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2026-2027 Undergraduate Bulletin > Course Descriptions > LIT-Literature

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

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