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UBC’s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.

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RMST 201

Introduction to Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World I: Medieval to Early Modern

UBC Academic Calendar description: “An introduction to the main themes that shaped the Romance World as its different national identities emerged in the Mediterranean sphere.”

This was a new course, part of redesigning our Romance Studies program and curriculum. The official title and description are, shall we say, interesting. They are not what I would have chosen; but the more I thought about them, the more I thought about the why they were interesting; there’s so much potential for future incarnations of this course to explore every part of the description, or indeed to turn any single word into a topic. So while I usually design a course like this around a subtitle and theme of my own devising—adventures, intrigue, mischief, criticism, animal reading—in this case I made an exception. The course’s term-long larger narrative arc became an enquiry into “Introducing the Early Romance World.”

This course ran in September-December 2021 and is now over. The present site is a version of the course’s original Canvas site, for archival purposes.

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