Group II: Literature

3 Hours

A category that presents the roles, functions, and traditions of the imagination within a variety of national traditions.

The list of literature courses offered per term can be accessed at my.SMU.edu (click on “View Schedule of Classes”).

Classes marked with an asterisk (*) fulfill the Human Diversity requirement.

Dedman College

Department of English

ENGL 1320 Chivalry
ENGL 1330 The World of Shakespeare
*ENGL 1360 The American Heroine: Fiction and Fact
ENGL 1362 Crafty Worlds: Novels in Our Time
ENGL 3344 Victorian Gender
ENGL 3345 Transatlantic Encounters II
ENGL 3341 British Literary History II: Wordsworth to Yeats
ENGL 3346 American Literary History I
ENGL 3347 Topics in American Literature in the Age of Revolutions
ENGL 3350 Topics in Modern and Contemporary British Literature *ENGL 3354 Non-Western Culture and Literature
ENGL 3355 Transatlantic Encounter III
ENGL 3360 Topics in Modern and Contemporary American Literature
*ENGL 3362 African-American Literature *ENGL 3363 Chicana/Chicano Literature
ENGL 3366 American Literary History II
*ENGL 3373 Masculinities: Images and Perspectives (WL 3359)
ENGL 3375 Expatriate Writers: The Invention of Modernism
ENGL 3376 Literature of the Southwest
*ENGL 3377 Literature and the Construction of Homosexuality

Department of World Languages and Literature

*CHIN 4381 Readings in Chinese Literature and Culture
*CHIN 4382 Chinese Culture and Society in Films
FREN 4371 Survey of French Literature: From the Middle Age to the Revolution
FREN 4372 Survey of Literature in French: From Romanticism to the Present
GERM 3325 Introduction to German Literature
*SPAN 4395 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
*WL 3306 The Heart of Aztlán: Chicano Literature of the SW
WL 3308 Introduction to General Linguistics (Effective Fall 2011, WL 3308 will discontinue under the Perspectives/Literature category and instead will be shifted to the Perspectives/Behavioral Science category.)
*WL 3312 Women in Modern China
*WL 3331 Survey of Russian Literature in Translation
WL 3340 Semiotics and Interpretation
WL 3350 Existentialism and Literature
*WL 3359 Masculinities: Images and Perspectives (ENGL 3373)
WL 3391 Special Topics: Italian Literature in Translation
WL 3393 Dante’s Poetic Vision
WL 3394 Boccaccio's Decameron and the Medieval Storytelling Tradition