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Complementary Courses in Other Departments

Literature:

CLAS 203: Greek Mythology (Winter)
CLAS 301: Ancient Greek Literature and Society (Fall)
CLAS 302: Roman Literature and Society (Winter)
CLAS 405: The Epic Tradition (Winter)
CLAS 500: Classics Seminar: True Stories—Narrators in Greek and Roman Literature (Winter)
EAST 350: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature (Fall)
EAST 352: Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature (Winter)
EAST 453: Topics: Chinese Literature (Winter)
EAST 461: Inventing Modern Japanese Novel (Fall)
FREN 252: Littérature québécoise (Fall) (in French)
FREN 382: Littérature québécoise 2 (Winter) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine (Fall) (taught in French)
GERM 259: Introduction to German Literature 1 (Fall)
GERM 260: Introduction to German Literature 2 (Winter)
ISLA 388: Persian Literature (Winter)
ISLA 392: Arabic Literature as World Literature (Fall)
ITAL 355: Dante and the Middle Ages (Winter)
JWST 205: Introduction to Jewish Literature (Fall)
JWST 206: Introduction to Yiddish Literature (Fall)
JWST 311: Gender in Yiddish Literature (Winter)
JWST 348: Yiddish Short Story in English Translation (Winter)
JWST 349: Jewish Women’s Writings (Winter)
JWST 350: Major Jewish Authors Agnon and His Literary and Historical Worlds (Winter)
JWST 386: American Jewish Literature (Fall)
LLCU 201: Narratives of Migration and Identity (Winter)
MDST 400: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Medieval Studies (Fall)
RELG 203: Bible and Western Culture (Winter)
RELG 302: Literature of Ancient Israel 1 (Fall)
RELG 303: Literature of Ancient Israel 2 (Winter)
RELG 311: New Testament Studies 1 (Fall)
RELG 312: New Testament Studies 2 (Winter)
RELG 411: New Testament Exegesis (Winter)
RELG 482: Exegesis of Greek New Testament (Winter)
RUSS 223 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1 (Fall)
RUSS 224 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2 (Winter)
RUSS 330: Chekhov without Borders (Fall) RUSS 337: Vladimir Nabokov (Fall)
RUSS 357: Leo Tolstoy (Fall)
RUSS 365: Supernatural and Absurd in Russian Literature (Winter)
RUSS 385: Russian Drama: From Pushkin to Chekhov (Winter)

Drama & Theatre:

ITAL 290: Comedia Dell-Arte (Fall) (taught in Italian)
PHIL 242: Introduction to Feminist Theory (Fall)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (Fall)
RUSS 330 Chekhov without Borders (Fall)
RUSS 385: Russian Drama: From Pushkin to Chekhov (Winter)

Cultural Studies:

Canadian Component:

ARTH/CANS 315: Indigenous Art and Culture (Fall)
ARTH 411: Canadian Art and Race (Winter)
CANS 301: Topics in Canadian Studies 2: Sex, Gender and the City (Fall)
FREN 252: Littérature québécoise (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 315: Cinéma québécois (Winter) (in French)
FREN 382: Littérature québécoise 2 (Winter) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine (Fall) (taught in French)
HIST 414: Canadian Cultural History (Fall)
QCST 300: Quebec Culture and Society (Winter)

Historical Dimension:

ANTH 304: Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film (Winter)
ARTH 321: Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic (Fall)
ARTH 339: Critical Issues – Contemporary Art (Fall)
ARTH 353: Black Subjects in History and Contemporary Pop Culture (Winter)
ARTH/COMS 354: The Visual Culture of Crime (Winter)
ARTH 422: Totalitarian Art & Architecture: Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union (Fall)
COMS 310: Media and Feminist Studies (Fall)
COMS 361: Media and Culture of the Night (Fall)
EAST 361: Animation and New Media (Fall)
EAST 362: Japanese Cinema (Fall)
EAST 454: Topics: Chinese Cinema (Winter)
FREN 310: Cinéma français 1 (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 315 Cinéma québécois (Winter) (in French)
GERM 372: Topics in German Cinema (Winter)
GERM 373: Weimar German Cinema (Fall)
HISP 340: Latin American Cinema (Winter)
HISP 341: Spanish Cinema (Fall) (taught in Spanish)
ITAL 375: Cinema and Society in Modern Italy (Fall)
JWST 309: Jews in Film (Fall)
MUAR 374 (sec. 002): Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture (Fall)
MUAR 392: Popular Music after 1945 (Fall and Winter)
MUAR 393: Introduction to Jazz (Winter)
RUSS 395: Soviet Cinema: Art and Politics (Fall)

400-Level Theory Requirement:

ANTH 408: Sensory Ethnography (Winter)
COMS 400: Critical Theory Seminar (Winter)
COMS 411: Disability, Technology and Communication (Fall)
COMS 490: Technologies of Domination (Winter)
COMS 492: Power, Difference, and Justice (Fall)
EAST 477: Media and Environment in Asia (Fall)
GERM 385: Critical Theory: Introduction to the Frankfurt School (Winter)
GSFS 401-002: Practices and Perspectives in Contemporary Media and Theory (Winter)
GSFS 406: Trans*Feminisms (Fall)

Major Figure Requirement:

ITAL 355: Dante and the Middle Ages (Winter)
JWST 350: Major Jewish Authors: Agnon and His Literary and Historical Worlds (Winter)
RUSS 330: Chekhov without Borders (Fall) RUSS 337: Vladimir Nabokov (Fall)
RUSS 357: Leo Tolstoy (Fall)

Other courses:

ANTH 204: Anthropology of Meaning (Winter)
ANTH 207: Ethnography Through Film (Winter)
ANTH 355: Theories of Culture and Society (Winter)
ANTH 370: Anthropology and the Image (Fall)
EAST 250: Introduction to Asian Media Studies (Winter)
GSFS 250: Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies (Fall)
GSFS 302: Current Topics 2: Sex, Gender and the City (Fall)
GSFS 305: Critical Race and Social Justice Theories (Winter)
GSFS 307: Indigenous Feminisms (Fall)
GSFS 308: Sex and Gender Minority Cultures (Winter)
ITAL 295: Italian Cultural Studies (Winter) (taught in Italian)
LLCU 212: Understanding Digital and Social Media (Fall)
LLCU 230: Environmental Imaginations (Winter)
LLCU 311: Digital Studies/Citizenry (Winter)
MUAR 399: Music and Queer Identity (Winter)
PHIL 242: Introduction to Feminist Theory (Fall)
PHIL 327: Philosophy of Race (Fall)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (Fall)
PHIL 442: Topics in Feminist Theory (Fall)

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