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Spring 2012 European Studies Seminars
English/Comp Lit 306: Arthurian Legend: Medieval to Modern
TR 3:30-4:45, taught by Professor Anita Obermeier (aobermei@unm.edu)
The Arthurian Legend has been the single most prolific literary motif in Western literature. This course will investigate this enduring strength and attraction of Arthurian legends from their pan-European beginnings in the medieval period to contemporary literature, popular culture, and film. We will read masterpieces from the Celtic tradition, Chrétien de Troyes, the French Lancelot-Grail Cycle, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Thomas Malory, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, Naomi Mitchison, and others. This way, we can observe how each version serves a new authorial, political, or cultural agenda—whether it is to establish a national foundation myth, to endorse specific religious values, to revive medieval values in an industrial age, or to challenge gender stereotypes in modern times. We will also focus on the evolution of other important Arthurian characters, such as Gawain, Tristan, Perceval, Morgan le Fay, Galahad, Merlin, Lancelot, and Guinevere.
Arch 462.002: Cities and Literature: Urban Change &
Urban Narratives in Contemporary
T 2:00-4:30, taught by Professor Eleni Bastea (ebastea@unm.edu, www.elenibastea.com)
This seminar will focus on literary reflections of the built
environment in contemporary
Requirements: 1. One 8-10 pp. illustrated paper (or visual project of equivalent depth) focusing on the urban history and literature of a specific city; 2. Frequent short, written essays; and 3. An oral presentation of your project. No prerequisites.
Fall 2011 European Studies Seminars
French 465: Le cinema français (taught in French)
W 16:00-18:30, taught by
Professor Raji Vallury (rvallury@unm.edu)
German 336: European Fairy Tales
TTh 11:00-12:15, taught by Professor Susanne Baackmann (Pandora@unm.edu)
NOTE: This class will require an
extra research paper to qualify as an ES seminar.
German 480.001: DDR Literatur und
Kultur (taught in German)
M 16:00-18:30, taught by
Professor Katja Schröter (katja@unm.edu)
NOTE: Seminar counts for German
major and minor. Also offered as GRMN 553.
Instructor's permission required, minimum prerequisite GRMN302.
Was haben
Till Lindemann, Paul van Dyk
und die Prinzen gemeinsam? Sicherlich nicht den Musikstil ... In diesem Kurs werden wir
uns bemühen, ein Bild der
DDR zu erarbeiten, das zumindest im Ansatz
die DDR in ihrer Komplexität
zu erfassen sucht. Dabei geht es vor
allem darum, die Uneinheitlichkeit des geeinten Deutschlands zu verstehen, indem wir deren Ursachen
analysieren.
Einerseits werden wir uns Texten
widmen,
die das Selbstverständnis der
DDR ausdrücken.
Andererseits werden wir uns ebenfalls
mit westlichen Modellen der Rezeption
der DDR auseinandersetzen,
die die DDR einerseits als Unrechtsstaat
und andererseits als letzte Hoffnung einer linken Utopie
verstehen. Wir werden uns
vor allem auf literarische, visuelle akonzentrieren, die das kulturelle
und alltägliche Leben in der DDR darstellen.
Past Seminars in European Studies
English 451.001: Medieval Lyrics
Spring 2011, taught by Professor Anita Obermeier
(aobermei@unm.edu)
Arch 462/ArtH 429: Cities and Literature
Spring 2011, taught by Professor Eleni Bastea (ebastea@unm.edu)
History 300.009/500.009, Comp Lit 384.009:
(cross-listed in History, Peace Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies)
Fall 2010, taught by Professor Eleni Bastéa (ebastea@unm.edu, www.elenibastea.com)
History 311: HISTORY OF WWI
Fall 2010,
taught by Professor Melissa Bokovoy (mbokovoy@unm.edu)
Art History 429.001, Comp Lit 432.001: 18th CENTURY EUROPEAN ART
Fall 2010,
taught by Professor Susanne Anderson-Riedel (ariedel@unm.edu)
English 355: Survey of the Enlightenment
Spring 2010, taught by Professor Carolyn Woodward (woodward@unm.edu)
History 300/500,
Section 005: History of Fascism
Spring 2010, taught by Professor Enrique Sanabria (sanabria@unm.edu)
History 492: Senior Seminar – Fall
of Communism in
Fall 2009, taught by Professor Melissa Bokovoy (mbokovoy@unm.edu)
German 450.001: ST – Die Rote Armee Fraktion
(taught in German)
Spring 2009, taught by Professor Katrin Schroeter (katja@unm.edu)
Architecture 412.001:
Seminar – European Capitals
Fall 2008, taught by Professor Eleni Bastea (ebastea@unm.edu)
French 346/335;
English/CompLit 335:
Why
Spring 2008, taught by Professor
Steve Bishop (277-6344 or sbishop@unm.edu).
English 455: The Later British
Enlightenment, 1730-1800 -- A “noble and uncommon union of science and
admiration”?
Spring 2008, taught by Professor Carolyn Woodward (woodward@unm.edu).
English 452/552: The Renaissance (and its Discontents)
Fall 2007, taught by Professor Carmen Nocentelli (nocent@unm.edu)
“Tolstoy -- Seminar
in Comparative & Russian Literature”
taught by Professor Byron Lindsey
“Studies in British
Romanticism”
taught by Professor Gary Harrison
taught by Professor
Steve Bishop
taught by Professor
Eleni Bastea
“Studies in Romanticism: The
Emergence of the Romantic Hero”
taught by Professor Gary Harrison
“Surrealism”
taught by Professor Walter Putnam
“The Habsburg Connection --
taught by Professor Peter Pabisch
“Memories of Trauma:
taught by Professor Susanne Baackmann
“Welcome to the Euro: The
European Union (EU) and the 'German Bloc'”
taught by Professor Peter Pabisch
“Immigrant and Indigenous European Identity"
taught by Professor Steve Bishop