CENTER FOR WEST EUROPEAN STUDIES COURSE LIST | FALL 2022

JSIS 488    SPEC TOPICS EUROPE        (SSc)

JSIS A 260    FASHION NATION CLTR        (A&H,SSc)

Introduction to Italian culture focusing on fashion and manners from the late Middle Ages to today. Explores common assumptions about nation, gender, clothes, make-up, and manners, through literary and visual analysis. In English. Offered: jointly with ART H 260/ITAL 260; W.

JSIS A 302    POLTIC/CULTURES EUR        (W,SSc)

Builds upon themes and topics introduced in JSIS A 301. Provides rigorous and specialized investigation of European political institutions, societies, and cultures in the modern era.

JSIS A 360    CONTEMPORARY SPAIN        (A&H,SSc)

Social, political, and cultural developments in Spain since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Extensive use of Spanish Web sites. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 302, SPAN 303, SPAN 310, SPAN 314, SPAN 315, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330. Instructors: Raneda Offered: jointly with SPAN 360.

JSIS A 430    SOVIET EMPIRE        (W,SSc)

JSIS A 494    EURO SENIOR SEMINAR        (SSc)

Surveys history of Soviet military and Soviet empire from 1917 to 1985, breakup of the USSR during 1985 to 1991, and the emergence of new security issues among those Eurasian states that formally constituted the national components of the USSR and its communist military allies.

JSIS B 312    MONEY & MARRIAGE        (SSc)

Provides an cross-cultural and interdisciplinary discussion of romantic and economic issues related to marriage by drawing on seminal texts in the fields of history, anthropology, feminist literary criticism and cultural studies.

JSIS B 324    IMMIGRATION        (DIV,SSc)

Introduces key theoretical debates in international migration. Examines immigrants' political, economic, religious, and social integration into host societies, and continued ties to homelands. Experiences of voluntary and involuntary immigrants, of the second generation, and of incorporation into America and Europe. Designed around interdisciplinary texts and fieldwork in Seattle.

JSIS B 340    THE COLD WAR        (SSc)

Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Cold War (1947-1991), a global conflict, with political, cultural, and military tensions, between the two post-World War II superpowers: the USA and its "Western" allies, and the USSR and its "Eastern" allies. Attention given to diplomatic, military, and cultural ramifications. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 340.

JSIS B 416    PSYCHOANLYS INT ST        (SSc)

Explores the relation of trauma to memory and cultural production, focusing on historical, literary, and filmic treatments of hysteria and repression, shell shock, and the effects of war, terrorism, and psychic trauma. Uses psychoanalytical theory to analyze the commentary on international issues that lies in texts, films, and other cultural phenomena.

JSIS B 431    INTL NEGOT SIMULATN        (SSc)

Research and writing in small groups to prepare policy documents on a current international issue, followed by simulated negotiations with students representing different nations, following instructions from and reporting to national leaders.

JSIS B 437    GLOBAL DIASPORAS        (SSc)

Explores dispersal of people from homelands to different world regions, the creation of communities, transnational relations, and identities based on the histories and consequences of their migration. Topics addressed include diasporas in world history; diaspora theories; literature, food, film of diasporas; role of diasporas in politics, conflict, war and reconciliation, in economic development and homeland tourism.

RELIG 320    COMPAR STUDY DEATH        (SSc)

ART H 203    SURV WEST ART-MOD        (W,A&H)

ART H 290    HIST OF ARCHITECT        (A&H,SSc)

ART H 347    POMPEII        (DIV,A&H,SSc)

ART H 361    ITALIAN REN ART        (A&H)

CL AR 347    POMPEII        (DIV,A&H,SSc)

Explores the power differential between men and women, slaves and masters, and citizens and foreigners in the cultural melting pot of ancient Pompeii, which was preserved by a volcanic eruption in 79 CE. Graffiti, skeletal remains, everyday objects, humble and world-class art and monuments will be analyzed. Offered: jointly with ART H 347; AWSp.

CLAS 320    G & R SOC & STATUS        (DIV,A&H,SSc)

Examines the societies of ancient Greece and Rome, with a special focus on status, class, and gender. The diversity of human experience is explored through the study of men, women, children, the elderly, slaves, housing, dress, food, sexuality, medicine, death, religion, theater, politics, law, economics, travel, warfare, art, and athletics. Offered: A.

CLAS 424    EPIC TRADITION        (A&H)

Ancient and medieval epic and heroic poetry of Europe in English: the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid; the Roland or a comparable work from the medieval oral tradition; pre-Greek forerunners, other Greco-Roman literary epics, and later medieval and Renaissance developments and adaptations of the genre. Choice of reading material varies according to instructor's preference. Offered: jointly with C LIT 424.

CLAS 432    CLAS MYTH IN FILM        (A&H)

Comparison and discussion of classical myths and modern films inspired by them. Promotes access to the reading of classical mythology. Analyzes significant differences between ancient literary and modern cinematographic representations of the myth.

CLAS 435    THE ANCIENT NOVEL        (A&H)

Reading and discussion of the principal Greek and Roman novels, the earliest European prose fiction, with attention to earlier literature and to imperial culture.

CHID 207    INTRO INTELL HIST        (SSc)

Ideas in historical context. Comparative and developmental analysis of Western conceptions of "community," from Plato to Freud. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 207.

CHID 270    SPECIAL TOPICS        (SSc)

Each special topics course examines a different subject or problem from a comparative framework.

CHID 480    ADV SPECIAL TOPICS        (SSc)

Examines a different subject or problem from a comparative framework with an interdisciplinary perspective. Satisfies the Gateways major/minor requirement. Offered: AWSp.

CHID 485    COMPAR COLONIALISM        (W,DIV,SSc)

Explores the historic roots and practices of colonialism throughout the world, focusing on the roles of nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and imperial domination. Treats colonialism as a world event whose effects continue to be felt and whose power needs to be addressed. Offered: jointly with HSTCMP 485.

CHID 498    SPECIAL COLLOQUIA        (SSc)

C LIT 424    EPIC TRADITION        (A&H)

C LIT 496    SPEC STDYS COMP LIT        (A&H)

C LIT 496    SPEC STDYS COMP LIT        (A&H)

CMS 320    CINEMA AND NATION        (A&H)

CMS 320    CINEMA AND NATION        (A&H)

DRAMA 371    THEATRE HISTORY I        (A&H,SSc)

Explores the history of global theatre and performance from origins in North Africa and the Mediterranean, through ancient and classical Greece, Rome, and India, to Medieval Europe, Elizabethan England and Spanish Golden Age. Builds critical, historical, and cultural understanding through student research and writing. Prerequisite: DRAMA 201.

DRAMA 416    HISTORY OF STYLE        (A&H)

Surveys the history of western design and visual culture from Ancient Greece through today. Covers a range of artistic fields, including clothing, the decorative arts, and architecture and pays particular attention to the sociological, religious, political and economic climates that shape the way we dress and decorate the world around us. Historic representations of the functional arts in film, television and theatre will also be analyzed. Offered: A.

ECON 406    UNDERGRAD SMR ECON        (SSc)

Provides the undergraduate student an opportunity to apply the tools of economic analysis in a critical examination of theoretical and empirical work. A list of topics is available in the departmental office. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in ECON 300

ECON 409    UNDERG SEM-POL ECON        (SSc)

Seminar in political economy with focus on Marxian and public choice approaches to political economy. Explores the questions raised by each approach, the assumption(s) and testability of hypotheses, and applies these approaches to a number of problems in political economy. Offered: jointly with POL S 409.

ENGL 225    SHAKESPEARE        (W,A&H)

Introduces Shakespeare's career as dramatist, with study of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and history plays.

ENGL 323    SHAKESPEARE TO 1603        (A&H)

Explores Shakespeare's early drama and poetry. May include the sonnets, narrative poems, and selected comedies, histories, or tragedies.

ENGL 325    EARLY MODERN LIT        (A&H)

Covers selected poetry, prose, and/or drama from the English Renaissance through the English Civil War and Commonwealth. Readings may include Petrarchism and the early English laureates, early defenses of poesy, the first essays, works by Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries, the metaphysical poets, Milton, and early transatlantic writers such as Anne Bradstreet.

ENGL 333    ENGLISH NOVEL        (A&H)

Romantic and Victorian phases of the English novel, including realism, gothic, historical fiction, and the emergence of science and detective fiction. Authors such as: Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, H.G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad. Offered: AWSp.

FRENCH 225    DEALING WITH DEATH        (A&H)

Considers a broad range of French/Francophone cultural media from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century whose primary concern is death. Investigates how authors and their characters understand, approach, rationalize, engage with, and are emotionally involved with death. Taught in ENGLISH.

FRENCH 228    LIT/FILM H20 CRISIS        (A&H,SSc)

Interprets a variety of texts (literary, cinematic, etc.) that address the water crisis to understand how water's meaning has changed as people become more conscious of risks in supply (pollution and natural/man-made scarcity) and as access to it is increasingly mediated in light of things like privatization and commodification. Offered: jointly with LIT 228.

FRENCH 301    LANG FRANCOPHN WORLD        (A&H)

Introduces students to varieties of the French language across time and space. Considers language diversity in France and the uses and varieties of the French language in world regions where it plays an important role, with particular attention to the history of its establishment and the implications of its current status. Develops advanced language skills and cultural competency through oral and written production in the target language. Prerequisite: either FRENCH 203 or FRENCH 234.

FRENCH 302    CLTRS FRNCOPHN WRLD        (A&H)

Introduces the cultural history of the francophone world via a broad survey of literary, cinematic, and other cultural texts in French that inform debates on national culture in France as well as the legacies of the French Empire in the form of discourses on race, immigration, and more in France and its postcolonies. Develops advanced language skills and cultural competency through oral and written production in the target language. Prerequisite: either FRENCH 203 or FRENCH 234.

FRENCH 376    CULTR FRNCE TO REV        (A&H,SSc)

Studies the development of intellectual, literary, and artistic cultures in the context of the profound political and social evolutions of the Renaissance through the early nineteenth century in France. Taught in English.

FRENCH 420    INTRDIS APPROCH LIT        (A&H)

Interdisciplinary studies in French literature and culture, focusing on the complex interactions of literature and other disciplines, i.e. philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, architecture.

FRENCH 445    WOMEN WRITERS        (A&H)

Focuses on French women writers and writing about women. Chronological and geographic range varies. Gender issues addressed in critical fashion, considering the different historical and ideological contexts in which each of the works was produced.

FRENCH 499    SPEC TOPICS        

Topics to meet specific needs.

ITAL 260    FASHION NATION CLTR        (A&H,SSc)

Introduction to Italian culture focusing on fashion and manners from the late Middle Ages to today. Explores common assumptions about nation, gender, clothes, make-up, and manners, through literary and visual analysis. In English. Offered: jointly with ART H 260/JSIS A 260; W.

ITAL 356    SOCIETY IN FILM        (A&H,SSc)

Studies the evolution of Italian postwar society through the analysis of film and literature as well as critical, historical, and sociological readings.

ITAL 380    CULTURE SEMINAR        (A&H)

ITAL 380    CULTURE SEMINAR        (A&H)

GERMAN 120    INTRO GERMAN STUDIES        (DIV,SSc)

Introduction to cultural, social, and intellectual developments in German-speaking lands and their wider influence in the world. Emphasizes transnational dialogues with underrepresented groups that critique the unequal power relations underpinning traditional concepts of culture and systems of knowledge.

GERMAN 495    PROSMNR IN GERM LIT        (A&H)

Introduction to various methods of analysis and interpretation.

HSTAM 370    THE VIKINGS        (A&H,SSc)

Vikings at home in Scandinavia and abroad, with particular emphasis on their activities as revealed in archaeological finds and in historical and literary sources. Offered: jointly with SCAND 370.

HSTCMP 290    TPCS COMPAR/GLBL HST        (SSc)

HSTCMP 340    THE COLD WAR        (SSc)

Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Cold War (1947-1991), a global conflict, with political, cultural, and military tensions, between the two post-World War II superpowers: the USA and its "Western" allies, and the USSR and its "Eastern" allies. Attention given to diplomatic, military, and cultural ramifications. Offered: jointly with JSIS B 340.

HSTEU 274    20TH CENT EURO FILM        (A&H,SSc)

Introduces the histories of world war, the rise and fall of fascism and communism, postwar migrations, the Cold War and decolonization, and the making of the European Community through film. Historical content unified by methodological focus on the social and political function of film.

HSTEU 402    THE REFORMATION        (SSc)

Origins of the disunity of Europe in the crisis of the sixteenth century with emphasis on the relations between religion and politics.

HSTEU 451    E C E SINCE 1342        (SSc)

Explores the history of the lands and peoples of East Central Europe (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Hungarians).

HSTEU 452    E EUROPE SINCE 1918        (SSc)

Explores the history of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia from the end of World War I to the present.

HSTEU 490    TOPICS EUR HIST        (SSc)

Examines special topics in European history.

POL S 308    ANCIENT POL THOUGHT        (W,SSc)

Origin and evolution of major political concepts from ancient Greece to the medieval period.

POL S 403    INTL REL ADV SEM        (W,SSc)

Examination of contemporary developments in the field of international relations. Content varies according to the nature of developments and research interests of the instructor.

POL S 409    UNDERG SEM-POL ECON        (SSc)

Seminar in political economy with focus on Marxian and public choice approaches to political economy. Explores the questions raised by each approach, the assumption(s) and testability of hypotheses, and applies these approaches to a number of problems in political economy. Offered: jointly with ECON 409.

POL S 447    COMP POL ADV SEM        (SSc)

Selected comparative political problems, political institutions, processes, and issues in comparative perspective. Strongly

FRENCH 225    DEALING WITH DEATH        (A&H)

Considers a broad range of French/Francophone cultural media from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century whose primary concern is death. Investigates how authors and their characters understand, approach, rationalize, engage with, and are emotionally involved with death. Taught in ENGLISH.

FRENCH 228    LIT/FILM H20 CRISIS        (A&H,SSc)

Interprets a variety of texts (literary, cinematic, etc.) that address the water crisis to understand how water's meaning has changed as people become more conscious of risks in supply (pollution and natural/man-made scarcity) and as access to it is increasingly mediated in light of things like privatization and commodification. Offered: jointly with LIT 228.

FRENCH 301    LANG FRANCOPHN WORLD        (A&H)

Introduces students to varieties of the French language across time and space. Considers language diversity in France and the uses and varieties of the French language in world regions where it plays an important role, with particular attention to the history of its establishment and the implications of its current status. Develops advanced language skills and cultural competency through oral and written production in the target language. Prerequisite: either FRENCH 203 or FRENCH 234.

FRENCH 302    CLTRS FRNCOPHN WRLD        (A&H)

Introduces the cultural history of the francophone world via a broad survey of literary, cinematic, and other cultural texts in French that inform debates on national culture in France as well as the legacies of the French Empire in the form of discourses on race, immigration, and more in France and its postcolonies. Develops advanced language skills and cultural competency through oral and written production in the target language. Prerequisite: either FRENCH 203 or FRENCH 234.

FRENCH 376    CULTR FRNCE TO REV        (A&H,SSc)

Studies the development of intellectual, literary, and artistic cultures in the context of the profound political and social evolutions of the Renaissance through the early nineteenth century in France. Taught in English.

FRENCH 420    INTRDIS APPROCH LIT        (A&H)

Interdisciplinary studies in French literature and culture, focusing on the complex interactions of literature and other disciplines, i.e. philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, architecture.

FRENCH 445    WOMEN WRITERS        (A&H)

Focuses on French women writers and writing about women. Chronological and geographic range varies. Gender issues addressed in critical fashion, considering the different historical and ideological contexts in which each of the works was produced.

FRENCH 499    SPEC TOPICS        

Topics to meet specific needs.

ITAL 260    FASHION NATION CLTR        (A&H,SSc)

Introduction to Italian culture focusing on fashion and manners from the late Middle Ages to today. Explores common assumptions about nation, gender, clothes, make-up, and manners, through literary and visual analysis. In English. Offered: jointly with ART H 260/JSIS A 260; W.

ITAL 356    SOCIETY IN FILM        (A&H,SSc)

Studies the evolution of Italian postwar society through the analysis of film and literature as well as critical, historical, and sociological readings.

ITAL 380    CULTURE SEMINAR        (A&H)

ITAL 380    CULTURE SEMINAR        (A&H)

SPAN 304    SPAN LIT 1140-1498        (W,A&H)

Masterpieces of Spanish literature from origins to 1498. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 302, SPAN 303, 310, SPAN 314, SPAN 315, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330.

SPAN 329    LATIN CLTRL STUDIES        (A&H,SSc)

Focuses on historical, social, and ideological aspects of modern Latin American culture. Lectures, readings, discussions, and written work in Spanish. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 310, or SPAN 314.

SPAN 360    CONTEMPORARY SPAIN        (A&H,SSc)

Social, political, and cultural developments in Spain since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Extensive use of Spanish Web sites. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 302, SPAN 303, SPAN 310, SPAN 314, SPAN 315, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330. Instructors: Raneda Offered: jointly with JSIS A 360.

SPAN 472    COLONIAL PROSE        (A&H)

DANISH 310    TOPCS DANISH PROSE        (A&H)

Focuses on the fairy tale and story, with selections by Bicher, H.C. Andersen, Bang, Blixen, and others.

NORW 312    NORW LIT & CULTURE        (A&H)

Topics related to Norwegian literature, life, and civilization.

SCAND 100    INTRO SCANDINAVIA        (A&H,SSc)

The Scandinavian experience from the Viking Age to the present day; the background for contemporary Scandinavian democracy, with major emphasis on the cultural, political, and religious development of the Scandinavian countries.

SCAND 200    SCANDINAVIA TODAY        (A&H,SSc)

Examines the distinctive policies, institutions, and social norms, and cultures of contemporary Scandinavian societies. Topics include: the development of a "middle way" between capitalism and socialism, the welfare state, social policy, Scandinavia in the international system, and contemporary debates about market deregulation and immigration. Course uses examples from policy debate and culture as objects of study.

SCAND 316    SCAND CHILD/SCHOOL        (A&H,SSc)

The child and school in Scandinavia as constructed and represented in film and literature. Approaches child and school through key cultural examples and scholarly studies of these topics. Focal areas include changing historical notions of childhood and youth, schooling, the welfare state, and Finnish schools. Offered: Sp.

SCAND 330    SCAND MYTHOLOGY        (A&H)

Integrative study of religious life in the pre-Christian North. Emphasis on source materials, including the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda. Discussion of historical, archeological, and folkloric evidence. Offered: AWSpS.

SCAND 352    SCAND INNOVATION        (SSc)

Innovation, the introduction of something new, an idea, a method, a device or product, is underexplored in the Humanities and Social Science literature. Reviews the major writers in the innovation literature. Innovation crosses disciplines, and creates wealth and employment from Scandinavian to North American neo-liberal capitalism, where ideas seek investment capital in a competitive, Darwinian environment. Offered: W.

SCAND 370    THE VIKINGS        (A&H,SSc)

Vikings at home in Scandinavia and abroad, with particular emphasis on their activities as revealed in archaeological finds and in historical and literary sources. Offered: jointly with HSTAM 370.

SCAND 375    VIKINGS POP CULTURE        (A&H)

Explores media representations of "the Vikings" in popular culture over the past 200 years in Europe and the United States, including advertising, comics, film, literature, music, poetry, propaganda, television series, and video games. Compares these modern artistic productions with their medieval counterparts, and examines how the Vikings have functioned as vessels for a variety of cultural fantasies about gender, class, race, and religion.

SWED 301    SWED LIT AND CLTR        (A&H)

Topics in Swedish literature, life, and civilization.

RUSS 110    INTRO RUSS CUL/CIV        (A&H,SSc)

Introduction to Russian culture and history from pre-Christian times to the present, as seen through literary texts, music, film, visual art, and historical works. All lectures and written materials in English. No prior knowledge of Russian necessary. Offered: jointly with JSIS A 110; A.

RUSS 223    RUSSIAN CINEMA        (A&H)

Covers Russian cinema from its beginnings to the present day. Directors include Yevgenii Bauer, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevoldo Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksei Balabanov, and Aleksandr Sokurov. Also "Russians in Hollywood." Covers the relevant sociopolitical context. Also features documentaries and animation. Offered: AWSp.

RUSS 340    RUSSIA'S BIG BOOKS        (A&H)

Studies one big/epic novel by the titans of Russian literature per quarter. Includes such novels as Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Goncharov's Oblomov, Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and Nabokov's Ada. All readings are in English. Offered: AWSp.

RUSS 424    ETHNIC/CLTRL IDEN        (A&H,SSc)

RUSS 424    ETHNIC/CLTRL IDEN        (A&H,SSc)

SLAVIC 423    EAST EUROPEAN FILM        (A&H)

SLAVIC 490    STUDIES IN SLAV LIT        (A&H)

Topics vary.

SOC 401    SPECIAL TOPICS        (W,SSc)

SOC 401    SPECIAL TOPICS        (SSc)

SPAN 304    SPAN LIT 1140-1498        (W,A&H)

Masterpieces of Spanish literature from origins to 1498. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 302, SPAN 303, 310, SPAN 314, SPAN 315, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330.

SPAN 329    LATIN CLTRL STUDIES        (A&H,SSc)

Focuses on historical, social, and ideological aspects of modern Latin American culture. Lectures, readings, discussions, and written work in Spanish. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 310, or SPAN 314.

SPAN 360    CONTEMPORARY SPAIN        (A&H,SSc)

Social, political, and cultural developments in Spain since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Extensive use of Spanish Web sites. Prerequisite: either SPAN 301, SPAN 302, SPAN 303, SPAN 310, SPAN 314, SPAN 315, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330. Instructors: Raneda Offered: jointly with JSIS A 360.

SPAN 472    COLONIAL PROSE        (A&H)