In 2004-2005 the English Department engaged in a large-scale review and restructuring of its courses. In the fall of 2006, new courses were added to our offerings and familiar courses were assigned new numbers. As a result, transcripts for students graduating before 2010 are likely to include courses taken under two different numbering systems. To assist students in negotiating their requirements for the major through this transition, we will include, until 2010, the old course numbers alongside the new ones. This should help students to determine which requirements are fulfilled by courses under the new system while letting them check what requirements were met by courses taken under the old one. During this transition period it is possible that students will find themselves taking courses that have the same number as completely different courses that they took earlier. So long as the course is different, this is not a problem. On the other hand, students should recognize that they cannot repeat a course that they’ve taken for credit just because it now has a different number.

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 professor to determine which requirement it meets.

1. One Survey course:

   No.	Title	Prior #
   0020	Black World Literature	0036
   0021	General View of English Literature I	0051
   0022	General View of English Literature II	0052
   0023	Continuity of American Literature	0059

   
   

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	Prior #
   0032	Epic Strain	0091, 0192
   0050	Shakespeare I	0067
   0051	Shakespeare II	0068
   0086	Jane Austen: Novels and Film	0092, 0191
   0092	News, Novels, and Novelty: Narrative in the 18th Century
   0101	Old English	0101
   0104	Literature of the Middle Ages	0105
   0105	Middle English Literature	0108
   0107	Chaucer	0110
   0109	Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition	0191
   0110	Renaissance in England	0113
   0111	English Literature of the 17th Century	0121
   0112	Topics in Shakespeare	0191
   0113	Renaissance Drama	0118
   0114	Milton	0122
   0116	Mapping London	0191, 0192
   0117	Age of Unreason: 1660-1740	0123
   0118	Reason and Revolt	0124
   0119	18th Century English Novel	0125
   0120	Writing Lives	0191, 0192
   0121	Romantic Literature & Culture I: 1789-1810	0128
   0122	Romantic Literature & Culture II: 1811-1837	0129
   0123	Frankenstein's Sisters: Austen & Shelley	0191
   0138	Different Voices: Multicultural U.S. Literature before 1860	0191, 0192
   0145	Early African American Literature	0139
   0149	American Literature 1620-1815	0141
   0150	Cooper/Emerson/Thoreau	0142
   0151	Poe/Hawthorne/Melville	0144
   0191	Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

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

   No.	Title	Prior #
   0029	Literary Studies	0050
   0049	The English Bible	0115
   0108	Vergil and Dante	0191

   The following courses either have not been assigned new numbers, are similar in content to courses above, or have been discontinued. In all cases these courses DO meet the PRE 1860 requirement:

   No.	Title	Prior #
   	Early American Literature (title discontinued as of Fall 2005)	0141
   	God, Sex, & Politics in Shakespeare's England (discontinued Fall 2005)	0191
   	17th-Century English Poetry	0192

   
   

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

   No.	Title	Prior #
   0030	Twice Told Tales	0191
   0031	Underworlds	0091
   0033	Art & Social Crisis: The Victorian Past in the American Present	0134
   0034	The Nature of Gothic	0091
   0037	20th Century African American Literature	0037
   0038	Toni Morrison	0092, 0191
   0039	Death and Literature in the 20th Century	0091
   0045	Nonwestern Women Writers	0045
   0046	Girls' Books	0091
   0054	Conrad, Forster, Woolf	0091
   0057	Contemporary Fiction	0092
   0058	Short Fiction	0061
   0063	American Fiction 1900-1950	0063
   0064	American Fiction 1950-Present	0064
   0065	20th Century Poetry I	0075
   0066	20th Century Poetry II	0076
   0069	Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Literature	0091, 0191
   0070	Contemporary Anglophone Literatures	0073
   0077	The Modern Mind	0077
   0080	Hitchcock	0080
   0081	Postmodernism & Film	0081, 0092
   0082	Film & Society	0062
   0083	Un-American Activities	0083, 0091
   0084	Black Comedy	0091, 0191
   0085	Horror Stories	0191
   0087	Invisible Spectacle	0091, 0191
   0088	Film Noir and the American Tradition	0191
   0091	Dickinson, Bishop & Plath	0091
   0092	Studies in the Modern Novel: The Quest for Inner Space
   0092	Writing in the Beat Generation
   0126	Empire and Counterculture	0135
   0127	19th Century British Novel	0153
   0128	Nineteenth Century English and European Fiction	0191
   0131	British Modernism	0191
   0132	20th Century British Novel	0155
   0133	Joyce & Lawrence	0157
   0134	James Joyce's Ulysses	0191
   0135	Virginia Woolf	0191
   0136	Major Figures of the Irish Literary Renaissance	0191
   0146	African American Women Writers	0146
   0147	African-American Novel	0140
   0148	American Slave Narrative	0150
   0152	Whitman & Dickinson	0143
   0153	American Realism	0145
   0154	American Indian Writers	0148
   0155	American Women Writers	0147
   0157	Poets on Poetry	0162
   0158	Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner	0163
   0159	Contemporary Jewish Fiction	0175
   0160	Environmental Justice & U.S. Literature	0192
   0161	Memory for Forgetting	0191
   0162	Philip Roth & Company	0192
   0163	Speak, Memory: Contemporary Memoir	0191, 0192
   0164	Representing the Jew	0191
   0165	Perspectives on American Poetry	0191
   0166	Fiction <--> Non-fiction	0191
   0167	What the Novel Knows	0191, 0192
   0168	"Home is Where the Hatred Is"	0191
   0169	20th Century Literature of the Indian Subcontinent	0160
   0170	Modern European Novel	0156
   0171	Women & Fiction	0132
   0173	Literary Theory	0161
   0174	Sexuality, Literature, and Contemporary Criticism	0170
   0175	Post-Structural Literary Theory	0171
   0177	Feminism, Literature, Theory	0191, 0192
   0178	African-American Criticism & Theory	0149
   0179	Criticism & Society	0130
   0180	Psychoanalysis & Cultural Criticism	0171, 0191
   0181	The Politics of Reading	0191
   0185	Art of the Film	0191
   0186	How Films Think	0191
   0191	Literature and the Law
   0191	Thinking About Poetry
   0192	Contemporary South African Fiction

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

   No.	Title	Prior #
   0029	Literary Studies	0050

   The following courses either have not been assigned new numbers, are similar in content to courses above, or have been discontinued. In all cases these courses DO meet the POST 1860 requirement:

   No.	Title	Prior #
   	19th Century Fiction	0191
   	20th Century British Literature (discontinued Fall 2005)	0091
   	African American Canon	0092
   	Architecture of the Imagination	0091, 0192
   	Asian-American Literature	0191
   	Differences of Modernism: Virginia Woolf	0192
   	Ends of Literature: Readings in 20th C British Literature	0092
   	Feminist Literature and Theory (title discontinued Fall 2005)	0192
   	Film Noir: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, and the Subject of Modernity	0092
   	Hemingway & Faulkner	0191
   	Introduction to African American Literature (discontinued Fall 2005)	0091
   	Modernism and the Novel: James Joyce's Ulysses (discontinued Fall 2005)	0191
   	Modernism/Modernity	0191
   	Poets in Exile	0091
   	Representations & Violence: Readings in 20th C British Literature	0091
   	Screening for Race	0091
   	Studies in Ethnic Literature	0192
   	The Question of Feminism: Literature & Theory (title discontinued Fall 2005)	0192
   	The Victorian Novel	0191
   	Toni Morrison	0092, 0191
   	Topics in Literature	0092
   	Trauma, Testimony, Literature	0191
   	Writers in Hollywood	0091
   	Writing from the Border: Latino/a Literature	0092

   
   

4. Five remaining courses of the student's choice from the department's listings. See course listings.

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