| LLC 135 | All About America | Explores beyond "what" differs in U.S. culture to "why" it differs through exploration of cultural dimensions and aspects of U.S. culture. Through readings, discussion, simulations, and experiential learning, we explore topics such as how culture evo... |
| LLC 140 | How to Write Everything | Designed for international and exchange students to strengthen skills in informal and formal university academic writing. Assignments reflect the kinds of academic writing University of Richmond students need, such as research papers, presentation wr... |
| LLC 198 | Teaching ESL Through Literature and Film | Introduction to methods of teaching English as a Second (ESL) and Foreign (EFL) Language. We learn the basics of language teaching, lesson preparation, delivery, and assessment. In the last third of the semester, students apply their acquired skills... |
| LLC 210 | Women, Virtue and Temptation in Literature | Representation of feminine virtue and vice in world literature. |
| LLC 211 | Reading to Live | Explores the extent to which fiction can enhance (and often inform) our understanding of complex political, social, and economic issues. Students will learn new categories of analysis that will help them understand why fictional depictions of social... |
| LLC 215 | Foreign Thinking | Study of what it means to see the world from a foreign perspective. Development of intercultural and critical-thinking skills by studying literary texts, films, and works of critical theory that are decidedly not American. Focuses on questions of gen... |
| LLC 220 | Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture | Read pop fictions, watch blockbusters, sitcoms, and reality TV shows, and listen to songs that topped Chinese pop music list over the last twenty years. Connect these cultural forms to current conversations and debates concerning youth culture, polit... |
| LLC 225 | Chinese Culture and Civilization | Interdisciplinary introduction to Chinese society and culture from earliest times to the present. Explores topics on ancient philosophy, religion, literature, art, architecture, customs, and other aspects of China's rich and diverse heritage, and int... |
| LLC 227 | The Action Genre in East Asian Cinema | The action genre is a persistent film genre with a strong literary, theatrical, and operatic tradition in East Asian cinema. This course traces the historical and cinematic evolution of the action genre from swordplay to kungfu to gunplay in Hong Kon... |
| LLC 243 | Political and Social Movements in Modern Middle Eastern Literatures | Discussion of literary works by writers from the Middle East during the past few decades with an emphasis on the social and political issues these texts address. Examination of these texts as literary products first and foremost and it is within such... |
| LLC 256 | Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture | General introduction to use of psychoanalytic techniques to analyze literature and culture. Readings from Freud and post-Freudian theorists used to interpret variety of literary texts, as well as films, ads, and other examples from popular culture. |
| LLC 260 | Literature and Social Change in Eastern Europe | Selected readings in 20th century Czech and Polish literature. Analysis of primary texts (in translation) focuses on the representation of both science and socialism as powerful ideological forces. |
| LLC 261 | Travel Writing in the Caucasus | Turn your travel adventures into memorable pieces of writing that other people will want to read. This course is an intensive on-site introduction to skills and practices that allow you to capture the uniqueness of your own experience in written form... |
| LLC 262 | Literature and Empire | This course outlines the relationship between literary studies and the study of empire, colonialism in the Russian sphere of influence, and the contemporary effects of both. Offered during SSA: Caucasus, this course examines the orientalizing literat... |
| LLC 265 | German Cinema | Survey of German cinema from the 1930s to the present emphasizing the historical and cultural context in which the films were produced. (Same as FMST 265.) |
| LLC 283 | Cinema Around the World | Global survey of contemporary cinema. Approaches the cutting edge of audio-visual media production in national and transnational contexts with a focus on their aesthetic, socio-cultural, political, philosophical, and historical significance. |
| LLC 321 | Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature | Introduction to Russian literature and critical literary analysis. Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and others. |
| LLC 322 | Introduction to Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Russian Literature | What makes literature seem real? Deep? Mind-blowing? Funny? In the Soviet Union, people read literature as if their lives depended on it. Official sources of information were heavily censored, so the “voice of the people” was channeled instead throu... |
| LLC 325 | Revolution and Modernity in Chinese Literature | Exploration of modern Chinese literature, visual culture, and critical thought from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the Mao era (1911-1976). Focus on the use of literature in "saving the nation" as a response to imperialism and t... |
| LLC 331 | Russian and East European Film | An introduction to 20th century Russian and East European film raising questions on ideology, propaganda, violence, identity, authenticity, and representations of history. Discussion of how various cinematic narrative techniques influence and build v... |
| LLC 335 | Bolsheviks, Bombs, and Ballet: Soviet Culture and Civilization | Survey of intellectual and scientific life, artistic movements, and popular culture under communism in the Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary focus on the arts, music, science, and literature with attention to complicated relations between official and... |
| LLC 341 | Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France | Examines representations of gender and sexual identity in 19th-century France as demonstrated in literature, film, and historical documents. |
| LLC 346 | Insiders and Outsiders: Arabic Encounters with the West | Study of texts from throughout Arab history since the expansion of Islam until today, in which travelers and thinkers, academics and politicians, everyday people and people with religious or other ideological agendas describe their encounters with th... |
| LLC 347 | Islam, Nationalism, and the West: Modern Thought in the Arab World | Historical survey of the main thinkers and ideas in the Arab world during the past two centuries. Emphasis on the different and contending reactions to the challenges of modernity and the West as well as the relation to indigenous and traditional ide... |
| LLC 355 | Chinese Cinema | An introduction to Chinese cinema in relation to issues of modernity, nationalism, gender, cultural identities and beyond. Selected canonical films of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong will be introduced. |
| LLC 357 | The Idea of the Renaissance: Self, History and Knowledge | A comparative and interdisciplinary investigation of the period in European history known as the Renaissance through the lens of some of its most well known and compelling works. |
| LLC 358 | Desire and Identity in the Renaissance: The Lyric Tradition | A comparative investigation of Italian, French, and English Renaissance lyric poetry. (Same as English 309.) |
| LLC 360 | Representing the Holocaust | Examines representations of the Holocaust in a historical and international context from survivor testimonies to museum culture to Hollywood film; ideological aspects of Holocaust representation; and Holocaust denial.
Elective for German Studies, G... |
| LLC 362 | The History of the Romance Languages | Readings and tasks designed to develop students' understanding of language change as exemplified by the evolution of the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.) from Latin. Includes linguistic terminology, discovery of the orig... |
| LLC 388 | Individual Internship | Internship experiences outside of the department in fields related to LLC programs. No more than 1.5 units of internship in any one department and 3.5 units of internship overall may be counted toward required degree units. |
| LLC 389 | Practice Assistantship | Students lead practice sessions associated with the elementary and intermediate language sequences outside of the regularly-taught program languages. The practice assistantship does not count as credit toward the major or minor. Up to one unit can be... |
| LLC 390 | Performing Sex and Gender | Analysis of gender, sex, and sexuality through the lens of theater and performance studies. Applies ideas from gender and queer theory to facilitate close readings of plays from and about Germany and to guide students through the process of devising... |
| LLC 397 | Selected Topics | Special interest topics offered at department's discretion. |
| LLC 406 | Summer Undergraduate Research | Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 6 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at leas... |
| LLC 410 | Teaching a Modern Language | Theory and practice of teaching modern second language at the K-12 levels. Designed to enable teachers to meet state licensure requirements. |
| LLC 495 | Independent Study | Special projects individually pursued under supervision of faculty member. |
| LLC 497 | Selected Topics | Experimental and special interest topics offered at department's discretion. |
| SDLC 105 | Introduction to Self-Directed Language Learning | Development of skills needed to become autonomous learners of language and culture, including how to create a learning plan, use multimedia resources, work with language tutors, and assemble a learning portfolio. Development of basic understanding of... |
| SDLC 110 | Self-Directed Language Learning I | Development of skills in reading, writing, and speaking a new language. Investigation of the history of the language and the culture of the areas in which the language is used. Assessment of progress through examination and the evaluation of a studen... |
| SDLC 111 | Self-Directed Language Learning II | Development of skills in reading, writing, and speaking a less-commonly-taught language. Investigation of the history of the language and the culture of the areas in which the language is used. Assessment of progress through examination and the evalu... |
| SDLC 112 | Self-Directed Language Learning III | Development of skills in reading, writing, and speaking a less-commonly-taught language. Investigation of the history of the language and the culture of the areas in which the language is used. Assessment of progress through examination and the evalu... |
| SDLC 113 | Self-Directed Language Learning IV | Development of skills in reading, writing, and speaking a less-commonly-taught language. Investigation of the history of the language and the culture of the areas in which the language is used. Assessment of progress through examination and the evalu... |
| SWAH 110 | Mentored Self-Instruction in Swahili I | Development of skills in reading, writing, and speaking Swahili. Investigation of the history of the language and the cultures of the areas in which the language is used. Assessment of progress through examination. |
| SWAH 111 | Mentored Self-Instruction in Swahili II | Development of skills in reading, writing, and speaking Swahili. Investigation of the history of the language and the culture of the areas in which the language is used. Assessment of progress through examination and the evaluation of a student-creat... |
| SWAH 112 | Mentored Self-Instruction in Swahili III | Development of skills in reading, writing, and speaking Swahili. Investigation of the history of the language and the culture of the areas in which the language is used. Assessment of progress through examination and the evaluation of a student-creat... |
| SWAH 113 | Mentored Self-Instruction in Swahili IV | Development of skills in reading, writing, and speaking Swahili. Investigation of the history of the language and the culture of the areas in which the language is used. Assessment of progress through examination and the evaluation of a student-creat... |