Students majoring in ILC must complete a SeniorCapstone Experience (SCE) which entails producinga thesis or other project related closely to thefocus of the major. The project or thesis may bewritten in English or in the foreign language.Students give a formal oral presentation of thethesis or project before peers and faculty, eitherin English or the foreign language. ILC studentsare strongly urged to engage in a semester-long orsummer study abroad experience. Graded Pass, Failor Honors.

Study of a selected topic within a single nationalliterature or culture, or a comparative studyacross cultures. Recent offerings includePerspectives on International Film; Food in Film,Literature and Culture; Shakespeare and Cervantes(Honors); The Big City in Literature and Film;Love and the Ideal in European Literature andFilm; and The Reception of the Middle Ages.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty memberand a student researching a topic of interest thatis relevant to a student's major or minor.Research is conducted on campus. Students must beenrolled before the research can begin. GradedA-F or Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required percredit.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty memberand a student researching a topic of interest thatis relevant to a student's major or minor.Research is conducted off-campus. Students must beenrolled before the research can begin. Graded A-For Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required per credit.

Study of a selected topic within a single nationalliterature or culture, or a comparative studyacross cultures. Recent offerings includePerspectives on International Film; Food in Film,Literature and Culture; Shakespeare and Cervantes(Honors); The Big City in Literature and Film;Love and the Ideal in European Literature andFilm; and The Reception of the Middle Ages.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty memberand a student researching a topic of interest thatis relevant to a student's major or minor.Research is conducted on campus. Students must beenrolled before the research can begin. GradedA-F or Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required percredit.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty memberand a student researching a topic of interest thatis relevant to a student's major or minor.Research is conducted off-campus. Students must beenrolled before the research can begin. Graded A-For Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required per credit.

Study of European film and its history. Specialattention is given to the various dimensionsof film structure and criticism, with emphasis onforeign language films (with English subtitles). Selected films are viewed and analyzed.

This course provides an introductory historicaland cultural study of contemporary France.Students will be provided tools for culturalinterpretation via critical texts and the analysisof French films and their American remakes; theywill then apply them to the cultural history ofFrance. We will explore the impact of World WarII, of the student protests of May '68, and ofwomen's emancipation movements. We will examineFrance's position in the world -- its pastcolonizing nation, it present post-colonialactions, and its multicultural identity enrichedby different waves of immigration. We will studythe political and economic roles of women, theirplace in the family, health concerns, andstruggles for autonomy through works by women.This course counts toward the French major andminor if the journal entries, mid-term exam, andfinal paper are written in French.

This course provides an introductory historicaland cultural study of the contemporary Francophoneworld. Designed as a survey of the non-EuropeanFrancophone world, it will offer for study bothliterary and cultural documents from theCaribbean, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, andCanada. Initially students will be provided toolsfor cultural interpretation via critical texts,media analysis (including print and Internetsources) and the analysis of Francophone films;they will then apply them to the cultural historyof the Francophone world. We will explore Frenchcolonization, the process of decolonization, andsubsequent independence movements. We willexamine social, political, and economic roles ofboth women and men, changing gender roles, andcontemporary divisions of labor. Finally, we willreflect on the political, historical, andsociocultural situations of post-colonialFrancophone nations. This course counts toward theFrench major and minor if the journal entries,mid-term exam, and final paper are written inFrench.

This course is an examination of contemporarycultural and linguistic diversity within theUnited States educational environments. Specialattention is given to cultural problems and issuesthat influence opportunities and performance ineducational institutions. The basic premise of thecourse is that teachers play an important role increating a positive classroom learning environmentand bringing school success, especially forEnglish language learners. Students developunderstandings of the impact of culture, culturaldiversity, immigration, migration, colonialism,and power on language policy and on studentscurrently learning English as a second language.

This course will investigate the impact ofBritish colonialism, national independencemovements, postcolonial cultural trends, andwomen's movements on the global production ofliterary texts in English. We will read a diversegrouping of writers including Mulk RajAnand, Kiran Desai and Salman Rushdie from India,Jamaica Kinkaid, Una Marson, and SamSelvon from the Caribbean, as well as the KenyanNugugi Thiong'o and the ZimbabweanTsitsi Dangarembga among many others. Carefulattention will be paid to ethnographic,geographic, and historical modes of understandingthe multi-layered effects of colonialismand its' after effects.

Taught in English. China is a growing producer ofand market for the world's films. Chinesecinematography has a long and distinguishedhistory. This course will examine that history andhow the current state of Chinese film has come tobe. The content untis will deal with several broadtopics rooted in some of the fundamental issues ofany of the humanistic arts. The overall theme ofthe course will be the tension between Chineseidentity and commercial success. The studentswill also explore the creation of proscriptivetypes in gender and ethnicity, the intersectionbetween politics and film, Globalization andmodernity, and the applicability of western theoryto the analysis of Chinese film. In addition toregular class periods, there is one mandatory filmscreening per week which will be listed as anaccompanying lab.

Study of a selected topic within a single nationalliterature or culture, or a comparative studyacross cultures. Recent offerings includePerspectives on International Film; Food in Film,Literature and Culture; Shakespeare and Cervantes(Honors); The Big City in Literature and Film;Love and the Ideal in European Literature andFilm; and The Reception of the Middle Ages.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty memberand a student researching a topic of interest thatis relevant to a student's major or minor.Research is conducted on campus. Students must beenrolled before the research can begin. GradedA-F or Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required percredit.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty memberand a student researching a topic of interest thatis relevant to a student's major or minor.Research is conducted off-campus. Students must beenrolled before the research can begin. Graded A-For Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required per credit.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty and astudent letting the student study a topic ofinterest not offered at WC. 45 hours are requiredper credit.

Study of a selected topic within a single nationalliterature or culture, or a comparative studyacross cultures. Recent offerings includePerspectives on International Film; Food in Film,Literature and Culture; Shakespeare and Cervantes(Honors); The Big City in Literature and Film;Love and the Ideal in European Literature andFilm; and The Reception of the Middle Ages.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty memberand a student researching a topic of interest thatis relevant to a student's major or minor.Research is conducted on campus. Students must beenrolled before the research can begin. GradedA-F or Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required percredit.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty memberand a student researching a topic of interest thatis relevant to a student's major or minor.Research is conducted off-campus. Students must beenrolled before the research can begin. Graded A-For Pass/Fail. 45 hours are required per credit.

An agreement between a sponsoring faculty and astudent letting the student study a topic ofinterest not offered at WC. 45 hours are requiredper credit.