Courses

The study of literature as history and history as literature. Students will learn how to read literary texts in relation to other forms of discourse within a given historical context, how to contextualize a text through historical research, and how to analyze the rhetoric of history.

Exploration of the origins of the concept of human rights in the form of a variety of primary and secondary sources. While the main task of the course will be reading and discussing these documents, students will also have the opportunity to explore a contemporary human rights issue in the form of a research paper.

A consideration of both the relation of philosophical writings to the critical study of works of literature and the use of philosophical concepts of literature.

Use of literature to deepen the understanding of the rich, complex, and varied engagement between human beings and the places they inhabit and imagine. Examination of how places, with their history, traditions, myths, customs, tensions, social structures, and physical form interact with people's lives.

Use of literature to deepen the understanding of the rich, complex, and varied engagement between human beings and the places they inhabit and imagine. Examination of how places, with their history, traditions, myths, customs, tensions, social structures, and physical form interact with people's lives.

The literatures and societies of the Middle East and North Africa, with particular emphasis on the ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity of the region. Some of the course will be dedicated to current events and theoretical writings about the region as a whole.

A study of the ways in which literature and the movies have strongly influenced each other. The course will investigate problems arising from the relations and conflicts between these two different media.

This course is a study of a wide range of literary genres and themes from the region usually defined as the Islamic world. The texts we will be engaging with are part of the Arabo-Islamic tradition, but are limited to neither the Arabic language nor the Muslim religion. We will be reading, in English translation, texts originallywritten Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages.

Drawing on stone with a wax crayon is the medium in this print process.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

May be repeated for a maximum of six credits with permission of the department. Special Projects courses are designed for students who want more intensive work in any studio discipline, or to strengthen or advance their basic skills in lithography.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F