Bryn Mawr College

Electives: Language and Arts

Students should check the Catalogue or Tri-College Course Guide for information about courses that are offered in the current year.

English

• Literature and Politics of South African Apartheid (English 200)
• Postcolonial Literature in English (English 234)
• Scribbling Sisters: Pan African Women Writers (English 246)
• Introduction to African Literature (English 279)
• The African Griot(te) (English 379)
• Post-Apartheid Literature (English/Comp Lit 381)

French

• Directions de la France contemporaine (French 105)
• Approches critiques et théoriques (French 213)
• Introduction à la littérature francophone (French 250)
• La Mosaïque France (French 251)
• Cinéma française/francophone et (Post-)colonialisme (French 255)
• La Civilisation française (French 291)
• La France et ses Orients (French 320)
• Le Nationalisme en France et dans les pays francophones (French 325, 326)
• Villes sinistrées dans les cultures française et francophones (French 325)

German

• Introduction to Literary Analysis: Philosophical Approaches to Criticism (German/Comp Lit 209)
• Readings in German Intellectual History (German/Philosophy 212)
• Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile (German/Anthropology/Comp Lit 231)
• Women's Narratives on Modern Migrancy, Exile and Diaspora (German/Comp Lit/Anthropology/Cities 245)
• Film and German Literary Imagination (German/Comp Lit 262)
• Cultural Diversity and Its Representations (German/Comp Lit/HART 290)
• Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies (German/Anthropology/Cities/HART 321)

Italian

• The Short Story of Modern Italy (Italian 205)
• Primo Levi, the Holocaust, and Its Aftermath (Italian/Comp Lit/Judaic Studies 211)
• Italia d'Oggi (Italian 212)
• Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (Italian 225)

Russian

• Introduction to Russian Folklore (Russian 223)
• The Social Dynamics of Russian (Russian 235)
• The Masterpieces of Russian and Soviet Cinema (Russian 252)
• Russian Culture and Civilization in Translation (Russian 254)
• Advanced Russian: Syntax, Style (Russian 305, 306)
• Russian Culture Today (Russian 342)
• Language Policy in the Russophone World (Russian 375)

Spanish

• Estudios culturales de España e Hispanoamérica (Spanish 110)
• Cine y sociedad en la España contemporanea (Spanish 226)
• Genealogía de la literatura Latina (Spanish 227)
• Ariel/Calibán y el discurso Americano (Spanish 260)
• La condición post mortem: Pos/Modernidad periférica en la narrative y la producción cultural mexicana (Spanish 310)
• Brown Affect: Narrating Latina/o Lives (Spanish 329)
• El cuento hispanoamericano (Spanish 350)

Dance and Music

• Anthropology of Dance (Anthropology/Dance 223)
• Classical Indian Dance: From Nationalism to Globalization (Anthropology/Dance 248)
• Native American Music and Belief (Music 149b Haverford)
• Jazz and the Politics of Culture (Music 227a Haverford)
• Musical Voices of Asia (Music 228b Haverford)
• Africanisms in American Culture: Dance and Other Contexts (Dance 252)