Spring 2009 Undergraduate Course Descriptions

AFRICAN LITERATURE

No Course Offerings Spring 2009

LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS

LTAM 110 - LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION  
BRAZILIAN HUMANIMALS: POSTCOLONIALITY AND THE ANIMAL ENIGMA
Instructor: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

This course looks at Brazilian texts wherein representations of animals intersect with postcolonial (racialized, classed and gendered) power relations. Situating our readings vis-à-vis other media—essays, cinema, music--we will consider the animal not simply as metaphor for “human” objectification but question precisely the human/ animal divide that makes colonial projects possible. Whereas our readings will focus principally on Brazilian texts, we will situate them in relation to international discussions of ecocriticism and species studies.  *This course would fulfill LTWL major’s non- European, non- U.S requirement.

CHINESE LITERATURE

No Course Offerings Spring 2009

No Course Offerings Spring 2009

LTCS 87 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR
READING TELEVISION: TV, POLITICS, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Instructor: Meg Wesling

How do we produce meanings and pleasures from television, and how TV does present to us a particular view of the world around us? We'll focus on two genres: reality TV and the teen drama, using episodes from The O.C., Laguna Beach, Lost, Celebrity Makeover, to name a few. Seminar will meet April 16, 23, 30; May 7, 14, 21, 28; June 4.

LTCS 87 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR
DISABILITY IN FILM  
Instructor: Michael Davidson

We will look at four films in which disability is a central component and discuss key ideas in disability and deaf studies. We will see Tod Browning’s Freaks, Randa Haines,’ Children of a Lesser God,Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, and Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca. Seminar will meet April 7, 21; May 5, 19; June 2.

LTCS 132 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL IDENTITY AND THE MEDIA
SOCIAL MARKETING, GLOBALIZATION, AND HEALTH
Instructor: Roddey Reid

This course will look at the rise and spread of social marketing since its inception in the 1960s as a powerful communication technology that applies contemporary commercial marketing methods of the private sector to issues of public interest. In recent years social marketing has become virtually the principal means by which government agencies, NGOs, non-profit organizations and activist groups reach citizens and communities through the public media sphere. Conversely, traditional corporate commercial marketing has now integrated into its advertising humanitarian issues as part of corporations’ “brand.” 

Students will have the opportunity to look at how social marketing has worked, its current global extension in the arena of public health, and its social and cultural implications. Our principal examples will be early nutritional and contraception campaigns in South and East Asia, Africa, and Latin America; the U.S. “War on Drugs”; safer sex/IV drug use promotion to combat HIV/AIDS in France, the U.S., Germany, Mexico, Mozambique, and South Africa; and anti-smoking efforts in Australia, Canada, the U.S., France, and Japan.

Topics will include the recent history of social marketing and public health; social marketing as a technology for voicing community needs; cultural narratives of nation, race, community identity, and citizenship in social marketing campaigns; the blurring of commercial marketing and public interest issues in corporate marketing campaigns; and criticisms expressed by community, women’s, and gay and lesbian health advocates. Students will read and screen materials drawn from various sources including numerous examples of outdoor print advertising, print ads, and TV, cinema, and radio spots, banner ads, etc. *This course will also count as a LTEN course.

LTCS 170 - VISUAL CULTURE
MATERIALS IN EAST ASIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE STUDIES
Instructor: Larissa Heinrich

This research methods course aims to familiarize students with some of the basic theoretical tools needed for incorporating visual culture materials into literary, historical, and other research on China.  Though it focuses on China, the course may also be useful for students working in other areas who wish to learn about techniques and debates surrounding the inclusion of visual cultural materials in primary research.  The first half of the course will concentrate on theoretical issues related to the study of visual culture generally, while the second half of the course will take up some of the specific requirements of visual cultural studies in Chinese Studies contexts.  Note that film theory will not be addressed in this course (although students are free to write about it); rather, we will focus on other forms of visual culture such as woodblock printing, Chinese text art, early photography and portraiture, heterodox and orthodox "art" forms, racial stereotyping in images, and techniques for reading and including "stationary" images in text-based research.  Students will be expected to produce an original research paper on an aspect of visual culture in Chinese Studies (or other area) by the end of the quarter. *This course would fulfill LTWL major’s non- European, non- U.S requirement.

In this class we will analyze representations of Taiwan's geography, history, and culture as they are presented on the silver screen.  We will begin the course by examining the extraordinary work of director Hou Hsiao-hsien, one of the finest filmmakers in the world, by considering how he uses film as an art form to capture Taiwan's socio-political history.  Then we will move to a chronological survey of Taiwan's important film directors, genres, and trends from the early 1960s to the present day.  In the process of evaluating the history of cinema in Taiwan, we will engage in conversations with authors and cultural theorists who are who are interested in a variety of questions regarding film art, gender, ethnicity, class, postcolonialism, postmodernism, and theories of transnationalism.  Students are required to complete all readings and viewings, write five commentaries and one term paper, and take a final exam. All films carry English subtitles and all readings are in English.  No knowledge of Chinese is required.*This course would fulfill LTWL major’s non- European, non- U.S requirement.

LTEA 110C - CONTEMPORARY CHINESE FICTION IN TRANSLATION - Cancelled
QUEER CHINESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Instructor: Larissa Heinrich

LTEA 132 - LATER JAPANESE LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
PHANTASMAGORIA: CONSUMERISM AND JAPAN
Proposed Instructor: Juliana Cho

The dream-world of fashion, shopping arcades, and glittering media flashes make up most of the consumer world as we know it today.  This experience of modern society was described by Walter Benjamin as a “phantasmagoria,” a type of magic show that entertained and frightened guests by projecting uncanny optical illusions into the air.  How can we wake up from the dream of mass culture? This course will introduce students to an analysis of consumerism in Japan and will draw upon select works of modern Japan, with a mixture of literature and contemporary pop culture media.  Application of Benjamin’s concept of phantasmagoria will structure our analysis.
*This course would fulfill LTWL major’s non- European, non- U.S requirement.

LTEN 23 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE OF THE BRITISH ISLES: 1832 – PRESENT
Instructor: Margaret Loose

Between 1832 and the present Britain has undergone radical changes socially, politically, sexually, economically, religiously, and . . . literarily.  Besides getting a sense of some major authors of this period, we will also try to grasp the ways in which literature has undergone transformations both to create and to keep up with those other categories of alteration.  One marked transition has been the appearance of more women, more (openly) gay/lesbian, more working-class, and more post-colonial writers, so we will sample writings by all of these.  Another important set of shifts has been in the modes and lengths of narrative and in the formal features and social significance of poetry; these too will occupy our attention, and we’ll spend some time getting an adequate vocabulary to talk about them.  Books will be available at Groundwork Books, and course grades will be based on a mid-term exam, final exam, weekly quizzes, 5-6 page essay, and attendance/participation in discussion sections.

LTEN 27  - INTRODUCTION AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
LITERATURE OF SELFHOOD
Instructor: Camille Forbes

This course will explore multiple forms of black literary production beginning in the late eighteenth-century through the late twentieth-century.  We will consider the theme of selfhood, studying ways in which African American writers have sought to define themselves as a people and as individuals in this nation.  Questions framing for our investigation include:  what terms and what means have blacks in America used to speak of their experience?  How have particular historical periods helped shape black literary production in the U.S.?  What are some key elements in the African American literary tradition?  Our texts will include poetry, autobiography, short stories, novels, and spoken word.

LTEN 113 - SHAKESPEARE II: JACOBEAN PERIOD (a)
Instructor:  Louis Montrose

A lecture/discussion course exploring the rich and varied achievements of Shakespeare’s later plays.  Issues of form, theme, action, and language will be studied in the context of Shakespeare’s theatre and society.  Six plays will be read -- Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest.  Film versions of a number of these will be viewed and discussed.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of the instructor.

LTEN 141 - THE HIGH VICTORIAN NOVEL (b)
CHARLES DICKENS
Instructor: Margaret A. Loose

A prolific writer and performer throughout the Victorian era, Dickens might be the only name from the period that almost everyone still recognizes.  Always writing for serial publication, a fact that shaped his writing in profound ways this course will examine, he poured forth novels of sheer comedy, of social protest, of melodrama, of shrewd observation, and more.  An enduring preoccupation of his career was the plight and development of children, with attention not only to their physical needs but also their mental and emotional ones—their necessity for affection, entertainment, education, and the development of a separate and authentic self.  Many of his novels include children and young people in some form of contest against injustice, tyranny, cruelty, or deprivation, and show their individual growth into self-sustaining and self-possessed adulthood.  We will read a few (possibly four) such novels, probably including Oliver Twist (1837-8), David Copperfield (1849-50), and Little Dorrit (1855-7).  Though few in number because of our 10-week limitation, the novels for this class will require a good deal of (very rewarding) reading, so look elsewhere if you don’t think you can keep up.  Grading will be based on active participation, small weekly assignments, and a final essay.  Books will be available at Groundwork Books.

LTEN 143 - THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN THE 18TH CENTURY
OUTSIDERS, ADVENTURERS, AND THE 18TH CENTURAL NOVELS (b)
Proposed Instructor: Emily Kugler

At first glance, the protagonists of the novels we will read in this course do not seem to have much in common: how can the experiences of a castaway in a land ruled by horses or an exiled princess trying to reclaim her throne compare to a chamber maid trying fend off the sexual advances of her employer or a young woman experiencing London high society for the first time. As different as these characters and their plots may seem, they all share the theme of being somehow outside of the societies they are in (or are attempting to enter).

How they deal with their outsider status is dealt with by the second part of the course title. An “Adventurer” can be defined in a number of ways: gamblers, mercenaries, explorers, merchants, and lovers all fit the standard definitions during the eighteenth century.  Perhaps the best definition for the kinds of protagonists that we will be following is “one who lives by his wits” (OED). Not really fitting into the social hierarchies or norms of their time, we will be looking at how these characters negotiate the world(s) around them. Throughout the class, we will discuss what these novels tell us about the desires, interests and expectations of readers in the eighteenth century.

This course will survey the 18th-century English novel by focusing on novels that deal with the tension between what was considered mainstream society and those outsiders trying to enter it. We will discuss how novels themselves could give access to people excluded from traditional avenues of knowledge and power by examining the literary impact made by the emergence of women as readers and writers, and the challenge that the novel, which was more accessible to non-elite readers, posed to traditional elite forms. Class will be conducted by a combination of lecture and discussion; we will divide into small discussion groups at regular intervals. Writing requirements will include reading quizzes, a take-home midterm, a paper, and a final.

Here is a tentative list of the novel’s we will be reading (one title will likely be cut by the time the course starts):

Anonymous -  The Woman of Colour
Frances Burney – Evelina, or A Young Lady's Entrance into the World
Francis Coventry - The History of Pompey the Little, or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog
Daniel Defoe – Roxanna: The Fortunate Mistress
Eliza Haywood – The Adventures of Evoaii , Princess of Ijaveo
Samuel Richardson -  Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels

LTEN 144 - THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN THE 19TH CENTURY(b)
LATE VICTORIAN
Instructor: Ron Berman

This course will cover the later nineteenth century, and its assigned reading will include (among others) DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson; the major stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ALLEN QUATERMAIN by H. Rider Haggard, TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES by Thomas Hardy, KIM by Rudyard Kipling. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H.G. Wells.

LTEN 145 - THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN THE 20TH CENTURY(b)
SOUTH ASIAN MIGRATION FICTION
Instructor: Rosemary George

LTEN 154 - THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE (c)
Instructor: Nicole Tonkovich
 
Defying the law has been a centrally important theme of American identity, beginning with the colonial assertion that the Revolution was a necessary, if illegal, resistance to the tyranny of Britain. Since that time, any number of American writers have explored situations under which resistance to civil government, to use Thoreau’s phrase, is a justified action. This class will take as its focus the literary representations of a number of different illegal acts undertaken to achieve what their initiators conceived to be a greater good.

We will read a number of novels, essays, poems, and short stories that deal with the issue of the law, its just application, and the conditions under which the law is necessarily flouted. Our readings will include many well known and centrally canonical texts, such as Thoreau’s justly famous essay, “Resistance to Civil Government” and “A Plea for Captain John Brown”; we will read these canonical texts in conversation with more popular, sometimes sensational, and more widely read pieces, as well.

I have not yet made a final choice of all the readings for the class, but they are likely to include some or all of the following: Hope Leslie, an early novel about a rebellious woman; Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom, a slave narrative featuring cross-dressing; The Hidden Hand, a novel that protests the legal expedient of capital punishment; Louisa May Alcott’s thriller, Behind a Mask; The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit, and Emmanuel Appadocca, or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Buccaneers, a pirate narrative set in the Caribbean.

Students will be graded on periodic quizzes, one or two short papers and a longer research-based project.

LTEN 181 - ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE(d)
RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN WARTIME
Instructor: Lisa Lowe

The internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II has figured as the paradigmatic example of Asian Americans in the twentieth century.  In this course, we reassess the centrality of this internment as symbol and anomaly, by situating the event within wider international, national, and regional contexts before and after World War II.  This includes the scope of U.S. interests in China, Japan, the Philippines, Korea and other Asian sites, the span of Asian immigration to and settlement in the western U.S., and the wartime relation of Japanese Americans to other immigrant, racial, and ethnic groups working in west coast cities like Los Angeles.  Our objective is to understand the different international, national, and regional landscapes as crucial contexts for the emergence of the many meanings surrounding “Asia” and “Asians” in the 20th century.

In this interdisciplinary course, we consult a variety of materials and devise methods for “reading” differently located texts and media in the reconstruction of the “past,” including literary fiction (from John Okada and Hisaye Yamamoto to Chester Himes), plays (Luis Valdez, Velina Hasu Houston), narrative histories (James Thomson et al., Ron Takaki, Daniel Hurwitz, Robin Kelley), critical historiography (T. Fujitani, Luis Alvarez), policy studies (W.W. Rostow), autobiography (Malcolm X), photography (Ansel Adams), independent and Hollywood films (from “Go For Broke,” to “A Family Gathering,” to “Chinatown”), newspapers, and other primary materials.  This course is also listed as ETHN 124.

LTEN 185 - THEMES IN AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
ANTI-SLAVERY AND ANTI-PRISON NARRATIVES (d)
Instructor: Dennis Childs

In this class we will examine narratives of the formerly enslaved (i.e. of the antebellum period) and those of modern prisoners and former prisoners in order to examine the way captive narration interrogates liberal tenets such as “progress,” “freedom,” “citizenship,” and “democracy.” Some questions of concern will be: What are the connecting links between the “slave narrative” and the “prison narrative”? What do the aesthetic, political, and legal connections between both narrative forms reveal about the nation state and the position of racial others in the body politic? Why do prison narratives repeatedly invoke the antebellum period (slavery) in reference to supposedly post-slavery moments? What is “crime” in the US context and how has its meaning changed and/or resisted change over time? How do the forms of expression produced by the enslaved and the incarcerated challenge prevailing conceptions of American history? What institutional, social, and cultural apparatuses inform America’s current status as the most incarcerating nation in the history of humankind, and how does this status belie liberal notions of moral, political and social progress? How do social structures such as capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and homophobia inform strategies of criminalization across different time-periods? Even with the narratives that we read that reach back to the nineteenth century we will attempt to read texts as a “history of the present”--i.e. we will be concerned about how narratives of slavery and imprisonment shed light on the current prison industrial complex, a system that now incarcerates well over 2.3 million people both domestically and globally. Our readings of captive narratives will be supplemented by analysis of alternative cultural forms—e.g. “spirituals,” field hollers, chain gang songs—that have been used by the enslaved and the incarcerated to give expression to (and protest against) the experience of racial and class terror.

LTEN 192 - SENIOR SEMINAR IN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Instructor: Meg Wesling

This seminar will focus on contemporary writing (fiction, memoir, and essays) about San Diego, Tijuana, and the border.  We will use these texts as starting points for conversations about our own San Diego explorations. Readings will include work by Luis Urrea, Helena Maria Viramontes, Mike Davis, Le Thi Diem Thuy, Jim Miller, and Kelly Mayhew, among others. Seminar will meet April 16, 23, 30; May 7, 14, 21, 28; June 4.

LTCS 132 (SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL, IDENTITY AND THE MEDIA)
LTWL 116 (ADOLESCENT LITERATURE: TEEN CLASSICS)
LTWL 183 (FILM STUDIES AND LITERATURE: DIRECTOR WORK)

Literatures in English Majors are required to include courses from each of the following four categories among their upper division courses: Codes:

(a) = British Literature before 1660: at least one course
(b) = British Literature after 1660: at least one course
(c) = United States literature before 1860: at least one course
(d) = United States literature before 1860: at least one course

Categories are indicated in parenthesis next to course titles. For students who entered prior to Fall 2002, please see the UG office for requirements.

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LTEU 87 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR
Survival Italian
Instructor: Stephanie Jed

Experience the pleasures of speaking Italian - buying fruit in a market, ordering gelato, asking directions, planning an excursion, and much more! Students planning to travel or study in Italy will especially appreciate and enjoy this jump start on Italian! Seminar will meet April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 13, 20, 27; June 3.

LTFR 2A  - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I
Instructor: TAs supervised by Catherine Ploye

Second-year course designed to be taken after 1C/CX. We undertake a thorough review of grammar while continuing to develop language skills (oral and written) by studying short stories, cartoons and movies from various French-speaking countries. May be applied towards a minor in French literature. Prerequisite: LIFR 1C/CX or equivalent or a score of 3 on the AP French language exam.

LTFR 2B - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II
Instructor: TAs supervised by Catherine Ploye

We continue the review of grammar begun in LTFR 2A. To strengthen language skills, plays from the 19Th and 20th centuries as well as the movie interpretation of Cyrano de Bergerac is studied. May be applied towards a minor in French literature or towards fulfilling the secondary literature requirement.
Prerequisite:  LTFR 2A or equivalent or a score of 4 on the AP French language exam.

LTFR 2C - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH III
Instructor: TAs supervised by Catherine Ploye

Designed for students who wish to further improve writing and conversational skills. Most advanced course in the program that offers a formal review of grammar. Oral skills are practiced through discussions of cultural issues presented in a contemporary novel and a film. May be applied towards a minor in French literature or towards fulfilling the secondary literature requirement. Students having completed 2C can register in upper-level courses (115 or 116). Prerequisite:  LTFR 2B or equivalent or a score of 5 on the AP French language exam.

LTFR 50 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH III: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Instructor: TAs supervised by Catherine Ploye

This course emphasizes the development of language skills and the practice of textual analysis. Discussions are based on the analysis of various poetic texts (poems, short story, songs…) as well as on a film. May be applied towards a minor in French literature or towards fulfilling the secondary literature requirement. Students having completed 50 can register in upper-level courses (115 or 116). Prerequisite: LTFR 2B or equivalent  or a score of 5 on the AP French language exam.

LTFR 21 - CONVERSATION WORKSHOP I
Instructor: TA supervised by Catherine Ploye

One-unit, one-meeting-a-week courses, designed to develop and maintain oral skills by discussing current cultural issues of the francophone world. These courses may be taken more than once, alone or in combination with any other literature course.Prerequisite: LIFR 1C/CX or consent of instructor.

LTFR 31 - CONVERSATION WORKSHOP II
Instructor: TA supervised by Catherine Ploye

One-unit, one-meeting-a-week courses, designed to develop and maintain oral skills by discussing current cultural issues of the francophone world. These courses may be taken more than once, alone or in combination with any other literature course.Prerequisite: LTFR 2B or consent of instructor.

LTFR 50 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH III: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Instructor: Catherine Ploye

This course emphasizes the development of language skills and the practice of textual analysis. Discussions are based on the analysis of various poetic texts as well as on a film. May be applied towards a minor in French literature or towards fulfilling the secondary literature requirement. Students having completed 50 can register in upper-level courses (115 or 116). Prerequisite: LTFR 2B or equivalent or a score of 5 on the AP French language exam.

LTFR 123 - 18th CENTURY  - Updated Instructor and Course Description
VOYAGEURS DU XVIIIÈME SIÈCLE: À LA RENCONTRE DE L'AUTRE
Instructor: Sarah Leibovitz

Le XVIIIème siècle français voit s’épanouir deux sortes de voyageurs: le vrai voyageur, marin et scientifique, parcourant les mers au péril de sa vie et le « faux » voyageur, le voyageur en chambre, celui qui dans l’ombre de son cabinet « se contente » de philosopher à perte de vue sur le monde et ses habitants. Au travers de la lecture attentive de quelques importants récits de voyage ("vrais" et fictifs) du XVIIIème siècle, nous allons tenter de mieux comprendre dans ce cours comment ce siècle a négocié sa rencontre réelle et philosophique avec l’autre.

Textes:
Voyage autour du monde par la frégate du Roi, la Boudeuse et la flûte l'Etoile de Bougainville
Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville de Diderot
Voyage sur l'Amazone de C-M de La Condamine
Lettres Persanes de Montesquieu

Prerequisite: LTFR 115 or 116 or consent of instructor.

LTFR 143  - MAJOR AUTHORS
GEORGE SAND
Instructor: Catherine Ploye

Souvent identifiée aujourd’hui à sa vie non-conventionnelle et à ses derniers romans “champêtres,” Sand était un des écrivains les plus lus au 19e siècle. Elle est cependant reléguée au rang d’écrivain secondaire après sa mort en 1876 et il faut attendre la fin du 20e siècle pour que soient réédités certains de ses premiers romans et que ses contributions au développement du roman soient reconnues.

Dans ce cours, nous lirons deux de ses romans ainsi que des lettres et des extraits de journaux intimes, et les analyserons dans le contexte de sa vie, elle-même étroitement liée aux développements littéraires, politiques et sociaux de son époque. Le cours sera entièrement en français. Textes requis: Indiana, La Ville noire. Prerequisite: LTFR 115 or 116 or consent of instructor.

GERMAN LITERATURE

LTGM 2C  - INTERMEDIATE GERMAN III
Instructor: Laurel Plapp

In the third course in the Intermediate German series, we use a multimedia approach to retrace the difficult years from the end of the war to the building of the Wall with news reports, personal interviews, and videos. We will screen the feature film Das Wunder von Bern, which tells the story of a soccer match that lifted the somber mood of the nation. In the second part of the quarter, we will read the riveting play Der Besuch der alten Dame by the Swiss writer F. Dürrenmatt. Claire, who left her home in disgrace, returns as a wealthy woman to seek revenge, and the entire town is drawn into the dramatic events. The course will also continue our review of German grammar.  Prerequisite: LTGM 2B or equivalent.

LTGM 132 - GERMAN POETRY/strong>
Instructor: William O’Brien

LTGK 3  - INTERMEDIATE GREEK II      
Instructor: Leslie Edwards

Having mastered (most of) the morphology of Ancient Greek, we'll turn this quarter to the reading of Homer's Odyssey. Besides translating passages from the poem, we'll discuss and review forms and constructions as they appear in our reading. Midterm, final, and some quizzes. Prerequisite: Greek 2 or the equivalent, or permission of the instructor.Prerequisite: LTGK 2 or permission of the instructor.

LTGK 131 - COMEDY
Instructor: Eliot Wirshbo

This course will initiate students into the wild and woolly Old Comedy of Aristophanes. (Text yet to be determined.) This is a sort of amalgam of the Marx Brothers, Lenny Bruce, the Three Stooges, Richard Pryor, Monty Python, and Rodney Dangerfield. In other words, there is silliness, verbal play, obscenity, slapstick, contemporary references, wild plots, and general irreverence. All the while, students will be improving their knowledge of ancient Greek as they guffaw and snort. Mid-term, final, paper. Prerequisites: LTGK 1, 2, 3 or equivalent.    

No Course Offerings Spring 2009

LTIT 122 - STUDIES IN MODERN ITALIAN CULTURE
Instructor: Pasquale Verdicchio

This course proposes to analyse writings, film and other cultural products that are directly or indirectly related to Italian colonialism.  While the production of so-called colonial literature was a state sponsored activity during the Fascist period, the presence of Africa within the peninsular literary canon as a place “rightfully Italian” became is an early and common trope.  Of course, the predominant point of reference for any such claim is the Roman Empire.  During the course of the class we will read texts from and around the Libyan war (1911) and the later Abyssinian War (1935-36), always keeping in our sights the writings of Petrarch, Pascoli, D’Annunzio and Pasolini as well as the contemporary writings of Italians of African descent. Pasquale_Verdicchio at Good Reads. Prerequisites: LTIT 50.

LTIT 192 - SENIOR SEMINAR
ITALIAN CONVERSATION AND CULTURE
Instructor: Stephanie Jed

Do you know who the president of Italy is or why Italians love Dante, Puccini, and Fellini? In this seminar, we will learn the basics of Italian culture - music, literature, cinema, politics - while learning how to start conversations on these topics IN ITALIAN!! Seminar will meet April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 13, 20, 27; June 3.

KOREAN LITERATURE

LTKO 1A - BEGINNING KOREAN: FIRST YEAR I
Instructors: TAs supervised by Jeyseon Lee

Please visit our Korean Literature website at: http://korean.ucsd.edu/  for a course description for this course.

LTKO 1C - BEGINNING KOREAN: FIRST YEAR III
Instructors: TAs supervised by Jeyseon Lee

Please visit our Korean Literature website at: http://korean.ucsd.edu/  for a course description for this course.

LTKO 2A - INTERMEDIATE KOREAN: SECOND YEAR I
Instructors: TAs supervised by Jeyseon Lee

Please visit our Korean Literature website at: http://korean.ucsd.edu/  for a course description for this course.

LTKO 2C - INTERMEDIATE KOREAN: SECOND YEAR III
Instructors: TAs supervised by Jeyseon Lee

Please visit our Korean Literature website at: http://korean.ucsd.edu/  for a course description for this course.

LTKO 3 - ADVANCED KOREAN: THIRD YEAR III
Instructors: TAs supervised by Jeyseon Lee

Please visit our Korean Literature website at: http://korean.ucsd.edu/  for a course description for this course.

LTKO 100 - READINGS IN KOREAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
READINGS IN POST-LIBERATION SOUTH KOREAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Instructor: Junghyun Hwang

This course is a survey of major issues in modern Korean history from 1945 to the present, including Division, U.S./Soviet occupation, the Korean War, and authoritarian rule, industrialization, the labor/agrarian movement and cultural and social issues, emerging within the globalized economy in South Korea.  We will read from a variety of sources such as primary and secondary historical material, literature (short fiction, poetry, essays), and journalism. This course is designed both as an advanced reading class and as an introduction to Korean literature, history and culture.  Students who have completed three years of Korean at the college level as well as those who have literacy in Korean through informal and formal training may qualify to take this class. The level of difficulty of the reading materials and class discussion will be adjusted to the linguistic capabilities of the participants.  Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Korean (two years college-level Korean or equivalent); upper-division standing.

LTLA 3 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN II
Instructor: Eliot Wirshbo

In this course we'll finish the grammar lessons and move on to read some entertaining passages of Latin literature.

The grammar remaining is in a way even more difficult than what's so far been covered. All the more reason to buck up and give it the old college try! Right? Prerequisite: LTLA 2 or equivalent

LTLA 134 - HISTORY
SALLUST’S CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE
Instructor: Anthony Edwards

Catiline was a Roman aristocrat of an ancient family whose fortunes had faded. When his ambitions for the consulship were frustrated, he conspired instead to take control of the Roman state through an armed conspiracy. We have two accounts of these events, one from the consul of the year 63 B.C., Cicero, and another from Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust). The latter, a faithful ally of Julius Caesar, retired from politics after Caesar’s death and devoted himself to writing history. His Conspiracy of Catiline, a relatively short work, is a pleasure to read both for its distinctive Latin as well as for its biting moral outlook. We should be able to complete a good chunk of the original in class; there will also be midterm and final exams, and a paper.Prerequisites: LTLA 3 or equivalent.   

LTPR 50 - Portuguese for Spanish Speakers / Brazilian Literature for Spanish Speakers
Instructor: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

Portuguese for Spanish Speakers. This course incorporates instruction in Brazilian Portuguese with the study of Brazilian culture, literature, film and music. Directed to Spanish speakers, we will systematically refer to and compare Portuguese grammatical structures and vocabulary with those of Spanish to speed the learning process. At the same time, the course will serve as an introduction to Brazilian cultural production, preparing students for further study in the area. The class will be conducted entirely in Portuguese.

LTRU 1C - FIRST-YEAR RUSSIAN
Instructor: Rebecca Wells

Continuing expansion of previous language acquisitions and introduction to new, unexplored territories.  While systematically reviewing grammar, we will begin focusing on the language for more creative purposes in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.  Language lab videos and readings texts will supplement the basic text.  This course meets two days a week for grammar lectures and two days per week for conversation.  Every effort will be made to integrate material on Russian culture into the language curriculum.

LTRU 2C - SECOND-YEAR RUSSIAN
Instructor: Rebecca Wells

Continuing expansion of previous language acquisitions and introduction to new, unexplored territories.  While systematically reviewing grammar, we will begin focusing on the language for more creative purposes in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.  Language lab videos and readings texts will supplement the basic text.  This course meets two days a week for grammar lectures and two days per week for conversation.  Every effort will be made to integrate material on Russian culture into the language curriculum.   Prerequisite: LTRU 1A-B-C or equivalent

LTRU 104C - ADVANCED PRACTICUM IN RUSSIAN
Proposed  Instructor: Julia Klimova

Development of advanced skills in reading, writing, and conversation.  Course based on written and oral texts of various genres and styles.  Individualized program to meet specific student needs.  May be substituted for LTRU 101 A-B-C as requirement for major.  Prerequisite for 104A: LTRU 2C or equivalent

LTRU 110B - RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LITERATURE 1860 - 1917
Instructor: Steven Cassedy

In this course, we will read three classic novels by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelist Dostoevsky: The Idiot, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov. In lecture and discussion, we will examine the literary qualities of these works, in addition to the historical, social, and religious issues that they raise. 

LTRU 123 - SINGLE AUTHOR IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
DOSTOEVSKY  
Instructor: Steven Cassedy

In this course, we will read three classic novels by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelist Dostoevsky: The Idiot, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov. In lecture and discussion, we will examine the literary qualities of these works, in addition to the historical, social, and religious issues that they raise. 

This 5 unit intermediate course meets 4 days per week and is taught entirely in Spanish. LTSP 2A emphasizes the development of communicative skills, reading ability, listening comprehension and writing skills. It includes grammar review, short readings, class discussions and working with Spanish-language video and Internet materials. This course is designed to prepare students for LTSP 2B and 2C. A diagnostic test will be administered on the first day. Prerequisites: Completion of Li/Sp 1C/CX, its equivalent, or a score of 3 on the AP Spanish language exam.

Note: The Final Exam for LTSP 2A is scheduled for Monday, June 8th, 2009. Contact instructors with any questions regarding placement.

LTSP 2B - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH ll:  READINGS AND COMPOSITION
Instructor: TAs supervised by Beatrice Pita

This intermediate course is designed for students who wish to improve their grammatical competence, ability to speak, read and write Spanish. It is a continuation of LTSP 2A with special emphasis on problems in writing and interpretation. Students meet with the instructor 4 days per week. Work for this 5 unit course includes oral presentations, grammar review, writing assignments, class discussions on the readings and work with Spanish-language video and Internet materials. A diagnostic test will be administered on the first day. Prerequisites: Completion of LTSP 2A, its equivalent, or a score of 4 on the AP Spanish language exam.
Note: The Final Exam for LTSP 2B is scheduled for Monday, June 8th, 2009.
Contact instructors with any questions regarding placement.

LTSP 2C - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH lll: CULTURAL TOPICS AND COMPOSITION
Instructor: TAs supervised by Beatrice Pita

The goal of this intermediate language course is twofold: to further develop all skill areas in Spanish and to increase Spanish language-based cultural literacy. LTSP 2C is a continuation of the LTSP second-year sequence with special emphasis on problems in grammar, writing and translation. It includes class discussions of cultural topics as well as grammar review and composition assignments. The course will further develop the ability to read articles, essays and longer pieces of fictional and non-fictional texts as well as the understanding of Spanish-language materials on the Internet. A diagnostic test will be administered on the first day. Prerequisite: Completion of LTSP 2B, its equivalent, or a score of 5 on the AP Spanish language exam. This course satisfies the third course requirement of the college-required language sequence as well as the language requirement for participation in UC-EAP. Note: The Final Exam for LTSP 2C is scheduled for Monday, June 8th, 2009.

LTSP 2D - INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED SPANISH: SPANISH FOR BILINGUAL SPEAKERS I
Instructor: TAs supervised by Beatrice Pita

Designed for bilingual students who have been exposed to Spanish at home but have little or no formal training in Spanish. The goal is for students who are comfortable understanding, reading and speaking in Spanish to further develop existing skills and to acquire greater oral fluency, and grammatical control  through grammar review, and reading and writing practice. Building on existing strengths, the course will allow students  to develop a variety of Spanish language strategies to express themselves in Spanish with greater ease and precision. Prepares native-speakers for  more advanced courses. A diagnostic test will be administered on the first day. Prerequisite: Native speaking ability and/or recommendation of instructor.

Note: The Final Exam for LTSP 2D is scheduled for Monday, June 8th, 2009. Enrollment for LTSP 2D requires departmental pre-authorization. Contact instructor with any questions regarding placement.

LTSP 2E - ADVANCED SPANISH READINGS AND COMPOSITION FOR BILINGUAL SPEAKERS
Instructor: TAs supervised by Beatrice Pita

An advanced/intermediate course designed for bilingual students who may or may not have studied Spanish formally, but possess good oral skills and seek to become fully bilingual and biliterate. Reading and writing skills stressed with special emphasis on improvement of written expression, vocabulary development and problems of grammar and orthography. Prepares native-speakers with a higher level of oral proficiency for  more advanced courses. A diagnostic test will be administered on the first day. Prerequisite: Native speaking ability and/or recommendation of instructor.

Note: The Final Exam for LTSP 2E is scheduled for Monday, June 8th, 2009. Enrollment for LTSP 2E requires departmental pre-authorization. Contact instructor with any questions regarding placement.

LTSP 41 - CONVERSATION AND ORTHOGRAPHY WORKSHOP II
Instructor: TAs supervised by Beatrice Pita

The one-unit workshop format of this course will allow students to attain a stronger command of skills in matters of conversation, pronunciation, spelling, punctuation and accent rules. Focus will be on vocabulary development, use of idiomatic expressions and advancing oral and written proficiency in Spanish. Pre-requisites: LI/SP 1C/CX or consent of the instructor.

Note: This conversation/discussion class meets once a week. May be taken as an adjunct to lower  division LTSP courses, alone,  or in combination with any other LTSP course. Recommended for students planning to study abroad.  May be taken 3 times for credit as topics vary. May be taken P/NP or for a letter grade. Contact instructor with any questions regarding placement.

LTSP 50C - READINGS IN LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS
Instructor: TAs supervised by Beatrice Pita

This course introduces students to literary analysis through the close textual reading of a selection of Latin American texts including novels, plays, short fiction and poetry. Coursework includes reading of texts, participation in class discussions and written assignments. LTSP 50C prepares Literature majors and minors for upper-division work. LTSP 50A and either 50B or 50C are required for Spanish Literature majors. May be applied towards a minor in Spanish Literature or towards fulfilling the second literature requirement for Literature majors. Prerequisites: Completion of LTSP 2C, 2D, 2E or 2 years of college level Spanish. Notes: The Final Exam for LTSP 50C is scheduled for Monday, June 8th, 2009. Contact instructor with any questions regarding placement.

LTSP 129 - SPANISH WRITING AFTER 1939
REPRESENTACIONES CULTURALES DE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPANOLA
Instructor: Luis Martin-Cabrera

La Guerra Civil Española es sin duda uno de los eventos más importantes del siglo XX no sólo en España, sino tal vez también a nivel mundial. En este curso estudiaremos las distintas manifestaciones culturales que produjo la Guerra Civil Española (novela, poesía, teatro, artes visuales etc.), así como las representaciones culturales de la guerra en el reciente contexto de la lucha para la recuperación de la memoria en España. En este sentido, el curso esta dividido en dos partes. En la primera parte, analizaremos las representaciones culturales contemporáneas a la guerra (El Guernica, las fotografías de Robert Capa, la poesía de Pablo Neruda, las memorias de Orwell, Pasionaria  etc.) y en la segunda parte analizaremos las novelas y películas que construyen la memoria de la guerra (Los Girasoles Ciegos, Soldados de Salamina, La guerrilla de la memoria etc.). Prerequisite: LTSP 50A

LTSP 141 - LATIN AMERICAN POETRY
Instructor: Jaime Concha

El curso está destinado a estudiar poetas latinoamericanos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y comienzos del  XXI, casi todos relativamente recientes. Partiremos del Neruda póstumo (1974) yere mos a los chilenos Jorge Teillier Gonzalo Millán y Carmen Berenguer; a la uruguaya Circe Maya; a los mexicanos  Juan Banuelos y Jose Emilio Pacheco; y a los argentinos  Olga Orozco, Alberto Girri y Juan Gelman, y algún otro que parezca en el camino. Habrá dos exámenes, uno intermedio y otro final, cada uno de igual valor. Se entregará  Reader, a obtener en CalCopy. Prerequisite: LTSP 50B or 50C. *This course would fulfill LTWL major’s non- European, non- U.S requirement.

LTSP 171 - STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
PROCESOS SOCIOCULTURALES EN LA FRONTERA MEXICO-ESTADOS UNIDOS
Proposed Instructor: José Manuel Valenzuela Arce

En este curso analizaremos algunas de las principales apropiaciones, (re)creaciones, resistencias y conflictos socioculturales que ocurren en los 3,100 Kilómetros de frontera común entre México y Estados Unidos.

Los procesos socioculturales fronterizos han sido representados de múltiples maneras. En ellas han prevalecido perspectivas estereotipadas, sin embargo, la frontera devino espacio de interés como escenario que prefigura condiciones emergentes en otras partes del mundo.

Más allá de las perspectivas tradicionales que han reducido a la frontera a condiciones estereotipadas de entreguismo, apochamiento, vicio, violencia o narcotráfico, algunos autores como Néstor García Canclini han considerado que la frontera (especialmente la ciudad de Tijuana), es un laboratorio de la posmodernidad y que en ella se expresan procesos intensos de hibridismo cultural.
En este curso analizaremos algunos de los componentes que han marcado las percepciones sobre la frontera y sus manifestaciones culturales. De manera específica, revisaremos la conformación de algunos personajes, mitos y leyendas fronterizas al estilo de  los bandoleros sociales decimonónicos, santos de la mística popular como Juan Soldado o Jesús Malverde, movimientos juveniles fronterizos como los pachucos, los cholos y las maras, expresiones musicales propias y apropiadas al estilo de la música de banda y conjunto norteño, el rock fronterizo, los colombianos y nortec.

También discutiremos temas fundamentales de la vida fronteriza como las migraciones y los desplazamientos como marca central del siglo XXI y algunas manifestaciones de la cultura y el arte fronterizos. Finalmente, se revisará el debate sobre la identidad y el supuesto apochamiento de los fronterizos en el marco de la nueva centralidad de las fronteras como elementos de los escenarios geopolíticos de la globalización.
Prerequisites: Ability to read Spanish and understand spoken Spanish.*This course would fulfill LTWL major’s non- European, non- U.S requirement.

LTSP 175  - GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CULTURE
Instructor: Rosaura Sanchez

En esta clase veremos cuatro novelas de las últimas dos décadas con relación a una serie de problemáticas de tipo social:  género, sexualidad, clase y etnicidad/raza.  Las novelas son las siguientes:

Mayra Montero:  Como un mensajero tuyo (1998)
Laura Restrepo:  Dulce compañía (1995)
Marcela Serrano:  Lo que está en mi corazón (2001)
Ricardo Piglia:  Plata quemada (2000)

A los alumnos se les pedirá que lean los textos con cuidado, que participen activamente en la discusión de la clase, que vean las películas asignadas, y que presenten breves comentarios orales ante la clase.  Habrá dos exámenes (un examen parcial y un examen final) y se entregarán dos trabajos escritos. Prerequisite: LTSP 50A, 50B, or 50C. *This course would fulfill LTWL major’s non- European, non- U.S requirement.

LTSP 177  - LITERARY AND HISTORICAL MIGRATIONS
REPRESENTATCIONES DEL INMIGRANTE 
Instructor: George (Jorge) Mariscal

Un estudio de varios textos que representan la experiencia contemporánea de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos.  Estudiaremos testimonios, novelas, documentos oficiales y películas en que los trabajadores inmigrantes emprenden el viaje al norte y establecen su vida en una sociedad contradictoria y a veces hostil. Los estudiantes tendrán la responsabilidad de leer y analizar los textos; el profesor dará ponencias breves sobre el panorama político y cultural.  Tambien tendremos visitas en clase de expertos en cuestiones de los derechos del inmigrante. Prerequisite: LTSP 50A, 50B, or 50C.

LITERATURE/THEORY
 
LTTH 115 - INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THEORY
Instructor: Randall Williams

This course serves as an introduction to the major 20th century methods of Critical Theory. The methodologies that we will survey include Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Structuralist/Post-structuralist, Anti-/Post-Colonial, Feminist and Queer. Critical Theory is the name given here to the practice of political interpretation. We will read essays from Agamben, Alexander, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Berlant, Butler, Fanon, Foucault, Freud, Hall, Kristeva, Lowe, Marx, Mbembe, Mohanty, Rubin, Said, and Williams. In addition to a few in-class writing assignments, there will be three short papers and a final exam

LTWL 4D - FILM AND FICTION IN TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETIES
AESTHETICS OF TALIAN CINEMA
Instructor: Pasquale Verdicchio  

Lit 4D is a course in Italian Cinema that requires no knowledge of Italian or previous training in film studies.  It is a course geared to anyone with an interest in Film, Culture, Literature and Social issues.  The course will address issues related to the changes in the Italian social and cultural landscape as manifested in film from the immediate post-WWII period to today.  From the first days of NeoRealism Italian cinema has carried out an attempt to define a national culture, first in opposition to the fascist regime that reigned from 1922-1944, then as modern nation state participatory in the creation of the United European Nations.

Neorealism continues to manifest itself in Italian cinema often in unexpected contexts with re-incarnations, revivals, renewals, citations, etc.  As we make our way through the films in this course we will attempt to analyze its influence on successive generations of film-makers not only in relation to the parameters of film-making but also in the social/political function of the manufactured image.

LTWL 19C - INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS
Instructor: Charles Chamberlain

In the pitifully short time of 10 weeks, we will read a smattering of the major Roman writers, mostly from the 1st centuries BC and AD -- Plautus for comedy, Livy for history, Cicero for oratory, Suetonius for biography, and Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid and Juvenal for glorious poetry. 

LTWL 87 -  FRESHMAN SEMINAR
U.S. WAR FILMS
Instructor: Winifred Woodhull

US/European war films, Dr. Zhivago to Saving Private Ryan to Indigènes. We will discuss narrative, lighting, setting, editing, cinematography, and sound, as well as the social context of the wars and the films' representations thereof. The course assumes no prior work in film studies.

LTWL 106 - THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
HOMER’S ILIAD AND ODYSSEY
Instructor: Anthony Edwards

The focus for this class will be reading and discussing Homer’s two epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The poems are long, but even at that I expect there will be time for a leisurely and deep reading of these two books. Although Homer’s reputation as a storyteller has held up over the years, aspects of the way he spins a yarn and of the moral universe in which his characters act can strike readers as unfamiliar and even puzzling. So, I’ll devote time to constructing from evidence in the poems a historical context for our reading. There will be lecture and discussion, a paper, and a final exam; maybe we’ll watch a movie or two.

LTWL 115 - CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
RUSSIAN LITERATURE FROM GLASNOST’ TO THE PRESENT
Proposed Instructor: Yelena Furman

This course will explore the rich and varied field of contemporary Russian literature through the novels and short stories of such writers as Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Viktor Pelevin, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and others.  Topics include but are not limited to: Russian postmodernism; New Women’s Prose; and Russian detective fiction.  All readings in English, no knowledge of Russian required.    

LTWL 116   - ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
TEEN CLASSICS
Instructor: Stephen Potts

A number of novels now read by adolescents and taught in high school were actually written for general adult audiences—works such as Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Plath’s The Bell Jar, and Golding’s Lord of the Flies. So what themes and techniques make them particularly suitable for adolescents (if indeed they are)?  How are the great concerns of literature connected to adolescent psychology?  Are these books understood differently today than they were in their original cultural and literary milieux?  This quarter we will explore such questions through a selection of great books that have trickled down from the literary mainstream to become teen classics.  *This course will also count as a LTEN course.

LTWL 160 - WOMAN AND LITERATURE
Instructor: Oumelbanine Zhiri

Modern Arabic culture is fast evolving, and the lives of Arabic women have probably changed more profoundly in the past 50 years than in the preceding 500 years. Women writers are receiving a great deal of attention for their explorations of issues of gender, sexuality, war, politics, exile. We will be reading in this class translations of some of the most acclaimed and well-known recent novels by female writers, from Algeria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. Readings : Ahlam Mostaghanemi's Memory in the Flesh, Hanan al-Shaykh's Only in London, and Rajaa al-Sanea's Girls of Ryadh. *This course would fulfill LTWL major’s non- European, non- U.S requirement.

LTWL 183 - FILM STUDIES AND LITERATURE: DIRECTOR'S WORK
RELATIONSHIPS FILMS
Instructor: Alain J.-J. Cohen

Films about /relationships/ may be constructed as a quasi “genre” in the history of cinema. This course will vet the psychology and æsthetics of modern/postmodern relationships.

Couples meet, love, fight, part, meet again, in the everyday as well as during war and other traumatic circumstances. Filmmakers have found myriad ways of presenting these convoluted relationships, and have challenged us with their portrayals. Excerpts from classics or cult films will highlight these conflicted relationship entanglements. Clips will include  excerpts from Mike Nichols's work on crisscrossing couples with C. Owens, J. Roberts, N. Portman and J. Law  in Closer (2004), Stanley Kubrick’s study of the destructive power of fantasies in Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Paul Schrader’s postmodern lovers lost in Venice in The Comfort of Strangers (1990), Lisa Cholodenko's tortured women lovers in High Art (1998), Michael Haneke’s representation of masochistic relationships in The Piano Teacher (2001) and Liliana Cavani’s meditation upon perverse relationships in the aftermath of WW II in her cult film Night Porter. The class will open with Woody Allen self-destructive characters in his stylistic Manhattan  (1980).

As usual, precise methods of film analysis – frame and shot composition, shot-by-shot analysis, narrative programs, filmic figures, film genre,  deep structure, integration of specific films into the history of cinema, and filmic poetics - will be emphasized during the first weeks of the term. Students will explore the case of the compelling effect of /Relationships/ films. “Veteran” students will be asked for work building upon their previous research. *This course will also count as a LTEN course.

LTWL 192 - SENIOR SEMINAR: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN SAN DIEGO - Cancelled
Instructor: George (Jorge) Mariscal

LTWL 192 - SENIOR SEMINAR IN LITERATURES OF THE WORLD
NEW TESTAMENT LITERARY INTRODUCTION
Instructor: Stephen Cox 

This seminar is designed to provide students with a grounding in the major “genres” or types of literature in the New Testament: gospel, church history, epistle, and apocalypse. Attention will also be paid to the history of the NT books and their teachings. Seminar will meet March 30, April 13, 27, May 11.

LTWR 8A - WRITING FICTION
Instructor: Cristina Rivera-Garza

Study of fiction in both theory and practice. Narrative technique studied in terms of subjectivity and atmosphere, description, dialogue, and the editing process will be introduced through readings from the history of the novel and short story. Writing exercises accompany reading assignments.Prerequisite: completion of college writing requirement.

LTWR 8B - WRITING POETRY
Proposed Instructor: James Meetze

In this introduction to the craft of writing poetry, we will dissect and discuss various poetic forms, and methods of making poems both formal and otherwise. In our readings, we will sample and explore many poets and "schools" of poetry including The Objectivists, The Black Mountain School, The Black Arts Movement, The New York School, The San Francisco Renaissance, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and beyond. Students will find a more sophisticated awareness of the history of poetry, as well as the tools necessary for writing and reading poems in the new millennium.

You will turn in seven poems, five responses to the reading, and a journal with your ideas, and drafts. Students will be expected to attend three events in the New Writing Series. Prerequisites: completion of college writing requirement.

LTWR 100  -  SHORT FICTION
Instructor: Mel Freilicher  

Students will write two complete short stories in drafts.  First drafts of story #1 will be critiqued in peer groups; first drafts of story #2 will be read and discussed by the whole class.  There will be a variety of analytic exercises (which are graded check, check minus, check plus) in response to the readings, which include fiction by Nella Larsen, Jane Bowles, Issac Babel, Poe, Edith Wharton, Cortázar, Kafka,  Clarice Lispector, Kenzaburo Oe and others. 
Prerequisites: LTWR 8A; department approval

LTWR 102 - POETRY
Instructor: Rae Armantrout

This course is for students with an interest in writing (and reading) contemporary poetry. Poetry has been variously defined by modern poets. William Carlos Williams said a poem is a "small (or large) machine made of words." Charles Bernstein described poetry as "turbulent thought" which "leaves things unresolved." We will explore a range of approaches to poetry writing and students will be encouraged to invent their own poetic forms. Assigned readings may include work by Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Charles Bernstein, Frank O'Hara, and Harryette Mullen. There will be intensive small group discussion of student poems.
Prerequisites: LTWR 8B; department approval

LTWR 106 - SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, IRREALISM
Proposed Instructor: Nancy Holder

This course will provide you with a grounding in non-realistic fiction-- science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other forms of irrealism, which include expressionism, surrealism, fabulism, and metafiction. We will begin with a survey of the speculative fiction field and readings and discussions of representative stories. Through lectures, writing exercises, and creative brainstorming we will explore the elements common to all fiction-- narrative, characterization, setting, and style--while confronting the unique requirements of suspending disbelief in non-realistic fiction. Emphasis is placed on producing a substantial piece of work, and revising it not only to your own satisfaction but to that of your editor and readership (i.e., instructor and classmates).
Prerequisites: LTWR 8A; department approval

LTWR 110B - ADVANCED SCREEN WRITING WORKSHOPS
Instructor: Silas Howard

This course will explore narrative structures, focusing on the relationship of power and narrative form in visual storytelling. We will study and practice the fundamentals of narrative, the art of visual storytelling, and the elements of dramatic writing for the screen. Narrative strategies for establishing structure, pacing, setting, characterization, and dialogue will be provided through model films and writing exercises. Also examined are; character motivation, urgency, desire and character objective verses the writers' objective. Prerequisites: department approval

LTWR 114 - WORKSHOPS IN GRAPHIC TEXTS
Instructor: Anna Joy Springer
                           
In this incarnation of Graphic Texts students will read a variety of literary graphic novels and practice making short graphic narratives using Scott McCloud's Making Comics as a guidebook.  Students will practice a number of techniques and engage in experimental approaches to narrative and image-production.  Ability to draw or use illustration software not necessary, but course will be extremely labor intensive, including writing, drawing, coloring, inking, and production, along with regular workshop discussion and letters and student presentations. We will investigate story style and structure in a variety of graphic novels and shorts including Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth, 100 Demons by Lynda Barry, Goodbye Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson, Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco, Hothead Paisan by Dianne DiMassa, and Flight by multiple artists. Because of the cost of color copies, books, and art supplies, this course may cost more money than regular writing classes. Prerequisites:  LTWR 8A, LTWR 8B, and LTWR 8C; department approval.

LTWR 119 - WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
Instructor: Camille Forbes

In workshop style, this course will focus primarily on the production of solo performance texts by the students, and the presentation of these texts for critical feedback within the class. While our aim is to create powerful original monodramas, it is nonetheless important that we study the roads traveled and the work produced by those who came before us.  For this reason, we will engage with the visual, literary and aural products of earlier monologists/monodramatists, examining issues particular to craft, such as the transformation of a text from the page to the “stage” (performance arena), how performativity affects the writing process, and how diction, syntax and meaning shift strategically within the performance text and the performance. Prerequisites: LTWR 8A or 8B; department approval

LTWR 120 - PERSONAL NARRATIVE  
Instructor: Cristina Rivera-Garza

 A workshop designed to encourage regular writing of all forms of personal experience narrative, including journals, autobiography, firsthand biography, and firsthand chronicle. Instructor and students will discuss student work as well as published personal narratives. Prerequisites: LTWR 8C; department approval.

LTWR 121 - MEDIA WRITING
Instructor: Mel Freilicher

The chief project is to conceive of an arts and culture magazine that you would like to publish and edit. This might have a particular focus (music, film, literature, pop culture, computer graphics) or it could cover a wide range of genres, and issues: social, cultural, entertainment, lifestyle, sports, education, food. Your approach might fall anywhere on the spectrum from rivaling established slick, mainstream publications  (Spin, Wired , salon.com) to more experimental or specialized alternatives ( like Punk Planet; Giant Robot; rock zines); periodicals for particular subcultures or age groups; freebie regional newsmagazines; on-line satirical mags. In any case, take the high road: aim for originality and intellectual quality. Your project will consist of a statement of the publication’s intended audience and demographics; a manifesto or letter from the editor introducing the premiere issue, along with its annotated Table of Contents. You’ll also write a major feature article for that first issue.  First drafts of these projects will be read and workshopped by everyone in the class.  Revised papers will be due finals week. We’ll read articles from, and examine a variety of, current publications. Writing exercises involve emulating rhetorical styles of tabloids, also analyzing readings about marketing strategies, and homogenization of commercial print media (Susan Faludi, The Baffler). Prerequisite: LTWR 8C; department approval

LTWR 126 - CREATIVE NON-FICTION WORKSHOPS
TRAVEL WRITING
Instructor: John Granger

G. K. Chesterson said travel narrows the mind.  Think: modern tourism (Conde Nast): don’t.  We’ll be reading alternative “travel writing”—Ryszard Kapuscinski, Rory Stewart, Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Mexican Enough); Elias Canetti; Alain de Bolton, Rolf Potts.  Classes alternate from workshop (Thursdays) to discussion of the readings, and whatever else arises (Tuesdays).  You’ll be asked to compose twenty pages of new travel writing.  Not from memory: you’ll have to really travel somewhere, not by driving: down El Cajon Blvd, all the way; to the Goat Trestle Bridge (A-B desert); to/through LA (but not by car); to the border—with Border Angels/ No More Deaths; and more.  It’s open.   Prerequisites: LTWR 8C; department approval.

LTWR 126 - CREATIVE NON-FICTION WORKSHOPS
WRITING AND REPORTING JOURNALISM TODAY
Proposed Instructor: Hilary MacGregor

This is an introductory reporting course for adrenaline junkies, adventurers and true storytellers.  In this practical journalism workshop students will learn how to write and report a basic news story, pitch and deliver a feature, turn around a lively profile, keep a blog, and perhaps pound out a passionate personal essay.  The class will introduce different journalistic forms and discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. We will debate the role of journalism in society, and how (and why) journalism must evolve in the 21st century.  On occasion guest journalists will speak. Students will be required to read a newspaper daily, and must be ready to discuss print and on-line news coverage in each class. We will read and analyze articles from local and national newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the San Diego Tribune, the Huffington Post and the Onion.  Students will complete this course having reported real stories, and been edited as if for publication. In addition to submitting articles, active class participation will count significantly towards the final grade. Prerequisite: LTWR 8C; department approval

LTWR 148 - THEORY FOR WRITERS
Instructor: John Granger

This course applies philosophy, historical analysis, and literary theory to creative writing projects.  To this end we will read Badiou, Derrida, Gramsci, Deleuze, Benjamin, Althusser, Foucault, Wittgenstein, and others.  Participants will workshop weekly writing exercises written in response to theoretical positions, leading to a ten-page final project representing, with a greater critical awareness, what writers do.  Required text:  The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Norton, 2001).  Required work & grade breakdown: weekly exercises (50%); final project (50%). Prerequisite: department approval