Fall 2023-Spring 2024 Major Requirements
201
Fall
201C WOR-Texts and Territories
201J WOR-Literary Form and Forms
201N WOR-Adaptions: From Page to Stage
Spring
201D WOR-Stories and Storytelling
201T WOR-Literature about Literature
201V WOR-Imitation and the Real Thing
CW
Fall
216 Techniques of Poetry
228 Life Writing: Writing About the Self and From Experience
242 Longform Narrative
266 Body and Text
269 Introduction to Playwriting
278 Writing on and as Performance
292 Techniques of Nonfiction
292A Techniques of Nonfiction: Memory and Memoir
296 Techniques of Fiction
325 Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop
336 Intermediate Poetry Workshop
339 Intermediate Fiction Workshop
394 Special Topics: Writing the Poetic Sequence
399 Advanced Playwriting: Long Form
450 Senior Seminar in Creative Writing
Spring
216 Techniques of Poetry
216A Techniques of Poetry: Hidden Histories
269 Introduction to Playwriting
296 Techniques of Fiction
326 Advanced Nonfiction Workshop
337 Advanced Poetry Workshop
340 Special Topics: Ecopoetics – Experimental Poetry in the Anthropocene
342 Advanced Fiction Workshop
390 Special Topics: Generative Novel Workshop
393 Special Topic: Difficult Novels, Uneasy Narratives
399 Advanced Playwriting: Long Form
Theory
Fall
208 Feminist Theories
213 Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital
250 Technologies of Self
267 Pessimism, Nihilism and Black Literature
301 1492: States of War
315 Close, Distant, Archival, Experimental: New Methods of Literary Study
347 Black Grammars
349 Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities
365 Ethics and Literature
381 The Gothic and the Sentimental
396 Thinking With Objects
Spring
208 Feminist Theories
264 Outsiders in European Literature
313 Literatures of Empire
318 Black Literary Theory
319 Asian American Posthumanisms: Biopolitics, Ecopoetics, and Literature
327 Criticism and Psychoanalysis
332 About Clothes: Styles, Histories, Activisms, Poetics
338 Serial Sensations
366 Dangerous Realisms
369 Performance Remains: Slavery in the Black Dramatic Imagination
389 Psychoanalytics
LH1
Fall
205 Shakespeare
301 1492: States of War
349 Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities
373 From Courtly Love to Cannibalism: Medieval Romances
Spring
207 Chaucer and his World
232 Mystics and Militants: Medieval Woman Writers
300 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
305 Shakespeare's Macbeth: From Saga to Screen
323 Staging the Real in Early Modern England
LH2
Fall
203 American Literature on Fire: Conquest, Capitalism, Resistance: 1492-1865
212 Victorian Fictions of Research
250 Technologies of Self
Spring
209 From Seduction to Civil War: The Early US Novel
313 Literatures of Empire
314 Circulating Bodies: Commodification, Sex Work, and Enslavement in 18th Century England
338 Serial Sensations
LH3
Fall
213 Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital
217 Recent American Fiction
230 Introduction to Asian American Literature
236 British Modernist Fiction
250 Technologies of Self
262 Beyond the Talking Book
267 Pessimism, Nihilism and Black Literature
276 Diasporic South Asian Writing and American Studies
347 Black Grammars
Spring
200 Narratives of Illness and Recovery
204A American Literature, 1865-1945
238 Russian and American Poetic Encounters
240 Introduction to African American Literature
243 Caribbean Writers in the U.S. Diaspora
254 India: Identity, Globalization, and Empire
264 Outsiders in European Literature
286 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
294 Edith Wharton and the Art and Science of Fiction
309 Entertaining Social Change
311 Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
318 Black Literary Theory
324 Black Power and the Modern Narrative of Slavery
332 About Clothes: Styles, Histories, Activisms, Poetics
366 Dangerous Realisms
369 Performance Remains: Slavery in the Black Dramatic Imagination
389 Psychoanalytics
AL
Fall
203 American Literature on Fire: Conquest, Capitalism, Resistance: 1492-1865
213 Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital
217 Recent American Fiction
230 Introduction to Asian American Literature
250 Technologies of Self
262 Beyond the Talking Book
276 Diasporic South Asian Writing and American Studies
281 Award Winning Play-Wrights
301 1492: States of War
Spring
200 Narratives of Illness and Recovery
204A American Literature, 1865-1945
209 From Seduction to Civil War: The Early US Novel
238 Russian and American Poetic Encounters
240 Introduction to African American Literature
243 Caribbean Writers in the U.S. Diaspora
286 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
294 Edith Wharton and the Art and Science of Fiction
309 Entertaining Social Change
318 Black Literary Theory
319 Asian American Posthumanisms: Biopolitics, Ecopoetics, and Literature
324 Black Power and the Modern Narrative of Slavery
369 Performance Remains: Slavery in the Black Dramatic Imagination
BL
Fall
205 Shakespeare
212 Victorian Fictions of Research
236 British Modernist Fiction
349 Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities
373 From Courtly Love to Cannibalism: Medieval Romances
Spring
207 Chaucer and his World
232 Mystics and Militants: Medieval Woman Writers
300 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
305 Shakespeare’s Macbeth
311 Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
313 Literatures of Empire
323 Staging the Real in Early Modern England
314 Circulating Bodies: Commodification, Sex Work, and Enslavement in 18th Century England
WL
Fall
267 Pessimism, Nihilism and Black Literature
276 Diasporic South Asian Writing and American Studies
301 1492: States of War
Spring
238 Russian and American Poetic Encounters
243 Caribbean Writers in the U.S. Diaspora
254 India: Identity, Globalization, and Empire
313 Literatures of Empire
319 Asian American Posthumanisms: Biopolitics, Ecopoetics, and Literature
366 Dangerous Realisms
369 Performance Remains: Slavery in the Black Dramatic Imagination
389 Psychoanalytics