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Spring 2025

The MLAS Spring 2025 term will run from Tuesday, January 14 through Wednesday, April 16.

For a preview of these courses and to meet MLAS faculty and students,  attend the Open House on January 8, 6:00 pm, Cohen Memorial Hall

 

MLAS 6200: Seminar in Fine and Creative Arts:  The History of Fashion: Theory and Practice
Prof. Alexandra Sargent Capps   , Director, Fiber Arts Build Lab, the Wond’ry Center for Innovation
Wednesday evenings, 6:00-8:30 pm
Course Description:
Survey of fashion history, ancient to modern, with an emphasis on fashion as it relates to art and architecture, and how it reflects women's roles and lifestyle. We will explore hands-on sewing techniques to learn about the characteristics of a variety of textiles and their application to fashion design and production.
(Fine and Creative Arts, History, Social Science)

         

MLAS 6400: Seminar in Literature and Creative Writing:  Don Quijote and the Development of the Novel
Prof. Andrés Zamora   , Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Tuesday evenings, 6:00-8:30 pm
Course Description:  The Wondrous Don Quijote and the Development of the Novel
This course will focus on a close reading and analysis of Miguel de Cervantes’s  Don Quijote, so prevalent in many bucket lists of those aspiring to graduate in intellectual literacy and accrue cultural capital. In  Don Quijote  the main character suffers from a literature-induced malady not altogether different from the current fake news affliction or some effects of the contemporary computer games pervasiveness: he is not able to distinguish between reality and fiction, he thinks that everything printed must be true, and he acts on that belief by deciding to willfully turn himself into a knight errant with all the necessary accoutrements. Don Quijote, accompanied by his somewhat reluctant squire Sancho Panza, has the best of intentions, if not the most successful results. In addition, the very act of narrating his quests, adventures, and misadventures becomes a fundamental part of the text, thus, becoming a metatext, a self-referential narrative in which ultimately the character shares the stage with the author himself, who undertakes explorations of his own. Spanish society is on display, but so are the literary forms of the day, to be acknowledged and often satirized.  Don Quijote  is, therefore, a novel and a theory of the novel, brilliantly comic but profound and oftentimes somber, as well. It serves as a type of template for future novels and, accordingly, for future literary experiments, as texts engage and challenge tradition.  Don Quijote  will be the centerpiece of the seminar, along with examples of experimental fiction from the twentieth century and a Netflix mini-series of the new millennium.
(Literature and Creative Writing, History, Social Science)

 

MLAS 7340: Interdisciplinary Selected Topics - Capstone Workshop 
Faculty Instructors: Profs. Robert Barsky and Mark John Sanchez.

 

 

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