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COURSE SPOTLIGHT - Fall 2022
French 285: Rebellious Women
Explores how women from different francophone regions (North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East) gain agency through literature, movies, comics, and songs, contesting different forms of domination, exclusion, and injustice, based on gender, race, class, and religion.
Credits: 3-4 (3 cr lecture only / 4 cr lecture and discussion for Comm B)
Pre-Requisite: None
Language: Taught in English
Professor: Nevine El Nossery
*Counts towards the French Major as Add’l French/Francophone Lit and/or Culture
French 288: Doctors without Borders
An overview of the global humanitarian NGO, Doctors without Borders (or Médecins sans Frontières, MSF) including its history, mission, organization, and the cultural, political, and ethical challenges it faces. Explores issues of global health, social justice, and humanitarian action. Features distinguished global practitioners with first-hand experience in health crisis situations.
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisite: None
Language: Taught in English
Professor: Gilles Bousquet
*Counts towards the French Major as Add’l French/Francophone Lit and/or Culture
Italian 230: Modern Italian Culture
A survey of Italian history, literature, art, music, politics, and popular culture of the 20th-21st centuries.
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisite: Italian 202 or 204
Professor: TBD
*Required for the Italian major
Italian 452: Special Topics in Italian Studies – Italian American Cinema and TV
Examination of an aspect of Italian studies: culture, film, language
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisite: One of the following: (ITALIAN 230, 301, 310, 311, 312, 321, 322, 340, 350, or 365) or graduate/professional standing
Professor: Patrick Rumble
*Elective option for Italian Major and Certificate
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Eight projects receive Library Collections Enhancement Initiative awards
Eight projects receive Library Collections Enhancement Initiative awards! Congratulations to Anne Vila and the team.
Josh Armstrong receives a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship
Josh Armstrong has received a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship (SHRF) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities
Heather Allen receives a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship
Heather Allen has received a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship (SHRF) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities to work on her book project “A Design Orientation to Second Language Writing Instruction.” She is …
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