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LIT 250 Writing Modernist Metropolis
Semester with CEA CAPA & AAU Program
Prague, Czech Republic
Dates: 1/26/27 - 5/14/27
LIT 250 Writing Modernist Metropolis
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Anglo-American University
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Primary Subject Area: English Language & Literature
Instruction in: English
Course Code: LIT 250
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
DESCRIPTION
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of modern art through a dynamic, experiential learning framework. Diverging from traditional classroom instruction, a significant portion of the curriculum is dedicated to experiential learning, structural site visits, and field studies. Students will engage in academic walking tours and immersive site-based seminars designed to contextualize artistic movements within their socio-cultural environments. Furthermore, the integration of targeted visits to literary museums establishes a vital interdisciplinary connection between visual arts and textual modernism. The modernist movement rose in response to the social, political, and technological changes from the turn of the 20th century and has been closely linked to the development of global metropolises and the emergence of urban imagination. In this class, we will analyse how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, and global imaginaries. Together, we experience the city in art; the interplay of the urban landscape and memory; the form of the literary city and its responsiveness to cultural change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral, and sublime cities; the loneliness within the crowd, the changing status of women and men, and the demons and living dead creatures wandering the streets in the middle of the night. Just as the modernist movement is highly interdisciplinary, attention will also be paid to visual arts, photography, and film.