Literature

2026–2027

160 courses

21L.000Writing About Literature
21L.001Foundations of Western Literature: Homer to Dante
21L.001XFoundations of World Culture I: World Civilizations and Texts
21L.002Foundations of Western Literature: From Shakespeare to the Present
21L.002-2Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity
21L.002XFoundations of World Culture II: World Literatures and Texts
21L.003Reading Fiction
21L.003-1Reading Fiction: Dysfunctional Families
21L.003-2Reading Fiction
21L.004Reading Poetry
21L.005Introduction to Drama
21L.006American Literature
21L.007World Literatures
21L.008Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies
21L.009Shakespeare
21L.010Writing with Shakespeare
21L.011Introduction to Film Studies
21L.012Forms of Western Narrative
21L.013The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture
21L.014Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Studies
21L.015Children's Literature
21L.016Gods and Mortals
21L.017The Art of the Probable
21L.018Introduction to English Literature
21L.019Introduction to European and Latin American Fiction
21L.020Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between
21L.021Comedy
21L.024Literature and Existentialism
21L.025A History of the Book from Papyrus to Pixel
21L.026Film & Existentialism
21L.027Children and Culture
21L.030A Random Walk Through Literature and Film
21L.032Afrofuturism, Magical Realism, and Other Otherwise Worlds
21L.040Foundations of East Asian Literature and Culture: From Confucius to the Beats
21L.050Reading Nonfiction
21L.310Bestsellers
21L.315Prizewinners and Laureates
21L.320Big Books
21L.325Small Wonders
21L.338Reading in the Original
21L.340Pleasures of Poetry
21L.345On the Screen
21L.350Science and Literature
21L.355Literature in the Digital Age
21L.400Medical Narratives: Compelling Accounts from Antiquity to Grey's Anatomy
21L.419Books to Grow By
21L.420Gateway to British Literature
21L.421Comedy
21L.422Tragedy
21L.423Introduction to Anglo-American Folk Music
21L.429Narrative and Identity: Writing and Film by Contemporary Women of Color
21L.430Popular Culture and Narrative
21L.431Shakespeare on Film and Media
21L.432Understanding Television
21L.433Film Styles and Genres
21L.434Science Fiction and Fantasy
21L.435Literature and Film
21L.436Latin America and the Global Sixties: Counterculture and Revolution
21L.437The Short Form: Literature and New Media Cultures in the Hispanic World
21L.438Intersectional Feminist Memoir
21L.448Darwin and Design
21L.449The Wilds of Literature
21L.450Global Environmental Literature
21L.451Literary Theory
21L.452Literature and Philosophy
21L.453Political Utopias and Dystopias
21L.455Ancient Authors
21L.456The Bible: Old Testament
21L.457The Bible: New Testament
21L.458The Bible
21L.460Arthurian Literature
21L.463Renaissance Literature
21L.470Eighteenth-Century Literature: Versions of the Self in 18th-C Britain
21L.471Major Novels
21L.472Major European Novels
21L.474Representing Girlhood
21L.475Enlightenment and Modernity
21L.476Romantic Poetry
21L.480Identities and Intersections: Queer Literatures
21L.481HIV/AIDS in American Culture