include texts produced since the beginning of Spanish democracy in 1978 through the present, and draw from different literary styles and overlapping themes, including: the self, the question of alterity or ‘the other', violence, memory, biography, feminism and post-feminism, nation and racism, the European community, globalization, colonialism and migrations, rural life, and contemporary capitalism. In order to consider voices that traditionally have been excluded for nation building discourses in Spanish democracy, a variety of genres (poetry, articles, columns, novel, short stories, tales, drama, film) are incorporated in this course. Taught in Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30722 Catalan Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course aims to provide students with an introduction to Catalan culture and to the major authors, works, and trends in Catalan literature from the medieval period to the 21th century. We will be reading representative work from such vibrant cities as Barcelona and Valencia, as well as the Balearic Islands, and other Catalan-speaking territories. The study of Catalan literature represents a dynamic and unique opportunity for students to enhance their knowledge of the Iberian Peninsula, and to foment a better understanding -particularly in light of the recent developments in the conflict between Catalonia's regional government and the central Spanish government- of the cultural, linguistic and political reality of today's Spain. While learning about Catalan literature and culture students will also have the opportunity to explore a wide array of topics, such as history, sociolinguistics, politics, the origins of Catalan nationalism, the Catalan separatist movements, and identity politics. This course will place special emphasis on the relationship between Catalan and Spanish literary traditions from the Middle Ages to the present. No previous knowledge of Catalan language is required: Spanish will be the language of class instruction and readings. Primary and secondary sources will be complemented with the use of films and other audiovisual materials. Fulfills 30710 or 30720 requirements or can count as a 30000-level elective.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20201 or ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20237 or ROSP 20810 or ROSP 27500 or ROSP 30310 or ROSP 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30725 Religion in Modern Spanish Lit (3 Credit Hours)

During the 19th and 20th centuries many European intellectuals attempted to explain and define “religion” often in an effort to explain it away. Friedrich Nietzsche’s madman famously declared that God was dead and Sigmund Freud maintained that religion was nothing more than an illusion. Others assured that religion was soon to disappear and that science and art would occupy the space that it once held. In this course we will examine how several 19th- and 20th-century Spanish writers attempted to represent the changing definitions of religion, challenges to them, and religion’s supposed disappearance. Through an exploration of the fictional worlds these authors create, we will grapple with the questions these writers so desperately tried to answer: Was religion disappearing? Was it being replaced? Was it transforming? If so, what did this mean for Spain during this time? What would it mean for Spain’s future?

ROSP 30727 Democracy and its Others in Contemporary Spanish Writing and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an invitation to explore problems of social representation and aesthetic expression through contemporary Spanish literature and cultures. Readings include texts produced since the beginning of the Spanish democracy in 1978 through the present, and draw from different literary styles and overlapping themes, including: the self, the question of alterity or "the other," violence, memory, biography, feminism and post-feminism, nation and racism, the European community, globalization, rural life, contemporary capitalism, and migrations. In order to consider voices that traditionally have been excluded from nation building discourses in Spanish democracy, a variety of genre (poetry, novel, short stories, tales, drama, film) are incorporated in this course. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 30728 Fascism in Spain (3 Credit Hours)

Fascism as a political movement and ideology emerged in Europe in the 1920s and reached the peak of its power in the 1930s before its "official" institutional collapse in 1945. In Spain, its legacy survived longer than in any other European country as one of the foundations of General Franco's prolonged dictatorship (1936-1975/78). This course will explore the history of fascism in Spain, from its roots in Spanish and European political developments in the 1920s and 30s to its rise to power under General Francisco Franco. It will also consider the mutations of fascism during the recent decades. We will try to define fascism in general and map its Spanish iterations as manifested in art, literature, photography, history, philosophy and film. The guiding questions of this class include but will not be limited to: what is fascism? what were the core ideas of the movement? What were its roots and who formed its social basis? How was an ideal society envisioned by Spanish fascists? What is the role of violence and power in fascist ideology? How did it reach the government? How did Franco's dictatorship transform society? What does fascism mean today? What are the remnants and/or mutations of Spain's fascism today? Taught in Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30730 La letra y las lecciones: Education in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Educational systems, both formal and informal, often transmit and reproduce the cultural values of a nation. At the same time, however, these systems may question and challenge those same values. This course will explore this dynamic relationship between education and cultural values and the construction of national identity in modern Spain from the Enlightenment to the present. Through an analysis of essays, fiction, and film we will examine how education, teachers, students, and the act of learning itself are represented in modern Spain and how these writings reflect broader cultural, political, and social contexts. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 30790 Contacts, encounters and exchanges: Iberian identities and (in)visible legacy of a Medieval frontier (3 Credit Hours)

As one of Europe's main frontiers, Medieval Iberia was a space characterized by constant contacts, encounters, and exchanges between ‘East' and ‘West', and between different political, national, cultural, linguistic, and religious identities. Long after the Spanish Reconquista was officially completed in 1492, and the actual frontier had disappeared, however, the notion of inhabiting a liminal space that emerged from the reality, as well as the idea, of being Europe's frontier continued to shape not only the Iberian imagination, but also the way in which different Iberian communities constructed and codified their collective identities. This course is devoted to exploring the legacy, both visible and invisible, of the Iberian past and how the notion of being a ‘frontier' has shaped, and continues to shape not only Spain's identity as a nation, but also other Iberian and Mediterranean national identities. Class materials will focus on Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Iberian literatures and cultures, but will also include readings and/or films that explore the notion of ‘frontier' as a theoretical framework by comparing Iberia with other ‘frontiers', both Medieval and Contemporary. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 30810 Early Latin-American Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

A general introduction to and survey of major works of colonial and 19th-century literature up to Modernismo. Recommended prerequisite: ROSP 30310.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30820 Modern Latin-American Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

A survey of literary trends and major figures in modern Spanish-American literature from 1880 to the present. Readings of selected texts in prose, poetry, and theatre. Recommended prerequisite: ROSP 30310.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30828 Female Gothic: Exploring Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts in Modern Latin American Fiction (3 Credit Hours)

This course surveys a new wave of Latin American fiction led by women and shaped by Gothic themes such as horror, mystery, and the supernatural. We explore how modern writers use figures like sleepwalkers, female monsters, and witches to rethink femininity, the body, and autonomy. Readings span twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, film, and visual art, with attention to feminist debates on desire and reproductive freedom. Students will engage both classic and contemporary works to understand the evolving role of the Gothic and representations of women in Latin American literature and culture.

ROSP 30832 Trans* Latin American Literatures and Cultures (3 Credit Hours)

This course will explore a representative corpus of Latin American cultural production from the 20th-21st centuries that questions the politics of representation of trans*-travestis subjectivities: how have trans*-travestis subjectivities and corporealities been represented in the Latin American cultural archive and how are they self-represented in the present? Through various cultural artifacts (short stories, poetry, short novels, graphic novels, films, performances, songs, and photography), the course will trace a journey from the external representations of trans*-travesti subjectivities -often constructed as a mere trope- to the self-representations that show us the current scene of trans* figurations produced in the continent. Some of the topics to be discussed are: construction of trans*-travesti subjectivity/identity, body and nominal politics, trans*-travesti motherhood and kinship, community, care, regimes of visibility/opacity, transnormativity and neoliberalism, migration, among others. These issues will be discussed and analyzed, based on a transhemispheric and localized dialogue between Latin American travesti theory and trans of color critique.

ROSP 30837 It is Useless. Why Doesn't It Disappear? Questioning Poetry Today (3 Credit Hours)

This course starts with an assumption: poetry is useless. Unlike medicine, it does not cure sick people. Unlike engineering, it does not help us build bridges. Unlike data scientists, it does not help a business sell more. In the past, poetry might have played a very important role in society, but that is definitely not the case today. At bookstores, poetry shelves are the smallest, and poetry books rarely (if ever) make it to a bestseller list. There are many novelists and non-fiction writers who make a living out of their work, but no poet makes a living out of poems (some might make a living out of teaching poetry, but not out of solely writing poems). People who try to read poetry often complain about its difficulty; they feel that they do not understand it. Even poets complain about a lack of audience. It is not an absurdity to ask whether poetry today has any readers beyond poets themselves. However, it still exists: dozens of poetry collections are published each year (including new translations of classical works), poetry readings are organized at universities, bookstores and coffee shops, dozens of prizes are awarded each year to poets, and many articles are published by scholars who specialize in the field. In the Spanish-speaking world, most prestigious literary journals do not pay poets anymore when they publish one of their poems, signaling that the genre is not in good shape when it comes to readership. Heriberto Yépez, an important literary critic and a poet himself, famously wrote at the beginning of this century, "the verse is an anachronistic structure, a historically exhausted structure". Focusing on Hispanic poetry, this course will trace the role played by poetry since its beginnings until the early XXI century, aiming to answer the following questions: How did poetry lose its fundamental role in our societies? What does that mean for literature, culture, and poets themselves? What motivates poets to write even when they know that only a few (at best) will read their work? Will poetry become a field like Logic in mathematics, where only a handful of experts publish and read among themselves? If so, what knowledge is the one possessed by those experts in poetry? Will poetry lose something by becoming a specialized field? Or will poetry just disappear due to a lack of general interest? If so, will society lose something? All these questions will be treated within the context of larger debate on how we assign value today and the distinction between that which is useful and that which is not in our lives.

ROSP 30841 Más allá de quien limpia: Domestic Work in Literature, Film, and Television (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores how domestic work is represented in literature, film, documentaries, and television, with a focus on Latin America and Latino communities in the United States. Students will examine how these portrayals shape ideas about domestic workers and the value of their labor. Through a range of texts and media, we’ll discuss issues like visibility, exploitation, and empowerment, as well as how everyday care work is understood. By the end of the course, students will develop tools to think critically about how domestic work is defined, represented, and valued across different forms of media.

ROSP 30845 All Monuments Must Fall and Be Forgotten (3 Credit Hours)

We have recently witnessed a wave of debates about monuments (statues of military figures, explorers, conquerors, rulers, etc.). Moreover, many of those monuments have been intervened, "vandalized" moved, covered, and even topped down, fueling a series of controversies that invite us to reflect about the constantly shifting politics of memory and about the political effectiveness of pursuing symbolic justice in the public space. This is a Cultural Studies undergraduate research seminar devoted to a selection of important public monuments in Latin America; this is, statues, monoliths, and architectural visual signs that attempt to memorialize historical events and people as well as cultural and political values. We will examine their history as well as their paradoxical semiotic fate: no monument is able to install the memory it pretends to make eternal. Monuments are floating signifiers destine to be appropriated, re-signified, toppled down, and, eventually, forgotten.

ROSP 30871 Luxury and Extraction in South American Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on understanding literary expressions of luxury and natural resource extraction in South America. Through a reading of colonial, modern, and contemporary texts, we will explore the representation of the acquisition, manipulation, and circulation of natural resources and their derivatives within and from South America. This course will offer an opportunity to examine the relationships between the productivity of the region, the influence of the market on cultural production, and contemporary environmentalist conversations. The course also seeks to develop the skills of writing, critical analysis and teamwork to generate informed opinions that students can communicate effectively. The course is taught in Spanish.

ROSP 30890 Race and Human Rights in the Caribbean and Diaspora (3 Credit Hours)

This course invites students to consider traditional and emerging definitions of race and human rights, and contextualizes these concepts against the history of literary depiction of slavery, abolition, Blackness, mulatez and mestizaje in late 19th- to 21st-century texts. The novels, short stories, and poetry included in the course come from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the 20th-century Caribbean diaspora to the US, covering a range of related topics. Can fulfill Modern Latin-American area and taught in Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30895 Race, Communication, and Technology in the Dawn of Latin America (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the material and discursive relation between race and communication technologies in Latin American literatures and cultures. It focuses on the contributions made by indigenous and Afro-descendant people’s political actions and communicational tactics to the foundation and transformation of the Latin American literary canon. Through readings of literature, film, and other cultural artifacts, students will explore the ways in which race and communication technologies were intertwined throughout the birth of Latin American “writing”, and how the political and artistic practices performed by racialized groups shaped the cultural production of the region. Additionally, students will analyze how new media technologies have influenced power dynamics and cultural production in contemporary Latin America. By the end of the course, students will have developed a basic understanding of the foundation of Latin American literary tradition, focused on the tense and dynamic relation that it had with racialized groups, and communication technologies.

ROSP 30910 Food and Foodways in the Americas (3 Credit Hours)

This advanced elective seminar explores the cultures and politics of the Americas through the study of their foodways, analyzing culinary traditions as vital intersections of history, anthropology, literature, and science. By engaging with a wide variety of North and Latin American texts, films, and other visual materials, we will develop a theoretical framework to interrogate how the kitchen and the table serve as spaces where national identities, social hierarchies, and ancestral legacies are both preserved and contested. Students will undertake creative and intellectual projects to examine how the meeting of food and culture informs large social categories such as cosmopolitanism, regionalism, and the diverse lived experiences of those who produce and consume these traditions. Throughout the semester, we will trace a chronological timeline from pre-Conquest foundations to modern national cuisines, while simultaneously addressing contemporary debates regarding taste, authenticity, and food sovereignty. Our inquiry is further enriched by guest speakers from both the academic and local communities. A central highlight of this course, open to both Glynn Family Honors students and Spanish majors/supplementary majors, is an optional Fall break trip to Puebla, Mexico. This excursion offers a hands-on look at one of the continent's most significant culinary hubs. In order to be selected to enroll in the course, you must go through an in-person interview with Prof. Miseres. Dates TBA.

ROSP 30983 Race and Violence (3 Credit Hours)

Departing from Michel Foucault's controversial theory of "race war", this class will examine the historical relations between the idea of race and material practices of violence. To do this we will focus on a selection of "debates about race" from across the Americas that in many ways define American modernity. These might include: Las Casas and Sepúlveda on the humanity of indigenous Americans; slavery and the formation of American nation-states; nineteenth-century race science, eugenics, and their rejection; the race-and-culture debates (e.g. Boas, Dubois, Freyre, against the race scientists); the so-called "problema indígena" debates in Latin America; race and rights struggles in the post-WWII era; immigration and migrant labor; Negro Sim (Brazil), Black Lives Matter (USA), and related protest movements worldwide; social media and the consolidation of white supremacist paramilitarism. Which selection of these topics we pursue will be guided by student interest. Language of instruction is Spanish and English. Comparative work is encouraged. This course can count for the Modern Latin-American area requirement for Spanish Major/Supplementary Major.

ROSP 30990 Indigenous Representation and the Question of Latin American Identity (3 Credit Hours)

The focus of the course will be on representations of indigenous peoples and the issue of Spanish American identity. This course may count for either the Early or Modern Latin-American area requirement, depending on the subject of the student's final paper. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 32051 Once Upon a Time CBL (0 Credit Hours)

Required co-reg for ROSP 30051

ROSP 32300 Spanish Discussion for Intro to Latino Studies (1 Credit Hour)

Students wishing to enroll in this section MUST be enrolled concurrently in ROSP 30201/ILS 20701: Introduction to Latino Studies. Students who have completed the Notre Dame language requirement in Spanish are eligible to sign up for an additional single credit discussion section as part of the Languages Across the Curriculum (LxC) initiative of the College of Arts and Letters. Choosing this option means that students will do some additional reading in Spanish language materials (approximately 20-25 pages a week), and meet once a week with a graduate student or faculty tutor from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures who will guide a discussion in Spanish and grade some brief writing assignments. The LxC discussion section in Spanish associated with this course will be graded on a pass/fail basis and will be credited on the student's transcript. Up to three LxC discussion sections can be applied toward a major, secondary major or minor in Spanish. Please talk to the instructor if you are interested in adding this supplemental credit.

Corequisites: ROSP 30201

ROSP 34310 Textual Analysis (3 Credit Hours)

Critical reading of Spanish and Spanish-American texts: works representing principal genres-novel, drama, poetry, essay-diverse approaches to literature. Terminology of criticism, literary problems and techniques.

ROSP 34325 Advanced Spanish: writing workshop, the chronicle (3 Credit Hours)

The course will allow us to rigorously discover the realities of different periods of the 20th century in various countries and the social and political changes that have taken place. It will be explored in the chronicle as a witness to the great social transformations from the point of view of authors such as Garcia Marquez or Martin Caparros.

ROSP 34432 Art in the Anthropocene (3 Credit Hours)

IR - Dublin, Ireland - UCD: The Anthropocene is a term widely used since its coining in the early twenty-first century to refer to the present geological time interval, in which many conditions and processes on Earth are profoundly altered by human impact. Used in a variety of cultural and scientific contexts, the Age of the Anthropocene has become core to debates amongst researchers, conservationists, poets, philosophers, politicians and activists. This module explores the Anthropocene through the work of writers, visual and performance artists in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.

ROSP 34710 Literature of Spanish Golden Age (3 Credit Hours)

Spanish Golden Age Literature In this course we explore the main literary trends and the most relevant authors of Spanish Literature during the XVI and XVII centuries. The most representative literary works in prose, poetry and drama will be studied. We will look at the evolution of the different aesthetic concepts and fictional expressions in one of the most important periods of Spanish Literature. At the same time, we will analyze the relationship between literary fiction and its historic and cultural determinations. This course also offers the unique opportunity for the student to learn about Spanish Golden Age outside the classroom. Madrid became the capital city of the Empire in 1561, under the monarchy of Phillip II. Since then, preeminent literary figures such as Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo or Luis de Góngora lived and wrote in Madrid. A list of visits and activities in Madrid and surrounding areas are suggested: from museums to convents, churches, synagogues, mosques, temporary exhibits, libraries, palaces or cultural institutions. This way students could learn about Golden Age period not only from literary works but also from paintings and other fine arts, civil and religious architecture, manuscripts, theater and music.

ROSP 34711 Medieval Spanish Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This subject is complemented with the subject of Ancient Literature; Although the latter is not essential to study Medieval Literature, it is similarly concentrated in the analysis of the different types of literature developed during the Middle Ages, through the characteristics of each culture and stage, so that it interprets the aesthetic ideologies fundamentals of cultures. This gives students the ability to understand the periods and trends of this period that will help them to be able to argue reality in a comprehensive manner from a multicultural perspective.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 34712 General Spanish Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This course views medieval and classical literature. We will be reading various texts representative of the Middle Ages and Golden Age to expose students to Spanish American culture

ROSP 34720 Spanish Literature III (3 Credit Hours)

The course will focus on the reading, analysis and interpretation of significant works in modern and contemporary Spanish literature. The study carried out will seek to highlight the cultural and literary values of the selected texts. Likewise, it will seek to establish relations with previous and contemporaneous texts, both from Spain and from Latin America, with emphasis on a transatlantic perspective.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 34805 Survey of Latin American Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Reflect on the role of the Latin American narrative of the XVI-XIX centuries through the reading of the most representative texts, in order to become familiar with the historical process and cultural literary production in Latin America.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 34810 Survey of Spanish-American Literature I (3 Credit Hours)

An introduction to and servey of major works from the Colonial periods to Independence and Romanticism. The course will include texts by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Fray Bartolome de las pasas, Garcilaso de la Vega, Alonso de Ercilla, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi, Esteban Echeverria and Jorge Isaacs. (Fulfills Survey of Spanish American Literature I) Santiago, LET 1004: This course aims to develop, in students, critical reading skills of Hispanic-American colonial Texts: Diaries, Chronicles, essays, Poems and Testaments, among others. According to this objective, students are given a corpus of Colonial Texts (XV-XVII centuries), and a set of critical texts (philology, History, Theory/Critique Cultural). On the basis of these materials, the students, throughout the course, will be to exercise in textual analysis (recognition of rhetorical peculiarities) and in the reconstitution of the cultural tissues of the colony (e.g. tensions center/periphery, civilization/barbarism, Utopia/dystopia). Santiago, LET 0103: In this class, we will go over colonial American texts written by colonials, Indians, and mestizos. Through this course, students will have to conduct analysis and grasp a better understanding of colonization and its effects.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROSP 34812 Cultural Studies New Spain (3 Credit Hours)

This class identifies the most outstanding cultural features of the New Hispanic period, through the analysis of Art and Letters, of the historical-sociological processes of the Viceroyalty (1521-1821) to understand the material and immaterial legacy that contributed to the shaping of Mexican culture and its mestizajes.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 34815 Chilean Folklore (3 Credit Hours)

This course emphasizes relevant aspects of Chilean folklore traditions from an aesthetic perspective. Emphasizing the value of folkloric events, situations and objects, investigating their roots and their regional variations in light of their knowledge and value.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROSP 34820 Survey of Spanish American Literature II (3-4 Credit Hours)

This course is an overview of the most significant literary movements and authors of 20th-century Mexican literature. Reading and discussion pieces are combined with analysis of movies based on the texts. This course is listed as LE 345 Spanish III: Twentieth Century Mexican Literature in documentation from the Universidad de Las Americas.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROSP 34868 Ibero-American Literature (3 Credit Hours)

PM - Puebla, Mexico, UPAEP The purpose of the course is to explore the Spanish language through literature. We will cover Spanish literature over centuries of study, from the origins of Spanish literature to contemporary movements.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40231 Cervantes: Don Quijote (3 Credit Hours)

A close textual analysis of Cervantes' novel in its literary, historical, and cultural contexts.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40253 Amazing Lives Of The Baroque Era (3 Credit Hours)

What constitutes an extraordinary life? What can we learn about a particular historical moment by examining the fictional and real lives of the remarkable characters who populated their society? This seminar will analyze the various modes of representation and social control exerted by Spanish institutions during the Baroque period. Specifically, we will read a series of real and imaginary lives of men and women who challenged this power structure by living and writing extraordinary lives. These fictional accounts of an individual's life together with real accounts of imaginary individuals will give us the opportunity to face the complexity of Baroque Spain. Infamous men and women, marginalized subjects, persecuted personae are some of the examples of the extraordinary characters that we are going to meet in the class. Through the looking glass of their fantastic lives, we will analyze important concepts and categories such as subjectivity, subject formation, power/knowledge relations, gender, race, religious intolerance, persecution. We will focus on the creative responses forged by a heterogeneous community of people who wanted to reaffirm their individual freedom. The seminar will pay special attention not only to the discursive mechanisms used by the Spanish elite in order to maintain the status quo, but also will analyze how persecuted people of the same era were able to resist and challenge the dominant discourse. During the semester, we will read canonical literary texts (Poetry, drama, narrative) as well as other cultural artifacts (Manuals, treatises, chronicles, biographies, autobiographies, inquisitorial cases and movies).

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40414 Regarding the Spain of Others: Framing Modern Spanish Citizenship (3 Credit Hours)

This course departs from Erving Goffman's notion of "cultural frame", which shows how social existence is an ongoing "negotiation" about which cultural frame should encompass and thus ascribe meaning to various events and actions. Bearing this perspective in mind, this seminar focuses on different models of Spanish citizenship by examining the educational emotional value of various modern Spanish cultural artifacts, whose representational mode (melodrama and/ or comedy) provides a peculiar affective frame within which ordinary socio-historical experience was interpreted and given meaning.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40428 Fascism in Spain (3 Credit Hours)

Fascism as a political movement and ideology emerged in Europe in the 1920s and reached the peak of its power in the 1930s before its "official" institutional collapse in 1945. In Spain, its legacy survived longer than in any other European country as one of the foundations of General Franco's prolonged dictatorship (1936-1975/78). This course will explore the history of fascism in Spain, from its roots in Spanish and European political developments in the 1920s and 30s to its rise to power under General Francisco Franco. It will also consider the mutations of fascism during the recent decades. We will try to define fascism in general and map its Spanish iterations as manifested in art, literature, photography, history, philosophy and film. The guiding questions of this class include but will not be limited to: what is fascism? What were the core ideas of the movement? What were its roots and who formed its social basis? How was an ideal society envisioned by Spanish fascists? What is the role of violence and power in fascist ideology? How did it reach the government? How did Franco's dictatorship transform society? What does fascism mean today? What are the remnants and/or mutations of Spain's fascism today? Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 40431 Anthropocene in Iberian literature and culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers an introduction to some of the recent thinking and cultural phenomena on the Anthropocene. Although we will pay particular attention to the Iberian Peninsula and contemporary Spain in particular, we will ultimately attempt to come to terms with our current geological and civilizational epoch as mainly humanly driven. For that purpose, under examination and question will be primitive accumulation and Capitalism, humanism and posthumanism, rural depopulation, consumerism, energy use, industrial relocation, technology (social networks, smartphones, big data, Google, etc.); droughts, wildfires, human and planetary finitude, etc. This discourse will combine literary and cinematographic studies with conceptual perspectives that will ultimately seek to bear witness through thinking and the arts to the Anthropocene, if such thing is still possible. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 40435 Anthropocene and Existence in Iberian Cinema & Critical Theory (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers an introduction to some of the recent thinking and cultural phenomena on the Anthropocene. In order to do that, we will pay particular attention to contemporary Iberian Cinema, Cultural Critique, and Critical Theory. Although we will focus on contemporary Spain in particular, we will ultimately attempt to come to terms with our current geological and civilizational epoch as mainly humanly driven. For that purpose, under examination and question will be primitive accumulation and Capitalism, humanism and posthumanism, rural depopulation, consumerism, energy use, industrial relocation, technicity (social networks, smartphones, big data, Google, etc.); droughts, wildfires, human and planetary finitude, etc. We will ultimately seek to bear witness to the Anthropocene and its consequences through cinema, culture and thought, if such a thing is possible. Taught in English and Spanish

ROSP 40440 Contemporary Iberian Literature: ‘Writing’ Reading Technics (3 Credit Hours)

This course studies how contemporary Iberian literature and culture is trying to come to terms with the coming of “Surveillance Capitalism;” namely, a new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction and sales. Thanks to Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, etc., this “Surveillance capitalism” could be also understood as an economic and societal logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to an unprecedented global architecture of behavioral modification (Heidegger, Stiegler, Zuboff, Balibar, etc.). Ultimately, we will ask what kind of civilization the third modernity of technics and surveillance foretell, and we will explore how literature and culture bear witness to the subsequent shifting of the fundamental inherited notions of modernity such as: human self-representation and artistic expression, progress, social bond, sovereignty, freedom, planetary finitude, inequality, as well as to the new discontents of civilization. We will combine literary and film studies with conceptual perspectives and will closely examine: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Zuboff, 2019) as well as the novels Kentukis (Schweblin, 2019) and Horda (Menéndez Salmón, 2021). Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 40663 Conquest of Yucatan (3 Credit Hours)

Colonial Modernity and the Conquest of Yucatan. This is a class that focuses on a selection of historical and literary narratives as well as modern texts and films about different forms of colonialism and counter-colonial resistance in the Yucatan Peninsula since the 16th century until today; from the invasion of Cortés in 1519 ato the contemporary cyclical invasion of 16 million tourists a year.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40713 Latin American Feminism, Women Writers, and the Feminist Novel in the Twentieth Century (3 Credit Hours)

The twentieth century was the century of women, feminism, and the feminist novel in Latin America. The history of Latin American feminism presents three milestones: first, the women's movements that demanded political and civil equality at the beginning of the century and culminated in the 1950s with what Julieta Kirkwood called "the years of silence"; second, the violent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, when women challenged their historic exclusion from political life, showed how authoritarian regimes replicated patriarchal oppression, and developed feminist theories and practices; and third, the 1990s, when women focused on the damaging effects of neoliberalism, which impacted the activism of women and the development of feminist ideas. This course, designed as a seminar for advanced students in Spanish, will focus on the feminist novel since the 1950s, when women ventured into a genre they had barely published in the past, and will trace its course through the multiple positions that Latin American feminism took during the twentieth century. This course will be taught in Spanish and requires the active participation of all students.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40720 The Modernist Chronicle in Latin America (3 Credit Hours)

The goal of this undergraduate seminar is to analyze Latin American literature in the cultural-historical period of the so-called "modernizing impact," which covers the last two decades of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century and is commonly known as Modernismo. The journey will focus on the birth of the genre of the modern chronicle, a hybrid zone between literature and journalism, between information and imagination, between politics and the market. In Latin America, this complex object has brought together numerous critical perspectives that read local modernization against the backdrop of global modernity, whether as a dyschronic modernity (Ángel Rama), a disconnected modernity (Julio Ramos), a peripheral modernity (Beatriz Sarlo), a dissonant modernity (Gwen Kirkpatrick), a translinguistic modernity (Julio Ortega), or a modernity in translation (Mariano Siskind). From the discussion of these fundamental perspectives for the study of the field, specific prose texts by Rubén Darío, José Martí, Julián del Casal, and Julio Herrera y Reissig will be addressed. The chronicles of modernity will serve as a platform to reflect on current and relevant problems in literary studies, such as the representation of American cities, the crisis of modern subjectivity, the tension between the Eurocentrism of global modernity and American nationalisms, migratory processes, the phenomenon of secularization, the emergence of mass culture, the transition from the model of the "nineteenth-century literary man" to that of the "professional writer," the role of translation, and the assimilation of cultural traditions foreign to the Latin American sphere.

ROSP 40725 Two Nobel Prize-Winning Poets: Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda (3 Credit Hours)

The objective of this undergraduate seminar is to analyze the work of two Chilean Nobel Prize winning poets from the present. This means that we will reread their poetic work from the urgencies of our present to see if the poets illuminate with their aesthetics particular and universal concerns, among them sexism, racism, classism, nature and the persistent legacy of the colonial past. Both authors were misunderstood at different times. Mistral, Nobel laureate in 1945, was read as an asexual teacher/mother of the nation, silencing her rich, profound and complex poetics. The 1971 Nobel, Neruda, occasion in which he was identified as "the poet of violated human dignity", and who in life had to face many times the State for his political and ideological convictions and his love for the people, now, after his death, must face the judgment of women, part of the people he loved, but whose rights and voices were generally disregarded by patriarchal societies and their idiosyncrasy, as a sexual predator. Their poetry read from different theoretical perspectives will show us their universal voices as Latin American authors and intellectuals of the 20th century.

ROSP 40728 100 Years After Desolación (3 Credit Hours)

One hundred years ago, Chile's greatest poet, Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) published Desolación (1922) in New York. This upper-level seminar will celebrate the centenary of the publication of her first book by analyzing Mistral's work in light of the political, social and economic crises of the new millennium, which will allow us to appreciate the validity of her thought: equal rights for women, the recognition of indigenous American peoples, the struggle for democracy and peace in contexts of war, the protection of children, the care and defense of the environment, among others. Mistral was read and misread, understood, and misunderstood, in different contexts and times, however, the beauty and strength of her poetry and her essays create a voice that is an undeniable contribution to the debates of our present. The seminar will try to answer questions such as: Why Gabriela Mistral is today an indisputable figure for thinking about indigenous struggles; What are the reasons to understand Mistral as a woman of vanguard; What are the reappropriations that social movements such as feminism and sexual dissidence in Chile and Latin America have made of Mistral's figure and work; Why her thought attracts new generations of young people; Is it possible to think of Mistral as a "trans" author because she crosses different borders (geographical, gender, social); According to the readings of Mistral's work, what advantages does it give the Chilean poet to elaborate a poetics of ambiguous writing; Can we think of Gabriela Mistral within the panorama of Latin Americanist thought, what would be her contributions to the discussions made by her male peers, among others. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of Mistral's development as a writer and historical subject, as well as the geopolitical history in which she writes. Students will hone their ability to think critically about literature by receiving a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. The language of the class is Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40737 One hundred years of solitude. (3 Credit Hours)

This course is dedicated to a semester-long study of a masterpiece of narrative fiction: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's _Cien años de soledad_ (1967). Through careful and systematic reading, our discussions will move in two directions: On the one hand, toward the ways in which the central themes of the text--including but not limited to love, family, war, nation, science, travel, narrative, and writing itself--both illuminate and are illuminated by questions central to Western philosophy. On the other hand, the way in which the novel negotiates its own specific context--Western culture, the Cold War, the Americas, Latin America, Colombia--and how it confronts us to rethink that context. At the end of the course, besides having experienced one of the great artworks of the modern age, you should feel that your perspective on the world has been altered, at least a little. Students will write papers. Comparative and interdisciplinary work is encouraged. Language of instruction: Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40764 Jorge Luis Borges and the Ethics of Betrayal (3 Credit Hours)

The goals of this class are twofold: 1) an introductory yet focused review of the literary work of renowned Argentine poet, essayist and writer of short stories Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986); and 2) the literary interrogation of moral, religious, political, and cultural betrayal through a critical survey of Borges? work (poetry, essay and short story) and the study of the fluid relation of his writings with 20th century philosophy and cultural theory. We intend to explore in his work the fragile discursive boundary that both separates and connects perfidy and fidelity, traitors and converts. This course satifies the Modern Spanish-American Literature requirement or the 40000-level elective.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40771 Cuba and Puerto Rico: Two Wings of a Bird (3 Credit Hours)

While she was living in exile in Cuba in the 1890s, Puerto Rican Poet Lola Rodríguez de Tió wrote the following lines, which are among the most iconic in Hispanic Caribbean verse: "Cuba y Puerto Rico son de de un pájaro las dos alas, / reciben flores y balas en un mismo corazón...". At the time these lines were seen as a testament to the the similar histories that these two Caribbean islands had developed after some four centuries of Spanish rule, but, as one critic has put it, "they can also be seen as a chilling presage of what was to come after the U.S. won the Spanish American War in 1898 and became a consistent presence in the future of both countries." In this class we will explore, through the study of Cuban and Puerto Rican History and Literature, the islands' many shared legacies such as colonialism, slavery, political unrest, and US intervention. Moreover, through readings of works by a variety of authors and literary genres, we will examine the many political, economic, social and cultural factors that have served to shape each island's identity over the past five centuries. Students will be required to write journal entries for each class, several short papers, and a final essay. There will also be a mid-term exam.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40774 Good Neighbors?: Hispanic Caribbean and Central American Literary Representations of the United Stat (3 Credit Hours)

In this course we will examine the relationships between the United States and the Hispanic Caribbean and Central American nations as seen through the eyes of writers, intellectuals, political figures, etc.. Though we will focus primarily on literary texts, we will also consider works from other fields such as politics, history, economics, law, anthropology, and music. Through their readings, students will come to appreciate that despite the diversity of opinions that the people of the Caribbean and Central America have of the United States, there has long been an overwhelming sentiment that their neighbor to the north is an aggressive nation with self-serving and imperialistic ambitions. We will study works by authors, political figures, musicians, historians, etc. who hail from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and Puerto Rico.

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40775 Hispanic Caribbean Identity in Literature and Performance (3 Credit Hours)

This course invites the students to explore the issue of identity as it is lived and thought by a number of Hispanic Caribbean thinkers and artists (essayists, playwrights, film makers, poets, and performance artists). We will pose the following questions: Is "identity" a useful concept for thinking about the culture of a nation, territory, region or community? How are the following factors used in identity politics or in the project of thinking identity: landscape and place, history (heroic history, the histories of suffering), the body, sacrifice? We will consider essays by Fernando Ortiz, Antonio Benítez Rojo and José Esteban Muñoz; poetry by Virgilio Piñera, Nicolás Guillén and Reinaldo Arenas; performances by Ana Mendieta, Carmelita Tropicana, Tania Bruguera and Carlos Martiel. All class discussions in Spanish. This course satisfies the modern Spanish-American area requirement.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40776 Literature and Popular Culture in Modern Cuba (3 Credit Hours)

In this class we will study a number of aspects of popular culture in the modern Cuban literature.

ROSP 40781 Women in South America: Between Medicine and Feminism (3 Credit Hours)

The first waves of feminism in South America during the late 19th and early 20th century were led by many women in the medical profession. Julieta Lanteri and Sara Justo in Argentina, Ernestina Lopez in Chile, or Paulina Luisi in Uruguay, to name a few, claimed for women's rights in terms of health and hygienism. At the same time, medicine emerged as a dominant and masculinized discourse within the nation-states that sought to control women's and non-binary bodies and behaviors. In the 20th and 21st century, medical discourse was also in the center of feminist debates about motherhood, reproductive rights, obstetric violence, among others. This course will explore the connections between medicine and feminism through the life and works of women writers and activists from South America, from the late 19th to the 21st century. We will read fictions, essays, journal articles, and medical treatises from the 19th and 20th century and debate on the role of medical knowledge in the context of recent feminist movements. Theoretical readings include Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, and numerous scholarly works on feminism, the history of medicine, and gender and sexualities in South America (Salessi, Lavrin, Marino, Guy, Ben, among others).

ROSP 40790 Women’s Culture 19thC Lat. Am. (3 Credit Hours)

This advanced Spanish course explores the cultural and intellectual contributions of women in 19th- and early 20th-century Latin America, examining how gender ideas shaped ideas of citizenship, sexuality, and education in post-independence societies. Through literary texts written by women, alongside essays, fiction, and other cultural narratives that portray women’s roles in nation-building, we will critically analyze the category of woman and question traditional binaries of womanhood. Course materials include novels, essays, films, visual culture, albums, cookbooks, correspondence, diaries, and periodicals. Students will engage in archival research at the Hesburgh Library Special Collections and participate in a series of curated events in collaboration with the library. The final project will involve original research, encouraging students to connect historical women’s culture with contemporary gender debates.

ROSP 40845 All Monuments Must Fall and Be Forgotten (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40851 Deleuzemania (3 Credit Hours)

Throughout a series of heterogeneous Latin American texts (short stories, movies, performances, paintings, songs) we will explore some of the key concepts proposed by Guilles Deleuze, one of the most intriguing and important philosophers of the 20th Century ("territorialisation" / "deterritorialisation", "assemblage", "Body without Organs", "lines of flight" "affect", "becoming", "rhizome" , "desire," "nomadism," and so on). Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 40864 Colonial Renegades in Yucatán (3 Credit Hours)

"Gonzalo Guerrero's Offspring. Colonial Renegades in Yucatán." This is a seminar that focuses on a selection of historical and literary narratives about the figure of Guerrero (the Spanish conquistador that went native and fought on the side of the Maya) as well as on what I call Guerrero's progeny: a series of renegades who - like Guerrero in the 16th century - went native and ended up fighting against different forms of colonialism since the 16th century until today.

ROSP 40892 Borders and Bridges: US Latino/a Literary and Cultural Production (4 Credit Hours)

What is a border? Who inhabits the borderlands? What function does the border play in the construction of a national or cultural identity? How do we bridge communities? How are borders represented, established, and challenged in the works of US Latino/a writers? These are some of the questions that this course will address within the context of US Latino/a literature and culture. Most of the course will focus on two geographical areas that we tend to associate with these concepts: the traditional US-Mexico border and the lesser studied Caribbean. Students will watch films and read literary works by Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Dominican-American and Cuban-American authors in order to gain a deeper understanding of how borders and borderlands inform contemporary discourse and culture. This course has a Community-Engagement Learning (CEL) requirement. Students are expected to sign up for tutoring at La Casa de Amistad once a week for 2 hours. The course will be taught in Spanish and is open to advanced non-majors . This course is for undergraduate students only.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40893 Afrolatinidades (3-4 Credit Hours)

This course centers Blackness within latinidad. In it, students will learn about the history of Blackness in Latin America, and how that history continues to shape the experiences of AfroLatina/os in the US today. We will approach Blackness from a transhemispheric perspective, paying attention to how it is erased through the discourses of mestizaje and latinidad. We will analyze literary and cultural works by AfroLatina/os with roots in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Perú. This is a CBL course and students will volunteer at La Casa de Amistad once a week. Open to non-Spanish majors who are fluent in Spanish or are Spanish heritage speakers. Taught in Spanish and can count as Modern Latin-American Area requirement.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40894 Migrant, Bridge, Border, Wall (3 Credit Hours)

This course takes up the relations between aesthetics and politics as they pertain to traffic, migrancy and the international movement of people. Politico-philosophical categories such as freedom, containment, refugee, civilian, (in)equality, nation, hate and hospitality will be at the center of our conversations. Our approach will be interdisciplinary and our objects of study will include recent literature, film, television and historical research that deal with these themes in a sustained way. Language of instruction: English. Spanish majors taking this course for major credit will complete written assignments in Spanish.

ROSP 40901 Human Rights and Social Justice in Latin American Literature and Film (3 Credit Hours)

In this course we will focus on the themes of Human Rights and Social Justice in modern Latin American literature and film. The class will be structured around geographical areas, with approximately equal time divided among the Hispanic Caribbean, the Andean Region and the Amazon, the Southern Cone, and Central America. For each class students will read literary texts and related secondary readings that deal specifically with human rights issues such as torture, poverty, economic exploitation, women's and children's rights, racism, religious and cultural oppression, etc. Students will also be required to watch several films, all of which will be related to the readings.

ROSP 40905 From Texts to Table: Food, Literature and Culture in Latin America (3 Credit Hours)

If the saying "We are what we eat" is true, then food reflects and determines our identity, our subjectivity, and our very being. Through the study of Latin American canonical and less-known literary texts from Colonial to contemporary times, this course focuses on food as a cultural artifact shaped by the dynamics of colonialism, modernization, immigration, and globalization. From a multidisciplinary perspective that includes Literary, Cultural and Gender Studies, as well as History and Anthropology, we will explore topics such as food exchange value, regional and indigenous traditions, social behavior and consumption, cooking imaginaries and social structure, culinary technologies, and gender correlations, among others. Primary sources include texts by Cristóbal Colón, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ricardo Palma, Esteban Echeverría, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Soledad Acosta de Samper, Rubén Darío, Rosario Castellanos, Gabriel García Márquez, and Isabel Allende. We will read these works together with theoretical approaches by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walter Mignolo, Pierre Bordieu, and Walter Benjamin.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40907 Fút(e)bol: A Cultural History (3 Credit Hours)

ROSP 40923 Caribbean Discourse, Caribbean Poetry: (Dis)-Identity and Landscape (3 Credit Hours)

Caribbean societies are diverse, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual. They also share a common history of colonization and slavery, neo-colonization, and plantation and tourist economies that are in stark contrast to the stereotypes of sun, sand, etc. This course examines high points in 20th and 21st Century Caribbean discourse (meta-theoretical texts about the Caribbean) and Caribbean poetry from the three major linguistic traditions (Spanish, English and French). We will focus on the poetry itself, the place of land and seascapes in Caribbean discourse, as well as issues of identity, difference and disidentification. We will read theoretical texts by Fernando Ortiz, Antonio Benítez Rojo, Édouard Glissant, Silvio Torres Saillant, and José Esteban Muñoz, and poetry by José Martí, Nicolás Guillén, Aimé Césaire, José Lezama Lima, Virgilio Piñera, Derek Walcott, Rosario Ferré, Julia Álvarez, Juan Carlos Flores, Víctor Fowler, and Damaris Calderón. Class to be conducted in Spanish.

ROSP 40985 The End of Work (3 Credit Hours)

What is the status of "work" today? This course takes up the history and current crisis of the idea of work by focusing on its philosophy and its aesthetic representation. We are at the cusp of a civilizational shift that has work at its center: the implacable rise of automation and artificial intelligence suggests that by the next decade there will be many, many more people than there will be jobs. And yet why should we think of this as a crisis at all? Since work's emergence as a modern idea, dreams of human emancipation have revolved around the liberation from the toil that it implies. John Maynard Keynes, the foundational bard of post-Depression capitalism, saw in the free market the opportunity to reduce "work" to a few hours per week; a century later the World Health Organization has identified "overwork" as a public health crisis, with its most consequential symptom—"death by overwork"—common enough to be reducible to a concept, what in Japan is called karoshi. And a major world language reminds us that negócio, the modern frame for all work, is precisely a negation: of ócio, idleness, leisure, pleasure. Nation-states themselves take on as a major function of their administrative existence the regulation of who can work within their borders, and entire regions of the world—such as Latin America, which will be of special interest in this course—are thought about in the popular imagination as warehouses of work, the mano de obra of the global economy. In posing the question "what is work?", this course will move to some basic concepualizations of its form (Marx, Freyre, Keynes, Lévi-Strauss, Arendt, Sennet, Ehrenreich, Graeber, etc) to a set of topics where work is at stake, for example: work and inequality; forced work (e.g. slavery); work and (im)migration; work and race; unremunerated work (‘house work'); sex work; violence work; work as commodity; work and identity; global divisions of labor; the end of work. As a way of getting into these topics, we will draw on their problematization in contemporary film, including works by, for example, Mendonça, Herzog, Reygadas, Rivero, González Iñárritu, Martel, Cuarón, Joon-ho, Loach, Reichardt, Zhao. Language of instruction is English. Comparative work is encouraged.

ROSP 40987 Capitalism and Its Discontents (3 Credit Hours)

Since the financial collapse of 2008, it has been common to declare that capitalism is in “crisis”. But capitalism was born in crisis: from its earliest moments, it has been associated with boom-and-bust cycles, breathtaking stock bubbles, financial ruin, forced labor, and conquest. Moreover, as a historical social relation that in ways large and small organizes our lives, it is notoriously difficult to explain. Scholars of capitalism—historians, economists, sociologists—do not at all agree on what capitalism is; less agreement stands on its origins, its development, its future possibilities, even its current existence (more than one prominent thinker has declared capitalism “as we know it” to have ended). And yet at the same time, so overwhelming is the elusive presence of capitalism in our lives that one philosoher’s pithy remark has been repeated to the point of cliché: it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Which begs the question: is human civilization, simply, capitalism? With particular focus on the comparative experience of historical capitalism in the Americas, this course revolves around three broad problems: the contested origins of capitalism; the bifurcation of experiences of capitalism through uneven development; and the possible futures of capitalism. Each problem will be dealt with through a set of texts. On the one hand, we will engage some basic scholarly (historical and philosophical) texts in order to build conceptual language and identify points of controversy. On the other hand, we will draw on creative (narrative fiction and film) texts in order to contemplate the lived experience of capitalism and its contradictions in a range of settings. Language of instruction is English. Comparative work is encouraged.

ROSP 44090 Chilean Spanish (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines synchronic and diachronic Chilean Spanish, phonetic levels in their phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic. The approach, which is highly interdisciplinary, considers central aspects of Dialectology, Sociolinguistics and Language History.

ROSP 44240 Spanish Golden Age Theatre (3 Credit Hours)

This course will focus on Baroque Theatre. Plays by Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, Calderon de la Barca or Luis Velez de Guevara will be read and discussed in class. A research paper will be completed by each student regarding one of the plays. In addition, students will attend at least one live theater production in Toledo or Madrid.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROSP 44290 Writers/Spanish Empire and Decline (3 Credit Hours)

Masterpieces by Spain's most significant Renaissance and golden age writers, including Lope de Vega, Tirso, Calderon, Cervantes, Garcilaso, Gongora, Quevedo, and the authors of the picaresque novels and mystic poetry.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROSP 44370 Chilean Politics and Society (3 Credit Hours)

Students will learn about the Chilean political process since the 1930s, with a special emphasis on the period from 1964 to 2002. Students will analyze and discuss institutional, economic, social and cultural changes that occurred during that period. Chilean politics, economics and sociology will be addressed from a historical perspective.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WKSS - Core Social Science

ROSP 44410 Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature (3 Credit Hours)

Contemporary Spanish literature from the Generation of 1898 to the postwar era. Major literary currents, the political and social events that have shaped them and representative authors and works. (Spanish major)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44520 Recent Spanish Film (3 Credit Hours)

The intention of this course is to study the role of Spanish movies as a form of collective reflection and as a reflection of 20th century mass society. To this end, we will study 10 films which are expecially representative, whose cinematographic analysis permits the understanding of essential aspects of Spanish culture, history and society. The movies will include works by directors such as Carlos Saura, Alejandro Amenabar and Pedro Almodovar among others.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44563 Contemporary Chilean Film and Literature (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, the representation of the monstrous in contemporary Latin American literature and cinema will be analyzed from a critical perspective. To do this, general theoretical considerations about the monstrous will be reviewed first, and later some fundamental concepts, discourses and theories will be analyzed for the study of this subject, such as the grotesque, the abject and the ominous. The methodological strategies contemplate the reading of the assigned texts, expository classes and discussion sessions about the works. The learning will be evaluated through oral presentations, written essays and the elaboration of a final group podcast.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44580 History of Mexican Film (3 Credit Hours)

Taught at a host institution. Course objectives include:To recognize and differentiate stages of cinematography of Mexico from its arrival in 1896 until present day cinema. To analyze the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, to understand the thematic characteristics of this period, and to learn the intrinsic and extrinsic reasons that started the decay of this industry and the loss of high quality in film. To recognize and analyze the key periods of national cinematography from the Golden age, to analyze its aesthetic and conceptual transcendence, and to understand the state of the industry and the perspective of the future of Mexican cinema as well as its influence on the public.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROSP 44581 Historical Evolution of Mexico's National Cinematography (3 Credit Hours)

We will understand the historical evolution of Mexico's national cinematography to obtain the knowledge needed to understand cultural contributions and the content of main directors and their films. We will appreciate and value Mexican cinematography and participate in knowledge, analysis, and interpretation of its historical evolution using the appropriate mechanisms for the classification of the most distinctive cinematographic periods, for the purpose of applying this knowledge in analysis and/or production of films in general.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44620 Imaginaries for the Construction of Chilean Theatre (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, students will analyze the diverse imaginaries involved in the development of the history of Chilean theater of the 20th and 21st centuries in connection with the socio-political context and its ethical, aesthetic, and artistic implications. Through methodologies that aim at the development of critical thinking, creativity, and teamwork skills, students will develop reflective competencies on the contexts of creation, production, and artistic reception, valuing the role of theater as a mechanism that contributes to the construction of identities.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44719 The Faces of Love in Medieval Spanish Literature (3 Credit Hours)

The course aims to make a review of the various treatments that the love topic has received in medieval Spanish literature, paying special attention to the manifestation of courteous love and its different recreations. To give greater theoretical support to the analyzes proposed, the most influential loving treatises (medical, philosophical and literary) in the sphere of artistic creation in the Hispanic environment will be discussed.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44726 Poetry by Pablo Neruda (3 Credit Hours)

The course consists of a study of the poetic work of Pablo Neruda in three aspects: formal, intertextual and thought. These aspects are verified in different moments of the author's literary production: juvenile neo-romanticism, impure poetry, didacticism, neoclassicism. The course aims for each student to develop and communicate their own reading of this poetry and related topics, in the context of language and culture in general.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44727 Gabriela Mistral and Her World (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44728 GABRIELA MISTRAL AND HER WORLD: THE CREATION OF A MODERN LATIN AMERICAN POET AND INTELLECTUAL (3 Credit Hours)

This seminar will analyze the work of Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the first Latin American woman and the only one to date to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1945), in the light of the political, social and economic crises of the new millennium, which will allow us to appreciate the validity of her thought: equal rights for women, the recognition of indigenous American peoples, the struggle for democracy and peace in contexts of war, the protection of children, the care and defense of the environment, among others. Mistral was read and misread, understood and misunderstood, in different contexts and times, however, the beauty and strength of her poetry and essays create a voice that is an undeniable contribution to the debates of our present. The seminar will seek to answer questions such as: Why Gabriela Mistral is today an indisputable figure for thinking indigenous struggles; What are the reasons to understand Mistral as an avant-garde woman; What are the reappropriations that social movements such as feminism and sexual dissidence in Chile and Latin America have made of Mistral's figure and work; Why her thought attracts new generations of young people; Is it possible to think of Mistral as a "trans" author because she crosses different borders (geographical, gender, social); According to the readings of Mistral's work, what advantages does it give the Chilean poet to elaborate a poetics of ambiguous writing; Can we think of Gabriela Mistral within the panorama of Latin Americanist thought, what would be her contributions to the discussions made by her male peers, among others. Students will learn in depth about Mistral's development as a writer and historical subject, as well as the geopolitical history in which she writes. Students will hone their ability to think critically about literature by receiving a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. Studying this course in Chile allows for knowledge of the country's rich and varied geography and its human geography, which will give depth to the study of Mistral's work.

ROSP 44730 Narrative in Spanish America (3 Credit Hours)

Narrative currents in Spanish America from carpentier and the emergence of magical realism to the present day. Authors studied include Garcia Marquez, Borges, Fuentes, vargas Llosa, Cortazar, others.

ROSP 44961 Chilean and Latin American Poetry (3 Credit Hours)

Taught as 'Poesia de Chile y Am. Latina' A review of Chilean and Latin American Poets

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44963 Chilean and Latin American Music (3 Credit Hours)

Taught as MUC 708 - 'Música en Chile y America' at a host institution. Panoramic view of the historical development of music in Chile and Latin America from colonial times to the present. Objectives: To know the development of music in Chile and Latin America from the 17th-20th centuries. Comprehend the relationships between music and society in Chile and Latin America. Enrich the capacity of analysis and reflection over Chilean and Latin American music.

ROSP 44964 Chilean and Hispano-American Poetry II (3 Credit Hours)

The student identifies and critically evaluates the aesthetic aspects of Hispanic American poetry produced during the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, accurately reporting on the periods and outstanding works and demonstrating skills in reading poetic texts both in their synchronic understanding in relation to sociocultural and diachronic contexts typical of the poetic tradition and Hispanic American culture in general.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 44982 Chilean and Hispanic-American Narrative (3 Credit Hours)

This course will present an overview of the Hispanic-American narrative, with special emphasis on the production of the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. These readings will be approached from articulating axes, such as the concepts of: modernity, vanguard, the fantastic, generic hybridity, among others.

ROSP 44983 Criticism: The Chilean novel in the 21st century (3 Credit Hours)

This is a seminar literature course focused on contemporary Chilean novels. Over the course of the semester, we will read 4 contemporary Chilean novels about immigration and indigenous communities throughout Chile, working meanwhile on a 10-page literary analysis of one of the four novels.

ROSP 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

ROSP 47000 Special Studies I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed with the purpose of allowing students to engage in an individual or small group study under the direction of a departmental faculty member.

Course may be repeated.

ROSP 48000 Senior Thesis (1-6 Credit Hours)