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Course Descriptions
> ENGL - English
ENGL - English
ENGL 101
Poetry and the Environment
ENGL 140
Victoriana
ENGL 142
Joyful Noise! On Black Literature and Musicality
ENGL 145
Exiles in Hollywood: Film Noir and the Rom Com
ENGL 155
Science and Fiction: How Literature Thinks about Science
ENGL 165
Queer Fictions
ENGL 178
Shakespeare and Film
ENGL 193
Directed Research
ENGL 195
Topics in English
ENGL 197
Independent Study
ENGL 220
Literatures of the Scientific Revolution
ENGL 222
The Literature of Revenge
ENGL 225
Shakespeare: Beyond Tragedy
ENGL 241
The "Deviant"
ENGL 248
Money, Gender, and the Nineteenth Century Novel
ENGL 267
Afro-Surrealism
ENGL 270
Asian American Literature
ENGL 273
Contemporary American Poetry
ENGL 274
Women Writers
ENGL 280
Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction Writing
ENGL 281
Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL 287
Literary Experiments from Chaucer to Milton
ENGL 288
Modern British Literary Traditions
ENGL 289
The American Experience in Literature
ENGL 290
Introduction to Literary Methods
ENGL 295
Topics in English
ENGL 297
Independent Study
ENGL 311
The Literature of Error: Romance and Genre
ENGL 314
Renaissance Poetry
ENGL 315
Lyric Forms
ENGL 316
Literatures of Primitive Accumulation
ENGL 322
Renaissance Cultures of Punishment
ENGL 330
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
ENGL 332
Eighteenth Century Literature: 1730-1800
ENGL 341
Race, Law, and Literature
ENGL 345
On Tyranny in American Literature before 1900
ENGL 346
19th Century African American Literature
ENGL 347
19th Century Novel and Bollywood Cinema
ENGL 351
Modernism and Contemporary British Fiction
ENGL 353
Reading the Global 1930s: Depression-era Literature, Philosophy, and Politics
ENGL 360
Toni Morrison and U.S. Imaginative Production
ENGL 365
Contemporary Literature
ENGL 370
Literary Criticism
ENGL 377
Afrofuturism
ENGL 380
Creative Writing: Advance Fiction Writing
ENGL 382
Advanced Creative Writing
ENGL 390
Junior Seminar in English
ENGL 393
Directed Research
ENGL 395
Special Topics in English
ENGL 397
Independent Study
ENGL 490
Senior Seminar: Comprehensive Project
ENGL 497
Independent Study
ENGL 499
Honors in English
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