15 courses with the subject FORL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Homer’s Iliad and representative plays by the Athenian tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Students read classics of French literature spanning a thousand years that explore the themes of the fun and folly of youth. Stories begin with an historical medieval love affair that ends in mutilation of body and soul, and finish with a fictionalized auto biographical novel about the personal and academic challenges of a feisty, Algerian immigrant in Paris ; along the way are an iconic poem about seizing the day, short stories about the cost of succumbing to temptation, and a powerful drama about family loyalty and speaking truth to power. Francophone voices in English originate from continental France, Canada and North Africa. This literary overview seeks to develop skills in critical reading, analysis, written reflection and engaged discussion about joys and challenges of the human condition.
Short stories by Lermontov, Turgenev, Leskov, and Pushkin; novels by Dostoevsky, Tolstoi, Goncharov, Gogol, and Pasternak.
Works by Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Galdos, Unamuno, Lorca, and later 20th-century writers. (M2)(PTK:HUM)
Works by Mistral, Neruda, Asturias, Garcia Marquez, Paz, Walcott, Fuentes, Allende, Esquivel, Vargas Llosa. (M2)
ASL 1 (American Sign Language 1) is an introductory course designed for beginners to develop foundational receptive and expressive communication skills. The course emphasizes conversational sign language use while addressing vocabulary, fingerspelling, numbers, and grammatical structures, alongside an introduction to Deaf culture, history, and community conventions.
This course introduces students to film studies through the work of three Mexican-born directors and longtime friends: Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. Known as “the Three Amigos,” these close collaborators have each won multiple Academy Awards and have played a substantial role in shaping global cinema. Drawing on a selection of their films, we will study the fundamental elements of film analysis and technique, including narrative structure, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. The course also examines how audience and cultural context influence the production and reception of film, with particular attention to questions of transnational cinema. In addition, students will develop foundational research skills by locating, evaluating, and integrating academic and non-academic sources into their work. Overall, this course fosters sustained critical engagement with cinema as an art form and highlights how artistic friendship and collaboration can shape film history.
TikTok, K-Pop, and anime, some of East Asia’s most popular cultural exports, have become the staple of American culture and entertainment today. From the heroine of an ancient ballad to Disney’s Mulan, how does a cultural figure migrate across time and space, medium and genre? From female foot binding to popular boy bands, how do body and politics, culture and capital intersect in shaping contemporary gender identities? More importantly, as a global phenomenon, what is distinctively “global” and unmistakably “Asian” about the pop culture of East Asia? This course aims to provide perspectives on relationships between East Asian popular culture and major socio-political issues and movements, mainly from the early 20th century to the present. It consists of studies of literature, cinema, theatre, manga (comics), anime (animation), music, television, advertisements, and magazines in China, Japan, and Korea. It also offers students the theoretical basis of popular culture studies by introducing the concepts of culture, the culture industry, intercultural communication and representation, etc. Through this course, students will acquire knowledge of the most important issues regarding contemporary East Asian cultures and societies, as well as necessary skills to approach these issues analytically and critically. (M5) (PTK - Global Connections)(Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)
Cinema and screen media have shaped how societies dream, remember, and imagine themselves. To study film is to study the modern collective imagination: how stories circulate, how identities are represented, and how political, economic, and technological forces shape art. This course introduces students to the foundations of film studies, with a primary focus on film analysis and aesthetics. We will emphasize the technical and narrative study of feature and experimental films while fostering critical thinking and a deeper understanding of film language. Students will engage with the core elements of film-camera techniques, narrative structure, cinematography, editing, mise-en-scène, and sound-and learn how these elements combine to produce meaning. In addition, the course provides a survey of film history and major international movements, from French avant-garde cinema and Soviet Montage to the New Wave cinemas of Europe and East Asia, tracing their influence on American and Iranian film cultures. We will also examine the social, cultural, and political contexts that shape film as a medium. By the end of the course, students will be able to engage with films critically, construct systematic and well-supported interpretations, and articulate their insights in a persuasive and well- crafted video essay.
Godzilla, Poke’mon, vengeful ghosts, serpentine seductresses…: monsters in modern and contemporary Asian cultures have frightened and fascinated audiences across time and borders. The monstrous, the supernatural, and the uncanny are that which transgress, transform, and destabilize existing cultural norms, providing nuanced insights into the collective psyche of a society. This course explores the many ways monsters symbolize and personify issues, problems, fears and hopes that have shaped modern East Asian societies. We will also discuss the global popularity of monster movies, manga, and video games, how they shape the world’s perception of Asia, and through which, how Asian societies remake their own cultural images. M2 (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)(Critical Reading)(PTK:GLO)
From DC’s Gotham City to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, from the glamorous fin-de-siècle Paris to post-apocalyptic Tokyo, cities have occupied the center stage of world cinema since its conception. In this class, we will examine both real and imagined cities in films around the world, including Berlin, Los Angeles, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Beirut, Tokyo, Gotham, and Derry, Maine (yes, where IT lives), to name a few. We will compare and contrast different depictions of cities in movies, discuss the philosophical, social, and cultural implications of these portrayals, and explore how cinema and the city contend with and actively shape each other throughout history.
From early Peking-opera inspired silent films to gangster and gunfu (kungfu, but with guns!) blockbusters, the evolution of Chinese cinema both reflects and shapes the rapidly changing historical, social, and cultural conditions of the Chinese speaking world. Born in a Shanghai tea house in 1896, only one year after the invention of film in the West, Chinese cinema has taken a unique path compared to its western counterpart. This course introduces students to the cinema of mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, from the late 19th century to the present day. Through weekly film viewings, online and in-class discussions, and assigned readings, students will survey Chinese films in terms of historical contexts, major themes and genres, and aesthetic forms (especially artistic influences originated from Chinese and other Asian cultures, such as opera, drama, novel, landscape painting, shadow play, etc.). Particular attention will be given to questions of nationhood, class, gender, race, and their complex relationships in the formation of Chinese cinema. Throughout the course, students will also develop the skills and vocabulary of analyzing films, articulating their own critical views, and presenting their film analyses (written and video essays).
Immigration, exile and internal displacement are phenomena seen across the world, and ones that are frequent topics of discussion. This course will examine such issues among the diverse Latin American cultures through the lens of fiction. These texts and films deal directly with moments of social transformation, power differences, and cultural (mis)understanding. Studying these works will help you better understand the timely issues of displacement, as well as how these issues are perceived and represented. Course conducted in English. (M5)
Immigration, exile and internal displacement are phenomena seen across the world, and ones that are frequent topics of discussion. This course will examine such issues among the diverse Latin American cultures through the lens of fiction. These texts and films deal directly with moments of social transformation, power differences, and cultural (mis)understanding. Studying how these works will help students better understand the timely issues of displacement, as well as how these issues are perceived and represented. Course conducted in English. (M5)
This course will develop students’ knowledge of the US Latino/a community cultural attitudes, beliefs and practices related to health care. It will also help students communicate effectively with Spanish speaking patients in a variety of medical settings. The course will focus on developing intercultural competence so that health care providers may offer adequate and culturally sensitive care to his or her Spanish speaking patients.
Source: Moravian University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
