ENGLISH 430:
Literature & the Visual Arts
In today’s culture, words talk back to pictures and pictures talk back to words. You can see this everywhere, from billboards to books and magazines to the Net.
And you can study this mixing in ENGL 430: Literature and the Visual Arts, an upper-division elective.
For more info, contact:
Prof. Charles Hatfield
Sierra Tower 735
818.677.3416
JEWISH STUDIES 496ih #18997 or HISTORY 496ih #18963
Israel’s History & Peoples
These are some of the questions we will be answering: Why is there a Jewish state in the Middle East? Why don’t Palestinians have their own state? Who are the people who live in Israel: their stories, their lives, their challenges?
This course uses an innovative approach to learning: Read on-line newspapers, watch YouTube videos, and assemble your own blogs.
Instructor: Professor Jody Myers
GRADUATE SEMINAR (LITERATURE TRACK) – ENGLISH 630 DEM:
Demonization in America, 1930‐1946
Freda Kahlo, Moses 1945 (Nucleus of Creation)
This course will be a multicultural approach to the high period of fascism — the 1930s and 1940s — looking back to understand how human nature, even in democratic America, failed to stop the rise of fascist thought.
The role played by demonization of "others" will be of special importance, because of the severity of conflict in the era and because multiculturalist beliefs must be re-evaluated vis-à-vis the cultural scapegoating of this era.
For more info, contact:
Prof. Robert O. Lopez
ENGLISH 487 #17906
Latina/o Literature
In this class, we will engage in a transnational study of Latina/o authorship. Using a wide rangeof authors, including both Spanish-speaking writers (translated) and English-speaking Latinas/os, we will seek a common ground binding the “Latin” majority of the Americas.