THE FOLLOWING COURSES WILL BE OFFERED IN SPRING 2007:

CMP227/LIT227: Global Animated Film  Prof. Hannold (T 12:30-4:30)

In this course we will explore animation as a modern and post-modern art form, in a global context. The focus will be on animated films from America, Europe and Asia, with a special emphasis on recent Japanese animation. We will appreciate how animation resembles and differs from live action film, and how animation has adapted techniques and themes from live action film, and vice versa, and has embraced subjects ranging from dinosaurs to cyborgs. And we will consider how the animated film—whether through computer graphic images, stop motion puppet animation, cell animation or through numerous other kinds of animation-- gives us experiences similar to those provided by painting, sculpture, literature, music, theater or dance.

CMP231/LIT231: World Literature to 1700  Prof. Hustis  MR 2:00-3:20

We will examine the motif of the journey--whether emotional, spiritual, psychological, physical, martial or all of the above-- in texts from Ancient Greece, Italy, India, China and Japan.  The complete course syllabus is available at: http://hustis.intrasun.tcnj.edu/LIT231/LIT231_Journeys_syllabus.htm

CMP232/LIT232: World Literature Since 1700  Prof. Hannold MR12:30-1:50

We will explore many selected literary traditions since 1700. A key pivotal literary text will be Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, especially Book 1. We will analyze literary and dramatic texts through an exploration of their archetypal structure. Also, we will explore at least one Japanese film, Rashomon, by Akira Kurosawa, and we will read the Japanese stories which were its source.

CMP370/LIT394Posthuman Subjectivity: Critical Issues in Cyberpunk Literature (MR 2:00-3:20):

The advent of cyberspace, virtuality and information technology has
dramatically redrawn the boundary of the body, self-subjectivity and
social reality. Since the late 1970s “Cyberpunk,” a new wave in science
fiction, has emerged as a response to the complexity of this
boundary-crossing technoculture. This course offers a critical study of
the critical interface between human body and technoscience in
contemporary cyberpunk literature and culture. By contextualizing the
genre in relation to postmodern narratives, cybernetic revolution and
global cultural politics, we will focus on how cyberspace and net culture
question traditional perception of embodiment and space and how they shape
human identity and subjectivity. We will read works by Philip Dick,
William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, Neal Stephenson,
Haruki Murakami and some films.