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M.A. in Comparative Arts and Culture

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Hofstra University

Master of Arts
in Comparative Arts and Culture

Course Offerings

The core courses aim to offer a wide range of theoretical and interdisciplinary courses that address our modern and postmodern condition. Recent offerings have included courses from the following list:

  • Classical and Later Art
  • Hellenism and the Avant-Garde
  • Romanticism From Symbolism to Surrealism
  • Primitivism
  • Expressionism in Word and Image
  • Poetry Poetics and Artistic Practice
  • Avant-Garde Theory and Practice
  • The Russian Avant-Garde
  • The Artist's Practice
  • From Drama to Narrative
  • Popular Entertainment from Melodrama to Rock and Roll
  • Eastern European Literature and Cinema: From the Cold War to the Present
  • Ancient Iranian Society and Art
  • Figuring Kafka: Traditions in Fantastic Realism
  • Art of the Twentieth Century
  • Studies in Modern Art and Culture since 1900
  • Modern Architecture and Design
  • The Literary Text and the Photographic Imagination
  • The Philosophy of John Dewey
  • Sexual Difference and Narrative

For the latest course offerings, visit the online Hofstra Bulletin and search using the prefix CAAC.