| DLCL100 | CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People | This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,... |
| DLCL102 | 10 Jobs in 10 Weeks: Leveraging Your Liberal Arts Career | This interactive course gives students a taste of 10 different career fields over 10 weeks to help students explore and reflect on career interests, values, and goals. Students will also participate in exercises that help them to articulate the core... |
| DLCL11 | Great Books, Big Ideas from Ancient Greece and Rome | This course will journey through ancient Greek and Roman literature from Homer to St. Augustine, in constant conversation with the other HumCore travelers in the Ancient Middle East, Africa and South Asia, and Early China. It will introduce participa... |
| DLCL111Q | Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop | The Argentinian writer and translator, Jorge Luis Borges, once said, 'Cada idioma es un modo de sentir el universo.' How are modes of feeling and perception translated across languages? How does the historical context of a work condition its translat... |
| DLCL113Q | Borges and Translation | Borges's creative process and practice as seen through the lens of translation. How do Borges's texts articulate the relationships between reading, writing, and translation? Topics include authorship, fidelity, irreverence, and innovation. Readings w... |
| DLCL121 | Performing the Middle Ages | Through an analysis of medieval courtly love, religious, satirical, and Crusade lyrics, we will study the rise of a new subjectivity; the female voice; the roles of poet, audience, and patron; oral and manuscript transmission; and political propagand... |
| DLCL123 | Medieval Journeys: Introduction through the Art and Architecture | The course explores the experience and imagination of medieval journeys through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and skills-based approaches. As a foundations class, this survey of medieval culture engages in particular the art and architecture... |
| DLCL12Q | Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Middle Ages and Renaissance | This three-quarter sequence asks big questions of major texts in the European and American tradition. What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? Wh... |
| DLCL13Q | Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern | This three-quarter sequence asks big questions of major texts in the European and American tradition. What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? What du... |
| DLCL141 | Poems, Poetry, Worlds | What is poetry? What can Poetry do? What can we do with Poetry? How does it speak in many voices to questions of philosophy, history, society, and personal experience? Why does it matter? The readings address poetry of several cultures in comparativ... |
| DLCL143 | The Novel | This course will trace the global development of the modern literary genre par excellence through some of its great milestones from the 18th century to the present. Includes works by Flaubert, Bulgakov, Baldwin, and Bâ. |
| DLCL144 | An Introduction to Persian Literature, an Aesthetic Tradition Over a Millennium Old | This course aims at familiarizing undergraduate/graduate students with some of the most significant classical and modern works of Persian literature, an aesthetic tradition over a millennium old. It requires no prior knowledge of, or familiarity wit... |
| DLCL189A | Honors Thesis Seminar | For undergraduate majors in DLCL departments; required for honors students. Planning, researching, and writing an honors thesis. Oral presentations and peer workshops. Research and writing methodologies, and larger critical issues in literary studies... |
| DLCL189B | Honors Thesis Seminar | For undergraduate majors in DLCL departments; required for honors students. Planning, researching, and writing an honors thesis. Oral presentations and peer workshops. Research and writing methodologies, and larger critical issues in literary studies... |
| DLCL189C | Honors Thesis Seminar | For undergraduate majors in DLCL departments; required for honors students. Planning, researching, and writing an honors thesis. Oral presentations and peer workshops. Research and writing methodologies, and larger critical issues in literary studies... |
| DLCL198 | Curricular Practical Training UG | CPT course required for international students completing an UG degree. Restricted to students working towards a major in a DLCL department. Prerequisites: approval of the instructor, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, and the DLCL UG Student Ser... |
| DLCL199 | Honors Thesis Oral Presentation | For undergraduate majors in DLCL departments; required for honors students. Oral presentations and peer workshops. Regular advisory meetings required. |
| DLCL201 | Digital Humanities Practicum | Interested in applying digital tools and methods to text, images, or other humanities research materials? This hands-on course will support you in planning and implementing your own digital project, using materials in any language. Working directly w... |
| DLCL204 | Digital Humanities Across Borders | What if you could take a handwritten manuscript, or a pile of 100 books, and map all the locations that are referenced, or see which characters interact with one another, or how different translators adapted the same novel -- without reading through... |
| DLCL205 | Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists | What does it look like to manage a collaborative project in a way that's both effective and ethical, taking into account the needs of people as well as the task? This class will cover project management and collaboration as they are practiced in digi... |
| DLCL219 | Collaborative Teaching Project | The Collaborative Teaching Project (CTP) has supported Stanford faculty and graduate students by offering a series of team-taught courses in the humanities, with the goal of preparing graduate students for careers as liberal arts educators. CTP thus... |
| DLCL21N | Ecologies of Communication | What remnants of our culture will future generations discover and decipher and how will they interpret these? How will they access the technologies we have created? How will they understand the environmental changes that current humans have caused? A... |
| DLCL220 | Humanities Education | Humanities Education explores issues concerning teaching and learning in the humanities, including research on student learning, innovation in pedagogy, the role of new technologies in humanities instruction, and professional issues for humanities te... |
| DLCL221 | Materia | Materia is a focal group on post-anthropocentrism, Latin Americanist and otherwise. Building on and expanding the theoretical framework offered by thinkers such as Fernando Ortiz, Bruno Latour, and Jane Bennett, we engage with works of literature and... |
| DLCL222 | Philosophy and Literature | The Focal Group in Philosophy and Literature brings together scholars and students from eight departments to investigate questions in aesthetics and literary theory, philosophically-inflected literary texts, and the form of philosophical writings. Fi... |
| DLCL223 | Renaissances | The Renaissances Group brings together faculty members and students from several departments at Stanford to consider the present and future of early modern literary studies (a period spanning the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries). Taking... |
| DLCL224 | Workshop in Poetics | The Workshop in Poetics is concerned with the theoretical and practical dimensions of the reading and criticism of poetry. During the many years of its existence, the Workshop has become a central venue at Stanford enabling participants to share thei... |
| DLCL227 | Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Hebrew Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | PATH+ is a DLCL focal group that provides a space for conversations about Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Hebrew languages, literatures, and cultures in the DLCL. To earn the unit, undergraduate and graduate students should attend the workshops held by... |
| DLCL229 | The Contemporary | The Contemporary is a focal group dedicated to the study of recent innovative works in literature and the arts as they touch on social, political, and philosophical concerns of our era. Building on and expanding the theoretical framework offered by t... |
| DLCL230 | Medieval Studies Workshop | The Medieval Studies Workshop brings together faculty members and Ph.D. students from several departments to consider interdisciplinary scholarly developments in the field of medieval studies, a period spanning the fifth through the fifteenth century... |
| DLCL237 | Political Exhumations. Killing Sites Research in Comparative Perspective | The course discusses the politics and practices of exhumation of individual and mass graves. The problem of exhumations will be considered as a distinct socio-political phenomenon characteristic of contemporary times and related to transitional justi... |
| DLCL238 | Comics: More than Words | This research unit looks at Comics from a transnational, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective. Each quarter we organize a series of lectures, reading sessions, and workshops around a main topic. Some previous topics that we have explored... |
| DLCL254 | Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment | Indigenous knowledges have been traditionally treated as a field of research for anthropologists and as mistaken epistemologies, i.e., un-scientific and irrational folklore. However, within the framework of environmental humanities, current interest... |
| DLCL254W | Environmental Knowledges: Western and Indigenous | The aim of the course is to analyze the relations between Indigenous and Western knowledges, and highlight the most important points of contact between the two systems. It will contribute to building inclusive and holistic knowledge in order to addre... |
| DLCL259C | Ecological Humanities | What sort of topics, research questions, approaches, theories and concepts lead to an integration of various kinds of knowledges? Ecological Humanities provides a conceptual platform for a merger of humanities and social sciences with earth and life... |
| DLCL293 | Literary Translation: Theory and Practice | An overview of translation theories and practices over time. The aesthetic, ethical, and political questions raised by the act and art of translation and how these pertain to the translator's tasks. Discussion of particular translation challenges and... |
| DLCL298 | Preparing to Teach English as a Second Language | This course focuses on practical aspects of teaching English to speakers of other languages. Its primary focus is an overview of the structure of English, which is crucial for effective English language instruction. Students in this course will als... |
| DLCL301 | The Learning and Teaching of Second Languages | This course approaches the teaching of second languages from a learning perspective. In other words, it eschews the traditional focus on teaching methods and emphasizes instructional decision-making within the context of learners intellectual and lin... |
| DLCL302 | The Learning and Teaching of Second-Language Literatures | This course is a follow-up to The Learning and Teaching of Second Languages (DLCL 301) and is structured to reflect the needs and challenges of students and teachers embarking on courses at the late second-year level and beyond. Participants will foc... |
| DLCL303 | Language Program Management | Administrative Internship in Language Program Management. Experiences can include, but are not limited to, the following: Shadow faculty and staff in select areas of administration and supervision within the Language Center and DLCL; Placement testin... |
| DLCL305 | Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists | What does it look like to manage a collaborative project in a way that's both effective and ethical, taking into account the needs of people as well as the task? This class will cover project management and collaboration as they are practiced in digi... |
| DLCL311 | Professional Workshop | The purpose of this workshop is to introduce first- and second-year graduate students to the profession and to the professional study of literature and culture. What is academia? What skills do you need to succeed in your program and in the professio... |
| DLCL312 | Pitching and Publishing in Popular Media | FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (undergraduates enroll in 119) Most of the time, writing a pitch for a popular outlet just means writing an email. So why be intimidated? This course will outline the procedure for pitching essays and articles to popular media:... |
| DLCL326 | Crafting Your Humanist Career | In this interactive course, PhD students from all humanities departments and programs will learn how to chart a deliberate path through graduate school. The course offers exposure to the wide variety of humanist careers within and beyond the academy.... |
| DLCL333 | Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar | This course serves as the Core Seminar for the PhD Minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. It introduces students to a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy with literary and arts criticism. The seminar is intended for graduat... |
| DLCL354A | DLCL Film Series: Rebel With a Cause | This quarter's film series will examine the representation of resistance, rebellion, and revolt in international cinema. Starting with Michael Almereyda's biographical drama Experimenter (2015), we will examine Stanley Milgram's studies on complicity... |
| DLCL369 | Introduction to the Profession of Literary Studies | A survey of how literary theory and other methods have been made institutional since the nineteenth century. The readings and conversation are designed for entering Ph.D. students in the national literature departments and comparative literature. |
| DLCL50 | At Home Abroad Seminar: International Film Series | The At Home Abroad House invites you to challenge your habits of visual culture, fill your ears with less-familiar sounds, and build your own understanding of what it means to live in a global age. Stanford experts from a multitude of cultural discip... |
| DLCL50B | At Home Abroad Seminar: The Global Creativity Lab | The At Home Abroad House invites you to challenge the way you usually learn by trying out art forms and creative problem-solving strategies from around the world and building your own understanding of what it means to live in a global age. This once-... |
| DLCL50C | At Home Abroad Seminar: Global Gastronomies and Multicultural Cooking Class | Global Gastronomies and Multicultural Cooking Class, organized by the At Home Abroad (AHA) House. Meets in Bollard Suites Teaching Kitchen. Course fees are $90 per student; open to undergraduate students only. |
| DLCL52 | Global Humanities: The Grand Millennium, 800-1800 | How should we live? This course explores ethical pathways in European, Islamic, and East Asian traditions: mysticism and rationality, passion and duty, this and other worldly, ambition and peace of mind. They all seem to be pairs of opposites, but as... |