Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
http://www.macalester.edu/

FRENCH

101 FRENCH I Emphasizing the active use of the language, this course is conducted entirely in French and develops the fundamental skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It includes an introduction to the cultural background of France and the Francophone world. Class sessions are supplemented by weekly small group meetings with a French graduate assistant. For students with no pr......
 

This course investigates the intersection of art and religion through the cave temples of Dunhuang, the vast site of Buddhist art and architecture along the Silk Road in northwest China. The nearly 500 decorated caves from this site and the thousands of paintings and manuscripts discovered there in 1900 provide multiple perspectives onto 1000 years of Chinese religious art and social history (4......
 

This course provides a broad thematic survey of artistic production in China from prehistoric jades to experimental installations in contemporary Beijing. While encouraging the close analysis of visual materials and exploring the methods appropriate to interpreting works of art, this course also emphasizes the specific historical, political and religious contexts that made, used and inspired th......
 

This course examines the history and development of Japanese cinema from the era of silent films to the recent transnational genre of anime. By watching classic films by such diriectors as Kurosawa Akira, Ozu Yasujiro, and Oshima Nagisa, we will think about what makes Japanese film particularly (or not particularly) "Japanese" and how Japanese film follows or reframes classical Hollyw......
 

Elementary Chinese I is the beginning course of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. It is the first semester in first-year modern Standard Chinese. This course introduces elementary Mandarin pronunciation, grammar, and orthography (in both Pinyin and characters) from the most basic level. Elementary Chinese II consists of three classroom meetings per week, plus one lab session. Offered Fall......
 

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