Learn to communicate in German about the past, present and future, and continue exploring diverse German-speaking cultures.

Study of major French/Francophone film genres and of prominent French/Francophone directors.

Relationship between Greek myth and classical tragedy, birth and evolution of tragedy (ancient, medieval, French, English, American), employment of the same myth for different dramatic and political purposes.

Nature and function of myth in Roman society; origins and influence of Romanitas as found in Roman literature: history, epic, lyric, novel.

Nature and function of myth in the ancient world and today: ideas of divinity, relationship of divine to human, origins of cosmos and human society, male and female principles, power hierarchies, coming of age, the heroic experience.

Introduction to the comic tradition in Western literature through its origins in Greece and Rome.

Continuation of CHN 101.