2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Course Information
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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
or
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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English Literature |
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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 0354 - WORDS AND IMAGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This interdisciplinary course explores the relationships between language and the diverse kinds of images that often accompany it (film, video, photography, book illustration, painting, etc.). The goal is to study the parallels and differences between images and words (as systems of communication) and to understand how they can productively interrelate within creative works such as literature, films, videos, and photographic studies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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ENGLIT 0367 - THE LAW IN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine literary representations of the law, legal issues, punishment, and legal ethics, using works that range from, “Twelve Angry Men” to “Soul on Ice” to “The Indian Lawyer.”
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 0506 - LITERARY FIELD STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, students will learn about and practice the various activities central to literary studies. Students will learn how to frame interesting critical inquiries and conduct original research, which could include historical research or contemporary cultural study. Students will engage with books as historical objects, which will include learning about the history of books and other print media and studying the ways that material factors shape writers’ work. This could include visiting the library’s Special Collections and/or a creative project around bookmaking. Students will engage in a variety of interpretive practices, including taking creative and inventive approaches to critical work and adapting texts for new purposes. Students will attend live performances and readings by diverse contemporary writers, gaining insight into the process of how great literature is made. Students will have the opportunity to find new intersections between literature and other disciplines. Finally, students will be invited to approach a range of writing projects as active makers, attending carefully to the formal elements of their own writing as well as that of others.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: Childrens Literature, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies, Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Attributes: Childrens Literature, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: Childrens Literature, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, Latin American Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0718)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Urban Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Urban Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 0638 - STEAMPUNK
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: Childrens Literature, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 0646 - APOCALYPSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 0670 - QUEER AND TRANSGENDER LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
“Queer and Transgender Literature” will examine the changing relationship between queer and transgender identities in literature, science and culture from the early twentieth century to the present. Students will learn to read literature in its historical context, pairing it with primary sources from relevant scientific and medical discourses, as well as locating it in competing literary criticism traditions in queer theory and transgender studies. The weekly course meetings will revolve around discussion of key works in queer and transgender literature, paired alternately with important literary criticism and primary sources. Classroom discussion and in-class writing assignments will focus on building these historicist and critical skills in sequence, so as to prepare students for their main assignment sequence, which asks them to apply the skills they are learning to generate their own contributions to debates in criticism about the proper boundaries between queer and transgender identities.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
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
Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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ENGLIT 0720 - GLOBAL FICTIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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ENGLIT 0730 - ARCHIVAL RESEARCH METHODS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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ENGLIT 0800 - WEATHER, CLIMATE, LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0812 - MEDIA/ECOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
From the late twentieth century to the present, ecology as a scientific discipline and set of cultural narratives has risen to the forefront of knowledge production as a way to study and understand complex biological systems, their environments, and their internal dynamics. During the same period, media systems have grown exponentially in complexity until they too have begun to exhibit some of the behaviors of ecological systems, including self-organization, feedback, evolution, and emergent properties. The term “media ecology” captures both this new, nonlinear systems approach to understanding media itself as well as the intersection between natural ecosystems and the technological assemblages with which they are intertwined. This course will explore both media that interface with natural ecosystems and works that engage contemporary media systems at different scales. The secret life of information, contagious media, and the post-natural ecologies of our present and future will challenge us to conceive of Media and Ecology as a single coupled system: the emblem of our contemporary environment. Students will have the option to produce collaborative media projects that explore the themes of the course. These can take the form of simulations, games, network graphing, film or video projects, local ecosystem analysis and/or visualization, or the mapping and analysis of a media ecosystem that interfaces with the environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
*Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 1009 - J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND COUNTERCULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the persona, work, and critical and popular reception of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) from his initial publication of The Hobbit in 1937 through today. In the 1960s and ’70s, people were scribbling “Frodo Lives” on subway walls and getting married dressed like Aragorn and Arwen. Less than half a century later, The Lord of the Rings repeatedly beat out the Bible as “best-loved” book in British polls, and Peter Jackson’s adaptations made history both for their box-office earnings and for their groundbreaking contributions to film-making. Widely recognized as the father of modern fantasy and touted as the “Author of the [Twentieth] Century” by scholars, Tolkien continues to exert a panoramic influence on culture, particularly in his ability to speak to and for the marginalized. From Comic Con to Elder Scrolls to Game of Thrones, his sub-creation of Middle-earth embodies and fuels “nerd” culture now just as it did for the hippies of the previous century. Yet, Tolkien ” war veteran, Oxford professor of Medieval languages and literature, devout Catholic ” was a man of his time and quite conservative, at least publicly. While he famously said that his wife “should be satisfied by devotion to her children” and not “enter the intellectual side of life,” the female characters in his stories, while small in number, are arguably great in power, assertiveness, and heroism. Tolkien’s writing argues for the importance of a community where all cultures coexist: Elves, Dwarfs, Men, Hobbits go to war against Sauron and the “One Ring” designed to “rule them all.” In this course we will read Tolkien’s major works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in their entirety, as well as excerpts from what he considered to be his master work, The Silmarillion. We will explore Tolkien materials housed in Special Collections at Hillman Library and online. Our reading list will include reviews and scholarship on Tolkien’s life and work, as well as on the ways in which his mythology continues to resonate and be reimagined in the twenty-first century. Ultimately, we will analyze the relationship between Tolkien and the counterculture as a way of understanding the ways in which myth, fantasy, and literature more broadly represent, shape, and interrogate complex social and political systems.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 1011 - MILTON TO MINECRAFT: ART, NATURE, AND TECHNOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, we will examine literature pertaining to the long history of relations among humans, technical devices, and the natural world, situating changing views of nature within larger cosmic and socioeconomic contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
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ENGLIT 1142 - ANCIENT EPIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Study of selected Greek and Roman epics in English translation. Among the works that may be read are Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Apollonius’ Argonautica, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Ovid’s metamorphoses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
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
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
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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
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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ENGLIT 1181 - VICTORIAN NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will analyze the emergence and development of the victorian novel—careful reading and focused discussion of such writers as Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, Thackeray, Hardy and Meredith will attempt to define the social, moral, and political concerns of their work as well as their narrative technique.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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