Course Group III – Literature from the Start of the 20th Century to the Present
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Major Courses in Course Group III
ENGL 3 Literary History III: Literature in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
ENGL 31 Asian American Literature and Culture
ENGL 32/NAIS 35 Native American Literature
ENGL 33/AAAS 35 Modern Black American Literature
ENGL 34 From Anna Christie to Hamilton (and Donald Trump): Modern American Drama
ENGL 35 American Fiction: 1900 to World War II
ENGL 36 Contemporary American Fiction
ENGL 37 Contemporary American Poetry
ENGL 38 American and British Poetry: 1900-1960
ENGL 39 American Fiction: 1950 to 1990
ENGL 41 British Fiction: World War II to the Present
ENGL 42/AAAS 65 Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 44 Introduction to Digital Studies (also in Course Group IV)
Special Topics in Course Group III
ENGL 53.04/WGSS 66.05 Telling Stories for Social Change
ENGL 53.05 Writing Dublin: On Saints, Sinners, and Rebels
ENGL 53.06/COLT 18.01 Women's Literature and Technologies of Transmission from the Long Nineteenth Century to the Present
ENGL 53.07/AAAS 81.07/FILM 47.25 Black Noir
ENGL 53.08 Weird Fiction and the Limits of the Human
ENGL 53.10/WGSS 47.01 Immigrant Women Writing in America
ENGL 53.16/AAAS 51/COLT 51.01 African Literatures: Masterpieces of Literature from Africa
ENGL 53.17 The Graphic Novel
ENGL 53.19 Faulkner
ENGL 53.20/NAIS 32 Indian Killers: Murder and Mystery in Native Literature and Film
ENGL 53.22 Science Fiction Studies
ENGL 53.23/AAAS 83.06/LACS 66 Caribbean Lyric and Literature
ENGL 53.25/NAIS 47 Contemporary Native American Poetry
ENGL 53.26 From More Fun to Fun Home: A History of the U.S. Comic Book
ENGL 53.27 The African American 1960s
ENGL 53.28/AAAS 81.10 James Baldwin: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
ENGL 53.29/AAAS 35.50 Introduction to African American Environmental Thought: The Black Outdoors
ENGL 53.30/AAAS 88.13 Women Writing Memoir
ENGL 53.32/COLT 52.08/LACS 41.20 Literature and Culture of the Americas
ENGL 53.33/WGSS 36.06 Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
ENGL 53.34 The Wire
ENGL 53.35/AAAS 88.12 From Diaspora Practices to Theory
ENGL 53.36 Game of Thrones: Re-Imagining Medieval History as an Allegory of the Present
ENGL 53.37/COLT 40.06 Global Comic Strip
ENGL 53.38/WGSS 51.10 Narratives of Un-belonging: Bad Asians, Queer Texts
ENGL 53.39 Haunted Houses in American Literature
ENGL 53.40 The Historical Philosophy of W.E.B. Dubois
ENGL 53.41/AAAS 80.10/PHIL 1.13 Black Love & Its Discontents: Barry Jenkins
ENGL 53.42 Postmodern Britain: Fictions of Pluralism, Dystopia (and Brexit)
ENGL 53.43/AAAS 21.10/PHIL 1.17 Race and Modernity: W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry
ENGL 53.44/NAIS 31 Indians in American Literature
ENGL 53.45 Storytelling in Novels and Community
ENGL 53.46/JWST 21 New York and the Metropolitan Imagination in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Literature
ENGL 53.47/AAAS 67.06/WGSS 66.07 African Diaspora Women Writers
ENGL 53.48/AAAS 35.60 Poetry for the People
ENGL 53.49/COLT 49.09 Graphic Medicine
ENGL 53.50 Black Testimony
ENGL 53.51/AAAS 35.03 The Idea of Black Culture
ENGL 53.52/WGSS 66.35 Living a Feminist Life: Archive, Text, Action
ENGL 53.53/WGSS 47.03 Modern American Women Poets
ENGL 53.54/AAAS 35.02 01/WGSS 66.27 0 Disability and Madness in African American Literature and Film
ENGL 53.55 Theater in the Barrio: Introduction to Chicano Theater
ENGL 53.56/WGSS 37.01 Female Monstrosities
ENGL 53.57/WGSS 66.31/AAAS 35.05 Black Speculative Worlds
Junior Colloquia in Course Group III
ENGL 63.01/WGSS 66.24 Modern Jewish American Women Writers
ENGL 63.02/AAAS 26 Toni Morrison
ENGL 63.03 Fictions of Finance: For Love or Money
ENGL 63.04/LACS 30.12/WGSS 52.04 Arts Against Empire: Fictions of Revolution and Solidarity in the Americas
ENGL 63.05 Nobel Prize Writers
ENGL 63.06/NAIS 36 The Undead South: Horror and Haunting in U.S. Southern Literature
ENGL 63.07 Cosmopolitanism and the Fictions of Exchange
ENGL 63.08 Electronic Literature
ENGL 63.09/AAAS 82.10 Queer Literatures of Slavery
ENGL 63.10 Contemporary Science Fiction
ENGL 63.11 Race, Sex, Sensation
ENGL 63.12 Labors of Love: Mothering in Chicanx/Latinx and Asian American Communities
ENGL 63.28 Rethinking Frost: Robert Frost in a Declining Landscape
ENGL 63.29/AAAS 67.09/WGSS 66.08 Self, Subject, Photography
ENGL 63.30 Trans Gender Literatures
ENGL 63.31 Big Game: Adventure, Empire, Ecology
ENGL 63.32/NAIS 81.06 Fictions of Indigeneity
Senior Seminars in Course Group III
ENGL 73.01 In the Image: Photography, Writing, and the Documentary Turn
ENGL 73.02 Toni Morrison Senior Seminar
ENGL 73.03/AAAS 35.01/WGSS 66.11 Black Elegies
ENGL 73.05 Global Anglophone Nobel Prize Writers
ENGL 73.07 Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
ENGL 73.13 James Joyce
ENGL 73.19 Faulkner
ENGL 73.28 How We Live Now: Contemporary Hemispheric Fictions
ENGL 73.30/AAAS 91.02 20th Century Protest Poetry
Creative Writing Courses in Course Group III
CRWT 40.01 Imaginary Countries
CRWT 40.03 Raising the Dead
CRWT 40.04 Remains, Ruin, Repair, and Rapture
CRWT 40.05 Engaging Hybridity: Race, Gender, Genre
CRWT 40.06 Uses of Fact: True Source Material in Prose, Poetry, & Film
CRWT 40.07/MES 15.01 The Craft of Fiction: A Masterclass with Alaa Al Aswany
CRWT 40.08 Dystopian Visions: Exploring the Fiction of Catastrophe and Apocalypse
CRWT 40.09/COLT 31.02/FRIT 37.08 Obsessive Affinities Contemporary French & American poetry
CRWT 40.10 James Joyce's Ulysses
CRWT 40.11 Nature Writing
CRWT 40.12 The Novels of Virginia Woolf:Radical Innovator
CRWT 40.13 Contemporary Queer and Trans Asian American Poetry
CRWT 40.14 Black and Latino Poets Creative Writing Course
CRWT 40.15 Tell Me A Story: Introduction to Nonfiction Radio and Podcasting
CRWT 40.17/COLT 19.05 Workshop in Literary Translation
CRWT 40.18 Writing Love Poems: Bewilderment, Anxiety, and the Art of Wonder
CRWT 41.01/FILM 44.10 Writing for Television