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Distribution Requirement Course Lists

Distribution Requirements Course Lists

Global Distribution Requirement

The following courses satisfy the global distribution requirement.

LIT 117AOld Iranian Literature

5
LIT 121KRadical Moderns/Poetry International

5
LIT 124BThe Contemporary Latin American Short Story

5
LIT 125HModern Arabic Novel

5
LIT 125IWhat is the Novel?

5
LIT 126AInternational Cyberpunk

5
LIT 127DTravel Writing

5
LIT 130AAncient Literature in Cross-Cultural Perspective

5
LIT 130BTravel Writing and Intercultural Relations in the Middle Ages

5
LIT 130DThe Global Middle Ages

5
LIT 131AProblems

5
LIT 131BSpace/Time

5
LIT 131CWorldings

5
LIT 131DLiterature in a Global Context

5
LIT 133DTopics in the Literatures and Cultures of Southern Asia

5
LIT 133EContemporary Chinese Society, Culture, and Politics

5
LIT 133FPacific Rim Discourse

5
LIT 133GThe Nuclear Pacific

5
LIT 133IGlobal Japan: Literatures of the Japanese Diaspora

5
LIT 134ACaribbean Literature

5
LIT 135ATopics in African Literature

5
LIT 135EThe Historical Imaginary

5
LIT 135HAfrican Futurisms

5
LIT 137AGlobal Cities

5
LIT 138ACulture and Nation

5
LIT 138CModern Turkish Literature

5
LIT 141AEarly Mediterranean Cultures

5
LIT 141BClassical Chinese Culture and Literature, 10th Century B.C.E. through Sixth Century C.E

5
LIT 141CClassical Chinese Culture and Literature, Sixth Century through 16th Century

5
LIT 141DClassical Arabic Literature and Islamic Civilization

5
LIT 141EArab-Islamic Literatures II: 1200-1900

5
LIT 149CThe 1960s

5
LIT 149FContemporary Mexican Narrative

5
LIT 149HThe Future

5
LIT 151LTheater in India

5
LIT 155ACinema and Subjectivity

5
LIT 155ECinema and Social Change in Latin America

5
LIT 155NCinema in India

5
LIT 156EMapping Fictions: Geocritical Approaches to Cultural Studies

5
LIT 160CCruelty: Enjoying the Pain of Others

5
LIT 160ETheorizing Race and Comics

5
LIT 160IRace, Militarism, and Empire in Asia and the Pacific

5
LIT 160JExile, Diaspora, Migration

5
LIT 160KRace, Labor, and Migration

5
LIT 160MThe War on Terror

5
LIT 162BLiterature of the Asian Diaspora

5
LIT 164CGlobal Jewish Writing

5
LIT 165AChicano/Mexicano Geographies

5
LIT 165BLatino Fictions of the Americas

5
LIT 165CMesoamerican Indigenous/Indigenista Literature

5
LIT 167GReading the Weather: Literature and Global Climate Change

5
LIT 167HDisability in Transnational Asian American Studies

5
LIT 168AThe Culture of Islamic Law

5
LIT 168BIslamic Law and Society

5
LIT 181ABiblical Hebrew, Part 1

5
LIT 181BBiblical Hebrew, Part 2

5
LIT 181DReading Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Part 1

5
LIT 181EReading Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Part 2

5
LIT 181FReading Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Part 3

5
LIT 181HSanskrit, Part 2

5
LIT 182ILittérature d'expression française hors de France

5
LIT 184ESpecial Topics in Greek Literature

5
LIT 188RHumanidades Ambientales

5
LIT 189ADe la conquista a Sor Juana

5
LIT 189CIntroducción a Spanish Studies

5
LIT 189ECuba

5
LIT 189FLiteraturas Latinas en los Estados Unidos: en inglés, español y Spanglish

5
LIT 189GCine y Literatura

5
LIT 189HLa Globalizacion en/del Cine Latin/o Americano

5
LIT 189ILiteratura e indigeneidad

5
LIT 189KEl ensayo latinoamericano

5
LIT 189LPoesía latinoamericana

5
LIT 189MProsa contemporánea hispanoamericana

5
LIT 189NLatinoamericano testimonio

5
LIT 189OEl Cuento Hispanoamericano: Variedades esteticas de la literatura breve en America Latina

5
LIT 189PLas mujeres en la literatura latinoamericana

5
LIT 189QFicción y marginalidad

5
LIT 189RLa Novela de la Dictadura

5
LIT 189SLa cultura popular en la narrativa latinoamericana

5
LIT 189THistoria de la lectura y los lectores: Recepcion y consumo cultural en el mundo Latino Americano

5
LIT 189UModernidad y literatura: El Boom de la novela latinoamericana

5
LIT 189VAndean Indigenismo

5
LIT 189ZLiteratura de Chile

5
LIT 190LTopics in World Literature and Cultural Studies

5
LIT 190OStudies in Slavery, Race, and Nation in the Americas

5

Poetry/Poetics Distribution Requirement

The following courses satisfy the poetry/poetics distribution requirement.

LIT 110AThe Traditional British Canon, Part I

5
LIT 110BThe Traditional British Canon, Part II

5
LIT 111BGeoffrey Chaucer

5
LIT 111DWilliam Shakespeare

5
LIT 111EEdmund Spenser

5
LIT 112PGwendolyn Brooks

5
LIT 114AOrlando Furioso

5
LIT 114CDante's Divine Comedy

5
LIT 114DGoethe's Faust

5
LIT 114EOne Way Ticket to Hell … and Back: Exploring Dante’s Inferno

5
LIT 114FFinding Dante: A Reader’s Guide to Getting Out of Hell

5
LIT 116BEncountering Antiquity

5
LIT 116CAncient Myth/Modern Poetics

5
LIT 117AOld Iranian Literature

5
LIT 120ATopics in Poetry

5
LIT 120BPoetry of the 17th Century

5
LIT 120CVictorian Poetry

5
LIT 120DNineteenth-Century American Poetry

5
LIT 120EEarly- to Mid-20th-Century American Poetry

5
LIT 120FTopics in Modern Poetry

5
LIT 120HAmerican Poetry Since World War II

5
LIT 120JContemporary American Poetry

5
LIT 121DMedieval Epic

5
LIT 121GThe Idea of Poetry

5
LIT 121HClassical Poetics in Elizabethan Verse

5
LIT 121KRadical Moderns/Poetry International

5
LIT 121LGreen Ache: Ecopoetics, Race, and Material

5
LIT 121MBlue and Brown: Race, Gender, and Blackness

5
LIT 121NRAGE: Race and Performance

5
LIT 121OBody Theories and Embodied Poetics in Contemporary American Poetry

5
LIT 121QQueer Lyrics: A History of LGBTQ Poetry in the United States

5
LIT 136BBeat Literature and the World

5
LIT 141BClassical Chinese Culture and Literature, 10th Century B.C.E. through Sixth Century C.E

5
LIT 141CClassical Chinese Culture and Literature, Sixth Century through 16th Century

5
LIT 146AStudies in Romanticism

5
LIT 149EModern Fiction and Poetry

5
LIT 154CHip Hop Hi Art

5
LIT 164BHebrew Poetry

5
LIT 166ARepresentations of Gender in Medieval Literature

5
LIT 167CMetamorphoses: Pre/Post Modern Transformations

5
LIT 181BBiblical Hebrew, Part 2

5
LIT 181EReading Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Part 2

5
LIT 181FReading Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Part 3

5
LIT 181GSanskrit, Part 1

5
LIT 181HSanskrit, Part 2

5
LIT 182ALe Moyen Age

5
LIT 182EEtudes de Poésie

5
LIT 183NModern Deutsche Lyrik

5
LIT 184CGreek Poetry

5
LIT 185JPoesia moderna

5
LIT 185O''I need a hero:'' Ariosto's (Un)Epic Renaissance

5
LIT 185PBoccaccio: Decameron

5
LIT 185QDante: Divina Commedia

5
LIT 185SPetrarca

5
LIT 186BRoman Poetry

5
LIT 188BLiteratura peninsular: de los orígenes al siglo XVIII

5
LIT 189LPoesía latinoamericana

5
LIT 190FStudies in Poetry

5

Pre-1750 Distribution Requirement

The following courses satisfy the pre-1750 distribution requirement.

LIT 110AThe Traditional British Canon, Part I

5
LIT 111BGeoffrey Chaucer

5
LIT 111DWilliam Shakespeare

5
LIT 111EEdmund Spenser

5
LIT 114AOrlando Furioso

5
LIT 114BDon Quixote de la Mancha

5
LIT 114CDante's Divine Comedy

5
LIT 114EOne Way Ticket to Hell … and Back: Exploring Dante’s Inferno

5
LIT 114FFinding Dante: A Reader’s Guide to Getting Out of Hell

5
LIT 116BEncountering Antiquity

5
LIT 116CAncient Myth/Modern Poetics

5
LIT 116FKnights, Ladies, and Werewolves: Medieval French Literature in Translation

5
LIT 116IPhilosophy in India

5
LIT 117AOld Iranian Literature

5
LIT 118AHebrew Bible

5
LIT 120BPoetry of the 17th Century

5
LIT 121DMedieval Epic

5
LIT 121GThe Idea of Poetry

5
LIT 121HClassical Poetics in Elizabethan Verse

5
LIT 121JMedieval Romance

5
LIT 125AAncient Novel

5
LIT 130AAncient Literature in Cross-Cultural Perspective

5
LIT 130BTravel Writing and Intercultural Relations in the Middle Ages

5
LIT 141AEarly Mediterranean Cultures

5
LIT 141BClassical Chinese Culture and Literature, 10th Century B.C.E. through Sixth Century C.E

5
LIT 141CClassical Chinese Culture and Literature, Sixth Century through 16th Century

5
LIT 141DClassical Arabic Literature and Islamic Civilization

5
LIT 141GGranada: The Moor's Last Sigh and the Muslim's Frontier: The City in the Mediterranean Imagination

6
LIT 144AContinental Renaissance

5
LIT 145AColonial American Literatures

5
LIT 150DThe Power of Writing: Books and Libraries 600-1500

5
LIT 151BThe Phenomenon of Tragedy

5
LIT 151GEnglish Drama: 1576-1642

5
LIT 151LTheater in India

5
LIT 157AModern Ancient Drama

5
LIT 157CRepresentations of Hamlet

5
LIT 157EGreek Drama/Modern Film

5
LIT 160CCruelty: Enjoying the Pain of Others

5
LIT 160RGangsters, Bandits and Rogues: The Image of the Outlaw from the Middle Ages to the Present

5
LIT 164AJewish Travel Narratives

5
LIT 166ARepresentations of Gender in Medieval Literature

5
LIT 166BEarly Modern Representations of Gender

5
LIT 166CEarly Modern Italian Women Writers

5
LIT 167BMonsters and Humans

5
LIT 181ABiblical Hebrew, Part 1

5
LIT 181BBiblical Hebrew, Part 2

5
LIT 181CCoptic

5
LIT 181DReading Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Part 1

5
LIT 181FReading Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Part 3

5
LIT 181GSanskrit, Part 1

5
LIT 181HSanskrit, Part 2

5
LIT 182ALe Moyen Age

5
LIT 184AIntroduction to Greek Literature

5
LIT 184BGreek Drama

5
LIT 184CGreek Poetry

5
LIT 184DProse Authors

5
LIT 184ESpecial Topics in Greek Literature

5
LIT 185O''I need a hero:'' Ariosto's (Un)Epic Renaissance

5
LIT 185PBoccaccio: Decameron

5
LIT 185QDante: Divina Commedia

5
LIT 185SPetrarca

5
LIT 186AIntroduction to Latin Literature

5
LIT 186BRoman Poetry

5
LIT 186CProse Authors

5
LIT 186DSpecial Topics in Latin Literature

5
LIT 188ALiteratura medieval

5
LIT 188BLiteratura peninsular: de los orígenes al siglo XVIII

5
LIT 188ETeatro del Siglo de Oro español

5
LIT 188FCuentos del Siglo de Oro español

5
LIT 188GLiteraturay vida en Don Quijote y otros textos cervantinos

5
LIT 188HErotismo y Mistica

5
LIT 188ILa novela picaresca

5
LIT 189ADe la conquista a Sor Juana

5
LIT 189DSor Juana Ines de la Cruz

5
LIT 190ATopics in Pre- and Early Modern Studies

5

Senior Seminar Distribution Requirement

The following courses satisfy the senior seminar distribution requirement.

LIT 190IIndividual Authors

5
LIT 190JStudies in English Language Literature

5
LIT 190KStudies in U.S. Literature

5
LIT 190NStudies in 19th-Century British Literature

5
LIT 190TTopics in Modern Literary Studies

5
LIT 190UTopics in Theory

5
LIT 190VFiction Senior Seminar

5
LIT 190WPoetry Senior Seminar

5
LIT 190XTemas de la literatura y cultura espanolas y latinoamericanas

5
LIT 190YTopics in Jewish Literature and Culture

5
LIT 190ZTopics in German Literature and Culture

5
LIT 195ASenior Essay

5
LIT 195BSenior Essay

5
LIT 195CSenior Essay

5
LIT 190ATopics in Pre- and Early Modern Studies

5
LIT 190FStudies in Poetry

5
LIT 190LTopics in World Literature and Cultural Studies

5
LIT 190OStudies in Slavery, Race, and Nation in the Americas

5