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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 450 | Honours EssayAll honours students will write a research paper of 20 to 25 pages, supervised by a member of the Department of English and Creative Writing, to be completed in the fourth year of study. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 450 | Honours EssayAll honours students will write a research paper of 20 to 25 pages, supervised by a member of the Department of English and Creative Writing, to be completed in the fourth year of study. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to honours program. See department chair.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 451 | Drama to 1642 Excluding ShakespeareA study of English drama from its liturgical origins to the closing of the theatres in 1642, including medieval mystery cycles and morality plays as well as works by Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline playwrights. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
Cross-listed: THTR 441 |
| 2025-2026 | ENGL 451 | Drama to 1642 Excluding ShakespeareA study of English drama from its liturgical origins to the closing of the theatres in 1642, including medieval mystery cycles and morality plays as well as works by Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline playwrights. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 451 | Drama to 1642 Excluding ShakespeareA study of English drama from its liturgical origins to the closing of the theatres in 1642, including medieval mystery cycles and morality plays as well as works by Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline playwrights. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing
Cross-listed: THTR 441 |
| 2024-2025 | ENGL 453 | MiltonAn intensive study of selected works of poetry and prose by John Milton, situated in their cultural contexts. Particular attention is paid to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 453 | MiltonAn intensive study of selected works of poetry and prose by John Milton, situated in their cultural contexts. Particular attention is paid to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 453 | MiltonAn intensive study of selected works of poetry and prose by John Milton, situated in their cultural contexts. Particular attention is paid to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 454 | Renaissance Poetry & ProseA study of selected works of Renaissance poetry and prose (excluding those by Shakespeare and Milton), situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 454 | Renaissance Poetry & ProseA study of selected works of Renaissance poetry and prose (excluding those by Shakespeare and Milton), situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 454 | Renaissance Poetry and ProseA study of selected works of Renaissance poetry and prose (excluding those by Shakespeare and Milton), situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 456 | Seventeenth-Century Women's WritingA study of selected works written by women in seventeenth-century Britain and America, situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 456 | Seventeenth-Century Women's WritingA study of selected works written by women in seventeenth-century Britain and America, situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 456 | Seventeenth-Century Women's WritingA study of selected works written by women in seventeenth-century Britain and America, situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 465 | Eighteenth-Century LiteratureA study of the literary works of the major writers of the eighteenth century. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third or fourth year standing, or instructor's consent. (3- 0; 0-0)
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 465 | Eighteenth-Century LiteratureA study of the literary works of the major writers of the eighteenth century. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 465 | Eighteenth-Century LiteratureA study of the literary works of the major writers of the eighteenth century. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third- or fourth-year standing, or instructor's consent.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 471 | Victorian Poetry & ProseA study of the poetry and nonfiction prose of British writers during the Victorian era, situating these works in their historical and social contexts. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 471 | Victorian Poetry & ProseA study of the poetry and nonfiction prose of British writers during the Victorian era, situating these works in their historical and social contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 471 | Victorian Poetry and ProseA study of the poetry and nonfiction prose of British writers during the Victorian era, situating these works in their historical and social contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 482 | World Literature in EnglishA study of works written in English by writers from postcolonial nations, focussing on issues related to postcolonialism and literature. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 482 | World Literature in EnglishA study of works written in English by writers from postcolonial nations, focussing on issues related to postcolonialism and literature. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 482 | World Literature in EnglishA study of works written in English by writers from postcolonial nations, focussing on issues related to postcolonialism and literature. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 495 | Critical Approaches to LiteratureA survey of the major interpretive approaches to literature in contemporary theory and practice, considering the social and intellectual context out of which each approach arises. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third or fourth year standing, or instructor's consent. (3- 0 or 3-0)
NB: This course is required of all honours English students.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 495 | Critical Approaches to LiteratureA survey of the major interpretive approaches to literature in contemporary theory and practice, considering the social and intellectual context out of which each approach arises. Course Credits: 3
NB: This course is required of all honours English students.
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 495 | Critical Approaches to LiteratureA survey of the major interpretive approaches to literature in contemporary theory and practice, considering the social and intellectual context out of which each approach arises. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third- or fourth-year standing, or instructor's consent
NB: This course is required of all honours English students.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 510 | The Writing of Creative NonfictionA seminar in the reading and writing of literary nonfiction and in the development of a critical appreciation of its various forms. The course focuses on life writing in terms of its literary forms, as the authors’ responses to their culture, and as texts within which identity is shaped and altered by the intentional acts of their writers. Chosen texts demonstrate the art of life writing, as well as other paradigms for its interpretation and its literary and cultural influence. Such forms as (auto)biography, memoir, letters, diaries, travel and nature writing, and personal essays will provide the models for students’ exploration of this genre. Examples are drawn from writers such as C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O’Connor, John Bunyan, Virginia Woolf, and others who form part of the literary canon of such writing. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 510 | The Writing of Creative NonfictionA seminar in the reading and writing of literary nonfiction and in the development of a critical appreciation of its various forms. The course focuses on life writing in terms of its literary forms, as the authors’ responses to their culture, and as texts within which identity is shaped and altered by the intentional acts of their writers. Chosen texts demonstrate the art of life writing, as well as other paradigms for its interpretation and its literary and cultural influence. Such forms as (auto)biography, memoir, letters, diaries, travel and nature writing, and personal essays will provide the models for students’ exploration of this genre. Examples are drawn from writers such as C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O’Connor, John Bunyan, Virginia Woolf, and others who form part of the literary canon of such writing. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 510 | The Writing of Creative NonfictionA seminar in the reading and writing of literary nonfiction and in the development of a critical appreciation of its various forms. The course focuses on life writing in terms of its literary forms, as the authors’ responses to their culture, and as texts within which identity is shaped and altered by the intentional acts of their writers. Chosen texts demonstrate the art of life writing, as well as other paradigms for its interpretation and its literary and cultural influence. Such forms as (auto)biography, memoir, letters, diaries, travel and nature writing, and personal essays will provide the models for students’ exploration of this genre. Examples are drawn from writers such as C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O’Connor, John Bunyan, Virginia Woolf, and others who form part of the literary canon of such writing. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 512 | Studies in Twentieth- Century American LiteratureExamines representative works of twentieth century American literary prose and the development of its themes in various historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts, including the major wars and social upheavals in which American society has been involved in the last one hundred years. Students examine the major themes and values that comprise a canon of literature which addresses the literary movements characterized by realism and naturalism and the contexts of modernism and postmodernism to which literature has responded in the American tradition. American literature and its contributions to the discussions on religion, morality and Christianity, and the relationship between the three, are engaged. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 512 | Studies in Twentieth-Century American LiteratureExamines representative works of twentieth century American literary prose and the development of its themes in various historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts, including the major wars and social upheavals in which American society has been involved in the last one hundred years. Students examine the major themes and values that comprise a canon of literature which addresses the literary movements characterized by realism and naturalism and the contexts of modernism and postmodernism to which literature has responded in the American tradition. American literature and its contributions to the discussions on religion, morality and Christianity, and the relationship between the three, are engaged. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 512 | Studies in Twentieth-Century American LiteratureExamines representative works of twentieth century American literary prose and the development of its themes in various historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts, including the major wars and social upheavals in which American society has been involved in the last one hundred years. Students examine the major themes and values that comprise a canon of literature which addresses the literary movements characterized by realism and naturalism and the contexts of modernism and postmodernism to which literature has responded in the American tradition. American literature and its contributions to the discussions on religion, morality and Christianity, and the relationship between the three, are engaged. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 514 | ENGL 514Literature has been at the centre of the human story from its beginnings as recorded in ancient sacred texts to its current study as cultural narrative with transformative and transcendent possibilities for interpretation and creativity. This course will explore literary themes integral to the pursuit of Christian spirituality, past and present. The movement to interdisciplinary interpretation and literary hermeneutics demands that students, as readers of text, understand the role that Christian thought and aesthetics have played in their influencing of contemporary literature. In understanding that role, human spirituality is being considered as one of the integral aspects of this enterprise; Christian spirituality offers foundational vantage points from which to participate in this ongoing task of creativity and engagement in the human condition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 514 | Literature & SpiritualityLiterature has been at the centre of the human story from its beginnings as recorded in ancient sacred texts to its current study as cultural narrative with transformative and transcendent possibilities for interpretation and creativity. This course will explore literary themes integral to the pursuit of Christian spirituality, past and present. The movement to interdisciplinary interpretation and literary hermeneutics demands that students, as readers of text, understand the role that Christian thought and aesthetics have played in their influencing of contemporary literature. In understanding that role, human spirituality is being considered as one of the integral aspects of this enterprise; Christian spirituality offers foundational vantage points from which to participate in this ongoing task of creativity and engagement in the human condition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 514 | Literature & SpiritualityLiterature has been at the centre of the human story from its beginnings as recorded in ancient sacred texts to its current study as cultural narrative with transformative and transcendent possibilities for interpretation and creativity. This course will explore literary themes integral to the pursuit of Christian spirituality, past and present. The movement to interdisciplinary interpretation and literary hermeneutics demands that students, as readers of text, understand the role that Christian thought and aesthetics have played in their influencing of contemporary literature. In understanding that role, human spirituality is being considered as one of the integral aspects of this enterprise; Christian spirituality offers foundational vantage points from which to participate in this ongoing task of creativity and engagement in the human condition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 515 | Literature & the EnvironmentA survey of English literary texts reflecting changing conceptions of and attitudes toward nature across time and place. Using an ecocritical framework, students will integrate and apply a variety of literary theories to diverse texts that explore relationships among human and non-human beings and the environment, with attention given to issues of creation theology, rural and urban landscape, conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 515 | Literature & the EnvironmentA survey of English literary texts reflecting changing conceptions of and attitudes toward nature across time and place. Using an ecocritical framework, students will integrate and apply a variety of literary theories to diverse texts that explore relationships among human and non-human beings and the environment, with attention given to issues of creation theology, rural and urban landscape, conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 516 | Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA study of poetry, its forms, conventions, and innovations in its development during the twentieth century, with particular representation from the American tradition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 516 | Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA study of poetry, its forms, conventions, and innovations in its development during the twentieth century, with particular representation from the American tradition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 516 | Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA study of poetry, its forms, conventions, and innovations in its development during the twentieth century, with particular representation from the American tradition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 522 | ChaucerThis course takes up the study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Parliament of Fowls, and Legend of Good Women. Care is taken to develop a good reading knowledge of Chaucerian Middle English. The literary, social, economic, political, and spiritual principles in Chaucer’s texts, and the aesthetic techniques employed to shape them, will be situated within the historical and cultural contexts of Ricardian, or late fourteenth-century, England. Chaucer wrote for a populace that had confronted decimating plagues as well as social, economic, and religious upheaval. The course draws out the competing medieval voices that emerge in the works composed in this context, which often articulate searing critiques of a complex, disorderly, patriarchal, violent, and humorous medieval world. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 522 | ChaucerThis course takes up the study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Parliament of Fowls, and Legend of Good Women. Care is taken to develop a good reading knowledge of Chaucerian Middle English. The literary, social, economic, political, and spiritual principles in Chaucer’s texts, and the aesthetic techniques employed to shape them, will be situated within the historical and cultural contexts of Ricardian, or late fourteenth-century, England. Chaucer wrote for a populace that had confronted decimating plagues as well as social, economic, and religious upheaval. The course draws out the competing medieval voices that emerge in the works composed in this context, which often articulate searing critiques of a complex, disorderly, patriarchal, violent, and humorous medieval world. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 522 | ChaucerThis course takes up the study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Parliament of Fowls, and Legend of Good Women. Care is taken to develop a good reading knowledge of Chaucerian Middle English. The literary, social, economic, political, and spiritual principles in Chaucer’s texts, and the aesthetic techniques employed to shape them, will be situated within the historical and cultural contexts of Ricardian, or late fourteenth-century, England. Chaucer wrote for a populace that had confronted decimating plagues as well as social, economic, and religious upheaval. The course draws out the competing medieval voices that emerge in the works composed in this context, which often articulate searing critiques of a complex, disorderly, patriarchal, violent, and humorous medieval world. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 526 | Literature &C47 GenderA study of the diverse and complex ways that gender is represented and gendered identities are expressed in poetry, drama, fiction, and/or creative nonfiction. Literature studied will come from a range of historical periods and cultural contexts, and from a range of communities, including racialized and queer communities. The representation and expression of gender in literature will be considered in relation to other overlapping social variables, such as class, religion, race, age, sexual orientation, and dis/ability. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MAIH program.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 530 | Medieval English LiteratureFocuses on the rich and varied visionary and mystical literature of the early, high and late Middle Ages, including the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux, Richard of St. Victor, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Richard Rolle, the author of the Cloud of Unknowing, and Meister Eckhart. The influence of early theologians and philosophers (such as Origen, Plotinus, and Augustine) on these mystics is considered in detail, as is the influence of the medieval mystics on mystical thinkers of Renaissance Europe (including Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross). This course also seeks to read the ontological and epistemological elements of medieval mysticism through the filter of modern philosophical paradigms. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 530 | Medieval English LiteratureFocuses on the rich and varied visionary and mystical literature of the early, high and late Middle Ages, including the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux, Richard of St. Victor, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Richard Rolle, the author of the Cloud of Unknowing, and Meister Eckhart. The influence of early theologians and philosophers (such as Origen, Plotinus, and Augustine) on these mystics is considered in detail, as is the influence of the medieval mystics on mystical thinkers of Renaissance Europe (including Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross). This course also seeks to read the ontological and epistemological elements of medieval mysticism through the filter of modern philosophical paradigms. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 530 | Medieval English LiteratureFocuses on the rich and varied visionary and mystical literature of the early, high and late Middle Ages, including the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux, Richard of St. Victor, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Richard Rolle, the author of the Cloud of Unknowing, and Meister Eckhart. The influence of early theologians and philosophers (such as Origen, Plotinus, and Augustine) on these mystics is considered in detail, as is the influence of the medieval mystics on mystical thinkers of Renaissance Europe (including Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross). This course also seeks to read the ontological and epistemological elements of medieval mysticism through the filter of modern philosophical paradigms. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 534 | European Literature in TranslationA survey of European drama and prose classics from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, this course explores and critically evaluates the shift in worldviews from Dante's Christian humanism to Kafka's and Camus' modern existentialist view of human existence. In order to provide depth to our analysis of the works and to highlight the significance of the shift in worldview, the works will be discussed in their historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts, in combination with close reading and various theoretical interpretative approaches. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 534 | European Literature in TranslationA survey of European drama and prose classics from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, this course explores and critically evaluates the shift in worldviews from Dante's Christian humanism to Kafka's and Camus' modern existentialist view of human existence. In order to provide depth to our analysis of the works and to highlight the significance of the shift in worldview, the works will be discussed in their historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts, in combination with close reading and various theoretical interpretative approaches. Course Credits: 3
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| 2026-2027 | ENGL 534 | European Literature in TranslationA survey of European drama and prose classics from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, this course explores and critically evaluates the shift in worldviews from Dante's Christian humanism to Kafka's and Camus' modern existentialist view of human existence. In order to provide depth to our analysis of the works and to highlight the significance of the shift in worldview, the works will be discussed in their historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts, in combination with close reading and various theoretical interpretative approaches. Course Credits: 3
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