World Cultures and Literatures, B.A.

1) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• LATN 2302 - Intermediate Latin II Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• GREK 2302 - Intermediate Greek II Credit Hours: 3.0

2) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• WCL 2351 - World Cultures Through Literature and Art Credit Hours: 3.0

3) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• CLAS 3366 - The Trojan War Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• CLAS 3374 - Women in the Ancient World Credit Hours: 3.0

4) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• CLAS 4381 - Latin Classics in Translation Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• CLAS 4305 - Fifth-Century Athens: Readings in Intellectual, Literary, and Political History Credit Hours: 3.0

5) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• WCL 4353 - Frames of Modernity III: Classics and Modernity Credit Hours: 3.0

6) 12.0 Credit Hours

Twelve credit hours chosen according to the student’s declared program emphasis (with approval of WCL undergraduate director), selected from the following list:

• ARTH 2381 - Classical Art Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARTH 2382 - Medieval Art and Society Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 2366 - Who Owns Antiquity? The Battle Over Our Cultural Heritage Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3307 - Greek and Roman Myths of Heroes Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3308 - Myths and Cult of the Greek Gods Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3345 - Myth and Performance in Greek Tragedy Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3366 - The Trojan War Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3371 - Ancient Comedy and Its Influence Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3374 - Women in the Ancient World Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3375 - Roman, Jew, and Christian: The Politics and Sociology of Religion in the First Century A.D. Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3380 - Epic Masculinity: Ideologies of Manhood in Ancient Epic and Modern Film Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 3381 - From Homer to Hollywood: Archaic and Classical Greek Themes in Modern Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 4350 - Age of Augustus Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 4370 - Comparative Epic Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 4374 - Sex and Gender in Antiquity Credit Hours: 3.0
• CLAS 4375 - Gender and Race in Greek Myths Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 2301 - Western World Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 2360 - Western World Literature - Honors Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 3300 - Ancient and Classical Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 3302 - Medieval Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 3309 - Renaissance Drama Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 3323 - Development of Literary Criticism and Theory Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 4360 - Bible as Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 4366 - Introduction to Folklore Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 4370 - Folktale Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 2351 - Western Civilization to 1450 Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 2361 - The Study of Early Civilizations Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3379 - World Civilizations to 1500 Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3339 - Ancient Greece Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3340 - Ancient Rome Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 4335 - Greek and Roman Historians Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 4350 - Alexander the Great Credit Hours: 3.0
• HON 2301 - The Human Situation: Antiquity Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3355 - Women East and West: Global Representations of Female Divinities Credit Hours: 3.0

1) 9.0 Credit Hours in:

• GERM 3333 - German Conversation and Composition Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3330 - Reading German Texts Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3334 - German Conversation and Composition Credit Hours: 3.0

2) 6.0 Credit Hours

Six credit hours selected from the following list:

• GERM 3362 - Paris - Berlin: Tales of Two Cities Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3363 - Themes in German Drama Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3364 - Writing Holocausts: The Literatures of Genocide Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3380 - German Women Film Directors Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3381 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3382 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3384 - Fascism and German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3385 - East German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3386 - Films of Fassbinder Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 4364 - History of Drama in Northern and Central Europe Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3369 - Science Fiction in Literature and Film Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• HIST 3357 - Modern Germany, 1815-1918 Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• HIST 3358 - Modern Germany Since 1918 Credit Hours: 3.0
• POLS 3324 - Government and Politics in Contemporary Germany Credit Hours: 3.0

3) 3.0 Credit Hours

Three credit hours selected from the following list:

• GERM 3331 - Introduction to German Literature I Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3332 - Introduction to German Literature II Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3397 - Selected Topics in German Language, Culture, Civilization, and Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3329 - Introduction to Translation Credit Hours: 3.0

4) 6.0 Credit Hours

Six credit hours of 4000-level GERM courses (taught in German), selected from the following list:

• GERM 4329 - Advanced Translation Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4356 - Romanticism Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4357 - German Literature 1890-1945 Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4358 - German Literature Since 1945 Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4359 - Germany since Reunification Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4361 - Advanced Writing and Reading Across Disciplines Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4373 - German Cultural History I: From the Beginnings to World War I Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4374 - German Cultural History II: The Twentieth Century Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4397 - Selected Topics in German Language and Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 4370 - Vienna 1900 - The Birth of the Modern Credit Hours: 3.0

5) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I Credit Hours: 3.0

1) 6.0 Credit Hours in:

• WCL 2351 - World Cultures Through Literature and Art Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 2352 - World Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0

2) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• WCL 4352 - Frames of Modernity II - Postmodernity and Globalization Credit Hours: 3.0

3) 6.0 Credit Hours

• Six hours at the 3000-level taught in a foreign language.

4) 9.0 Credit Hours

Nine credit hours of film courses selected from the following list:

• CHNS 3350 - Chinese Culture Through Films Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3319 - History of French Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3322 - Cinema of French-Speaking Africa Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3381 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3380 - German Women Film Directors Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3382 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3384 - Fascism and German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3385 - East German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3386 - Films of Fassbinder Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3387 - Films of Herzog Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3388 - Films of Wenders Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3395 - Topics in German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3397 - Sel Tops-African History Credit Hours: 3.0

• Topic:

  • Pictures and Words: Palestine-Israel Conflict Through Film
• ITAL 3306 - Italian Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• RUSS 3307 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema: Collapse of the Soviet Realm and Revival of National Identity Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 4365 - World Fiction & Reportage Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 4356 - World Film & Film Theory Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3371 - Cities in Film and the Arts Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3372 - Indian Film: Bollywood and Beyond Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3373 - Gender and Sexuality in World Film Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3364 - World TV Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3366 - Latin American and Latino Film Studies Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3367 - National Cinema in a Global Perspective Credit Hours: 3.0

5) 3.0 Credit Hours

Three credit hours selected from the following list:

• COMM 3370 - History of Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• COMM 2370 - Introduction to Motion Pictures Credit Hours: 3.0
• SOC 3340 - Sociology of Film Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 4373 - Film, Text, and Politics Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARTH 3396 - Selected Topics in Critical Studies in Film and Video Credit Hours: 3.0

1) 6.0 Credit Hours in:

• FREN 3313 - Advanced Grammar and Composition Credit Hours: 3.0
• plus additional course at the 3000-level (taught in French) Credit Hours: 3.0

2) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• WCL 2351 - World Cultures Through Literature and Art Credit Hours: 3.0

3) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

Three credit hours in a 4000-level capstone course.

• WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• WCL 4352 - Frames of Modernity II - Postmodernity and Globalization Credit Hours: 3.0

4) 9.0 Credit Hours

Nine credit hours from the following list:

• FREN 3362 - Paris - Berlin: Tales of Two Cities Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3319 - History of French Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3322 - Cinema of French-Speaking Africa Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3364 - Writing Holocausts: The Literatures of Genocide Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 4367 - Voices from Exile and Diaspora Credit Hours: 3.0

5) 6.0 Credit Hours

Six credit hours from the following list:

• HIST 3352 - Modern France Since 1870 Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3356 - History of Madness Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 4338 - Enlightenment Stories: The Thought and Literature of the Enlightenment Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 4327 - Europe 1930-1945 Credit Hours: 3.0

1) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• WCL 2351 - World Cultures Through Literature and Art Credit Hours: 3.0

2) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

Three credit hours in a 4000-level capstone course.

• WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• WCL 4352 - Frames of Modernity II - Postmodernity and Globalization Credit Hours: 3.0

3) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

• ARAB 2302 - Intermediate Arabic II Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• TURK 2302 - Intermediate Turkish II Credit Hours: 3.0

4) 18.0 Credit Hours

Eighteen hours selected from the following list:

• ARAB 3301 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic I Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARAB 3302 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic II Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARAB 3312 - Introduction to Arabic Literature in Translation Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARAB 3313 - Qur’an as Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARAB 3314 - Women and Gender in Arabic Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARTH 3313 - Roman Art Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARAB 3340 - Modernity and Rationalism in Islamic Tradition Credit Hours: 3.0
• ARAB 3397 - Selected Topics in Arab Studies Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 3365 - Postcolonial Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3322 - Cinema of French-Speaking Africa Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3377 - The Middle Eastern from 1300 to the Present Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3378 - Modern Middle East Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3390 - Middle East: Pictures & Words Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 3397 - Sel Tops-African History Credit Hours: 3.0
• HIST 4393 - Selected Topics: Middle East Credit Hours: 3.0
• POLS 3326 - Government and Politics in the Middle East Credit Hours: 3.0
• POLS 4333 - Islam and Democracy Credit Hours: 3.0
• POLS 4348 - Contemporary Islamic Political Thought Credit Hours: 3.0
• RELS 2330 - Judaism Credit Hours: 3.0
• RELS 2350 - Introduction to Islam Credit Hours: 3.0
• RELS 3360 - Muslim-Christian Relations Credit Hours: 3.0
• TURK 3350 - Turkish and Middle Eastern Culture in Literature and Film Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 2380 - Introduction to Jewish Studies Credit Hours: 3.0
• WGSS 3321 - Gender in Transnational Perspective Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3341 - Early Islamic Society: Literature and Thought Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3376 - Visual Stories - Local and the Global Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3377 - The Modern Middle East: Literature, Politics, and Ideas Credit Hours: 3.0

1) 6.0 Credit Hours in:

• WCL 2351 - World Cultures Through Literature and Art Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 2352 - World Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0

2) 6.0 Credit Hours

• Six hours at the 3000-level in a foreign language.

3) 3.0 Credit Hours in:

Three hours in a 4000-level capstone course.

• WCL 4351 - Frames of Modernity I Credit Hours: 3.0 OR
• WCL 4352 - Frames of Modernity II - Postmodernity and Globalization Credit Hours: 3.0

4) 12.0 Credit Hours

Twelve credit hours selected from the following list:

• CHNS 3360 - A Look Into Modern China Credit Hours: 3.0
• CHNS 3350 - Chinese Culture Through Films Credit Hours: 3.0
• CHNS 3352 - Chinese Culture and Society Through Modern Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• ENGL 3365 - Postcolonial Literature Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3319 - History of French Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3322 - Cinema of French-Speaking Africa Credit Hours: 3.0
• FREN 3362 - Paris - Berlin: Tales of Two Cities Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3350 - Understanding the 20th Century through German Culture Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3362 - Paris - Berlin: Tales of Two Cities Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3364 - Writing Holocausts: The Literatures of Genocide Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3380 - German Women Film Directors Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3382 - History of German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3384 - Fascism and German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3385 - East German Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3386 - Films of Fassbinder Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3387 - Films of Herzog Credit Hours: 3.0
• GERM 3388 - Films of Wenders Credit Hours: 3.0
• ITAL 3306 - Italian Cinema Credit Hours: 3.0
• ITAL 3309 - Women Writers and Filmmakers of Modern Italy Credit Hours: 3.0
• ITAL 3308 - Italian Heritage Credit Hours: 3.0
• ITAL 4304 - Italian Culture in English Translation Credit Hours: 3.0
• RUSS 3307 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema: Collapse of the Soviet Realm and Revival of National Identity Credit Hours: 3.0
• VIET 3300 - The Global Vietnamese Diaspora Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3365 - World Fiction & Reportage Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3368 - Pop Cultures and World Media Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3369 - Science Fiction in Literature and Film Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3371 - Cities in Film and the Arts Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3373 - Gender and Sexuality in World Film Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3376 - Visual Stories - Local and the Global Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3377 - The Modern Middle East: Literature, Politics, and Ideas Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3381 - Global Representations of HIV/AIDS Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 3382 - Global Queer Culture Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 4367 - Voices from Exile and Diaspora Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 4378 - Cultures of Dissent: A Global Perspective Credit Hours: 3.0
• WCL 4379 - Critical Theory and Globalization Credit Hours: 3.0