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Foreign Literature Requirements 2007-2008
The general principle behind our foreign literature requirement is this: We want you to take a literature course (not a language course) in which you read works in their original language, to deepen and broaden your understanding of the study of literature. We do not require the class to make you speak or write papers in that language. Your grade must be B- or above. In the fields of Britain and America, you may take any course listed below. Students in fields that require a foreign language should take a literature course in that language and field. (We expect that you will be reading literature in the language of your choice by the end of the junior year.) If you have any questions, ask the Assistant Director of Studies.
We do our best to keep this list up to date and complete--but it is not definitive. We do not, for example, list the (many) 200-level courses that may fulfill the foreign literature requirement. In addition, the list may not mention newly-introduced courses that fulfill the requirement. There also may be courses not on the list where students can read texts in their original language, even though this is not stated in the course description; if you think this may be a possibility, speak to the instructor and to the Assistant Director of Studies.
By the same token, the courses on this list may not necessarily fulfill the foreign literature requirement (although, in almost all cases they will). For example, a new professor may change the language in which readings are done. Or we may simply be misinformed about requirements for a course. Ultimately, it is your responsibility to ensure that your course allows you to read the literature in the original language, not in translation. You have an obligation to call to our attention any course we have listed here improperly. We will not count a course for which you do not read works in the original language. If you have any doubts, speak to the Assistant Director of Studies and to the course instructor.
In a course where reading in the original language is optional, you must get a letter from the instructor testifying to the fact that you have read the works in the original. Some, but not necessarily all, such courses are noted on this list by asterisks (**). Bracketed courses will not be offered this year.
Talk to the Assistant Director of Studies if you have any special questions or concerns, and if you wish to take a 200-level course.
Also please read our Note Regarding Petitions.
- Foreign Cultures 22a. La critique sociale à travers l'humour
- Foreign Cultures 22b. La critique sociale à travers l'humour
** NOTE: Foreign Cultures 22a and 22b must be taken together.
- Literature and Arts A-26.** Dante's Divine Comedy and Its World
- [Literature and Arts C-55.** Surrealism: Avant-Garde Art and Politics between the Wars]
- Classical Studies 145.** Ancient Greek Tyranny
- Greek Ba (formerly Greek 3). Introduction to Attic Prose
- Greek Bb (formerly Greek 4). Selections from Homer's Iliad
- Greek 105. Attic Comedy: Aristophanes and Menander
- Greek 110r. Plato, Republic
- Greek 111. Euripedes
- Greek 112a.** History of Greek Literature I
- Greek 112b.** History of Greek Literature II
- Greek 114. Homer, The Iliad
- Greek 117. Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days
- Greek 128. Aristotle, Rhetoric
- Greek 134. The Language of Homer
- Latin Ba (formerly Latin 3). Latin Prose Selections (Classical)
- Latin Bam (formerly Latin 3m). Latin Prose Selections (Late Antique and Medieval)
- Latin Bb (formerly Latin 4). Introduction to Latin Poetry (Classical)
- Latin Bbm (formerly Latin 4m). Introduction to Latin Poetry (Late Antique and Medieval)
- Latin 105. Pliny
- Latin 106b. Virgil: Aeneid
- Latin 107. Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
- Latin 112a.** History of Latin Literature I
- Latin 112b.** History of Latin Literature II
- Latin 115a (formerly Latin 115). Tacitus
- Latin 129. Latin Epigraphy
- Latin 130. Cicero, Tusculans Book V
- Latin 131. Ovid, Heroides
- [Latin 132. Archaic Latin]
- Medieval Greek 115ar. Introduction to Byzantine Greek
- Medieval Latin 105. The Waltharius
- Modern Greek 100. Advanced Modern Greek: Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
- Modern Greek 145.** Dreams and Literature
East Asian Languages and Literatures Back to Top »
- Chinese 107a. Intermediate Literary Chinese
- Chinese 107b. Intermediate Literary Chinese
- Chinese 120a (formerly Chinese 101a). Intermediate Modern Chinese
- Chinese 120b (formerly Chinese 101b). Intermediate Modern Chinese
- Chinese 123b (formerly Chinese 101x). Intermediate Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners
- Chinese 125ab (formerly Chinese 102ab). Intensive Intermediate Modern Standard Chinese
- Chinese 130a (formerly 105a). Advanced Modern Chinese
- Chinese 130b (formerly 105b). Advanced Modern Chinese
- Chinese 140a. Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese
- Chinese 140b. Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese
- Chinese 179r (formerly Chinese 111r). Readings in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
- Japanese 106b.** Kambun
- [Japanese 106c. Later Classical Japanese]
- Japanese 130a (formerly Japanese 103a). Intermediate Japanese II
- Japanese 130b (formerly Japanese 103b). Intermediate Japanese II
- Japanese 140a (formerly Japanese 104a). Advanced Modern Japanese
- Japanese 140b (formerly Japanese 104b). Advanced Modern Japanese
- [Japanese History 126.** Shinto: Conference Course]
- [Japanese Literature 123.** Manga]
- Korean 140a. Advanced Korean
- Korean 140b. Advanced Korean
- Korean 150a (formerly Korean 110a). Readings in Cultural Studies
- Korean 150b (formerly Korean 110b). Readings in Cultural Studies
- Manchu 120a. Intermediate Manchu
- Manchu 120b. Advanced Manchu
- [Mongolian 120a. Intermediate Written Mongolian]
- [Mongolian 120b. Advanced Written Mongolian]
- Vietnamese 130a (formerly Vietnamese 103a). Advanced Vietnamese
- Vietnamese 130b (formerly Vietnamese 103b). Advanced Vietnamese
English and American Language and Literature Back to Top »
- English 102e. Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture: Introduction to Poetry
- English 103e. Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture: Beowulf and Elegy
** NOTE: English 102e and 103e must be taken together.
Germanic Languages and Literatures Back to Top »
- German 50a. Introduction to 19th-Century German Literature
- German 50b. Introduction to 20th-Century German Literature
- German 61. Advanced Grammar and Reading
- German 62. Advanced German: Berlin Since 1989
- German 118. Goethe’s Narrative Works
- [German 123. Fear and Pity: German Tragedies from the 18th to the 20th Century]
- German 151.** Franz Kafka: Modernity and Its Discontents
- [German 162.** Gender Theory and Narrative Fiction]
- [German 175. Realism]
- German 183. Critical Theory Revisited
- [German 184. America in the German Mind]
- [German 186. German Poetry: Innovation and Experiment]
- German 190. Literature and Violence in the 20th Century
- Scandinavian 160a. Old Norse Language, Literature, and Culture: The Viking Legacy
- Scandinavian 160br. Old Norse Language, Literature, and Culture: Mythology
** NOTE: Scandinavian 160a and 160br must be taken together.
- History 1450.** France 1500-1715
- Literature 109.** On Translation
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Back to Top »
- [Akkadian 142. Akkadian Hymns and Prayers]
- Akkadian 143. Akkadian Literary Texts
- Akkadian 144. Akkadian Divination Texts
- Akkadian 148. Old Babylonian Letters
- Akkadian 149. Akkadian Legal and Economic Texts]
- Akkadian 156. Neo-Babylonian Inscriptions
- Arabic 130a. Advanced Classical Arabic I
- Arabic 130b. Advanced Classical Arabic II
- Arabic 131a. Advanced Modern Arabic I
- Arabic 131b. Advanced Modern Arabic II
- [Arabic 150r.** History of Classical Arabic Literature]
- Arabic 158.** Modern Arabic Literature Seminar: Lebanese Civil War in Fiction
- [Arabic 160r. Readings in Arabic Historians, Geographers, and Biographers]
- Aramaic 124a. Readings in Syriac I
- Aramaic 124b. Readings in Syriac II
- Aramaic 125a. Aramaic Dialects I
- Armenian 130. Advanced Classical Armenian
- Ethiopic 120ar. Readings in Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez) Texts I
- Ethiopic 120br. Readings in Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez) Texts II
- Classical Hebrew 130ar. Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew I
- Classical Hebrew 130br. Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew II
- Modern Hebrew 120a. Intermediate Modern Hebrew I
- Modern Hebrew 120b. Intermediate Modern Hebrew II
- Modern Hebrew 125a. Advanced Modern Hebrew I
- Modern Hebrew 125b. Advanced Modern Hebrew II
- Modern Hebrew 130r. Contemporary Israeli Culture
- Modern Hebrew 134r. The Layers of Hebrew in Texts about Jerusalem
- [Modern Hebrew 135r. How to Say "I Love You" in Hebrew]
- Modern Hebrew 136r. Hebrew for Academic Reading
- [Hebrew 150a. Introduction to Rabbinic Literature]
- [Hebrew 160. The Origins and Development of the Classical Jewish Liturgy]
- [Hebrew 165. Maimonides' Book of Knowledge and its Medieval Critics]
- [Hebrew 171. The Problem of Language in Medieval Jewish Thought]
- Hebrew 177. Introduction to Critical Talmud Scholarship.
- Hebrew 191. From Jewish Literature to Israeli Literature
- [Persian 140ar. Selected Readings in Classical Persian Literature]
- Persian 140br. Selected Readings in Classical Persian Literature
- Persian 150r. Readings in Persian Historians, Geographers and Biographers
- [Sumerian 141. Sumerian Myths and Epics]
- [Sumerian 145. Sumerian Incantations and Rituals]
- [Sumerian 146. Sumerian Religious Literature]
- Sumerian 149. Sumerian Legal and Economic Texts
- Turkish 130a.** Advanced Turkish I
- Turkish 130b. Advanced Turkish II
- Turkish 146. Readings in Old Anatolian Turkish Narrative Prose
- [Yiddish 102r.** Modern Yiddish Literature I: The Yiddish Short Story]
- Yiddish 104.** Faith and Reason in Modern Yiddish Literature
- [Yiddish 109.** The Yiddish Novel Under Tsars and Stripes]
- [Yiddish 110. Studies in Yiddish Drama]
Romance Languages and Literatures Back to Top »
- French 70a. Introduction to French Literature I
- French 70b. Introduction to French Literature II
- French 70c. Introduction to French Literature III
- [French 102. Introduction to Medieval Literature and Old French]
- French 111. Violence: Medieval French Responses
- [French 112. From the Troubadour to the "Grand Rhétoriqueur"]
- French 115. Animals, Monsters and the Medieval Imagination
- [French 118. French Poetry: Pleiade and Baroque]
- French 119. Renaissance Literature: Radically Pre-Modern
- [French 121. The Text of the Renaissance]
- French 126. Literature and Humanism in the 17th Century I: The Courtier, the Hero and the Saint
- French 132a. 20th Century French Fiction I: The Realist Mode
- [French 132b. 20th Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode]
- [French 136. Feminist Literary Criticisms]
- French 137. 20th Century French Theater
- [French 139a. The 18th Century: Self and Society]
- French 139b. The 18th Century: Ethical Dilemmas
- French 156. Houses of Fiction: Zola
- [French 161. Rereading Realism]
- French 165. Marcel Proust
- French 167. Parisian Cityscapes
- [French 170. The City]
- French 175. Julia Kristeva: Introductions and Conclusions
- [French 184. Cinema and the auteur]
- French 185. National Identity and Narrative Representation in 20th-Century Francophone Literature
- French 187. The Contemporary Antillean Novel in French
- [French 190. Albert Camus]
- [French 192. The Literary and Cultural Renaissance in Haiti, 1920-60]
- French 195. The African and Caribbean Novel in French: Comparative Perspectives
- Italian 83.** Italian Popular Culture from ’60 to ’06
- [Italian 116.** The Renaissance: Power, Thought, Imagination]
- [Italian 123. Semantics of Desire: Love in Dante’s Poetry]
- Italian 128.** The Fantastic from Dante to Calvino and Beyond
- [Italian 140.** The Human Comedy: the novella from its origins to the Renaissance]
- [Italian 141.** Renaissance Epic]
- Italian 164. I Promessi Sposi
- Italian 173. Apocalypse and Other Ends. From the Fin-de-siècle to the End of the Millennium
- Italian 176. Italian Modernism
- Italian 177.** The Culture of Italian Emigration
- [Latin American Studies 121.** Revoluciones: Cultural Views]
- [Portuguese 118. Major Poems of the Portuguese Language I]
- [Portuguese 119. Major Poems of the Portuguese Language II]
- Portuguese 122a. Introduction to the Literature of Portugal I
- Portuguese 122b. Introduction to the Literature of Portugal II
- [Portuguese 141.** The Short Stories of Machado de Assis]
- [Portuguese 150.** Seminal Sounds, Images and Words in Brazilian Culture]
- Portuguese 155. Performing Arts, Literature and Culture in Modern Brazil
- Romance Studies 79.** Romance Languages in Comparative Perspective
- [Romance Studies 82.** The Middle Ages at the Movies]
- Romance Studies 181.** Fictions of Marginality: Contemporary Italian and Latin American Cultures
- Romance Studies 189.** The Culture of Antifascism
- Spanish 70a. Hispanic Literature: Spanish Literature from the Origins to 1700
- [Spanish 70c. Documentary Spanish Modernity]
- [Spanish 71a. Demons, Pirates, and Saints: Survey on Colonial Spanish American Literature]
- Spanish 71b. From Modernism on: Survey of Late 19th & 20th Century Latin America Literature
- [Spanish 84. Poetry and Grammar: Language and the Making of Poems in Spanish]
- [Spanish 90m. Imagining Latin Americas: Neruda, Asturias, and Paz]
- [Spanish 90q. Displaced Subjectivities: Travel Writing in the Americas]
- [Spanish 120. Medieval Spain in the Poem of the Cid]
- Spanish 124. Don Quixote
- Spanish 130. The Indian and Indigenismo in the Andes
- Spanish 134.** Nahuatl Poetry and Painting
- [Spanish 135. Writing Women: Language, Culture, and Difference in 20th-Century Spanish Narrative]
- [Spanish 152. Figures of Marginality in the Latin American Experimental Novel]
- Spanish 154. Imaginaries of Emancipation, Nationhood and Civil War in the 19th Century
- [Spanish 170. Imagining Buenos Aires]
- Spanish 172.** Barcelona and Modernity
- [Spanish 174. Latin American Culture and Society in the 1960s]
- [Spanish 184. Constructing Gender in Spanish America: "Man" and "Woman"]
- Spanish 187. Representations of Violence of Peru
- [Spanish 190. Proclaiming Territories: Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of the Americas]
- [Spanish 191. Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar]
- [Spanish 198. Cultural Spaces: Representations of the Country, the City and the Border in Spanish American Writing]
Sanskrit and Indian Studies Back to Top »
- Indian Studies 123.** Bollywood and Beyond: Language and Culture in Contemporary South Asia
- Pali 103r. Readings in Pali
- [Urdu 104. The Classical Urdu Ghazal and Its Symbolism]
- Urdu 105r. Topics in Urdu-Hindi Literature
- Thai 103ar. Readings in Thai I
- Thai 103br. Readings in Thai II
Slavic Languages and Literatures Back to Top »
- Slavic 103. Advanced Russian: Reading, Composition, and Conversation
- Slavic 104. Advanced Russian: Topics in Russian Culture
- Slavic 113. Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian Literature I
- [Slavic 114. Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian Literature II]
- [Slavic 116. Stylistics]
- Slavic 120r. Supervised Readings in Advanced Russian
- Slavic 121. Advanced Russian: Reading Literary Texts
- [Slavic 137.** Prague Between Two Empires: Czech Culture from 1914 to 1948]
- [Slavic 140. 18th-Century Russian Literature: Conference Course]
- [Slavic 150. One Writer]
- [Slavic 152. Pushkin]
- [Slavic 153. Short Russian Prose]
- Slavic 154. Introduction to Russian Poetry
- [Slavic 156.** Vladimir Nabokov: A Cross-Cultural Perspective]
- Slavic 162r. Polish Literature from 1945 to 1989
- Slavic 165. Survey of 19th-Century Ukrainian Literature
- Slavic 166. Russian-Ukrainian Literary Relations in the 19th Century: Conference Course
- Slavic 170.** Polish Literature from 1945 to the Present
- [Slavic 173. Polish Romanticism]
- Slavic 174.** Romantic Word, Romantic Deed: Conference Course
- [Slavic 175.** Romantic Anxieties: Legacy of Romanticism in Polish Poetry]
- Slavic 181. Russian Poetry of the 19th Century
- [Slavic 182. Problems in 20th-Century Poetry: Conference Course]
- Slavic 191.** Taste and Memory: Cognitive Approach to Literature
** Denotes courses which require a letter from the professor to certify that you read the texts in the original language.
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