AJL24106 (SAKS003): Cultural Perspectives on the Colonization of North America

This course offers an overview of the critical historical events that define the history of European colonization of North America beginning at the end of the 15th century. Selected texts and original documents are used.

An important aim of the course is to identify and outline the basic problem areas that are important for the study of history, literature and art. Students should be able to define the basic concepts accompanying a certain period context and to link issues of the historical development with issues related to art and literature.

Another objective is to outline the basic issues of the relationships between America’s indigenous peoples and the majority populations of Canada, Mexico and the United States.

FJ0B747 Imaginaires de la ville – Montréal, Québec

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SAKS13: Film in the USA: Institutions, Genres, Film-makers, Criticism kopie 1

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This course aims at familiarizing participants with various elements related to one of the most important spheres of cultural production in the USA: the American feature film. Using a body of twenty two representative films as its point of departure, the course is designed not only to enhance students’ interpretive skills, but also to provide them with relevant knowledge concerning the production, distribution, and consumption of films at various stages of American history from World War II to the present.

            Cutting across a variety of genres, the selected films offer important insights into the development of the American film industry and criticism; at the same time they invite thinking about a variety of wider contextual issues. In other words we will not only concentrate on close textual analysis, but also consider a variety of social, political and historical circumstances that the films reflect and result from.

SAKS001/ROM0B139: Indentity and Alterity in Literature and Culture: Theory, Methodology, Analysis


The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the main theoretical concepts for the analysis of identity formation as well as the formation of alterity. Presenting the main critical terms, methods of analysis will be developed, which will be in turn applied on a variety of case studies. The course aims at enabing students to gain thorough knowledge of the relevant aspects of the formation of human identity and alterity and their functioning across the North American space (and not only there).

The successful particiants of this course will:
- become familiar with the main theoretical concepts for the analysis of identity formation as well as the formation of alterity;
- will aquire basic methods of analysing these processes;
- will become familiar with a variety of case studies illustrative of the topic;
- will understand the role problems of identity and alterity formation played in the North American space, past and present.

Assessment:
1) An oral exam of two parts; examined by two course teachers - 50 %,
2) In-class tests and active participation - 50%