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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 500: Classics Seminar: Memory and Imagination (Winter)
EAST 305: Introduction to Modern Japanese Poetry (Fall)
EAST 350: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature (Winter)
EAST 351: Women Writers of China (Fall)
EAST 352: Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature (Fall)
EAST 461: Inventing the Modern Japanese Novel (Fall)
FREN 250: Littérature française avant 1800 (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 251: Littérature française depuis 1800 (Winter) (taught in French)
FREN 252: Littérature québécoise (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 355: Littérature du 20e siècle 1 (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 364: La littérature du 18e siècle 1 (Winter) (taught in French)
FREN 366: Littérature de la Renaissance 1 (Winter) (taught in French)
FREN 372: Littérature québécoise 1 (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 455: La littérature médiévale 1 (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 458: La littérature du 17e siècle 2 (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 482: La littérature du 19e siècle 2 (Winter) (taught in French)
FREN 485: Littérature française contemporaine (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 498: Questions de littérature 3: Littérature et psychanalyse (winter) (taught in French)
GERM 259: Introduction to German Literature 1 (Fall)
GERM 340: Romanticism (Fall)
GERM 352: German Literature: 19th Century 3 (Fall)
GERM 363: Postwar German Literature (Winter)
GERM 367: Freud and Literature (Fall)
HISP 326: Spanish Romanticism (Winter)
HISP 332: Latin American Literature of 19th Century (Winter) (taught in Spanish)
HISP 352: Latin American Novel (Winter) (taught in Spanish)
HISP 356: Latin American Short Story (Fall) (taught in Spanish)
HISP 451: Don Quixote (Winter)
HIST 428: Print Culture in Early Modern Britain (Fall)
ISLA 385: Poetics & Politics in Arabic Literature (Winter)
ISLA 388: Persian Literature (Winter)
ITAL 310: The Invention of Italian Literature (Winter) (taught in Italian)
ITAL 355: Dante and the Middle Ages (Winter)
ITAL 360: Contemporary Italian Prose (Fall) (taught in Italian)
ITAL 363: Italian Women Writers (Fall)
ITAL 365: The Italian Renaissance (Fall)
ITAL 410: Italian Modernism (Winter) (taught in Italian)
JWST 205: Introduction to Jewish Literature (Fall)
JWST 206: Introduction to Yiddish Literature (Fall)
JWST 311: Gender in Yiddish Literature (Winter)
JWST 318: Judaism and Environment: Moral Dilemmas in Literature (Fall)
JWST 323: The Israeli Novel (Winter)
JWST 350: Major Jewish Authors: Ansky and the Dybbuk (Fall)
JWST 351: Jewish Women’s Poetry (Winter)
JWST 387: Modern Jewish Authors: The Novel in Inter-War Poland (Winter)
LLCU 210: Introduction to European Literature & Culture (Fall)
MDST 400: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Medieval Studies (Winter)
RELG 203: Bible and Western Culture (Winter)
RELG 302: Literature of Ancient Israel 1 (Fall)
RELG 303: Literature of Ancient Israel 2 (Winter)
RELG 411: New Testament Exegesis (Winter)
RELG 482: Exegesis of Greek New Testament (Winter)
RUSS 218: Russian Literature and Revolution (Fall)
RUSS 223 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1 (Fall)
RUSS 224 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2 (Winter)
RUSS 327: Reading Russian Poetry: Voicing Dissent (Fall) (In Russian)
RUSS 337: Vladimir Nabokov (Winter)
RUSS 340: Russian Short Story (Fall)
RUSS 358: Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fall)
RUSS 369: Narrative and Memory in Russian Culture (Winter)
RUSS 390: Women in Russian Literature (Fall)
RUSS 500: Special Topics: Love Plots (Fall)

Drama & Theatre:

CLAS 400: Ancient Drama and Theatre (Fall)
GERM 360: Theater as Performance (Winter)
ITAL 290: Comedia Dell-Arte (Winter) (taught in Italian)
PHIL 242: Introduction to Feminist Theory (Fall)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (Fall)
RUSS 382: Russian Opera (Winter)

Cultural Studies:

Major Figure Requirement:

GERM 367: Freud and Literature (Fall)
GERM 358: Franz Kafka (Winter)
GERM 365: Nietzsche and Wagner (Fall)
ITAL 355: Dante and the Middle Ages (Winter)
JWST 350: Major Jewish Authors: Ansky and the Dybbuk (Fall)
RUSS 337: Vladimir Nabokov (Winter)
RUSS 358: Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fall)

Canadian Component:

ARTH/CANS 315: Indigenous Art and Culture (Fall)
ARTH 411: Canadian Art and Race (Fall)
CANS 404: Critical Museology and Heritage in Canada (Fall)
FREN 252: Littérature québécoise (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 315: Cinéma québécois (Winter) (in French)
FREN 372: Littérature québécoise 1 (Fall) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine (Fall) (taught in French)
QCST 300: Quebec Culture and Society (Winter)

Historical Dimension:

ANTH 304: Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film (Winter)
ARTH 339: Critical Issues – Contemporary Art (Winter)
ARTH/COMS 354: Media Studies of Crime (Winter)
COMS 340: New Media (Winter)
COMS 361: Media and Culture of the Night (Fall)
COMS 490: Hackers, the Class (Fall)
EAST 306: Tokyo and its Mediascapes (Winter)
EAST 353: Approaches to Chinese Cinema (Fall)
EAST 362: Japanese Cinema (Fall)
EAST 364: Mass Culture and Postwar Japan (Winter)
EAST 454: Reinventing Cinema and Media in Post-Mao China (Winter)
EAST 493: Revolutionary Culture in China (Winter)
FREN 315 Cinéma québécois (Winter) (in French)
GERM 370: Special Topics in German Film (Fall)
GERM 379: German Visual Culture (Winter)
HISP 320: Contemporary Brazilian Literature and Film (Winter)
HISP 341: Spanish Cinema (Fall)
HIST 435: Partition through Indian Films (Winter)
ITAL 374: Classics of Italian Cinema (Fall)
ITAL 477: Italian Cinema and Video (Winter)
JWST 309: Jews in Film (Winter)
MUAR 392: Popular Music after 1945 (Fall and Winter)
MUAR 393: Introduction to Jazz (Winter)
RUSS 395: Soviet Cinema: Art and Politics (Winter)

400-Level Theory Requirement:

ANTH 408: Sensory Ethnography (Winter)
ANTH 412: Anthropological Theory: Subjectivity and Desire (Fall)
COMS 400: Critical Theory Seminar (Winter)
COMS 411: Disability, Technology and Communication (Winter)
COMS 491: Queer Time (Fall)
COMS 492: Power, Difference, and Justice (Fall)
COMS 500: Queer Theory Now (Winter)
FREN 498: Questions de littérature 3: Littérature et psychanalyse (winter) (taught in French)
HIST 454: Marxist Theory (Fall)

Other courses:

ANTH 202: Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Fall)
ANTH 204: Anthropology of Meaning (Winter)
ANTH 355: Theories of Culture and Society (Winter)
ANTH 370: Anthropology and the Image (Fall)
ANTH 381: The Anthropology of Institutions (Fall)
ANTH 480: Capitalism, Consumption, and Charity (Winter)
COMS 301: Core Concepts in Critical Theory (Fall)
COMS 310: Media and Feminist Studies (Fall)
COMS 320: Media and Empire (Winter)
COMS 361: Environmental Communication (Winter)
COMS 425: Urban Culture and Everyday Life (Winter)
EAST 250: Introduction to Asian Media Studies (Winter)
EAST 368: Asian Genre Cinemas (Winter)
EAST 369: Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media (Fall)
EAST 375: Korean Media and Popular Culture (Winter)
EAST 464: Image, Text, Performance (Winter)
GERM 333: What is Enlightenment? (Winter)
GERM 360: Theater as Performance (Winter)
GSFS 250: Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies (Fall)
GSFS 303: Gender and Disability (Fall)
GSFS 304: Postcolonial Feminist Theories (Fall)
GSFS 306: Queer Theory (Winter)
GSFS 307: Indigenous Feminisms (Fall)
HISP 345: Contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies (Fall)
HISP 358: Gender and Textualities (Fall)
ITAL 295: Italian Cultural Studies (Winter) (taught in Italian)
JWST 346: Modern Jewish Studies: Jewish Orthodox Women in Canada and the US: Artistic & Political Performances (Winter)
LLCU 212: Understanding Digital and Social Media (Fall)
LLCU 255: Introduction to Literary Text Mining (Fall)
LLCU 300: Cinema and the Visual (Winter)
LLCU 311: Digital Studies/Citizenry (Winter)
PHIL 242: Introduction to Feminist Theory (Fall)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (Fall)
PHIL 436: Aesthetics 2 (Winter)
PHIL 442: Topics in Feminist Theory (Fall)
RELG 358: Religion and Cinema in India (Fall)
RELG 368: Japanese Religions in Pop Culture (Winter)
RUSS 500: Special Topics: Love Plots (Fall)

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