All Courses
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2022SP - Intro Caribbean Lit (595:270 and 195:260)
The objective of this class is to become acquainted with major authors, themes, and literary movements that have emerged in the pan-Caribbean. The course incorporates a range of media--images, music, film--to explore representations of Caribbean culture in literature. Some of the topics that will organize our discussions include: empire, revolution, sugar and labor, decolonization, storytelling and the oral tradition, re-visioning European traditions, ritual and carnival, diaspora, and constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The course is taught in English (all texts are in English as well). The main assessments in the course include 3 short response papers, 1 exam, and 1 annotated bibliography.
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2022SP - Ling, Internet, & Social Media
Students examine forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) from email to IM, texts to tweets to understand its affective and social functions and how it relates to other forms of written and spoken English. What linguistics is and how linguists study computer-mediated communication will be examined throughout the course, using scholarly and popular sources covering topics including grammar, pragmatics, and variation and change.
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2022SP - LING,INTNT,SOC MEDIA 01:615:191:91
Students examine forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) from email to IM, texts to tweets to understand its affective and social functions and how it relates to other forms of written and spoken English. What linguistics is and how linguists study computer-mediated communication will be examined throughout the course, using scholarly and popular sources covering topics including grammar, pragmatics, and variation and change.
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2022SP - Language & Law
This course provides an introduction to forensic linguistics, or the application of linguistics within legal settings, and examines how language is used in laws and in courts. Topics such as syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics will inform our examination of language from evidence to courtroom.
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FRANCE, OLD REGIME & REV 01:510:333:01 Spring 2022
Few events in history have had such a profound impact on Western society and culture and have generated such intense debate among historians as the French Revolution. In this course we will consider the causes, meanings, and consequences of the French Revolution by examining French society and culture in the “long century” between the reign of King Louis XIV (1660) and the end of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire (1815). Our sources will range from novels and memoirs to Enlightenment treatises to scandalous revolutionary pamphlets attacking Queen Marie-Antoinette. In addition to primary sources, we will encounter a range of conflicting historical interpretations of the Old Regime and Revolution as we try to make sense of a revolution that, in many historians’ eyes gave birth to the modern world. In addition, the course will introduce the culture of the rich and sparkling century that is fondly known as le siècle des lumières.