Graduate Courses
MALS courses are proposed by current ²ÊºçƵµÀ faculty members and selected by the Committee in Graduate Studies. Therefore, past MALS courses are not necessarily offered again in future terms.
Arts
- Art 502: French Painting from 1750 to 1914
- Art 508: Renaissance Space
- Art 517: Archaeology and Early Chinese Society
- Art 522: Early Modern Things
- Art 525: Approaches to Media Studies
- Art 530: Art & Life in Renaissance Florence
- Art 541: Picasso's Cubism
- Art 544: Video, Media, Politics (1968-Present)
- Art 551: Theories of Visuality
- Dance 533: The Rites of Spring
- Dance 551: Dancing Identity on the Global Stage
- Dance 560: Gender, Form, and Identity in Contemporary Dance
- Literature/Music 545: The Romantic Lied: German Lyric Poetry and Its Music
- Music 560: Music and the Black Freedom Struggle
- Music 565: Music and Cold War America
- Theatre 519: The Birth of Modernism in the Theatre
- Theatre 521: "The Mirror Up to Nature": Reading Theatre History
- Theatre 540: Race in American Theatre
- Theatre 560: Translation and Adaptation in Modern Theatre
- Theatre 570: Experiments in Intercultural Theatre
- Theatre 590: Performance Studies: Performativity & Performance in Everyday Life
History and Social Sciences
- Ancient Mediterranean Studies 501: Pseudo-Archaeology
- Anthropology 520: Race, Labor, and the Immigrant Experience
- Anthropology 541: Global Health: Critical Perspectives
- Economics 567: Financial Crises, Market Crashes, and Economic Depressions
- History 510: Family History in the 20th-Century U.S.
- History 516: The Power of American Things: The United States and its Stuff in the 20th Century World
- History 544: The Psychoanalytic Tradition
- History 545: The Vietnam War
- History 553: The French Revolution, 1770–1800
- History 565: Animals: An Intellectual and Cultural History
- History 570: The Incas
- Political Science 530: Systems Disasters
- Political Science 544: Theories of the Ideal: Utopia and Dystopia
- Political Science 553: American Climate Change Politics
Liberal Studies
- LBST 501: Ethnopoetics (Summer 2021)
- LBST 502: Environmental Humanities and the World of Ancient Rome (Spring 2022)
- LBST 503: Introduction to Literary Theory (Spring 2023)
- LBST 505: Transformation and Identity in Roman Empire (Spring 2016)
- LBST 506: Ancient Greek Philosophy (Summer 2024)
- LBST 507: Jewish Atlantic World (Summer 2010)
- LBST 508: Literature of Reconstruction (Fall 2022)
- LBST 509: Religious Reformations & Social Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Fall 2017)
- LBST 510: The Fifties in America (Summer 2013)
- LBST 511: Horror and the Sublime in Russian Culture (Spring 2014)
- LBST 512: The Black Radical Tradition (Spring 2007)
- LBST 516: Layered Memories of Japanese Colonialism (Fall 2009)
- LBST 517: Ethnic American Poetry in its Cultural Context (Summer 2000)
- LBST 518: Shakespeare and Film (Summer 2008)
- LBST 520: Turn-of-the-Century Vienna and Prague (Fall 2015)
- LBST 522: Ancient Epics (Gilgamesh, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid) (Summer 2009)
- LBST 523: Dante's Divine Comedy (Summer 2013)
- LBST 524: American Dead and Undead (Summer 2015)
- LBST 525: Hindu Religious Traditions (Summer 2017)
- LBST 526: Chaucer and the Medieval World (Summer 2013)
- LBST 527: Sex, Gender & Political Theory (Spring 2013)
- LBST 528: Body Politics (Fall 2023)
- LBST 530: Dream in Human Societies (Fall 2004)
- LBST 531: Socrates and Plato (Spring 2005)
- LBST 532: Statistics and Public Policy: Uses and Abuses (Spring 2002)
- LBST 534: The Politics of Genre (Fall 2016)
- LBST 535: Biblical Narrative: Literature, Art, and History (Fall 1998)
- LBST 536: Economic Success and Failure (Summer 2004)
- LBST 537: Women in the Ancient World (Summer 2014)
- LBST 538: The Immigrant as Protagonist (Fall 2018)
- LBST 539: Russian Culture Under Putin (Spring 2019)
- LBST 541: The James Family (Summer 2002)
- LBST 542: Revolution and Reform in Chinese Agriculture (Fall 2020)
- LBST 543: The Age of Augustus (Fall 1999)
- LBST 544: Law & Justice in Europe & its Empires, 1200–1800 (Spring 2021)
- LBST 545: Holocaust Remembrance: Memory and Place (Fall 2001)
- LBST 546: Politics & Policy in America: Does the Government We Want Give Us the Policy We Need? (Summer 2020)
- LBST 547: Ancient and Modern Praise Poetry (Spring 2008)
- LBST 548: Sports and Social Life (Spring 2011)
- LBST 551: Chicago and the Urban Modern (Fall 2021)
- LBST 553: Literary and Visual Culture in 18th-Century Britain (Spring 2012)
- LBST 554: Media, Persons & Publics in a Globalized World (Spring 2018)
- LBST 555: Emergence, Evolution, and Life (Spring 2000)
- LBST 556: Race and the Immigrant Experience (Fall 2013)
- LBST 557: Literature at the Margins of the Roman Empire (Spring 2010)
- LBST 558: Islam in the Modern World (Spring 2015)
- LBST 559: Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (Spring 2009)
- LBST 560: The Twenties in America (Spring 2004)
- LBST 561: The Soviet Experience (Fall 2005)
- LBST 562: The Victorian Fin de siécle (Summer 2005)
- LBST 563: The Bloomsbury Group (Summer 2012)
- LBST 564: The Modern Middle East: History, Culture, Politics (Spring 2017)
- LBST 566: Romanticism and Religion (Summer 2002)
- LBST 569: The History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality: The Late Twentieth Century United States (Summer 1999)
- LBST 570: The Theory and Practice of Globalization (Fall 2012)
- LBST 571: The American Civil War in History and Memory (Fall 2011)
- LBST 572: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde (Spring 2020)
- LBST 575: The Art of Speech (Summer 2018)
- LBST 578: Politics, Culture, and the Great Depression (Fall 2014)
- LBST 579: Colonizing Africa: Conrad and the Congo (Spring 2001)
- LBST 582: Truth and Representation in Early Modern Europe (Summer 2011)
- LBST 583: Engendering History: Historiography of Masculinity and Femininity (Summer 2007)
- LBST 587: Plagues and their Meanings (Fall 2008)
- LBST 588: Railways and Modernity (Spring 2006)
- LBST 591: Contemporary and Classical Literary Theory (Fall 2010)
- LBST 592: Jews and Others: Jewish-American Literature, Culture, and Identity, 1700–2000 (Summer 2003)
- LBST 593: Faulkner and Morrison (Fall 2003)
Literature and Languages
- Ancient Mediterranean Studies: Rome, City of Complaints
- Chinese 527: Representations of the Cultural Revolution
- Classics 527: Women in the Ancient World
- Classics 531: Socrates and Plato
- Classics 568: Greek Tragedy, Ancient and Modern Perspectives
- English 521: The Art of the African American Short Story
- English 530: Race and Region: Representing the American South
- English 538: Cinema and the Senses
- English 540: August Wilson's Twentieth Century Cycle
- English 553: British Romanticism and Its Contexts
- Literature 500: Introduction to Literary Theory
- Literature 510: Modern Turkish Literature: East-West Trajectories
- Literature 517: African American Women Writers
- Literature 523: Church and State in Early Modern Spanish Culture
- Literature 524 Red Sci-Fi: Science Fiction in Soviet Literature and Film
- Literature 527: Drugs, Gangs, & Aliens
- Literature 528: Late Tolstoy: From Anna Karenina to a Religious Teaching
- Literature 537: James Joyce
- Literature 547: The Literature of Love
- Literature 549: Memory & Modernity in the Indian Ocean
- Literature 550: The Unknown Holocaust Cinema
- Literature 554: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov: a Study
- Literature 571: Critical Race Theory
- Russian 528: Post-Communist Russia: Literature, Film, and Society since 1987
- Russian 533: Russian Auteur Cinema
- Spanish 583: From Los olvidados to Roma: Contemporary Mexican Cinema
Math and Natural Sciences
- Biology 505: The Biological Legacy of Lewis and Clark
- Biology 530: Science and Society: Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Biology 534: Fitness and Food
- Biology 540: Environmental Studies in the Pacific Northwest
- Biology 550: Fire Ecology in the Pacific Northwest
- Biology 560: Genetics and Evolution: Confronting the Complexities of Inheritance
- Mathematics 525: Heavenly Circles and Spheres
- Mathematics 532: Introduction to 20th-Century Cryptology
- Mathematics 537: The Trials of Galileo
- Mathematics 537: The Copernican Revolution
- Mathematics 552: The Nature of Mathematics
- Mathematics 555: The Geometry of Paradise: an introduction to Dante's Paradiso
- Literature/Mathematics 563: Thomas Mann and the Discourse of Science in Early Twentieth Century
- Mathematics 574: The Geometry of Light
- Physics 524: Reflections on Light: Newton to the Quantum Theory
- Physics 568: Here in the Universe
- Physics 579: Great Ideas in Twentieth-Century Physics
Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Linguistics
- Linguistics 520: Research Approaches to Speech Sounds
- Philosophy 515: Freedom and Moral Responsibility
- Philosophy 535: Socrates, Christ, Nietzsche: Three Visions of the Moral Life
- Philosophy 545: Iris Murdoch
- Philosophy 548: Existentialism
- Philosophy 555: Tragedy and Philosophy
- Philosophy 562: Religion and Modernity
- Philosophy 578: Therefore God Exists
- Psychology 522: Stereotyping and Prejudice
- Psychology 531: Affects and Emotions
- Psychology 544: The Social Construction of Disability
- Psychology 550: Psychological Perspectives on Art
- Psychology/German 567: In the Name of Madness: Cultural In- and Exclusions as Divine Inspiration, Rational Expulsion, and Punishment in Literature from the Renaissance to the 20th-Century
- Psychology 570: Sex, Evolution, and Human Behavior
- Religion 517: Religious Ethics and Moral Issues
- Religion 521: The Problem of Monotheism in the History of Religions
- Religion 533: Hidden Divinity: In Search of Christian Mysticism
- Religion 549: New Religious Movements
- Religion 552: History of Islam in America
- Religion 574: Religion and Media