Please note: Not all courses are offered every semester. If a course that you are taking does not appear on this list please consult with your adviser to determine which requirement it meets.

1. One Survey course:

   No.	Title
   0020	Black World Literature
   0021	General View of English Literature I
   0022	General View of English Literature II
   0023	American Literature: First Contact to 1855 (formerly "Continuity of American Literature")

   
   

2. Two non-survey classes in American, British, or other Anglophone literature written before 1860, including at least one course in British literature. No more than one course used to fulfill this part of the requirement may be on Shakespeare. The following courses meet this requirement:

   No.	Title
   0032	Epic Strain
   0050	Shakespeare I
   0051	Shakespeare II
   0086	Jane Austen: Novels and Film
   0091	Romance
   0092	News, Novels, and Novelty: Narrative in the 18th Century
   0092	Sex in 19th Century American Literature
   0101	Old English
   0104	Literature of the Middle Ages
   0105	Middle English Literature
   0107	Chaucer
   0109	Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition
   0110	Renaissance in England
   0111	English Literature of the 17th Century
   0112	Topics in Shakespeare
   0113	Renaissance Drama
   0114	Milton
   0116	Mapping London
   0117	Age of Unreason: 1660-1740
   0118	Reason and Revolt
   0119	18th Century English Novel
   0120	Writing Lives
   0121	Romantic Literature & Culture I: 1789-1810
   0122	Romantic Literature & Culture II: 1811-1837
   0123	Frankenstein's Sisters: Austen & Shelley
   0138	Boston Radicals (prior # 0191)
   0149	American Literature 1620-1815
   0150	Cooper/Emerson/Thoreau
   0151	Poe/Hawthorne/Melville
   0187	Travel Lit. and the Idea of America (prior # 0191)
   0191	Nineteenth-century American Poetry
   0191	Reading Clarissa
   0191	Touring the Empire
   0191	Visual/Narrative: From Hogarth to the Graphic Novel
   0192	A Woman's Place: Gender, Space, and Power in Early Modern England
   0192	Dickens and Company
   0192	Spenser
   0192	Whitman for Whitmaniacs

   Please note the following courses DO NOT meet the PRE 1860 requirement:

   No.	Title
   0029	Literary Studies
   0049	The English Bible
   0108	Vergil and Dante

   
   

3. Two non-survey courses in American, British, or Anglophone literature written after 1860.
   The following courses meet this requirement:

   No.	Title
   0030	Twice Told Tales
   0031	Underworlds
   0033	Art & Social Crisis: The Victorian Past in the American Present
   0034	The Nature of Gothic
   0036	Asian American Writers (prior # 0091)
   0037	20th Century African American Literature
   0038	Slavery's Optic Glass: The First Century of African American Literature (prior # 0191)
   0039	Death and Literature in the 20th Century
   0040	Writing in the Beat Generation (prior # 0091/0092)
   0041	Literature of the Sixties
   0045	Nonwestern Women Writers
   0046	Girls' Books
   0054	Conrad, Forster, Woolf
   0057	Contemporary Fiction
   0058	Short Fiction
   0063	American Fiction 1900-1950
   0064	American Fiction 1950-Present
   0065	20th Century Poetry I
   0066	20th Century Poetry II
   0069	Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Literature
   0070	Contemporary Anglophone Literatures
   0074	Literature of the Jazz Age (previously Introduction to American Modernism, # 0092)
   0077	The Modern Mind
   0080	Hitchcock
   0081	Postmodernism & Film
   0082	Film & Society
   0083	Un-American Activities
   0084	Black Comedy
   0085	Horror Stories
   0087	Invisible Spectacle
   0088	Film Noir and the American Tradition
   0091	Dickinson, Bishop & Plath
   0092	Studies in the Modern Novel: The Quest for Inner Space
   0126	Empire and Counterculture
   0127	19th Century British Novel
   0128	Nineteenth Century English and European Fiction
   0131	British Modernism
   0132	20th Century British Novel
   0133	Joyce & Lawrence
   0134	James Joyce's Ulysses
   0135	Virginia Woolf
   0136	Major Figures of the Irish Literary Renaissance
   0146	African American Women Writers
   0147	African-American Novel
   0148	American Slave Narrative
   0152	Whitman & Dickinson
   0153	American Realism
   0154	American Indian Writers
   0155	American Women Writers
   0157	Poets on Poetry
   0158	Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
   0159	Contemporary Jewish Fiction
   0160	Environmental Justice & U.S. Literature
   0161	Memory for Forgetting
   0162	Philip Roth & Company
   0163	Speak, Memory: Contemporary Memoir
   0164	Representing the Jew
   0165	Perspectives on American Poetry
   0166	Fiction <--> Non-fiction
   0167	What the Novel Knows
   0168	"Home is Where the Hatred Is"
   0169	20th Century Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
   0170	Modern European Novel
   0171	Women & Fiction
   0172	War and American Values (prior # 0191)
   0173	Literary Theory
   0174	Sexuality, Literature, and Contemporary Criticism
   0175	Post-Structural Literary Theory
   0177	Feminism, Literature, Theory
   0178	African-American Criticism & Theory
   0179	Criticism & Society
   0180	Psychoanalysis & Cultural Criticism
   0181	The Politics of Reading
   0183	American Culture during the Great Depression (prior # 0192)
   0185	Art of the Film
   0186	How Films Think
   0191	Black Feminist Theories
   0191	Hemingway and Faulkner
   0191	Literature and the Law
   0191	Modern and Post-Modern American Poetry
   0191	Thinking About Poetry
   0192	Becoming a Critic
   0192	Contemporary South African Fiction
   0192	Imagining Haiti
   0192	(Un)Making American Identities: Blacks and Asians in the U.S.

   Please note the following courses DO NOT meet the POST 1860 requirement:

   No.	Title
   0029	Literary Studies

   
   

4. Five remaining courses of the student's choice from the department's listings. See course listings.
   
   A Senior Honors Thesis may count for two of these courses. There are restrictions on the number of creative writing courses that may be applied (see "Major Concentration Requirements" for details).

<< Return to Undergraduate Program main page