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Questions of Theory
ROM-STD 201

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as GERMAN 291, Faculty of Arts & Sciences as COMPLIT 291X

Course Information

Description

The seminar is built around a sequence of fundamental questions regarding the literary disciplines and media studies, their history and epistemology. Discussions are instigated by readings in philology, stylistics, the history of ideas, semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, film and media theory, genetic criticism, literary sociology, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

Course Notes

Conducted in English. This course is offered as ROM-STD 201, COMPLIT 291x, and GERMAN 291. Credit may be earned for one course only.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Course Component Seminar
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
Exam/Final Deadline Dec. 10, 2026
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Arts and Humanities
Course Level Primarily for Graduate Students