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Historical Periods:

*Please note this is a list of all Undergraduate courses that fulfill requirements offered by the department.  The spring 2008 courses are linked to their individual course pages.

Category:
Course No. Title
MEDIEVAL
350:301 Literature in Medieval Courts
350:302 Medieval Literaure of Dissent
350:321 Chaucer
350:381 Medieval and Early Modern Women Writers
350:388 Cultures of the MIddle Ages
350:389 Issues and Problems in Medieval Literature and Culture
350:411,412 Old English Language and Literature
350:415 Medieval Romance
350:420 Seminar: Chaucer
350:422 Seminar: Medieval Literature and Culture
RENAISSANCE
350:303 Renaissance Literature: The Sixteenth-Century
350:304 Renaissance Literature: The Seventeenth-Century
350:322 Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays
350:323 Shakespeare: The Jacobean Plays
350:324 Milton
350:325 Milton and Other Early Modern Writers
350:328 Atlantic Cultures, 1500-1800 (may fulfill requirement, depending on content; check with undergrad office)
350:332 Sixteenth-Century Poetry
350:333 Seventeenth-Century Poetry
350:343 Drama in the Age of Shakespeare
350:390 Issues and Problems in Renaissance Literature and Culture
350:424 Seminar: Spenser
350:426, 427 Seminar: Shakespeare
350:428 Seminar: Milton
350:434 Seminar: Topics in Renaissance Literature and Culture
RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
350:305 Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literaure
350:306 Later Eighteenth-Century Literature
350:315 Colonial American Literature
350:328 Atlantic Cultures, 1500-1800 (may fulfill requirement, depending on content; check with Undergraduate office)
350:334 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry
350:344 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
350:352 Eighteenth-Century Novel
350:382 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
350:391 Issues and Problems in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
350:435 Seminar: Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
350:441 Seminar: Topics in American Literature and Culture to 1800
NINETEENTH-CENTURY*
350:307 Early Romantic Literature
350:308 Later Romantic Literaure
350:309 Victorian Literature
350:310 Late Victorian and Edwardian LIterature
350:316 Antebellum American Literature
350:317 Literature of American Realism and Naturalism
350:330 Literature and Literarcy in Nineteenth-Century English Culture
350:335 Victorian Poetry
350:340 Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
350:354 Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
350:359 Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
350:367 Nineteenth-Century Black Literature
350:383 Nineteenth-Century Women Writiers
350:385 American Women Writers to 1900
350:392 Issues and Problems in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
350:436 Seminar: Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
350:442 Seminar:Topics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
TWENTIETH-CENTURY*
350:311 Twentieth-Century Literature I
350:312 Twentieth-Century Literature II
350:313 Contemporary Literature
350:318 Twentieth-Century American Literature I
350:319 Twentieth-Century American Literature II
350:337 Twentieth-Century Poetry I
350:338 Twentieth-Century Poetry II
350:339 Contemporary Poetry
350:346 Twentieth-Century Drama I
350:347 Twentieth-Century Drama II
350:348 Contemporary Drama
350:349 American Drama
350:355 Twentieth-Century Fiction I
350:356 Twentieth-Century Fiction II
350:357 Contemporary Ficiton
350:368 Harlem Renaissance
350:369 Black Writers and the 1960's
350:378 Twentieth-Century Literature in Global Context
350:384 Twentieth-Century Women Writers
350:386 Twentieth-Century American Women Writers
350:393 Issues and Problems in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture
350:437 Seminar: Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture
AFRICAN-AMERICAN, ETHINIC AMERICAN, OR GLOBAL ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE REQUIREMENT
350:250,251 Black Literature
350:361 Black Narrative
350:362 Black Poetry
350:363 Black Drama
350:364 Black Novel
350:365 Black Autobiography
350:367 Nineteenth-Century Black Literature
350:368 Harlem Renaissance
350:369 Black Writers and the 1960's
350:370 Black Music and Literature
350:371 Black Women Writers
350:372 Literature of the Black World
350:376 Issues and Problems in Black Literature
350:378 Twentieth-Century Literature in a Global Context
350:445, 446 Seminar: Topics in Black Literature and Culture
351:216 Introduction to World Literature in English
351:345 Irish Writing in English
351:365 Readings in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
351:366 Literature of Migration, Immigration, and Diaspora
351:369 Minority Literatures in English
351:371 Literatures in English other than British and North American
351:375 Ethnic Literatures in the United States
351:376 Native American Literatures in English
351:377 Asian American Literatures in English
351:378 Chicano/Chicana Literature
351:460*** Seminar:Topics in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
354:320*** World Cinema I
354:321*** World Cinema II
LITERARY THEORY REQUIREMENT **
353:230 Readings in Literary Theory
353:301 History of Literary Theory I
353:302 History of LIterary Theory II
353:310 Language and Meaning
353:315 Deconstruction and Poststructuralist Theory
353:320 Marxist Literary Theory
353:326 Colonial and Postcolonial Theory
353:330 Cultural Theory in Literary Studies
353:340 Feminist Theory in Literary Study
353:346 Theories of Gender and Sexuality
353:350 Psychoanalytic Literary Theory
353:360 Literature, Theology and Theory
353:370 Theories of Genre
353:389, 390 Issues and Problems in Literary Theory
353:491, 492 Seminar: Topics in Literary Theory
353:496, 497 Seminar: Topics in Feminist Theory
354:385 Theories of Women in Film
354:420 Seminar: Film Theory

* SEE ALSO SPECIAL COURSES UNDER 351:TOPICS FOR ETHNIC/WORLD LITERATURE COURSES THAT MAY FULFILL THIS REQUIREMENT IN A PARTICULAR SEMESTER

**SEE ALSO SPECIAL COURSES UNDER 351:TOPICS THAT MAY FULFILL THIS REQUIREMENT IN A PARTICULAR SEMESTER

***MAY FUFILL REQUIREMENT, DEPENDING ON CONTENT; CHECK WITH UNDERGRADUATE OFFICE

 

 

 

 
 
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