Modern and Classical Languages
Professors: Marsilio
Associate Professors: Burr, Ewald, Faccini, Giuli, Hennes
Assistant Professors: Buckley (Department Coordinator), Daniel (Chair), Grimes, Nikoloutsos, Shenk
Visiting Instructors: Caballero, Manghisi, Recio, Yu
Instructor/Spanish Language Program Coordinator: Zmurkewycz
Objectives:
In an increasingly complex, interdependent world community, the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures takes seriously its responsibility to help students become articulate, knowledgeable and culturally aware global citizens in accordance with the values and traditions of Saint Joseph’s University and the Society of Jesus. We actively pursue this mission by:
- fostering language proficiency
- promoting an appreciation for the richness and complexity of language
- deepening students’ understanding of cultural diversity
- encouraging student engagement in active, collaborative, critical learning
- emphasizing learner-centered pedagogy and care for the individual
All language and literature courses are offered in the target language, except as otherwise noted.
Art/Literature through Modern and Classical Languages in the GER/GEP (See Curricula)
Students who wish to satisfy the Literature/Fine Arts portion of the University Distribution component of the GER/GEP by completing a course in Modern and Classical Languages should select one of the following:
Chinese
Selections in Chinese Literature |
French
Introduction to Literary Analysis |
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France: Medieval to Early Modern |
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France: Enlightenment to Today |
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French Theater in Practice |
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The French Novel |
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Telling Tales: Short Narratives in the Francophone Literature |
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French Poetry |
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The French Essay |
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Love and Desire in Medieval French Literature |
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Making Our Voices Heard: French Women Writers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
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The Age of Louis XIV |
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French Romanticism |
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Surrealism |
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20th Century French Theater |
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Contemporary Francophone Cinema |
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FRE 470 |
Topics in French [when appropriate] |
German
The Faust Legend |
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Civilization and Culture |
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Selections in German Literature |
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Contemporary German Cinema |
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Medieval German Literature |
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From German Enlightenment to Realism |
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From Bismarck to Hitler: German Texts, Politics and Culture 1871-1945 |
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Modernity in the Literature of the Early 20th Century |
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Literature of German-Speaking Countries: 30s to Present |
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Phantoms, Spirits and the Uncanny: The Fantastic in German Literature from Romanticism to the Present |
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GRM 470 |
Topics in German [when appropriate] |
Italian
The Roman Experience |
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ITA 310 |
Dalla lettura alla creatività: Texts, Contexts and Style in Italian Literature |
ITA 315 |
Italy through Art |
Italian Culture and Civilization |
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Modern Italian Culture |
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Italian Society and the Media |
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Italian Journeys: From Marco Polo to the Age of Mass Tourism |
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L’italiano al cinema: from Post-Neorealism to the Present |
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From Novel to Film: From Italian Unification to the Present |
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The Artist and the Madman in the Renaissance and Reformation |
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Images of Rome in Literature and Film: From Papal Rome to Present |
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Rebels, Revolutionaries, and Romantics: Italian Literature and Society from the Baroque to Risorgimento (1600-1850) |
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Profane and Sacred Love in Medieval and Renaissance Literature |
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The Medici Court: Poetry, Patronage and the Art of Power |
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Women’s Voices in Twentieth Century Italian Fiction |
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Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Dawn of the Renaissance |
Japanese
Selections in Japanese Literature |
Linguistics
Introduction to Linguistics |
Spanish
Introduction to Literatures of the Spanish-Speaking World |
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Spain: Study Tour |
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From the Old World to the New in Hispanic Literature |
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From the Modern World to the Present in Hispanic Literature |
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Narratives of European Exploration and Conquest in America |
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Major Latin-American Authors |
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De Brujas, Náufragos y Sicarios: Short Modern Latin American Novel and Film |
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Culture, Dictatorship, and Exile in the Latin-American Southern Cone: 1973-85 |
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Latin-American Modern Short Story |
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The Discourse of Latin American Modernity (Poetry) |
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Imagery of the Conquest: Indigenous and Mestizo Perspectives of the Conquest |
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Love, Courtship and Violence in Medieval Literature |
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Passions of the Heart and the Soul in Imperial Spain |
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Staging Gender, Sexuality and Social Conflict in Spain’s Golden Age |
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Heroes, Villains, Rogues and Saints in Don Quijote |
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The Literary Spain of Ignatius of Loyola |
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Romanticism and Realism: Heroes, Angels, and Villains in Nineteenth Century Spanish Literature |
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The Generation of 1898 and Modernismo: The Old World and the New |
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The Posguerra Generation: Repression and Retaliation |
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Spanish Literature and Film |
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Spain into the 21st Century: Twenty-five Years of Democracy |
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Women in Spanish Literature: Literature by and about Women in the Spanish-Speaking World |
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Women’s Voices in 20th Century Spanish and Latin American Fiction |
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Topics in Spanish (when appropriate) |