Literature | Academic Requirements | Minor in English and Comparative Literature | Courses: 1000–2999 | Courses: 3000–3999 | Courses: 4000–4999 | Faculty

The Literature B.A. Program: Course Sequences

New courses may be added to the lists below. To find out if a new course falls into one of these categories, students should check with their faculty advisor.

Sequence I: Before 1750
Sequence II: 1750–1900
Sequence III: 1900–Present

Sequence I: Before 1750
LIT 2080/The Ancient Epic
HIS 2120/LIT 2121/Princes, Priests, and Peasants
DRA 2200/Introduction to Shakespeare
LIT 2530/The Bible (added 11/13/08)
LIT 3140/Medieval English Literature
DRA 3140/Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
LIT 3150/Chaucer
LIT 3155/Renaissance in England
LIT 3160/Literature of the High Middle Ages
LIT 3220/Renaissance in Europe I
SPA/LIT 3233/Literature of Utopia and Discovery
LIT 3250/Milton
SPA/LIT 3705/Cervantes
SPA 3710/Cervantes (taught in Spanish)
LIT 3825/British Poetry I: Beginnings to 1650
LIT 4180/Dante and Medieval Culture
DRA 4210/Shakespeare Seminar
DRA 4450/LIT 4451/Advanced Shakespeare Seminar

Sequence II: 1750–1900
LIT 2560/Survey of U.S. Literature I
LIT 2570/Survey of U.S. Literature II
LIT 3003/Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
LIT 3121/Comparative 19th-Century Novel
LIT 3271/Age of Reason
LIT 3315/The 19th-Century Novel in the U.S.
LIT 3320/The 19th-Century British Novel
LIT 3323/Word and Image in the 19th Century
LIT 3330/Romanticism I
LIT 3340/Romanticism II
LIT 3369/Victorian Poetry
LIT 3497/Gothic
LIT 3540/Emerson
LIT 3541/Reinventing the American Renaissance
LIT 3581/Realism and Naturalism in U.S. Literature
LIT 3630/Melville
LIT 3827/British Poetry II: 1660–1940
LIT 4685/Whitman and Dickinson

Sequence III: 1900–Present
LIT 2100/Introduction to African-American Literature
DRA 2600/American Drama: From O’Neill to Albee
LIT 2680/The Beat Generation
CIN 2760/Cinematic Expression I
LIT 2825/Modernism and the Metropolis (added Spring 2009)
LIT 2855/Israeli Literature
LIT 2872/The Golden Land: American Jewish Literature and Film
LIT 3065/Caribbean Writers
LIT 3090/Wright, Ellison, Baldwin
LIT 3180/British Culture and Society in the 20th Century
LIT 3215/South Asian Literature
LIT 3265/Kafka
LIT 3305/Politics and Writing:
    Intellectuals in an Age of Crisis 1918–Present
LIT 3310/Modern Poetry in the U.S. and Latin America
LIT 3335/Cold War Romantics
LIT 3380/Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
HIS/FRE/LIT 3424/Modern and Postcolonial France
DRA 3460/Contemporary British Drama
LIT 3490/James Joyce
DRA/LIT 3495/Black American Drama (added Spring 2009)
FRE 3620/LIT 3621/Francophone Literature
LIT 3625/U.S. Poetry in the Jazz Age
SPA 3630/The Modern Latin American Novel
LIT 3645/The American Dream
LIT 3680/Surrealism and Its Legacy
SPA/LIT 3685/Modern Novel of Latin America
DRA 3690/American Theatre in Our Time
LIT 3695/Contemporary U.S. Literature
LIT 3696/Contemporary Literatures in English:
    Multicultural Britain and Postcolonial Global Culture
LIT 3715/Jewish Texts, Global Contexts:
    Multiple Voices in Diaspora
JST/LIT 3725/Literature of the Holocaust
DRA 3750/European Drama in Our Time
DRA 3770/Pioneers of Modern Drama
LIT 3839/The Modern Novel
LIT 3855/Politics and Literature in Central Africa
LIT 4100/Exile and Nomadism
LIT 4190/Williams and Faulkner
LIT 4200/FRE 4201/Marcel Proust (added Spring 2009)
LIT 4690/Contemporary U.S. Poetry
LIT 4860/Contemporary European Literature

Updated Nov. 13, 2008