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Course of Interest -- Spring 2010

French 697
A Walking Tour of Medieval Paris
(March 19-28, 2010)

Instructor: Sarah-Grace Heller (Email: heller.64@osu.edu)

Pre-Requisites Medieval Studies 215: Gothic Paris (Winter Quarter, 2010)

What could be better than walking through the streets of Paris in the Spring? Getting credit for it! This trip through the medieval neighborhoods of Paris will focus on history, art, architecture, literature and culture, and will take place March 19-28, 2010. Completion of follow-up multimedia research projects will result in five hours of credit for either French 697 or Medieval 694 (English).

For further information, plan to attend an information session on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 4:00 pm in Hagerty Hall 251. Web site information [PDF].

Application deadline is November 1, 2009

 

Winter Quarter GEC Courses

Information on Winter Quarter GEC Courses.

French 152
MW 2:30-4:18
#25760
Francophone Literature from Africa and the Caribbean

Instructor: Cheikh Thiam (Email: thiam.5@osu.edu)

This course is especially designed to introduce students to the French-language literature (in translation) of Africa and the Caribbean. It will study a number of representative texts covering different genres and periods, and illustrating a variety of styles and themes. These texts will be examined against the historical and intellectual backgrounds within which they developed, and as literary works conceived to elicit aesthetic responses. BER/LAC/LAR/GEC credit.

Italian 151
TR 12:30-2:18
#13929
Italian Literatures in its cultural Context: Medieval and Renaissance

Italian 221
T 2:30-4:48;R 2:30-4:18
#25763
Italian Cinema: From Neo to New: Sex and Politics in Italian Cinema

Instructor: Dana Renga (Email: renga.1@osu.edu)

In Italian culture sex and politics are intimately entwined, to the point that distinctions between the personal and the collective are often blurred, yet their interpolation is rarely, if ever, indifferent. The history of sexuality can be viewed as a history of culture and politics. Through examining the crossovers between "private" arenas of home and family into "public" realms of politics, the economy and religion, this course aims to disclose how, in Italian culture, the personal and the political are inextricably linked. This course presents students with an overview of Italian cinema of the last seventy years. We will look in detail at films by ten seminal Italian directors. The course will touch upon major movements in Italian film history, including Neorealism, commedia all'italiana, engaged or political cinema and new Italian comedy. Topics to be addressed include: Italian fascism (including Italy's problematic alliance with Nazi Germany and the Partisan Resistance), the so-called "economic miracle," Italy's not-so "Dolce vita," regional identity and racism, gender relations, the mafia, political corruption, terrorism and immigration. Films will be screened during class. Taught in English. GEC arts and hums VPA course.

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