Courses by Distribution Requirement
Distribution Requirement List
Please note:
Fall 2025 English
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| ENG 218 / GSS 233 / AMS 217 | Nice People | TC; Post-1900 |
| ENG 229 / AMS 229 | Introduction to Indigenous Literatures | DD |
| ENG 291 / GSS 291 / ASA 291 | Asian Mothers | DD; TC |
| ENG 300 | Junior Seminar | JRS |
| ENG 306 / COM 340 | History of Criticism | TC |
| ENG 309 | Graphic Narrative and the Comics Medium | Post-1900 |
| ENG 313 / MED 313 | Beowulf | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 318 / THR 310 | Shakespeare: Toward Hamlet | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 321 / THR 336 | Global Theater: Plays & Politics | DD; LCH |
| ENG 330 / ECS 368 | Romanticism and the Age of Revolutions | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 339 / COM 342 / GSS 468 | Topics in 18th Century Literature: Jane Austen Then and Now | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 340 / AMS 359 | Topics in American Literature: New York and the Black Literary Scene | Post-1900; TC; DD |
| ENG 345 | 19th Century Fiction | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 390 / COM 392 / HUM 390 / TRA 390 | The Bible as Literature | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 398 | Modern Irish Literature, Culture, and Law | Post-1900 |
| ENG 399 | Law & Literature | TC; LCH |
| ENG 403 | Forms of Literature: Reading the World Bank | Post-1900; TC; DD |
| ENG 406 | Magical Realism | DD; Post-1900 |
| ENG 450 | Dissolving Commonwealths | Pre-1700; DD |
| ENG 452 | Capitalism, Character, and Community in Four Victorian Novels | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 498 | Senior Thesis 1 (Year-Long) | SIW |
Fall 2025 Cross-Listed
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| AAS 253 / ENG 352 | Introduction to African American Literature to 1910 | DD; LCH |
| ASA 224 / ENG 224 / GSS 226 | Asian American Literature and Culture | LCH; DD; Post-1900 |
| CHV 401 / AMS 401 / ENG 419 | Media Literacy: What to Read and Believe in the Age of AI | TC; Post-1900 |
| COM 466 / ENG 466 / ECS 466 | Refugees, Migrants and the Making of Contemporary Europe | TC; DD |
| ENV 251 / GSS 251 / ENG 243 | Coming to Our Senses: Climate Justice - Climate Change in Film, Photography and Popular Culture | TC; Post-1900 |
| GSS 401 / CWR 400 / ENG 427 / AMS 374 | Feminist Life Writing | DD; Post-1900 |
| THR 205 / CWR 210 / ENG 205 | Introductory Playwriting | TC |
| THR 451 / COM 463 / ENG 451 / NES 451 | Theater Rehearsal and Performance | TC |
Spring 2025 English
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| ENG 200 | Rewriting the World: Literatures in ENglish, 1350-1850 | LCH; Pre-1700 |
| ENG 203 | The Essay | 1700-1900; TC |
| ENG 266 | Poetry and the Arts | TC; LCH |
| ENG 305 | Contemporary Literary Theory | TC; Post-1900 |
| ENG 311 | The Medieval Period: Chaucer and Langland | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 317 | Poetry and Poetics, 1500 to 1700: Erotic Poetry | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 319 | Shakespeare: Hamlet and After | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 322 | Where are we? Maps, Travel, and Wonder | TC; Pre-1700 |
| ENG 325 | Milton | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 327 | Aldous Huxley: Major Works | TC; Post-1900 |
| ENG 328 | Revenge Tragedy Beyond Hamlet | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 342 | Indigenous Literature and Culture: Not Your Mascot | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 360 | Modern Fiction | Post-1900 |
| ENG 370 | Contemporary Fiction | DD; Post-1900 |
| ENG 375 | Wilderness Tales | TC; LCH |
| ENG 379 | Environmental Justice Through Literature and Film | Post-1900; DD |
| ENG 394 | African Literature | DD; Post-1900 |
| ENG 398 | Modern Irish Literature, Culture, and Law | Post-1900 |
| ENG 399 | Law and Literature | TC; LCH |
| ENG 402 | Forms of Literature: Film Adaptation | Post-1900 |
| ENG 404 | Forms of Literature: Inventing the Novel | 1700-1900; TC |
| ENG 452 | Capitalism, Character, and Community in Four Victorian Novels | 1700-1900 |
Spring 2025 Cross-Listed
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| AAS 223 / ENG 231 | Intro Topics in African AMerican Culture & Life: The Fire This time - Reading James Baldwin | DD; Post-1900 |
| AAS 253 / ENG 352 | Introduction to African American Literature to 1910 | DD; LCH |
| AAS 312 / ENG 314 | Black Feminist Literary Aesthetic Practices | DD; TC; Post-1900 |
| AAS 392 / ENG 392 / GSS 341 | Topics in African American Literature: Reading Toni Morrison | DD; Post-1900 |
| AFS 343 / ENG 343 | African Mythology, Creation Narratives, & Origin Stories Continental Case Studies / Cross-Genre App. | DD; LCH |
| COM 207 / ENG 207 | What is Socialism? Literature and Politics | TC |
| COM 235 / ECS 340 / ENg 237 / HUM 231 | Fantastic Fiction: Fairy Tales | LCH |
| COM 360 / ENG 362 | Ocean Outlaws: Pirates, Mutineers, and the Invention of Freedom | TC; LCH |
| COM 471 / ENG 471 | Elegy: The Poetics of Love and Loss | TC; LCH |
| ECS 342 / ENG 349 / COM 352 | Literature and Photography | Post-1900 |
| ENV 363 / ENG 263 | Writing the Environment through Creative Nonfiction | TC; Post-1900 |
| GSS 203 / ENG 202 | Images of Muslim Women | DD; Post-1900 |
| GSS 223 / ENG 254 | Power, Profit and Pleasure: Sex Workers and Sex Work | DD |
| GSS 230 / ENG 227 | You Better Work! Sex and Gender in Reality TV | DD; Post-1900 |
| GSS 240 / ENG 220 | Bad Girls: Sex, Gender, Deviance | TC; DD |
| GSS 246 / ENG 246 | Transnational Feminisms | TC; DD |
| HIS 387 / ENG 389 | Data & Culture | TC; Post-1900 |
| HUM 325 / ENG 324 | Nostalgia | TC; LCH |
| LAO 330 / ENG 329 / ART 336 | Latinx Photography | DD; Post-1900 |
| THR 308 / CWR 308 / ENG 307 / MTD 308 | New Play Development | TC |
| THR 452 / ENG 453 | Topics in Ensemble Performance: A Midsummer Night's Dream | TC; Pre-1700 |
Fall 2024 English
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| ENG 201 | Survey of Early American Literature to 1865 | 1700-1900; LCH |
| ENG 204 / AMS 205 | Historical Fiction, Fictional History | LCH; Post-1900 |
| ENG 218 / GSS 233 / AMS 217 | Nice People | TC; Post-1900 |
| ENG 275 / AMS 275 | American Television | Post-1900 |
| ENG 279 | Shakespeare at the Movies | Pre-1700; Post-1900 |
| ENG 291 / GSS 291 / ASA 291 | Asian Mothers | DD; TC |
| ENG 295 | The Art of Loving | TC; Post-1900 |
| ENG 306 / COM 340 | History of Criticism | TC |
| ENG 309 | Graphic Narrative and the Comics Medium | Post-1900 |
| ENG 312 | Chaucer | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 315 / MED 315 | Worlds Made with Words: Old English Poems that Perform | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 318 / THR 310 | Shakespeare: Toward Hamlet | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 340 / AMS 359 | Topics in American Literature: Cather, Faulkner, Morrison | Post-1900 |
| ENG 345 | 19th-Century Fiction | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 383 | Topics in Women's Writing: Early Modern Women's Writing | DD; Pre-1700 |
| ENG 387 | Phenomenology | TC; DD |
| ENG 388 | Topics in Critical Theory: Franz Fanon | TC |
| ENG 401 | Forms of Literature: American Short Stories | Post-1900 |
| ENG 403 | Forms of Literature: Gothic: Haunted Form | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 404 / COM 448 | Forms of Literature: Short Forms: Fables, Tales, and Aphorisms | LCH; 1700-1900 |
| ENG 405 | Topics in Poetry: Modern Irish Poetry | Post-1900 |
| ENG 406 | Magical Realism | DD; Post-1900 |
| ENG 441 / COM 426 / GSS 443 | A New Eve: Women, Myth, and Power | DD; Post-1900 |
Fall 2024 Cross-Listed
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| AAS 231 / ENG 245 | The Souls of Black Folk - Reading W.E.B. Du Bois | DD; Post-1900 |
| AMS 317 / MTD 321 / THR 322 / ENG 249 | Sondheim's Musicals and the Making of America | Post-1900 |
| AMS 322 / ENG 242 | Native American Literature | DD |
| COM 396 / GER 396 / ENG 396 | The Poetics and Politics of Pronouns | TC |
| COM 466 / ENG 466 | Radical Mobilities: Migration and the Making of the World | TC; DD |
| ENV 251 / GSS 251 / ENG 243 | Coming to Our Senses: Climate Justice - Climate Change in Film, Photography and Popular Culture | TC; Post-1900 |
| ENV 271 / ENG 271 | Climate Storytelling for Climate Action | TC; Post-1900 |
| GER 307 / ENG 323 / COM 347 | Topics in German Culture and Society: Civic Storytelling: Political Novelas | TC; 1700-1900 |
| HUM 346 / ENG 256 / CDH 346 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | TC |
| HUM 352 / ENG 252 / URB 352 / THR 360 | Arts in the Invisible City: Race, Policy, Performance | DD; Post-1900 |
