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ELI 0064 - WRITING LEVEL 6 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute |
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ELI 0065 - GRAMMAR LEVEL 6 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute |
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ELI 0110 - GENERAL ENGLISH EVENING COURSE Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 General English evening course Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute |
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ELI 0111 - English for Undergraduates (E4U) Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Our English for Undergraduates (E4U) Program is designed to provide a foundation for international students to improve their language skills, academic skills, and cultural background so that they are better prepared for their academic studies in the US. The program is specifically designed for international students who:
1) Have been accepted by an undergraduate program at a university in the US
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2) Have a TOEFL iBT score of 60 (IELTS 6) or higher and are considering applying to undergraduate programs at a university in the US Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute |
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ELI 0120 - PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ENGLISH PROGRAM Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Professional and academic English program Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute |
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ENGLIT 0300 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the definitions, functions, and values of literature by reading across a range of genres, styles, historical periods, and cultures. It will also introduce various reading strategies for making sense of plays, poems, novels, short stories, and essays. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0305 - IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0310 - THE DRAMATIC IMAGINATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces students to the major dramatic forms and compares the ways playwrights from several centuries use ideas, characters and dramatic techniques. We will consider how social, historical, and dramatic contexts influence our interpretations and evaluation, or may lead to alternative understandings of a play. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0315 - READING POETRY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Poetry is usually the first literary form to evolve in a culture. Yet many today reject it as artificial, overly refined and removed from ordinary human experience. By studying various kinds of poetry, this course aims to help students break down the barriers between classic poems, contemporary poetry, and a more general lyric impulse. As the most highly condensed literary experience, poetry invites very close reading, so we will explore various techniques for making sense of poems. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0318 - WRITING IN PARIS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Students will study the American writers who lived in Paris during the 1920s “the lost generation” and the ways they were influenced by Paris and its culture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0321 - ESSAYS AND MEMOIRS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines different uses of prose narrative in both fiction and non-fiction. Texts include memoir, essay, novels, short stories, travelogue, and biography. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0325 - THE SHORT STORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course studies short stories that explore a variety of themes. It seeks to define the short story as a specific literary genre and to distinguish it from earlier forms of short narrative literature. It then goes on to examine the effects of literary, cultural and historical traditions on these stories and their reception. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0330 - GREAT BOOKS: A SEMINAR IN THE MODERN HUMANITIES (PART 1) Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course centers on classic texts of world literature, from homer, to the Koran, to Emerson and Woolf. This course is meant for all students who have an intellectual interest in the complex resources of some of our shared traditions as well as a healthy curiosity about the history of our present. In other words, this seminar is intended to make available a demanding, but still selective encounter with works of high aesthetic, intellectual, and indeed even political importance. (Part 1 of a 2-semester course) Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0331 - GREAT BOOKS: A SEMINAR IN THE MODERN HUMANITIES (PART 2) Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course centers on classic texts of world literature, from homer, to the Koran, to Emerson and Woolf. This course is meant for all students who have an intellectual interest in the complex resources of some of our shared traditions as well as a healthy curiosity about the history of our present. In other words, this seminar is intended to make available a demanding, but still selective encounter with works of high aesthetic, intellectual, and indeed even political importance. (part 2 of a 2-semester course) Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0333 - PARIS THROUGH THE AGES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The readings will introduce students to French writers who were influenced by Paris and who influenced the city and its intellectuals, from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. This study abroad course includes excursions through the streets and museums of Paris. Taught in English. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0350 - LITERATURE, TRADITION AND THE NEW Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines works from several different periods and cultures that both embody and challenge literary and cultural traditions. It explores the ways in which we are all active participants in the process by which traditions are reproduced and revised over time. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0354 - WORDS AND IMAGES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the relationships between lanaguage and images. It studies how we describe and understand visual images and how they help us understand qualities that could not easily be defined otherwise. It considers how images function in literary texts and other writers as well as the unconventional images found in dreams, ads, and popular prints, etc. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0365 - IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course questions the relationship between present and/or “contemporary” literature and past literary traditions. It is not a course solely in contemporary literature but a course that compares contemporary texts with texts from other periods. It investigates the contemporary as both a complex reworking of past narratives and traditions and as the production of the experimental and the new. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0370 - LITERATURE AND IDEAS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course studies invention and interpretation, and explores the various ways writers produce texts and readers make them make sense. Though texts may change from section to section and instructor to instructor, they always stimulate investigation into reading and writing as ways of knowing. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0375 - INTRODUCTION TO OPERA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course, offered jointly in collaboration with the artistic and educational staff of Pittsburgh opera, provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the multimodal and synthetic art form of opera. Over the course of the semester, we will explore the essential literary, musical, and dramatic elements that have shaped the development of opera throughout the past four-hundred years. We will study a variety of historically significant operatic works, each representing a different style in the evolution of this art form. Every semester, the class as a whole will also attend two current opera productions staged by Pittsburgh opera. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0380 - SLOVAK TRANSATLANTIC CULTURES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Slovak European history and the interaction of Slovak and American cultures during the 120-year history of Slovak immigration is conveyed through readings in Slovak and Slovak-American literature, and through issues in literary theory that concern this theme. The course is structured around the history of Slovak, and in a broader cultural sense central European immigration to the U.S. With a special focus on Pittsburgh. Students are encouraged to investigate Pittsburgh’s rich ethnic heritage and to research and write on topics tailored to individual interests. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0399 - NARRATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the relationship between traditional literary forms and contemporary media such as hypertext, web logs, fan fiction, video games, comics, and interactive fiction. Academic Career: UGRD Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or ENGCMP 0205 or ENGCMP 0207 or ENGCMP 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or FP 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or ENGR 0712 or ENGR 0715 or ENGR 0718 ) |
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ENGLIT 0500 - INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course studies three to five significant literary works in conjunction with influential criticism on each text. Students explore the uses and limits of different critical methods. The course seeks to develop a critical understanding of both classic literary texts and dominant modes of reading as changing cultural practices. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0505 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH LITERATURE 1 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 We explore the historical, generic, and transnational range of literature in English as an object and field of study. A variety of lecturers introduce the concepts of periods and “key moments”. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0506 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH LITERATURE 2 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0510 - MAKING THE BOOK Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0511 - HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course surveys the major development in English social and political history, concentrating on those that had the greatest impact on the development of English literature. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0512 - NARRATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the ways in which new technologies impact how we engage with stories. It examines the relationship between traditional literary forms and contemporary media, such as hypertext, web logs, fan fiction, video games, comics, and interactive fiction. As a writing-intensive course, “Narrative and Technology” will ask students to write regularly in response to course texts and class discussions. Students will have opportunities not only to write critically about the relationships among narratives and technologies but also to write creatively, experimenting with interactive, hypermedia, and/or other new media forms. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0515 - CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the rich and diverse field of contemporary poetry by African Americans, which has witnessed a marked growth over the last three decades. It examines the range of styles, aesthetic projects, and concerns of contemporary black U.S. poets, including the relation of various forms of experimentation to tradition; vernacular, oral, and musical expression; questions of race, culture, and identity; globalization and diasporic movements; the individual and society. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0521 - SCAN CULTURE: SURVEILLANCE AND THE DIGITAL Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0541 - LITERATURE AND MEDICINE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0550 - INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR CULTURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course covers texts from American mass culture-popular fiction, advertising, popular music, television, etc. It will explore methods of analyzing these texts, discovering what these products have in common and what distinguishes them from other cultural artifacts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0560 - CHILDREN AND CULTURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course studies children’s literature through an investigation of the history of childhood through its representations in children’s books and other media. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0562 - CHILDHOOD’S BOOKS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course surveys the field of children’s literature from its earliest beginnings to the present. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0570 - AMERICAN LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This first course in American literature explores the characteristic features of writings from the colonial period to the present. It emphasizes the interaction between literary texts and their social contexts, and examines the emergence of a national literature. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0572 - INTRODUCTION AFRICAN LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Examining major works by contemporary African writers in various genres, including fiction, poetry and drama. Some preliminary reading and discussion of social context of the works. Principal focus on recurring themes in African literature. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0573 - LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Literature of the Americas introduces students to important issues in the study of literature and culture by focusing on colonial and postcolonial traditions in regions of the Americas beyond the United States. Beginning with the European “discovery” of the “new world”, it examines comparatively literary and other texts from Britain, the West coast of Africa, the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America, tracing the emergence of distinctive literary traditions and preoccupations of the Americas through to significant modern incarnations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGCMP 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or 0004 or 0006 or 0020) or (FP 0003 or 0006) or ENG 0102 or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0580 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will focus on a number of Shakespeare’s major plays from all phases of his career. Class discussion will consider the historical context of the plays, their characterization, theatrical technique, imagery, language and themes. Every attempt will be made to see the plays both as poems and as dramatic events. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0590 - FORMATIVE MASTERPIECES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will study in some detail eight or nine of those masterpieces which form the largest part of what we now regard as the Western tradition of literature. The works chosen will come from various genres—epic poetry, drama, the novel, and satire. They will span the centuries from the classical periods of ancient Greece and Rome through the Renaissance and into the nineteenth century. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0597 - BIBLE AS LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This introductory course acquaints students with what is in the bible and provides background information drawn from various disciplines about the elements and issues that give it its distinctive character. Attention is necessarily given to its religious perspectives, since they govern the nature and point of view of the biblical narratives, but no specific religious view is urged. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0610 - WOMEN AND LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 An exploration of writings by and about women. Through our reading of various literary forms — poetry fiction, autobiography — we will explore the aspirations and realities of women’s lives. We will consider how social issues — class, race, etc. — Affect women writers. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250) or (ENG 0102) or (FP 0003) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0718) |
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ENGLIT 0612 - LITERATURE AND SCIENCE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course aims to restore and improve the dialogue between scientific and critical-humanistic ways of understanding the world. It examines the share both ways of knowing have had in shaping our culture and our ideas by studying (and developing critical perspectives on) both scientific and literary texts. Its goal is to produce an understanding of the common history of literature and science. The course usually focuses on a theme, issue, or topic that has historical range and contemporary relevance. Different versions of the course might focus on social, literary, and scientific understandings of gender; the social, literary, and scientific attitudes toward death and the dead; or the social, literary, and scientific definitions and theories about the “”human.”” Though works of science fiction may be studied, this is not a course in science fiction. This course should be of particular interest to students in the sciences, students of literature, students of philosophy, and students of history. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGLIT 0699 |
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ENGLIT 0613 - ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0615 - LITERATURE AND RACE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the relations between literature and race. It views race as an idea `an ‘invention’ that works as a mechanism for organizing the world `which, though it emerged during the enlightenment, continues to have far-reaching implications for the literature produced in the us. It will consider the ways in which categories such as race and nation affect literary representations of different groups of people in us society. It will also look at a variety of narratives of race and racialized experiences, and how these are explored in different literary contexts, asking to what extent such discourses of race are both critical and formative elements in us American literature and culture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0616 - EXILES, NOMADS, AND MIGRANTS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course reads various reflections on the immigrant’s experience of separation or exile, the problems of encountering a new society, and the processes of acculturation. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0617 - CHANGING FAMILIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will explore varying literary representations of unconventional families including families made by adoption, foster families resulting from migration, multiracial families, and families involving gay, lesbian, or transgender parents or children. Considering different points of view, it will examine plots involving search for family, search for identity, construction of family, loss, conflict, poverty, prejudice, and reconciliation. The course will explore how these works portray and relate to changing attitudes toward childhood, parenthood, heredity, nurture, race, class, nation, and sexuality. As a literature course, it will train students in close reading and critical analyses of texts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0618 - WAR Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0619 - THE LITERATURE OF THE GREAT WAR Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course focuses solely upon the literature that most poignantly depicts the experiences and perspectives of the soldiers who fought on the battlefields of World War I and the civilians who suffered its destruction. It will allow students to explore the most significant memoirs, poetry, and works of fiction that emerged from the ravaged battlefields of the western front and the ravaged homes destroyed by what some called “war to end all wars”. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0620 - THE GRAPHIC NOVEL Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0621 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines detective fiction in terms of its history, its social meaning and as a form of philosophizing. It also seeks to reveal the place and values of popular fiction in our lives. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0626 - SCIENCE FICTION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces students to the major ideas, themes, and writers in the development of science fiction as a genre. Discussions will help students to understand and use critical methods for the analysis of science fiction. The topics covered include problems describing and defining the genre, contrasting ideologies in soviet and American science fiction, the roles of women as characters, readers and writers of science fiction, etc. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0627 - LITERATURE OF SPORTS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course places the literature of sports in various intellectual contexts. It reads novels by major American writers like Malamud, Roth, cover, DeLillo, exile and Harris, as well as “serious” popular novels (North Dallas 40 and semi-tough) and personal reminiscences. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0628 - WORKING CLASS LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores writing produced by working-class men and women. It traces its textual traditions and explores questions of the status of the “working class”, its relation to self-understandings in ethnic or gender terms as well as the effect of class on social experience, social vision and cultural production. It explores as well the relation between worker-writers and the dominant literary tradition. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0629 - THE WILD WEST Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines Westerns, the most popular and characteristic of American genres. We will read works by both “popular” and “literary” (or “serious”) writers, as well as viewing movie Westerns. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0630 - SEXUALITY AND REPRESENTATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will explore the relations between cultural texts and the shifting conceptualizations and figurations of sexuality and sexual politics over the past 150 years. The main objective of this course will be to understand the necessary but problematic relations between sexuality, cultural expression, and the social. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0635 - NEW LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course’s close reading of contemporary texts seeks to develop a broad theoretical framework to understand the production and cultural status of the diverse writings of the last twenty-five years. Topics include the problematics of race, gender and class; the question of “post modernism”; and the status of national or regional literatures in a period of international capitalism. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0636 - THE GOTHIC IMAGINATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the genre of gothic fiction, in Britain and the U.S., From its origins in the late 18th century until the present. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0637 - HORROR LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0640 - ALLEGORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will introduce students to the subject of allegory. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0642 - COMEDY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course studies comedy, both its deep structural patterns and its surface humor. We will read works from many periods (from the Greeks through the 20th century) and genres to understand the literary and cultural meanings of comedy. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0643 - SATIRE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course studies satire in general, the techniques of certain satires in particular and the expression of satiric attitudes. We will examine satires from various times and countries so that we can better understand what satire is, how it differs from other literary forms and its function within the culture that produces it. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0644 - MYTH AND FOLKTALE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines myths, legends and folktales. It explores contemporary views of such works as cognitive categories, models for behavior, “agents” for mediating “world” views, mirrors of culture, projections of sub conscious desires. In short it considers the connection between myth/folktales and the culture/intelligence that produced them. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0645 - FANTASY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Focusing on works that offer fantastic alternations to the world of ordinary experience, this course examines works produced from the middle ages to the present day. It raises questions about our perceptions of “reality”, and the effects of conscious or unconscious wishes, desires and fears on literary representations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0646 - APOCALYPSE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0647 - HARRY POTTER: BLOOD, POWER, CULTURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0655 - REPRESENTING ADOLESCENCE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course focuses on the question of how adolescence gets represented in a variety of genres, including young adult and children’s literature; novels, plays and poetry aimed at adults that take adolescence as a theme; films and television programs; scientific, journalistic, or autobiographical commentaries on the nature of adolescence; and so on. This is one of the core courses for the children’s literature certificate program, but all interested students are welcome. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0699 - LITERATURE AND SCIENCE LAB Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Credit Laboratory Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGLIT 0612 |
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ENGLIT 0700 - WITNESSING REVOLUTIONS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 What role did a series of Facebook posts and tweets play in the Arab spring? When do a network of uncoordinated uprisings become a political force? How does individual protest gain world-changing power? How do revolutions happen? This course will examine fiction and nonfiction works that narrate revolutions, interpret their causes, and organize their events. We will pay special attention to the role of writing in witnessing and shaping events. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0702 - INTRODUCTION TO GAME STUDIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0710 - CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the ways in which contemporary writers in English have engaged with the natural environment. We will read a range of authors, from the 1960s to the present day, to consider how they have looked critically at the human effects on ecosystems, and we will also study the interdisciplinary scholarly field of ecocriticism and its responses to such writings. Throughout, we will be attentive both to the literary qualities of writings about the environment and to their historical and political contexts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0711 - STEAMPUNK Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0712 - CRITICAL MAKING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0715 - AUSTEN AND BRONTE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0720 - GLOBAL FICTIONS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0725 - INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION STUDIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0812 - MEDIA/ECOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0815 - IRISH LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1000 - INTRO TO TRANSLATION STUDIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This class introduces students to translation studies, an emerging discipline critical to an understanding of world literature. The focus is on English versions of literary texts in other languages and the theory underlying the transformation. The course examines translation as a form of writing which possesses a complex relationship to an earlier text to which it is similar but not equivalent. Students will consider the ways in which talented translators render influential literary works. We grapple with the following questions: how do English translations of the same text differ and what is the result? How does one evaluate a translation? Academic Career: UGRD Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1001 - INTERACTIVE LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1002 - GAME, STORY, PLAY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1005 - LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the ways in which writers in English have engaged with the natural environment. We will read a range of authors, across time periods and up to the present day, to consider how they have looked critically at the human effects on ecosystems, and we will also study the interdisciplinary scholarly field of ecocriticism and its responses to such writings. Throughout, we will be attentive both to the literary qualities of writings about the environment and to their historical and political contexts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1010 - MAGICAL NATURE BEFORE THE MODERN WORLD Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1020 - HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course considers influential critical theorists ranging from Plato and Augustine to Nietzsche and Freud. Neither the readings nor the approach of the class fall under the narroWest definitions of literary criticism; our focus instead will be on texts from several disciplines that offer powerful models of reading and writing and that raise interesting questions about the foundations of literature, culture, and interpretation. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1023 - CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 An examination of several recent critical theories that re define the study of textual practices and cultural values. Class considers the problems each of these movements con fronts, and examines the consequences of their conclusions for an understanding of literary, cultural and social institutions. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1028 - LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces students to psychoanalytic contributions to understanding the processes of artistic creation and aesthetic response. It demonstrates how familiarity with psychoanalytic methodology enhances the alertness, subtlety and power in reading literary texts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1100 - MEDIEVAL IMAGINATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores some of the ways people in the middle ages saw the world around them. We will try to understand those perceptions by reading a variety of literary works, by comparing those works to other art forms and by examining similar kinds of experience in the modern world. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1101 - INVENTION OF ENGLISH Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The English language and its literatures are in constant flux, but this was especially true in medieval england as waves of foreign invaders and immigrants shaped the language, and political, religious, and mercantile contact with other regions of Europe contributed new aesthetic and poetic ideals. Beginning with old English riddles, this course helps you discover the linguistic and literary DNA of English. You will discover the multiple “Englishes” and other languages that remain present in modern English and prefigure the global diversity of the anglophone world. Along the way, you will develop familiarity with old English and multiple dialects of middle English. You will begin to chart the continuities and ruptures involved in the transitions from tribal heroic culture to a growing sense of common identity as English people of an English kingdom. And on a parallel trajectory, you will track how the notion of a specifically English literature written by the English, in English, for the English, emerges from adaptations and negotiations with other European vernaculars. This focus forms a bridge to further study in early modern or Renaissance English literature. The tools of philology, historical language study, rhetorical analysis, and manuscript studies, lend themselves to this course’s emphasis on language and history, and in developing facility with them, you will be better prepared for the study of any area of literature. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1103 - INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The purpose of this course is to learn the fundamentals of old English as quickly as possible, in order to be able to read some of the very best old English poetry by the end of the term. While the course is not linguistically oriented, it can serve as a background to courses in middle English or old Norse, as well as leading to further study in old English literature. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1115 - CHAUCER Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course closely examines major works by Chaucer—the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Cressida. Though most of the reading will be in modern English translations, some will be in the original middle English. We will view Chaucer’s work in its historical, social, artistic and intellectual contexts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1125 - MASTERPIECES OF RENAISSANCE LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course studies prose, poetry and drama written in England between 1550 and 1660—an age of religious reformation, economic and social instability, intellectual revision and political revolution. It seeks to make sense of the renaissance in terms appropriate both to that time and to our own. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1126 - ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This upper level course in Shakespeare assumes some prior work with his writings. It seeks to develop a more detailed appreciation of his writing by examining selected texts in relation to some historical, cultural or critical issue. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1127 - SHAKESPEARE ON FILM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines how Shakespeare’s works have been adapted to film and television. In this study, we will be concerned with Shakespeare as a cultural icon and with the expectations surrounding both high art and popular entertainment. Central to this examination are the relationships between a film and a text. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1128 - SHAKESPEARE’S SEXUALITIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the roles of shakespeare’s female characters as they relate to cultural ideas about gender and sexuality. We will examine beliefs about “proper” behavior of both women and men and the relationship of representations of gender to social power. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1135 - LITERATURE, MEDIA, AND SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will introduce students to the broad range of styles, genres, and concerns of literature written in English in the early modern period, particularly the 17th century. The designation “early modern” is capacious enough to straddle the renaissance as well as the early enlightenment. Readings could include English writers, writers from the Americas, and writers who composed in English but wrote about countries other than England, Ireland or new England. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1150 - ENLIGHTENMENT TO REVOLUTION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course focuses on literature and culture of the late 17th and 18th centuries—a period of revolutionary changes in the way writers and readers viewed their world. We will read widely in the important texts of the period in order to explore the interplay of enlightenment and revolution. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1160 - LITERARY ATMOSPHERES: READING WEATHER AND CLIMATE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1170 - ROMANTIC NATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course concentrates on writings from 1790 through the 1830’s that have come to be associated with romanticism. It explores the social, intellectual and aesthetic concerns of this movement and its relationships with its British and European cultural contexts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1175 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A study of the major writers and cultural issues of 19th century Britain situated in relation to the social and intellectual developments of the time. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1180 - HUMANS, ANIMALS, MACHINES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course studies the poetry and prose produced during the reign of queen Victoria, and places these works in relation to changing practices of science, industry, empire and culture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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