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Culture, Text and Language

Culture, Text and Language programs invite students to engage in academic study of what it means it be human and to participate in social life. Its faculty prize rigorous reflective inquiry and integrative understanding. Through study of cultures, students explore the webs of meaning that individuals and groups use to make sense of their experience and the world. Through study of texts, they learn to interpret the embodiments of these meanings in forms ranging from enduring works to popular media and the artful practices of everyday life. Through study of languages, they become proficient in the means of communication in different societies and discover the beauty and power of words. Learn more...

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NEW! Acts of Trans: -Lation, -Dancing, -Texting, -Posing, -Musicking Revised: 11/12/2009	All level	Fall
NEW! American Frontiers: Homelands and Empire Revised: 02/03/2010 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
American Stories Revised: 12/04/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
Andean Roots: Language and Cultural Landscape Revised: 12/07/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Arab and Muslim Women Writers Faculty Signature Required	All level			Spring
Art, Culture, and Spirit Revised: 08/28/2009	Unrestricted	Fall
NEW! The Art of Adaptation Revised: 02/25/2010 Accepts Spring Enrollment	All level		Winter	Spring
Art of Conversation	Sophomore to Senior	Fall
NEW! Autobiography	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
NEW! Beyond Belief: Interrogating Belief through Literary and Media Arts	All level			Spring
NEW! Body, Voice, Imagination	All level			Spring
NEW! Centering: Narratives of Near and Far Revised: 11/19/2009	Unrestricted		Winter	Spring
NEW! The Classical World Revised: 02/01/2010	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Cultural Landscapes: Sustainability, Power, and Justice Revised: 03/15/2010 Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter	Spring
Dark Romantics Revised: 06/08/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
Earth Stewards: Sustainable Living in a Threatened World Revised: 05/05/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
Eye of the Story Revised: 05/05/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
Feminist Theory, Research, and Practice Revised: 01/11/2010	Sophomore to Senior		Winter
Greece and Italy: An Artistic and Literary Odyssey Revised: 12/17/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Green Nature, Human Nature	Unrestricted			Spring
Growing Up: Stories, Scripts, and Performance	All level	Fall
NEW! Heart and Mind on Screen and Page	All level			Spring
NEW! Images of Women: Changes Reflected in Japanese Literature and Film	Junior/Senior		Winter
NEW! Individual Study: East-West Psychology Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
NEW! Individual Study: Humanities and Social Science Faculty Signature Required Accepts Spring Enrollment	Unrestricted			Spring
NEW! Individual Study/Internships with LGBT/Q Organizations	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
NEW! Individual Study: Japanese Studies, Film, and Study Abroad Faculty Signature Required Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
NEW! Internships: Community-Based Learning	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Ireland Revised: 07/20/2009 Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Islam and Science: An Historical Perspective Revised: 02/01/2010	All level			Spring
Japan Today: Japanese Culture, Literature, Cinema, Society and Language Revised: 05/28/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Language, Literature, and the Schools Revised: 01/08/2010 Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior		Winter	Spring
Latin American Short Story	Sophomore to Senior	Fall
Life of Things Revised: 02/22/2010 Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter	Spring
Literature and the Cultural Politics of Democracy in Chile and Brazil Revised: 02/08/2010	Sophomore to Senior		Winter	Spring
Logopoesis Revised: 12/16/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
Looking Backward: America in the Twentieth Century Revised: 05/05/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
Money's Value, Soul's Worth Revised: 12/03/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Native American Knowledge and the Power of History	All level		Winter
The Obscure Object of Desire	All level			Spring
NEW! Performing meaning, translating thought	All level		Winter
NEW! The Philosophy of Experience: Getting at What's Real Revised: 11/11/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
CANCELLED Poetics and Performance Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior			Spring
NEW! Poetry New York Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Popular Music and Literature in the 1960s	Junior/Senior			Spring
NEW! Portraits Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
Religion and Society Revised: 12/03/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
CANCELLED The Roots of Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy	All level			Spring
Shakespeare's America	Junior/Senior	Fall
NEW! Social Change: Desire, Design and Composition	Core			Spring
NEW! Stalin: Legacy in Stone, Steel, and Blood	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
NEW! Student Originated Studies: Hegel's _Phenomenology of Spirit_	Sophomore to Senior		Winter
NEW! Student Originated Studies: Poetics Revised: 12/16/2009 Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior		Winter
Tend and Tell: Developing and Interpreting an Ethnobotanical Garden Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! "Them That's Got Shall Get": Inheritance and Justice Revised: 03/15/2010	All level			Spring
CANCELLED Transcending Government	All level	Fall	Winter
Transforming the Art of War: From Clausewitz to Al-Qaida and Beyond Revised: 05/12/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
NEW! Turning Eastward: Explorations in East-West Psychology Revised: 11/24/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter
NEW! "We're here!"	All level			Spring
NEW! What are children for? Revised: 11/12/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
NEW! Writer's Workshop Revised: 03/02/2010 Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior		Winter	Spring
NEW! Writing for Change Revised: 05/22/2009	Sophomore to Senior	Fall
NEW! Writing: Guerilla Poetry, Poets Theater, and the Politics of Language	Unrestricted			Spring
NEW! Writing Matters: Passion and Discipline in Literary and Media Arts Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
NEW! Writing the New Journalism - Creative Nonfiction Revised: 11/19/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
Written in Stone Revised: 02/25/2010	Core			Spring