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AMST - American Studies
ARAB - Arabic
ARTH - Art History
ARTS - Studio Art
ASN - Asian Studies
BICH - Biochemistry
BIO - Biology
BLST - Black Studies
BOSP - Barack Obama Scholars Program
CHEM - Chemistry
CHIN - Chinese Studies
COGS - Cognitive Science
CWP - College Writing Program
COMP - Computer Science
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CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice
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ECON - Economics
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HIST - History
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LING - Linguistics
LLAS - Latino/a and Latin American Studies
MAC - Media Arts and Culture
MATH - Mathematics
MUSA - Music Applied Study
MUSC - Music
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POLS - Politics
PSYC - Psychology
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> ENGL - English
ENGL - English
ENGL 100
Creative Writing for First Years
ENGL 101
Poetry and the Environment
ENGL 105
Adaptations: Fiction to Film
ENGL 140
Victoriana
ENGL 142
Joyful Noise! On Black Literature and Musicality
ENGL 145
Exiles in Hollywood: Film Noir and the Rom Com
ENGL 147
The 19th Century Novel and Bollywood Cinema
ENGL 155
Science and Fiction: How Literature Thinks about Science
ENGL 165
Queer Fictions
ENGL 178
Shakespeare and Film
ENGL 180
Model Minority Narratives
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 240
Introduction to Law and Literature
ENGL 241
The "Deviant"
ENGL 245
Realism and the Rise of the Novel
ENGL 248
Money, Gender, and the Nineteenth Century Novel
ENGL 250
Imagining American Capitalism
ENGL 265
White Women: Constructing Race and Gender in Multiethnic American Literature
ENGL 266
Race and the Western
ENGL 267
Afro-Surrealism
ENGL 271
The Literature and Film of American Immigration
ENGL 272
Science Fiction and Asian America
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 Literature: Romanticism to Modernism
ENGL 289
American 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 318
Shakespeare’s Histories and other Historical Fictions
ENGL 322
Renaissance Cultures of Punishment
ENGL 330
Colonialism and the Definition of the Human in 18th-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 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 361
Genre and Racial Difference
ENGL 362
American Orientalism
ENGL 365
Contemporary Literature
ENGL 370
Literary Criticism
ENGL 377
Afrofuturism
ENGL 380
Creative Writing: Advance Fiction Writing
ENGL 381
Experimental Life 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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