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The 12-16-credit hour Language, Literature, and Culture Concentration requires fourth semester-level proficiency in the chosen language. This may be demonstrated through a Foreign Language Assessment Test or by completing the equivalent of a fourth-semester CU course (e.g. SPAN2120 or SPAN2150). Combined, many of these courses support pursuit of a language minor.
Choose One Language:
- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Modern Hebrew
- Hindi/Urdu
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
Complete the Following Requirements:
- 3-5 credits upper division grammar content
- 3 credits upper division literary content
- 3 credits upper division cultural content
- 3-5 credits upper division literary, cultural, or additional language content
Below are the credit hours required for each language within the Language, Literature & Culture Concentration:
Note: All courses applied to concentration must receive grade of C or higher
Note: The Language, Literature, and Culture Concentration will consist of one of the following sets of options. Students may not pick and choose from among the different languages.
Required:
- Advanced Arabic 1 (ARAB 3110) 3 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- In the Footsteps of Travelers: Travel Writing in Arabic Literature (ARAB 3231) 3 credits
- The Arabic Novel (ARAB 3330) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- Islamic Culture and the Iberian Peninsula (ARAB 3230) 3 credits
- Representing Islam (ARAB 3340) 3 credits
- Gender, Sexuality and Culture in the Modern Middle East (ARAB 3410) 3 credits
Choose One:
- Advanced Arabic 2 (ARAB 3120) 3 credits
- Art in Islamic Cultures (ARAB 3241) 3 credits
- Narrating the City: Literary Mappings of the Urban Landscape (ARAB 3350) 3 credits
- Arabic Media (ARAB 4250) 3 credits
- Or choose additional course from above Literature or Culture categories 3 credits
Total: 12 credits
Required:
- Advanced Chinese 1 (CHEN 3110) 5 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Advanced Writing Topics on Chinese & Japanese Literature and Civilization (CHIN 3200) 3 credits
- Chinese Narrative Tradition (CHIN 3334) 3 credits
- Literary Culture in Contemporary China (CHIN 3342) 3 credits
- Women and the Supernatural in Chinese Literature (CHIN 3361) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- The Dao and the World in Medieval China (CHIN 3311) 3 credits
- Literature and Popular Culture in Modern China (CHIN 3341) 3 credits
- Topics in Chinese Film (CHIN 3371) 3 credits
Choose One:
- Advanced Chinese 2 (CHEN 3120) 5 credits
- Culture and Literature of Ancient China (CHIN 3321) 3 credits
- Culture and Literature of Late Imperial China (CHIN 3331) 3 credits
- Reality and Dream in Traditional Chinese Literature (CHIN 3351) 3 credits
- Or choose additional course from above Literature or Culture categories 3 credits
Total: 14-16 credits
Required:
- French Composition 1 (FREN 3050) 3 credits OR French Composition 2 (FREN 3060) 3 credits
- Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing in French Literature (FREN 3100) 3 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Main Currents of French Literature 1 (FREN 3110) 3 credits
- Introduction to Literary Theory and Advanced Critical Analysis (FREN 3200) 3 credits
- French Current Events: Conversation and Composition (FREN 3500) 3 credits
- Business French 1 (FREN 3600) 3 credits
- Francophone Literature (FREN 4170) 3 credits
- Medieval and Renaissance Readings (FREN 4250) 3 credits
- Theatre and Modernity in 17th Century France (FREN 4300) 3 credits
- Moliere and 17th Century French Comedy (FREN 4330) 3 credits
- French Enlightenment (FREN 4350) 3 credits
- Survey of 19th Century French Literature (FREN 4430) 3 credits
- 20th Century French Theatre and Poetry (FREN 4470) 3 credits
- 20th Century French Novel (FREN 4480) 3 credits
- Postmodernist French Novel in Translation (FREN 4800) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- French Culture Through Fashion (FREN 3300) 3 credits
- Culture, Performance and Development in Dakar, Senegal (FREN 3400) 3 credits
- French-American Cultural Differences (FREN 3700) 3 credits
- France and the Muslim World (FREN 3800) 3 credits
- Topics in French Film (FREN 4600) 3 credits
- Encountering Animals: contemporary Discourse and the Dialog of Species (FREN 4700) 3 credits
- War, Trauma, and Memory: Amnesias, Revisions, and Representations of Traumatic History (FREN 4860) 3 credits
Total: 12 credits
Required:
- Advanced German 1 (GRMN 3010) 3 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Literature in the Age of Goethe (GRMN 3502) 3 credits
- German Film Through World War II (GRMN 3503) 3 credits
- Dada and Surrealist Literature (GRMN 3702) 3 credits
- Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (GRMN 4051) 3 credits
- Sex, Love and Marriage in Literature and Philosophy (GRMN 4231) 3 credits
- Seminar: Literature in Cultural Context (GRMN 4501) 3 credits
- Nietzsche: Literature and Values (GRMN 4502) 3 credits
- Goethe's Faust (GRMN 4504) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- The Enlightenment: Tolerance and Emancipation (GRMN 3505) 3 credits
- German Film and Society 1945-1989 (GRMN 3513) 3 credits
- German Film & Society After 1989 (GRMN 3514) 3 credits
- Politics and Culture in Berlin 1900-1933 (GRMN 3802) 3 credits
- Gender, Race and Immigration in Germany and Europe (GRMN 4301) 3 credits
Choose One:
- Advanced German 2 (GRMN 3020) 3 credits
- Business German (GRMN 3030) 3 credits
- The German-Jewish Experience: From the Enlightenment to the Present (GRMN 3501) 3 credits
- Topics in German Film (GRMN 3504) 3 credits
- Tracing the Criminal: Crime in 19th C Society and Culture (GRMN 3506) 3 credits
- German Women Writers (GRMN 3601) 3 credits
- Marxism (GRMN 4251) 3 credits
- Nietzsche: Literature and Values (GRMN 4502) 3 credits
- Or choose additional course from above Literature or Culture categories 3 credits
Total: 12 credits
Required:
- Third Year Modern Hebrew, First Semester (HEBR 3010) 3 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Israeli Literature: Exile, Nation, Home (JWST 4203) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- History of Arab-Israeli Conflict (JWST 3650) 3 credits
- Anthropology of Jews and Judaism (Cultures of Israel and Palestine) (JWST 4050) 33 credits
Choose One:
- Third Year Modern Hebrew, Second Semester (HEBR 3020) 3 credits
- Global Seminar: Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in Israel (JWST 4302) 3 credits
- History of Modern Israel/Palestine (JWST 4338) 3 credits
- Topics in Jewish History (Childhood in Modern Israel/Palestine) (JWST 4348) 3 credits
- Topics in Jewish History (Tel Aviv: Urban History and Culture) (JWST 4348) 3 credits
- Or choose additional course from above Culture category 3 credits
Total: 12 credits
Required:
- Advanced Hindi 1 (HIND 3110) 3 credits
- South Asian Diasporas: Imagining Home Abroad (HIND 3661) 3 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Living Indian Epics: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata in the Modern Political Imagination (HIND 3651) 3 credits
- Devotional Literature in South Asia (HIND 3851) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- Screening India: A History of Bollywood Cinema (HIND 3441) 3 credits
- The Power of the Word: Subversive and Censored 20th Century Indo-Pakistani Literature (HIND 3811) 3 credits
- The Many Faces of Krishna in South Asia Literature and Culture (HIND 3831) 3 credits
Total: 12 credits
Required:
- Advanced Composition 1 (ITAL 3015) 3 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 3: 1900-present (ITAL 3140) 3 credits
- Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 2: 1800-1900 (ITAL 3150) 3 credits
- Literary and Artistic Cultures in Italy 1: 1200-1800 (ITAL 3160) 3 credits
- Italian Theatre (ITAL 4500) 3 credits
- Once Upon a Time in Italy (ITAL 4600) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- Italian Conversation Through Cinema (ITAL 3040) 3 credits
- Contemporary Italian Culture, Politics, and the Media (ITAL 4030) 3 credits
- Topics in Italian Culture and Civilization from the Origins through the Renaissance (ITAL 4200) 3 credits
- History of Modern Italy (ITAL 4250) 3 credits
- Multiculturalism in Italy (ITAL 4300) 3 credits
- Italian Feminisms: Culture, Theory, and Narratives of Difference (ITAL 4730) 3 credits
Choose One:
- Advanced Composition 2 (ITAL 3025) 3 credits
- Business Italian Style (ITAL 4040) 3 credits
- The Age of Dante: Readings from The Divine Comedy (ITAL 4140) 3 credits
- The Age of Dante in Italian (ITAL 4145) 3 credits
- Visualizing Dante's Inferno: A Global Seminar in Florence Italy (ITAL 4147) 3 credits
- Boccaccio's Decameron: Tales of Sex and Death in the Middle Ages (ITAL 4150) 3 credits
- Mafia and Terrorism: Organized Violence in Italy (ITAL 4260) 3 credits
- Topics in Italian Cinema (ITAL 4280) 3 credits
- Italian Culture Through Cinema (ITAL 4290) 3 credits
- From Wops to Dons to Movers and Shakers: The Italian-American Experience (ITAL 4350) 3 credits
- Languages Internship for Professions (ITAL 4930) 3 credits
- Italian Senior Honors Thesis (ITAL 4980) 3 credits
- Senior Seminar (ITAL 4990) 3 credits
- Or choose additional course from above Literature or Culture categories 3 credits
Total: 12 credits
Required:
- Advanced Japanese 1 (JPNS 3110) 5 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Advanced Writing Topics on Chinese & Japanese Literature and Civilization (JPNS 3200) 3 credits
- Japanese Colonial and Transnational Literature (JPNS 3311) 3 credits
- Love, Death, and Desire: Classical Japanese Literature in Translation (JPNS 3811) 3 credits
- Travel and Travel Writing in Japanese Literature and Culture (JPNS 3891) 3 credits
- Critical Theory and Japanese Literature and Culture (JPNS 4400) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- Tradition and Transgression: Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (JPNS 3841) 3 credits
- Studies in Japanese Popular Culture (JPNS 3851) 3 credits
- Imagining the Samurai in Japanese Literature and Culture (JPNS 3861) 3 credits
- Horror and the Macabre in Japanese Literature, Film, Culture (JPNS 3871) 3 credits
- Environment, Nature and Disaster in Japanese Literature and Culture (JPNS 3881) 3 credits
Choose One:
- Advanced Japanese 2 (JPNS 3120) 5 credits
- Fantasy and Sci-Fi in Japanese Literature, Film and Culture (JPNS 3321) 3 credits
- From Rebellion to Calamity: Contemporary Japanese Literature in Translation (JPNS 3511) 3 credits
- Monsters, Monks, and Mayhem: Medieval Japanese Literature in Translation (JPNS 3821) 3 credits
- The Floating World of Play and Passion: Early Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (JPNS 3831) 3 credits
- Or choose additional course from above Literature or Culture categories 3 credits
Total: 14-16 credits
Required:
- Advanced Korean 1 (KREN 3110) 5 credits
- Modern Korean Literature in English Translation (KREN 3841) 3credits
- Film and Korean Culture (KREN 2441) 3credits
- Studies in Korean Popular Culture (KREN 3851) 3credits
Total: 14 credits
Required:
- Advanced Portuguese Language Skills (PORT 3003) 3credits
- Transatlantic Relations in the Portuguese Speaking World (PORT 3230) 3credits
- Brazilian Literature (PORT4110) 3credits
- Literature of the Portuguese Speaking World (PORT 4150) 3credits
Total: 12 credits
Required:
- Third-Year Russian 1 (RUSS 3010) 4 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature* (RUSS 4811) 3 credits
- Twentieth-Century Russian Literature & Art* (RUSS 4821) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- Introduction to Russian Culture* (RUSS 2211) 3 credits
- Introduction to Modern Russian Culture* (RUSS 2221) 3 credits
- Russian Culture Past & Present* (RUSS 3601) 3 credits (offered abroad only)
Choose One:
- Third-Year Russian 2 (RUSS 3020) 4 credits
- History of Russian Cinema* (RUSS 3211) 3 credits
- Contemporary Issues in Russian Film (RUSS 3301) 3 credits
- Russian Culture Past & Present* (RUSS 3601) 3 credits (offered abroad only)
- Slavic Folk Culture: Ideals & Values in the Contemporary World* (RUSS 3701) 3 credits
- American-Russian Cultural Relations* (RUSS 4301) 3 credits
- Women in 20th Century Russian Culture* (RUSS 4471) 3 credits
- 19th Century Russian Literature* (RUSS 4811) 3 credits
- 20th Century Russian Literature & Art* (RUSS 4821) 3 credits
- Contemporary Russian Literature* (RUSS 4831) 3 credits
- Or choose additional course from above Literature or Culture categories 3 credits
Total: 13-14 credits
Required:
- Literary Analysis (SPAN 3100) 3 credits
- Advanced Spanish Grammar* (SPAN 3120) 3 credits
Choose One (Literature):
- Major Trends & Works of Modern & Contemporary Spanish American Literature: 1898-Present (SPAN 4180) 3 credits
- Special Topics in Spanish and/or Spanish American Literature (SPAN 4220) 3 credits
Choose One (Culture):
- Spanish Culture* (SPAN 3200) 3 credits
- Latin American Culture: Spanish America & Brazil (SPAN 3220) 3 credits
- Late 19th & 20th Century Argentine Narrative* (SPAN 3260) 3 credits (offered abroad only)
- Barcelona: Understanding Local & Immigrant Cultures* (SPAN 3270) 3 credits (offered abroad only)
Total: 12 credits
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