Directors: Charles Inouye, Joel
Rosenberg, and Hosea Hirata, Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and
Literatures
The program in international letters
and visual studies makes possible the study of literature, film, and visual arts
in an international context. The major is aimed at students with a strong
interest in global issues who wish to study the literature, cinema, or visual
art of two or more cultures, to explore the interaction of cultures, and to gain
theoretical insight on the discourses of literature, film, the visual sign,
gender, and culture as such. The major requires firm grounding in at least one
foreign language. Beyond the foreign-language preparation, the major requires
twelve courses, distributed according to the emphasis selected by the student.
The student must select either a literature emphasis, a visual studies emphasis,
or a film emphasis. The major is administered by a committee of core
faculty from the participating departments and programs.
Undergraduate Concentration
Requirements
Language Preparation for the Major
Students are expected to have a firm
grounding in two languages, one of which may be English. One of these languages
will serve as a primary area of cultural emphasis, and the other as a secondary
area, for the course work of the major.
All students, regardless of the
areas of cultural emphasis, must take one foreign language through the eighth
semester, pursued concurrently with the course work of the major.
Students may choose to take up to
six semesters of a second foreign language, which will serve as the secondary
area of cultural emphasis, for the course work of the
major.
For all other students, English will
be one of the two languages of the majors course work. These courses may be in
English, American, and Anglophone literatures. In some cases-for example, when
the major is structured as the exploration of a genre (the novel, the epic,
etc.), the English-language component of the major may include foreign
literatures in translation.
Recommended Additional Preparation
for the Major
An introductory survey course in the
literature of each cultural area of emphasis is strongly recommended, as are
history courses in areas related to the conceptual focus of the major, and
acquisition of technical proficiency in a visual discipline (e.g., calligraphy,
painting, sculpture, filmmaking, theatrical design, or computer graphics and
design), or a creative writing discipline (e.g., fiction, poetry, drama, essay,
autobiography or journalism).
Requirements for the Major
The major consists of twelve
courses, not counting those taken for language preparation. At least one of the
twelve courses should be a seminar, directed study, or other intensive course
requiring a substantial integrative project. The particular distribution of
courses is determined by the emphasis selected by the student. The twelve-course
selection is a fixed part of the major. Courses that may serve two categories of
requirement cannot be double-counted within the major. Any changes in the
proportions of these categories must be approved by petition to a committee of
core faculty.
The Conceptual
Focus
Students are expected to define, in
close consultation with an adviser, a suitable conceptual focus and interaction
of subjects, so that the specific combination of courses is neither arbitrary
nor superficial. The active role of the adviser is crucial to a student's
pursuit of this major. A student cannot assemble courses randomly, but rather
must define an appropriate emphasis, whether in a world literature region, or an
interaction of cultures, or a genre, or a particular era, or two interrelated
eras, or gender experience within particular arts, literatures, and cultures, or
perhaps a philosophical or theoretical issue relevant to the study of literature
and the arts.
Conceptual focus for the major can
examine domains such as the following: classical and medieval studies,
Renaissance literature and art, the Age of Enlightenment, European Romanticism,
literatures of the Third World, Asian literatures--China and Japan, Russia and
the West, African-American and new world literatures, Jewish literatures in a
world setting, the modern novel, studies in the epic, women authors and gender
readings, world theater and film, literature and art, literature and film, art
and film.
Sample majors with these emphases
are published in a brochure that serves as a manual for students pursuing the
major. Both students and faculty are invited to expand the repertoire of
conceptual focuses, making the programs they design available to others.
LITERATURE EMPHASIS
I. National and ethnic literatures
(6 courses)
The student must take six literature
courses, four in the cultural area of the primary language and two in that of
the secondary language. At least two of the six courses should be a 100-level
literature course in a language not native to the student, with readings in the
original language, whatever the language of instruction or written
assignments. If English is one of
the two languages, and if the student’s conceptual focus crosses linguistic
boundaries, the major may include literature courses in English translation,
provided the major as a whole still includes at least two courses with readings
in a language not native to the student.
II. Visual arts and/or film (2
courses)
The student must take two courses in
film or other visual arts (normally, one in the cultural area of the primary
language, the other in that of the secondary language), chosen from
section II-A or II-B of the course list that follows. (See Courses
Acceptable for the Major.)
III. Cross-cultural and/or
gender-oriented literary or visual studies (2 courses)
The student must take two courses of
a cross-cultural or gender-oriented nature in a literary or visual art, chosen
from the literature courses in section III-A of the course list, or from the
courses in visual arts and film in sections II-B and III-C.
IV. Literary and cultural theory (2
courses)
The student must also complete one
semester of literary theory, chosen from section IV-A of the course list, and
one semester of cultural theory, chosen from section IV-C.
VISUAL STUDIES EMPHASIS
I. National and ethnic literatures
(3 courses)
The student must take three
literature courses, two in the cultural area of the primary language and one in
that of the secondary language. At least one of the courses should be a
literature course in a language not native to the student, with readings in the
original language, whatever the language of instruction or written assignments.
II. Visual arts (5 courses)
The student must take five courses
in visual arts, chosen from section II-A of the course list that follows,
normally including one in the cultural area of the primary language and another
in that of the secondary language. The student may substitute, for one of the
five courses, a course in film, chosen from section II-B of the course list that
follows. (See Courses Acceptable for the Major.) , or a studio course in a
visual art (drawing, painting, sculpture, filmmaking,
etc.)
III. Cross-cultural and/or
gender-oriented literary or visual studies (2 courses)
The student must take two courses of
a cross-cultural or gender-oriented nature in a literary or visual art, chosen
from the literature courses in section III-A of the course list or from the
courses in visual arts and film in sections III-B and III-C.
IV. Visual and cultural theory (2
courses)
The student must take one course in
visual theory, chosen from section IV-B of the course list, and one course in
cultural theory, chosen from section IV-C.
FILM EMPHASIS
I. National and ethnic literatures
(3 courses)
The student must take three
literature courses, two in the cultural area of the primary language and one in
that of the secondary language. At least one of the three courses should be a
100-level literature course in a language not native to the student, with
readings in the original language, whatever the language of instruction or
written assignments.
II. Film (5 courses)
The student must take five courses
in film chosen from section II-B of the course list, normally including one in
the cultural area of the primary language and another in that of the secondary
language. The student may substitute, for one of the five courses, a course in
visual arts chosen from section II-A of the course list or a studio course in
some domain of filmmaking (screenwriting, directing, acting, etc.) (See Courses
Acceptable for the Major.).
III. Cross-cultural and/or
gender-oriented literary or visual studies (2 courses)
The student must take two courses of
a cross-cultural or gender-oriented nature in a literary or visual art, chosen
from the literature courses in section III-A of the course list or from the
courses in visual arts and film in sections III-B and III-C.
IV. Visual or literary theory, and
cultural theory (2 courses)
The student must take one course in
literary or visual theory, chosen from section IV-B* of the course list, plus
one course in cultural theory, chosen from section IV-C**.
*Will be revised to read “section
IV-C” when a Tufts film theory course is made available.
**Will be revised to read “section
IV-D” when a Tufts film theory course is made available.
COURSES ACCEPTABLE FOR THE MAJOR
For present purposes, a
cross-cultural course is defined as one that explores literary or artistic
expression across national or ethnic boundaries, or that of two or more cultures
living in proximity, or that of a diaspora culture living in several nations, or
that of a racial or ethnic minority living in a particular nation. A
gender-oriented course is one that comprises its content by gender, or makes
gender experience or gender relations a principal (though not necessarily
exclusive) focus of its subject matter.
I. NATIONAL AND ETHNIC LITERATURES
See course listings in the following
departments and programs: Classics; Drama; English; German, Russian, and Asian
Languages and Literatures; Romance Languages; World Literature. These listings
include: African, African-American, Caribbean, Chinese, Greek and Latin, English
and American, French, German, Hebrew and Judaic, Italian, Japanese, Russian,
Scandinavian, Spanish, and other literatures.
II. VISUAL ARTS AND FILM
A.
VISUAL ARTS COURSES,
EXCLUSIVE OF FILM
See
listings in the Department of Art and
Art
History (including courses
cross-listed with language & literature departments) and the
visually-oriented courses of the Department of Drama and Dance, as well as the
following courses:
German 174
Nineteenth-Century
German Literature and Art
World Literature 166
Illustrated
Literature
B. FILM COURSES
FAH 62/162 Art on Film, Film on Art
FAH 92 Film Noir
FAH 197B Problems in Art on Film
CHNS 80 Chinese Film: 1930s-1980s
CHNS 81 Cinema of Greater China:
Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the PRC
DR 45 Race and Its Discontents:
Third World Theater & Film
DR 48 African-American Theater and
Film
DR 60/160 Shakespeare on Film
DR 62 Hollywood Comedy
DR 64 Women and Film
DR 175 History of U.S. Film to 1933
ENG 62 Film and Society
ENG 80 Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender,
and Ideology
ENG 191D Black World Literature and
Film
FR 75 Classics of French Cinema
GER 85 German Film
HIST 91 The Camera and the Cold War
ITAL 75 Italian Film
JPN 80 Japanese Film
JPN 112 Major Japanese Film
Directors
JS/CR 142 Jewish Experience on Film
RUS 80 Russian Film: Art, Politics,
and Society
SOC 40 Introduction to Mass Media
and Popular Culture
SOC 185 Seminar in Mass Media
Studies
III.
CROSS-CULTURAL AND/OR GENDER-ORIENTED LITERARY OR VISUAL STUDIES
A. LITERATURE COURSES
(* = knowledge of foreign language
required)
Arabic 61 Classical Arabic
Literature
Arabic 62 Modern Arabic Literature
FAH 80/GER 50/WL 50 Feminist
Analysis: Women's Voices, Women's Bodies
FAH/GER/CR 129 Women in Medieval Art
and Literature
CHNS 70 Defining Contemporary
Chinese Culture
CHNS 132 Women and Modernity in
Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature
CLS 65S Journey of the Hero
CLS 75 Classical Mythology
CLS 135 Social Life in Greece and
Rome
CLS 136,137 Classical Biography
CLS 140 Classical Epic
CLS 141 Classical Historians
CLS 143 Classical Satirical Writings
CLS 146 Ancient Greek and Roman
Medicine
CLS/PHIL 151 Ancient Philosophy
CR 48 Qur'an and Islamic Tradition
DR 1 Comedy and Tragedy: An
Introduction to Drama
DR 4 Twentieth-Century Drama
DR 42/142 Women in the American
Theater
DR 137 Theater and Society I
DR 138 Theater and Society II
DR 178 Sex, Gender, and the
Performing Arts
ENG 35 African-American Literature
ENG 36 Black World Literature
ENG 45 Non-Western Women Writers
ENG 73 Contemporary Anglophone
Literature
ENG 77 The Modern Mind
ENG 105 The Literature of the Middle
Ages
ENG 132 Women and Fiction
ENG 140 The African-American Novel
ENG 145 American Realism
ENG 146 African-American Women's
Autobiography
ENG 147 American Women Writers
ENG 156 The Modern European Novel
ENG 160 Twentieth-Century Literature
of the Indian Subcontinent
ENG 191 Third-World Women Writers
FR 44 French African Theater
FR 46 Masterpieces of Caribbean
Literature
FR 48 French African Literature
*FR 179 French African Literature
*FR 181 French African Theater
GER 75 Grimms' Fairy Tales
GER 86/186 German Women Writers
GER 89 German Expressionism in its
European Context
JS 65 Introduction to Yiddish
Culture
JS 73 Aspects of Sephardic Tradition
JS 78 Jewish Women
JS/CR 84 Sources of Jewish Tradition
JS/CR 126 Roots of the Jewish
Imagination
JS/CR 132 The Book of Genesis and
Its Interpreters
PHIL 186 Phenomenology and
Existentialism
PS 141 Shakespeare's Rome
RUS 114 Satire and Absurdist
Literature
SPN30/130* Civilization of Muslim
Spain
SPN 50/150* Latin American
Civilization
SPN 73
Contemporary Latin American Fiction in English
*SPN 34
Survey of Latin American Literature
*SPN 101
Latin American Theater
*SPN 102
Latin American Short Story
*SPN 103 Contemporary Latin American
Novel
*SPN 104 Poetry in Spanish America
*SPN 105 The Dictator in the Latin
American Novel
*SPN 106 Literature and Revolution:
Mexico and Cuba
*SPN 107 Testimonial Literature of
Latin America
*SPN 108 Latin American Women
Writers
*SPN 156 Afro-Hispanic Literature
CIV 19 Cultural Conceptions of the
Self
CIV 21 Body Movement and Power on
the World Stage
CIV 22/GER 84/JPN 84 East/West
Perspectives on Fascism: Japan and Germany
WL 17/JPN 91/RUS 91 Reading the
World: Love and Sexuality in World Literature
WL 77 Scandinavian Literature
WL 120 South African Writers
WL 150 Literature of Chaos
WL 166 Illustrated Literature
B. VISUAL ARTS COURSES
FAH 1 Art, Ritual, and Culture
FAH 2 Art, Politics, and Culture
FAH 4 Introduction to the Arts of
Africa
FAH 5 Introduction to the Arts of
Asia
FAH 6 The Royal Arts of Africa
FAH 10/110 Japanese Art and The West
FAH/CR 11 Buddhist Art
FAH 21/121/CR 23 Early Islamic Art:
The Formation of a Culture
FAH 22/122/CR 24 Iconoclasm and
Iconophobia: Threat of the Image
FAH 23/CR 25 Art and Politics of the
Middle Ages
FAH 25/125 Medieval Architecture
FAH 32/132 High Renaissance Art and
Culture
FAH 33 Renaissance and Reformation
FAH 35/135 Renaissance Artists Then
and Now
FAH 41 The Age of Rembrandt and
Bernini
FAH 44/144 The Renaissance Body
FAH 48 Nature into Art
FAH 63/163 The "Black" Arts of the
United States
FAH 70/170 The Contemporary Arts of
Africa
FAH 71/171 The Arts of the
Afro-American Diaspora
FAH 80/GER 50/WL 50 Feminist
Analysis: Women's Voices, Women's Bodies
FAH/CR 128 Monasteries and the Arts,
1000-1200
FAH/CR 127 Cathedrals and the Arts,
1150-1300
FAH/GER/CR 129 Women in Medieval Art
and Literature
FAH/CR 130 Fourteenth-Century Art
FAH 191 Seminar in Asian Art
FAH 191A Seminar in African or
African Diaspora Art
FAH 198A Seminar in African American
Art
Dance 51 Dance Movement and Creative
Process
DR 137 Theater and Society:
Prehistory to the Renaissance
DR 138 Theater and Society: The
Renaissance to Modern Drama
DR 178 Sex, Gender, and the
Performing Arts
WL 166 Illustrated Literature
B.
FILM COURSES
FAH 62/162 Art on Film, Film on Art
FAH 92 Film Noir
CHNS 81 Contemporary Cinema of the
Greater China: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the PRC
DR 45 Race and Its Discontents:
Third World Theater and Film
DR 48 African-American Theater and
Film
DR 60/160 Shakespeare on Film
DR 64 Women and Film
ENG 62 Film and Society
ENG 191D Black World Literature and
Film
HIST 91 The Camera and the Cold War
JS/CR 142 Jewish Experience on Film
A. LITERARY THEORY COURSES
DR 155 Directing I
DR 261/262 Dramatic Theory and
Criticism (graduate courses; consent required)
ENG 130 Criticism and Society
ENG 149 African-American Criticism
and Theory
ENG 170 Sexuality, Literature, &
Contemp. Criticism
ENG 171 Post-Structural Literary
Theory
GER/WL 50/FAH 80 Feminist Analysis:
Women's Voices, Women's Bodies
GER/WL 100 Understanding Literature,
Under-standing Yourself: Literary Theory & Interpretation
B. VISUAL THEORY COURSES
FAH/CR 20 Image and Icon:
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
FAH 22/122/CR 24 Iconoclasm
and
Iconophobia: Threat of the Image
FAH 100 Theories and Methods of Art
History (open for non-art history
majors with consent)
FAH 158 The Roots of Abstraction
FAH 159 Movement in Time in Painting
& Sculpture
FAH 160 Museum History and Theory
DR 70 Body Movemt. & Power on
the World Stage
DR 19 Principles of Theatrical
Design
ILVS 50 Intro to Film
Studies
JPN 113 Japanese Visual Culture
C. CULTURAL THEORY COURSES
American Studies 11 Introd. to
Interdisciplinary Studies
ANTH 125 Ethnicity
ANTH 130 History of Anthropological
Thought
ANTH 132 Myth, Ritual, and Symbol
ANTH 135 Visual Anthropology
ANTH 134 Emotion and Thought in
Culture
ANTH 138 Introduction to Folklore
ANTH 142 Capital, Labor, and Desire
ANTH 145 Power, Politics, and
Protest
ANTH 160 Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH 162 Anthropological Approaches
to
Art and Aesthetics
ANTH 181 Anthropology and Feminism
FAH 100 Theory and Methods of Art
History
FAH 101 Current Theory and Practice
in Art and Art History
CIS 150 Interdisciplinary Processes
CD 143D Children and the Media
CR 191 Religion in International
Relations
DR 137 Theater and Society I
DR 138 Theater and Society II
DR 178 Sex, Gender, and the
Performing Arts
DR 70 Body Movement and Power on the
World Stage
HIST 1 The Historian and History
HIST 8 The Making of the Modern
World
HIST 36 The Transatlantic
Relationship in the Twentieth Century
HIST 100 Historical Marxism
HIST 111 Sexuality, Disease, and
Difference: Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
HIST 137
Nation, Religion, Language, &
Class in Modern Asia
ML 182 Introd. to General
Linguistics
PHIL 24 Introduction to Ethics
PHIL/PS 43 Introd. to Political Philosophy
PHIL/PS 45,46 Western Political
Thought I, II
PHIL 55 The Making of the Modern Mind
PHIL 123 Philosophy of Law
PHIL 124 Bioethics
PHIL 125 Racism and Social
Inequality
PHIL 126 Theories of Human Nature
PHIL 128 Human Rights: History and
Theory
PHIL 133 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 185 From Hegel to Nietzsche
PHIL 186 Phenomenology and
Existentialism
PS
20 Introd. to Comparative Politics: Western Europe
PS 28 Introd. to Post-Communist Political
Systems
PS 51 International Relations
PS 52 International Relations: Imperialism
PS 145 Seminar: The Political Thought of
Machiavelli
PS 146 Plato vs. Nietzsche: Philosophy vs.
Art
PS 147 Seminar: Postmodern Political
Thought
PSY 15 Theories of Personality
SOC 30 Sex and Gender in Society
SOC 40 Introd. to Mass Media and
Popular Culture
SOC 103 Survey of Social Theory
SOC 181 The Arts in Society