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ENG 142 - Introduction to Popular Literary Genres

Popular literary genres such as science fiction, romance, detective novels, gothic, horror, and spy thrillers, including film and other non-print media. Topics vary.

Average Grade - 3.169
Median Grade - 3.5
295 total students

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ENG 211H - Honors Introduction to Literary Studies

Literary form and close reading. Substantial attention to poetry, drama, and narrative prose, drawing broadly on texts taken from more than one century and more than one national literature.

Average Grade - 3.949
Median Grade - 4.0
39 total students

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ENG 280 - Introduction to Literary Theories

Literary and critical theory. How literature is constituted and how representation works. Assumptions behind and limits of a range of theoretical approaches. Application of theory to literary texts.

Average Grade - 3.285
Median Grade - 3.5
136 total students

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ENG 320A - Methodologies of Literary History: Genre

Examination of literary works in relation to historical change, seen through the lens of genre. Reflection on the theories and practices of literary history.

Average Grade - 3.091
Median Grade - 3.5
11 total students

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ENG 320C - Methodologies of Literary History: Canon Formation

Examination of literary works in relation to historical change, through the lens of why canons form, or debates over canonical inclusion. Reflection on the theories and practices of literary history.

Average Grade - 3.519
Median Grade - 4.0
52 total students

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ENG 340 - Theory and Methods of Popular Culture Studies

Examination of the theories and methods of studies in popular culture.

Average Grade - 3.714
Median Grade - 4.0
39 total students

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ENG 342 - Readings in Popular Literary Genres

Extensive reading within a particular genre of popular literature such as science fiction, crime fiction or Gothic, with possible attention to media other than print.

Average Grade - 3.222
Median Grade - 3.5
143 total students

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ENG 356 - Readings in Jewish Literature

Extensive readings in a range of genres by Jewish writers, including fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and/or film. Cultural and artistic contexts of Jewish literature.

Average Grade - 3.558
Median Grade - 3.5
26 total students

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ENG 443 - Seminar in 19th Century American Literature

Advanced analysis in the major themes and developments in literary culture in the United States from the establishment of the Republic to the turn of the last century. Topics vary.

Average Grade - 3.385
Median Grade - 3.5
13 total students

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ENG 445 - Seminar in 20th and 21st Century American Literature

Advanced analysis in literary culture in the United States from the modern and contemporary eras. Topics vary.

Average Grade - 3.692
Median Grade - 4.0
13 total students

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ENG 473A - Literature and Medicine

Human dimensions of medicine as seen in literature. Health, illness, mortality. Medical dilemmas. Physical and psychological self. Psychological theories used in interpreting literature. Cultural history of the body. Theories of embodiment.

Average Grade - 3.523
Median Grade - 4.0
113 total students

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ENG 481 - Seminar in Critical and Cultural Theory

Advanced analysis in theoretical approaches to textual studies, selected from perspectives such as formalist, narrative, hermeneutical, semiotic, Marxian, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, postcolonial, and/or other recent critical discourses.

Average Grade - 3.682
Median Grade - 4.0
11 total students

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ENG 801 - Introduction to Graduate Studies

Critical reading and writing in the environment of the research university. Archival resources for professional research. Preparation for teaching, conferencing, and publication.

Average Grade - 3.818
Median Grade - 4.0
11 total students

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IAH 207 - Literatures, Cultures, Identities (I)

Explorations in how literature reflects, creates, and challenges cultural and individual identities. Approaches and materials from literature, philosophy, the arts, religion, and history. Selected themes and issues, variable by term.

Average Grade - 3.195
Median Grade - 3.5
87 total students

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IAH 221C - Great Ages: The Modern World (I)

Arts and humanities of the modern world, examined through the frame of urban and intellectual life. Literature, visual arts, music, religion and philosophy presented in historical context. Selected regions and themes. Variable by term.

Average Grade - 3.299
Median Grade - 3.5
1356 total students

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