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Global Literary Studies Elective Classes

Approved Electives for the Global Literary Studies Include:

 
ASIAN 201: Literature and Culture of China: Ancient and Classical
ASIAN 203: Literature and Culture of Ancient and Classical India in English
ASIAN 206: Literature and Culture of S. Asia from Tradition to Modernity

ASIAN 263: Great Works of Asian Literature

 

CHID 220/C LIT 210: Literature and Science

 

CHIN 463: History of Chinese Literature: From the Yuan to Recent Times

 

C LIT 200: Introduction to Literature

C LIT 210/CHID 220: Literature and Science
C LIT 252: The Novel: Life in Long Form
C LIT 318/NEAR E 318: Literature and the Holocaust
C LIT 331/SCAND 331: Folk Narrative
C LIT 361: Early Modern Writers
C LIT 400: Introduction to Theory and Criticism

C LIT 424/CLAS 424: The Epic Tradition

 

CLAS 210: Greek and Roman Classics in English

CLAS 231: Race and the Ancient World
CLAS 410: The Classical Tradition
CLAS 424/C LIT 424: The Epic Tradition
CLAS 430: Greek and Roman Mythology

CLAS 432: Classical Mythology in Film

 

ENGL 200: Reading Literary Forms

ENGL 204: Popular Fiction and Media
ENGL 210: Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 400 to 1600
ENGL 225: Shakespeare
ENGL 250: American Literature
ENGL 257: Asian-American Literature
ENGL 258: Introduction to African-American Literature
ENGL 266: Literature and Technology
ENGL 267: Intro to Data Sciences in the Humanities (starts Autumn 2023)
ENGL 277: Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature
ENGL 302: Critical Practice
ENGL 309: Theories of Reading
ENGL 310: Bible as Literature
ENGL 315: Literary Modernism
ENGL 316: Postcolonial Literature and Culture
ENGL 318: Black Literary Genres
ENGL 319: African Literatures
ENGL 320: English Literature: The Middle Ages
ENGL 321: Chaucer
ENGL 323: Shakespeare to 1603
ENGL 324: Shakespeare after 1603
ENGL 329: Rise of the English Novel
ENGL 335: English Literature: The Age of Victoria
ENGL 337: The Modern Novel
ENGL 343: Studies in Poetry
ENGL 349: Science Fiction and Fantasy
ENGL 357: Jewish American Literature and Culture
ENGL 359: Contemporary American Indian Literature
ENGL 365: Literature and Discourse on the Environment
ENGL 368: Women Writers

ENGL 372: World Englishes

 

FRENCH 214: French Fairy Tales

 

GERMAN 285: Representation and Diversity

GERMAN 295: Modern German Jewish Literature (Sympathy for the Devil)
GERMAN 351: Vienna 1900
GERMAN 385: Rhetoric & Social Justice

GERMAN 422: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

 

ITAL 262: Dante and the Middle Ages

ITAL 354: Travel, Migrations, Exile

 

JAPAN 321: Classical Japanese Literature

JAPAN 322: Modern Japanese Literature

 

LIT 298: Diversity in the Anthropocene

 

MELC 286: Themes in Middle Eastern Literature
MELC 310: Jewish Literature: Foundations and Re-imaginings
MELC 317: Jewish Experience in Literature and Film
MELC 318: Literature and the Holocaust
MELC 325: Modern Hebrew Literature in English
MELC 330: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Modern Arabic Novel
MELC 331: 1001 Nights

MELC 332: Arab American Authors

 

ROMN 420: Romanian Literature, Art, And Film

 

RUSS 120: Underworlds
RUSS 340: Russia's Big Books
RUSS 322: The Golden Age: Nineteenth Century Russian Literature and Culture
RUSS 323: Revolution: Twentieth Century Russian Literature and Culture
RUSS 324: Russian Folk Literature in English

RUSS 427: Russian Jewish Experience

 

S ASIA 203: Love and War in Classical Indian Literature

S ASIA 206: Modern Literature of South Asia

 

SCAND 151: Finnish Literary and Cultural History

SCAND 153: Introduction to Lithuanian Literary And Cultural History
SCAND 156: Introduction to Swedish Literary and Cultural History
SCAND 232: Hans Christian Andersen and the Fairy Tale Tradition
SCAND 270: Sagas of the Vikings
SCAND 280: Ibsen and His Major Plays in English
SCAND 312: Masterpieces in Nordic Literature
SCAND 315: Scandinavian Sci Fi
SCAND 330: Scandinavian Mythology
SCAND 331/C LIT 331: Folk Narrative
SCAND 345: Baltic Cultures

SCAND 445: War and Occupation in Northern Europe: History, Fiction, Memoir

 

SLAVIC 200: Intro to Slavic Literature
SLAVIC 320: The Other Europe: Post World War II East European Fiction
SLAVIC 340: Modern Yiddish Literature (cross-listed with JEW ST  340)

SLAVIC 490: Studies in Slavic Literatures, in English

 

SPAN 231: Themes in Mexican-American Studies

SPAN 318: Don Quixote in English

 

SPAN 465: Contemporary Chicano Literature