Topics Course Credits

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Topics Course Credits

Topics Courses and How They Count

Periodically, the English Department offers topics-based courses developed by individual faculty. This guide describes how they count. For a full list of English Department courses and details about how they fulfill requirements for the department’s three majors, please visit the academic catalog.

The current English Department class and lab may be accessed through SIS.

Please visit the academic catalog for a complete list of course offerings.

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ENGL 200 (topic): African American Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Afrofuturism
ENGL 200 (topic): Black Arts to Black Lives Matter
ENGL 200 (topic): Black Science Fiction
ENGL 200 (topic): Hip Hop Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Latinx Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Modern and Contemporary African American Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Queer of Color Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Women of Color Writing
ENGL 203 (topic): Asian American Literature
ENGL 205 (topic): American Racial/Muli Literature
ENGL 207 (topic): Women of African Diaspora
ENGL 209 (topic): Arab American Literature and Film
ENGL 232 (topic): Writing America 1588-1800
ENGL 251 (topic): Major Chicano/a Authors
ENGL 253 (topic): Ernest Hemingway
ENGL 260 (topic): American Gothic: Page to Screen
ENGL 261 (topic): Counterculture/American Literature
ENGL 263 (topic): Narratives of Soc Protest
ENGL 279 (topic): Psychopathy in American Culture
ENGL 340 (topic): Literature Eras-American
ENGL 340 (topic): The City in American Literature and Film
ENGL 345 (topic): Multi-Cultural Literature
ENGL 392 (topic): Seminar: American Authors
ENGL 399 (topic): American Cinemas
ENGL 399 (topic): Seminar: Audre Lorde & Radical Imaginat

ENGL 200 (topic): Writing/Visualizing Palestine
ENGL 200 (topic): Muslim Women Writiers
ENGL 201 (topic): Transatlantic Anglo Literature
ENGL 204 (topic): South Asia Literature
ENGL 206 (topic): African Literature
ENGL 219 (topic): Anglophone Literature and Global Ethics
ENGL 280 (topic): African Poetry
ENGL 280 (topic): Folklore and Epic
ENGL 280 (topic): Afro-Caribbean Literature
ENGL 347 (topic): Post Colonial Literature

ENGL 208 (topic): Black & Asian British Literature
ENGL 216 (topic): Ethics and Renaissance Literature
ENGL 220 (topic): Medieval and Renaissance Bodies
ENGL 220 (topic): Rewriting the Renaissance
ENGL 220 (topic): The Queer Renaissance
ENGL 222 (topic): Ecocriticism and Renaissance Literature
ENGL 223 (topic): Old & Middle English Literature
ENGL 225 (topic): Neoclassic/Romantic Literature
ENGL 228 (topic): Romantic/Victorian/Modern
ENGL 229 (topic): 20C British & Irish Literature
ENGL 243 (topic): Arthurian Legend and Literature
ENGL 256 (topic): Shakespeare & Contemporary
ENGL 260 (topic): Shakespeare and Film
ENGL 260 (topic): Shakespeare/Material Culture
ENGL 269 (topic): Art, Design & Literature in Britain
ENGL 270 (topic): Soccer in England
ENGL 271 (topic): Literature & Scientific Revolution
ENGL 280 (topic): History of the British Novel
ENGL 330 (topic): Literature Eras-Britain
ENGL 380 (topic): Shakespeare
ENGL 391 (topic): Seminar: British Authors
ENGL 395 (topic): Chaucer and Ethics

ENGL 200 (top0c): Modern/Comtemporary African American Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): African American Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Afrofuturism
ENGL 200 (topic): Black Arts to Black Lives Matter
ENGL 200 (topic): Black Science Fiction
ENGL 200 (topic): Hip Hop Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Latinx Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Modern and Contemporary African American Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Queer of Color Literature
ENGL 200 (topic): Women of Color Writing
ENGL 200 (topic): Writing/Visualizing Palestine
ENGL 203 (topic): Asian American Literature
ENGL 205 (topic): American Racial/Multi Literature
ENGL 208 (topic): Black & Aisan British Literature
ENGL 232 (topic): Writing America 1588-1800
ENGL 280 (topic): Afro-Caribbean Literature
ENGL 360 (topic): LiteraryCrit/Theory
ENGL 399 (topic): Audre Lorde & Radical Imaginat

*For English majors:

The antiracism requirement cannot be fulfilled concurrently with one of the category requirements (American, Anglophone, British).

ENGL 216 (topic): Ethics and Renaissance Literature
ENGL 220 (topic): Lit Hist
ENGL 220 (topic): Medieval and Renaissance Bodies
ENGL 220 (topic): Rewriting the Renaissance
ENGL 220 (topic): The Queer Renaissance
ENGL 222 (topic): Ecocriticism and Renaissance Literature
ENGL 223 (topic): Old & Middle English Literature
ENGL 225 (topic): Neoclassic/Romantic Literature
ENGL 232 (topic): Writing America 1588-1800
ENGL 243 (topic): Arthurian Legend and Literature
ENGL 256 (topic): Shakespeare & Contemp
ENGL 260 (topic): Folios, Fashion, and Food
ENGL 260 (topic): Global Shakespeare
ENGL 260 (topic): Shakespeare/Material Culture
ENGL 260 (topic): Shakespeare and Film
ENGL 271 (topic): Literature & Scientific Revolution
ENGL 272 (topic): Global Shakespeares
ENGL 280 (topic): History of the British Novel
ENGL 380 (topic): Shakespeare
ENGL 393 (topic): Drama and Moral Choice
ENGL 395 (topic): Chaucer and Ethics
ENGL 1029 (topic): Writing the Body, 1690-1800
ENGL 20450 (topic): Writing and Perform in Age of Shakespeare

*The pre-1800 requirement can be fulfilled concurrently with one of the category requirements (American, Anglophone, British) or the antiracism requirement.

This topics course credit list is updated every semester.

For questions, please contact the English Department chair.

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