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Modern Languages & Classical Studies Electives for English Major or Minor
Modern Languages and Classical Studies Classes that can count as electives for the English Major or Minor
ARAB 301 - Advanced Arabic I: Introduction to Arabic Literature and Society
ARAB 302 - Advanced Arabic II: Arabic Literature and Society
ARAB 308 - Bridging Heritage and Modernity: Modern Forms and Classical Themes in Arabic Literary Writing
ARAB 309 - Survey of Arabic Literature in Translation
ARAB 310 - Topics in Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
ARAB 401 - Classical Arabic Literature
ARAB 402 - Advanced Topics in Arabic Language, Culture, and Literature
CHIN 309 - Chinese Literature in English
CHIN 322 - 20th Century Chinese Literature in English
CHIN 386 - Art of Chinese Poetry
FREN 315 - Provocative Texts: French Literature in its Cultural Contexts
FREN 331 - Topics in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Culture
FREN 332 - Topics in Early Modern Literature and Culture
FREN 342 - Inventing Modernity: Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
FREN 350 - Modern French Poetry
FREN 351 - Twentieth-Century French Literature I
FREN 385 - Francophone African Literature I (in French)
FREN 386 - Francophone African Literature II (in English)
FREN 390 - Topics in French/Francophone Culture and Civilization
FREN 391 - Topics in French/Francophone Literature
FREN 450 – Advanced Seminar in French and Francophone Studies
GRMN 205 - Children’s Literature: Intensive Reading and Grammar Review
GRMN 221 - German Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends
GRMN 320 - Modern German Literature 1750 to the Present
GRMN 333 - Rethinking Heimat
GRMN 334 - The German City
GRMN 335 - Germans in Exile
GRMN 385 - German Empire and Colonialism
GRMN 386 - Literature, Science, and Culture in Germany (In English)
HISP 375 - Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature
HISP 380 - Masterworks: Issues in Canon Formation
HISP 486 - Spanish Language Epic and Nationalism
ITAL 208 - Reading and Writing Italy (In Italian)
ITAL 309 - Dante and the Medieval Tradition (In English)
ITAL 313 - Topics in Italian Studies (in English
ITAL 316 - 20th-Century Italian Women Writers (In English)
ITAL 317 - Postcolonial Literature (In Italian)
JAPN 209 - Classical Japanese Literature in Translation
JAPN 210 - Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature
RUSN 387 - Love, Adultery and Prostitution in 19th century Russian Literature
RUSN 388 - Revolution, Crime, and Romance in 20th century Russian Literature
RUSN 390 - Russian literature since the death of Stalin
RUSN 396 - Major works of Chekhov
RUSN 397 - Major Works of Dostoevsky
RUSN 398 - Major works of Tolstoy
RUSN 308 - Topics in Russian literature and culture
CLCV 316 - The Voyage of the Hero in Greek and Roman Literature - The Classic Epic
CLCV 317 - Sacred Violence in Greek and Roman Tragedy
CLCV 318 - Ancient Laughter: Comedy in Greece and Rome
CLCV 319 - The Birth of the Novel in Antiquity
CLCV 329 - The Invention of History Writing in Antiquity
GREK 322 - New Testament
GREK 323 - Greek Epic Poetry
GREK 326 - Greek Lyric Poetry
GREK 327 - Greek Tragedy
GREK 328 - Greek Comedy
GREK 329 - The Greek Novel
LATN 301 - Reading Literature in Latin
LATN 321 - Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
LATN 322 - Cicero
LATN 323 - Roman Drama
LATN 324 - Roman Satire
LATN 326 - Vergil
LATN 327 - The Roman Novel
LATN 329 - Medieval Latin
LATN 330 - Imperial Latin Literature: The Rhetoric of Cruelty
LATN 331 - Ovid
LATN 332 - Latin Epistolography