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CompLit 109: Human Rights and Literatureby Irene Walch - last updated on Sep 09th, 2009... we will trace the development of human rights discourses from the Enlightenment to the present, looking at literature from a variety of cultures and human rights documents from a variety of sources.
English 122 : The Terror of the Gothicby Rachael Shea - last updated on Aug 10th, 2009...we will explore our delight in terror through the world of nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, novels like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, a world of pain and destruction, fear and anxiety...
English 295/395: Gender and Discourseby Rachael Shea - last updated on Aug 10th, 2009Focuses on how cultural conceptions of gender guide language use for males and females and on ways in which discourse in its cultural context constructs gender. The implications for language use of ideology, enculturation and socialization patterns...
Spanish 194: Indigenous Peoples in Mexicoby Irene Walch - last updated on Sep 28th, 2009This seminar examines how the indigenous have been represented in Mexican arts, literature, and popular culture beginning with the post-revolutionary murals and continuing through the present-day communiqués of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation .