Courses by Distribution Requirement
Distribution Requirement List
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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 |
Spring 2024 English
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| ENG 200 | Rewriting the World: Literatures in English, 1350-1850 | Pre-1700; LCH |
| ENG 203 | The Essay | 1700-1900; TC |
| ENG 298 / COM 240 | Myth and Mythography in the Early Modern World | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 304 | Children's Literature | 1700-1900; Post-1900 |
| ENG 317 / GSS 407 | Poetry and Poetics, 1500 to 1700: Erotic Poetry | Pre-1700; TC |
| ENG 319 | Shakespeare: Hamlet and After | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 331 / ECS 382 | The Later Romantics | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 351 | American Literature: 1865-1930 | 1700-1900; Post-1900 |
| ENG 379 / ENV 383 | Environmental Justice Through Literature and Film | DD; Post-1900 |
| ENG 444 / ASA 444 / AMS 443 | Global Novel | DD; Post-1900; TC |
Spring 2024 Cross-Listed
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| AAS 359/ ENG 366 | African American Literature: Harlem Renaissance to Present | LCH; DD; Post-1900 |
| AMS 425 / ENG 423 | Reality/Television | TC; Post-1900 |
| ASA 224/ ENG 224/ GSS 226 | Asian American Literature and Culture | LCH; DD; Post-1900 |
| CLA 208/ ENG 240/ LIN 208/ TRA 208 | Origins and Nature of English Vocabulary | TC |
| COM 235/ ECS 340/ ENG 237 | Fantastic Fiction: Fairy Tales | LCH |
| ENV 363/ ENG 263 | Writing the Environment through Creative Nonfiction | TC; Post-1900 |
| GSS 223/ ENG 254 | Power, Profit and Pleasure: Sex Workers and Sex Work | DD |
| GSS 303/ AMS 313/ ENG 283 | Feminist Futures: Contemporary S. F. by Women | DD |
| HUM 328/ ENG 270/ ART 396 | Language to Be Looked At | TC |
| 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 |
| LAO 347 / ENG 247 | Latino/a Literature and Film | DD |
| LAS 307/ ENG 257/ COM 381 | Charged (En)counters: Poetics and Politics of the Hemispheric Americas | DD; LCH |
| THR 300/ COM 359/ ENG 373/ ANT 359 | Acting, Being, Doing, and Making: Introduction to Performance Studies | DD; TC |
| THR 376 / COM 385 / ENG 276 / HLS 385 | Restaging and Rewriting The Greeks | LCH; Post-1900 |
Fall 2023 English
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| ENG 300, S01 | Junior Seminar: Wild Writing: Literary Acts with Animal Actors (Anderson, Sarah M.) | JRS |
| ENG 300, S02 | Junior Seminar: TBD (Tamsen Wolff) | JRS |
| ENG 300, S03 | Junior Seminar: Frankenstein: 207 Years Ago and Today (Susan Wolfson) | JRS |
| ENG 306 | History of Criticism | TC |
| ENG 313/ MED 313 | Beowulf | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 318/ THR 310 | Shakespeare: Towards Hamlet | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 334 | Literatures of the American Renaissance, 1820-1865 | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 339/ COM 342/ GSS 438 | Topics in 18th-Century Literature: Jane Austen Then and Now | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 345 | 19th-Century Fiction | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 354/ AAS 354/ THR 351 | Black Dramatists in the English-Speaking World | DD; Post-1900 |
| ENG 357 | Topics in American Literature: Henry James & William Faulkner | Post-1900 |
| ENG 359/ COM 359 | Bodies & Belonging in Milton's Epic Tradition | Pre-1700; TC; DD |
| ENG 360 | Modern Fiction | Post-1900 |
| ENG 361/ THR 364/ COM 321 | Modern Drama I | Post-1900 |
| ENG 368/ AMS 340 | American Literature: 1930 – Present | Post-1900 |
| ENG 383/ AAS 340/ GSS 395/ AMS 483 | Topics in Women's Writing: Archival Silence & Aesthetic Innovation | Post-1900; DD |
| ENG 384/ GSS 394 | Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies: Gender, Sex, and Desire in Early Modernity | 1700-1900; DD |
| ENG 390/COM 392/HUM 390 | Bible as Literature | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 405 | Topics in Poetry: Modern Irish Poetry | Post-1900; DD |
| ENG 409/ THR 410/ HUM 409 | Topics in Drama: Early Modern Theater: Purpose of Playing | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 415/ JRN 415/ COM 446/ AFS 415 | Topics in Literature and Ethics: Writing About Refugees | Post-1900; DD; LCH |
Fall 2023 Cross-Listed
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| AAS 353/ ENG 352 | African American Literature: Origins to 1910 | LCH; DD |
| AMS 101 | America Then and Now | |
| AMS 322/ ENG 242 | Native American Literature | DD |
| ASA 201/ENG 209 | Introduction to Asian American Studies | DD; LCH |
| COM 372/ ENG 303 | The Gothic Tradition | |
| COM 421/ ENG 241 | Lyric Language and Form I: Renaissance to Romantic | |
| COM 456/ ENG 465 | The Art and Practice of Impracticality | |
| ECS 342/ ENG 349 | Literature and Photography: Genealogies of Perception | Post-1900 |
| HUM 216 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature and the Arts | LCH |
| HUM 217 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: History, Philosophy, and Religion | LCH |
| LAO 340/ ENG 354 | Latinx Narratives: Literature, Music and Culture | Post-1900; DD |
| THR 302/ ENG 222 | Ghosts, Vampires, and Zombies in Irish Theatre and Literature | |
| THR 347/ ENG 274 | The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William | Post-1900; DD |
| THR350/ ENG 251 | Playing Dead: Corpses in Theater and Cinema | |
Spring 2023 English
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| ENG 200 | Rewriting the World: Literatures in English, 1350 – 1850 | Pre-1700, LCH |
| ENG 246/ HUM 246/ CLA 246/ CWR 246 | Re-Writing the Classics | DD |
| ENG 259/ AMS 259 | Film and Media Studies: Animation | Post-1900 |
| ENG 269 | Sally Rooney and her Contemporaries | Post-1900 |
| ENG 275 | American Television | Post-1900 |
| ENG 325/ COM 371 | Milton | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 341/ ECS 382 | The Later Romantics | 1700-1900 |
| ENG 355 | British Cinema | TC; Post-1900 |
| ENG 358/ LAS 385/ AMS 396/ AAS 343 | Caribbean Lit and Culture: Island Imaginaries: Movement, Speculation, and Precarity in Caribbean Literature | DD, Post-1900 |
| ENG 387 | Phenomenology | DD, TC |
| ENG 388 | Topics in Critical Theory: Think Space | TC |
| ENG 400/ MED 400 | Touching Books: An Introduction to the History of Books | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 401/ AMS 401 | Forms of Literature: American Short Stories | Post-1900 |
| ENG 402/ MED 401 | Forms of Literature: Prehistories of Civilization | Pre-1700 |
| ENG 404/ NES 404/ AMS 402 | Forms of Literature: Writing Revolution | DD |
| ENG 405 | Topics in Poetry: Contemporary Poetry | Post-1900 |
| ENG 409/ THR 410/ HUM 409 | Topics in Drama: Performing Hamlet | Pre-1900; DD |
| ENG 411/AMS 411/AAS 413 | Major Author(s): Mourning America: Emerson and Douglass | TC; DD; 1700-1900 |
| ENG 448/ THR 448/ HUM 448/ COM 440 | Early Modern Amsterdam: Tolerant Eminence & the Arts | Pre-1700 |
Spring 2023 Cross-Listed
| COURSE NUMBER | TITLE | DISTRIBUTION |
|---|
| AAS 230/ ENG 231 | Topics in African American Studies: The Fire This Time – Reading James Baldwin | DD; Post-1900 |
| AAS 326/ ENG 286 | Topics in African American Culture & Life: Black Speculative Fiction and The Black Radical Imagination | DD |
| AAS 359/ ENG 366 | African American Literature: Harlem Renaissance to Present | DD; Post-1900 |
| AAS 392/ ENG 392 | Topics in African American Literature: Reading Toni Morrison | DD; Post -1900 |
| AMS 317/ ENG 249 | Sondheim's Musicals and the Making of America | Post-1900 |
| AMS 334/ ENG 234 | American Genres: Westerns, Screwball Comedies, Film Noir | Post-1900 |
| AMS 404/ ENG 454 | Advanced Seminar in American Studies: "America": Writing the Public, Writing the Self | DD |
| AMS 415/ ENG 435 | Land and Story in Native America | DD |
| ASA 389/ ENG 289 | New York Stories: Asian Pacific American Art, Activism, Literature & Film | DD |
| ATL 499/ ENG 499 | Sites of Memory: Gender, Performance, and the Law | DD |
| COM 207/ ENG 207 | What is Socialism? Literature and Politics | TC |
| COM 322/ ENG 282 | Imagining the Mediterranean in Literature and Film: Itineraries Traditions Ordeals | DD |
| COM 401/ ENG 419 | Seminar. Types of Ideology and Literary Form: Ethics, the Novel, and Pornography | |
| COM 464/ ENG 464 | Conversations: Jazz and Literature | DD |
| GSS 400/ ENG 264 | Contemporary Theories of Gender and Sexuality | DD |
| HUM 307/ ENG 277 | Literature as Data | TC, Post-1900 |
| LAO 347/ ENG 247 | Latina/o Literature and Film | DD |
| THR 316/ ENG 217 | Modern Irish Theatre: Oscar Wilde to Martin McDonagh to Riverdance | Post-1900 |
