USC Schedule of Classes

A broad introduction to the great works of Western culture from antiquity to 1800.

A comparative study of the Asian aesthetic heritage of poetry, painting, music, and drama; of literary themes, trends, and myths.

Introduction to general forms of reflection on literary discourse.

Study of the notion of "decadence" and its impact on modern and contemporary literary/cultural production, with a comparatist focus on different linguistic traditions.

Study of the ways literature presents social and/or individual reality through readings of selected novels and short stories in the realist and naturalist traditions.

Survey of cultural critique focused on Latin America as a cultural region and on Latin Americanism as a transnational academic practice.

Exploration of multilingual encounters in literary works, films, and theoretical texts. Topics may include immigrant languages, dialects, jargons, imaginary or hybrid languages, theories of translation.

A comparative study of Dada and Surrealism in literature in relation to painting, sculpture, photography and cinema.

Deconstructive analysis of theories of language, representation, selfhood, the human, art and technology, politics and ethics. SWtudy of works by Derrida and others.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Writing of an honors thesis under individual faculty supervision.

Literary and cultural currents from classical antiquity through modernity. Varying focus on specific genres, periods, movements, or problematics.