Approved Courses for Majors
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.
In addition, each semester the English Department offers several 91 and 191 courses in the Fall (Topics in Literature and Culture and Seminars in English) and 92 and 192 courses in the Spring (Topics in Literature and Culture and Seminars in English) that count toward the English major's Pre- or Post-1860 requirements. Please check courses for current listing.
One Survey course:
No. Title 0020 Black World Literature 0021 Heroes, Lovers, and Demons: British Literature from Beowulf to the Eighteenth Century 0022 Crisis and Critique: British Literature from 1780 to 1950 0023 Dissent & Democracy: American Literature to 1900 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 0031 Underworlds 0032 Epic Strain 0050 Shakespeare - F 0051 Shakespeare - S 0086 Jane Austen: Novels and Film 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 0115 Philosophy and Literature in the 18th-Century 0116 The Country and the City 0117 Age of Unreason: 1660-1740 0118 Reason and Revolt 0119 18th-Century English Novel 0121 Romantic Literature & Culture I: 1789-1810 0122 Romantic Literature & Culture II: 1811-1837 0123 Frankenstein's Sisters: Austen & Shelley 0124 Visual Narrative Before Cinema 0138 Boston Radicals (prior # 0191) 0149 American Literature 1620-1815 0150 Cooper/Emerson/Thoreau 0151 Poe/Hawthorne/Melville 0182 American Gothic 0188 Slave Revolts & Maroons Please note the following courses DO NOT meet the PRE or POST 1860 requirement:
No. Title 0029 Literary Studies 0049 The English Bible 0108 Virgil and Dante 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 0035 Reading at Sea: Experimental Texts of the 20th-Century 0036 Asian American Writers (prior # 0091) 0040 Writing in the Beat Generation (prior # 0091/0092) 0041 Literature of the Sixties (prior #0091) 0044 Travel Literature 0045 Nonwestern Women Writers 0046 Girls' Books 0047 Saul Bellow & Friends 0048 From Beijing to Bollywood: Cinema of China and India 0054 Conrad, Forster, Woolf 0058 Short Fiction 0063 American Fiction 1900-1950 0064 American Fiction 1950-Present 0069 Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Literature 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 0089 Feminism in 20th-Century US Lit and Culture 0126 Empire and Counterculture 0127 19th-Century British Novel 0129 The Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in English 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 0147 African-American Novel 0152 Whitman & Dickinson 0153 American Realism 0155 American Women Writers 0157 Poets on Poetry 0158 Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner 0159 Contemporary Jewish Fiction 0160 Environmental Justice & World Literature (Formerly "Environmental Justice and U.S. Literature") 0161 Black Prison Writing 0162 Philip Roth & Company 0163 Speak, Memory: Contemporary Memoir 0164 Representing the Jew 0165 Perspectives on American Poetry 0167 What the Novel Knows 0168 African Cinema of Liberation 0170 Modern European Novel 0171 Women & Fiction 0172 War and American Values (prior # 0191) 0173 Literary Theory 0180 Psychoanalysis & Cinema 0183 American Culture during the Great Depression (prior # 0192) 0186 How Films Think 0187 Ghetto Sur/Realism: The Harlem (Detective) Fiction of Chester Himes 0189 Fanon & the Black (Textual) Revolution - Five remaining courses of the student's choice from the department's listings.
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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.
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