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2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

General Literary Studies Courses

General Literary Studies

Courses

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    GLS 135 - Philosophy and Literature

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See PHI 135 .

    Note: Not offered every year.
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    GLS 201 - Dramatic Literature 1

    4 credits (Fall)
    See THD 201 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available.
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    GLS 202 - Dramatic Literature 2

    4 credits (Spring)
    See THD 202 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available.
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    GLS 203 - American Theatre

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See THD 203 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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    GLS 227 - Topics in German Literature in Translation

    4 credits (Spring)
    See GRM 227 .

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    GLS 233 - Frames of Reference: Topics in German Cinema from 1920 to the Present

    4 credits (Fall)
    See GRM 233 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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    GLS 242 - Classical Mythology

    4 credits (Spring)
    See CLS 242 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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    GLS 247 - The Russian Short Story

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See RUS 247 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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    GLS 248 - The Russian Novel

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See RUS 248 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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    GLS 251 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See HUM 251 .

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    GLS 261 - History of Russian Film

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See RUS 261 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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    GLS 277 - Modern China through Literature and Film (in Translation)

    4 credits
    See CHI 277 .

    Note: Not offered every year.
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    GLS 279 - Modern Japanese Fiction and Film

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See JPN 279 .

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    GLS 281 - Major Russian Writers

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See RUS 281 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available in Russian.
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    GLS 281-01 - Major Russian Writers: Tolstoy

    4 credits (Spring)
    See RUS 281-01 .

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    GLS 291 - Perspectives in 20th-Century Central and Eastern European Literature

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See RES 291 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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    GLS 303 - Studies in Drama I

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See THD 303 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available.
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    GLS 303-01 - Studies in Drama I: Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances

    4 credits (Spring)
    See THD 303-01 .

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    GLS 304 - Studies in Drama II

    4 credits (Fall or Spring)
    See THD 304 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available.
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    GLS 349 - Medieval Literature

    4 credits (Fall)
    See ENG 349 .

    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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    HUM 251-01 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature

    4 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: GLS 251-01 . This course takes a theoretical approach to canonical and contemporary children’s literature. This section will focus primarily on the history of constructions of race and gender in American children’s literature, primarily picture books.

    Prerequisite: A course in English or another course in literature.
    Instructor: Greene

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