Advanced problems in exposition, persuasion, rhetoric, and style. Students write and discuss their own papers and analyze model texts. Advanced work in the theory and writing of poetry, fiction, frama, or literary nonfiction. Students will submit original work for discussion and read work by established writers in the genre or genres under consideration.
Students read texts in the target language as well as in English translation.
May be repeated for a total of l 2 credits. Critical study of the relationship between the individual and society in literature, film, and other selected arts from French, German, and Hispanic language communities. Around the integrative theme, students study subthemes, such as family and education and identity and alienation. Students read texts in their respective target languages and in other languages in English translation. Critical study of the political and aesthetic uses of language in literature, film, and other selected arts from French, German, and Hispanic language communities.