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LIT-Literature

Department of English

• LIT 104 Whose Stories Get Told?
• LIT 106 Introduction to Film
• LIT 109 Stories and Numbers
• LIT 119 Just Joking? Reading and Writing Satire
• LIT 130 Magic and Monsters: Past Legends, Imagined Futures
• LIT 133 Justice Across Literature
• LIT 135 Justice and Heroism
• LIT 138 Justice by the Book
• LIT 140 Crime Stories
• LIT 142 Science Fiction, Science Fact
• LIT 170 Stories for Young People on Page and Screen
• LIT 203 New York City in Literature
• LIT 204 Outlaws
• LIT 212 Literature of the African World
• LIT 219 The Word as Weapon
• LIT 223 African-American Literature
• LIT 230 Ancient Literature: Expressions of the Living Past
• LIT 231 Medieval and Early Modern Literature
• LIT 232 Reading the Modern World
• LIT 233 This is America: Stories of Promise, Power, and Protest
• LIT 236 Literary Perspectives on Culture & Globalization
• LIT 237 Literature as Witness
• LIT 239 Science in the Making
• LIT 241 Murder on Screen and Stage
• LIT 243 Rights, Wrongs and Literature in Action
• LIT 258 Asians Speak Up! Reimagining Asian Lives from East to West
• LIT 260 Introduction to Literary Study
• LIT 265 Foundations of U.S. Latinx Literature
• LIT 267 Latinx Horror and Gothic in Literature and Film
• LIT 268 Latinx Graphic Novel
• LIT 270 Reading and Writing Children's Literature
• LIT 275 The Language of Film
• LIT 283 New York City in Film
• LIT 284 Film and Society
• LIT 286 The Horror Film
• LIT 287 Selected Topics in Literature
• LIT 289 Independent Study 200-level
• LIT 300 Text and Context
• LIT 305 Foundations of Literature and Law
• LIT 309 Contemporary Fiction
• LIT 311 Literature and Ethics
• LIT 313 Shakespeare
• LIT 314 Shakespeare and Justice
• LIT 315 American Literature and the Law
• LIT 316 Gender and Identity in Literary Traditions
• LIT 319 Law and Justice in European Medieval Literature
• LIT 323 The Crime Film
• LIT 325 Science Fiction Film
• LIT 326 Crime, Punishment and Justice in U.S. Literature
• LIT 327 Crime, Punishment and Justice in World Literature
• LIT 328 Film Criticism
• LIT 329 Documentary Film and Media
• LIT 340 The African-American Experience in America: Comparative Racial Perspectives
• LIT 342 Perspectives on Literature and Human Rights
• LIT 344 Caribbean Literature and Culture
• LIT 346 Cultures in Conflict
• LIT 348 Native American Literature
• LIT 352 New Fiction
• LIT 353 Comic Books and Graphic Novels: Investigating a Literary Medium
• LIT 357 Latinx Street Literature
• LIT 358 Landmark Case: Korematsu v. United States
• LIT 360 Mythology in Literature
• LIT 362 The Bible as Literature
• LIT 366 Writing Nature: Literature and Ecology
• LIT 370 Topics in Ancient Literature
• LIT 371 Topics in Medieval Literature
• LIT 372 Topics in Early Modern Literature
• LIT 373 Topics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Literature
• LIT 374 Topics in Nineteenth-century Literature
• LIT 375 Topics in Twentieth-century Literature
• LIT 379 Selected Historical Topics in Literature
• LIT 380 Advanced Selected Topics in Literature
• LIT 383 Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Latinx Literature
• LIT 385 Faculty Mentored Research Experience in Literature
• LIT 389 Independent Study 300-level
• LIT 390 Individual Reading
• LIT 400 Senior Seminar in Literature
• LIT 401 Special Topics
• LIT 405 Senior Seminar in Literature and Law
• LIT 409 Seminar in U.S. Latinx Literature
• LIT 489 Independent Study 400-level