4 courses with the subject SLTR, 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.
SLTR 3200Poland: History and Culture3
Effective Date 04/13/2012 This course takes students through more than 1000 years of Poland’s history and culture. Explorations of literature, art, film, and music, as well as key historic events and biographies, will provide students with unique insight in the main sources of Polish identity, its central values, challenges, myths, symbols, and preoccupations in a larger European context. All materials in English.
SLTR 3300Facing Evil in the Twentieth Century: Humanity in Extremis3
Effective Date 10/03/2012 The 20th century will most likely remain one of the most puzzling periods in human history, in which amazing progress was coupled with unprecedented barbarity of modern totalitarian regimes. The course helps students untangle this paradox by exploring a series of memoirs by survivors and perpetrators, as well as scholarly essays, films, and other cultural statements.
SLTR 4200Robots and Rebels in Czech Literature and Culture3
Effective Date 08/01/2020 An investigation of classics of modern Czech fiction and film. Some of the great works include Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk), Nemcova (The Grandmother), Capek (the inventor of the word “robot”), Seifert’s Nobel-winning poetry, Lustig (Children of the Holocaust), Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Havel (The Power of the Powerless; The Garden Party), as well as great films like “Closely Watched Trains” and “Firemen’s Ball.”
