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2025-2026 Catalog > Course Descriptions > CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture > 200

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CSLC 200 Literature, Culture, Self: Being in the Wor(l)d
CSLC 201 Forms of Feeling, and a Feeling for Form: Literature and Its Lifeworlds
CSLC 202 Being-With, The Early Years: Language, Literature, and Culture in the Premodern Era
CSLC 203 Being-With: The Politics, and Poetics, of Community
CSLC 204 Between Desire and Despair: Roman Literature Survey
CSLC 205 Comedy Philosophy Romance: Hellenistic Literature
CSLC 210 Reading Bodies: Face, Race, Space in German Thought
CSLC 211 Literature, Media, Technology: Scenes of Writing
CSLC 222 Myth: the Greco-Roman gods
CSLC 223 The Hero in Ancient Greece and Rome
CSLC 225 Probing the Limits of Representation: The Holocaust in Literature and Film
CSLC 226 Terrorism and Film: Bonnie and Clyde in Germany
CSLC 230 Becoming-Human: Deleuze, Chekhov, and the Possibility of New Futures
CSLC 232 Bakhtin: The Prosaic Imagination
CSLC 233 Codes, Cultures, and Killing
CSLC 235 Grotesque Bodies, Eccentric Minds: Carnival Perversions from Gogol to Zizek
CSLC 236 Zizek, Bakhtin: A Pervert's Guide to Eastern Europe
CSLC 237 The Novel as Philosophy: Recollecting Lost Time
CSLC 241 Spectacle and the Stage in Ancient Rome
CSLC 242 Sex, Murder, and Medieval Philosophy: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
CSLC 246 Cognitive Science and Culture: New Encounters with Ancient Rome
CSLC 247 Why Do We Suffer? Ancient Therapies of the Soul
CSLC 248 Defending the Republic
CSLC 249 Beyond Resentment: The Literature of Life-Affirmation from Ancient Rome to the American Blues
CSLC 250 Passages: African American writers and Greco-Roman Literature
CSLC 251 Nahuatl Language, Writing, and Culture
CSLC 252 To Dwell or to Wander: Reading Confucius and Zhuangzi
CSLC 253 The Golden Era: Literature of China's Tang and Song Dynasty
CSLC 260 Popular Culture and Literary Traditions of Early Modern Japan
CSLC 262 Love and Death in Japanese Literature before 1900
CSLC 270 Tales of Sexuality from the Couch, the Court, and the Confessional
CSLC 280 Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger: Tragic Philosophy
CSLC 281 From Rom-Com to Sci-Fi: Hellenistic Literature (and You!)
CSLC 283 Style and "Substance": Philosophy and the Arts
CSLC 284 Foreign Bodies: Exile and Embodiment
CSLC 285 Impolitic Bodies: A Comedic History
CSLC 286 Ulysses: The No-Place That's Home
CSLC 288 No-Body, Some-Body, Every-Body: The Poetics of the Flesh, from Plato to Jean-Luc Nancy
CSLC 292 Love's Song - A History
CSLC 295 Topics in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
CSLC 297 Independent Study

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