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Approved Courses

Students can apply one literature course from another departments or programs toward the major. The courses available for such credit will be listed in the Alphabet Book as “approved courses,” with the list to be created each year by the Chair in conjunction with the Associate Chair. While most such courses are likely to be in translation, literature courses in the original language will also be accepted for credit. These courses will not count toward any of the English department’s distribution requirements, nor will they count toward one of the required 300-level courses for the major.

JYA literature courses in the languages of the host country may be counted with certain exceptions: courses taught in English translation may only be counted if language proficiency is neither a requirement nor the goal of the JYA program in question. The Chair of Advisors (Associate Chair) will be in charge of making the final determination.

The approved list of 2008-2009 courses follows:

Africana Studies

  • 205b. Arab American Literature
  • 210b. Comparative Perspectives on African Literature
  • 212a/b. Arabic Literature and Culture
  • 215b. Plays of the Black Diaspora/Performing the Black Diaspora  (Same as Drama 215).
  • 262a. (also listed as AFRS 276) Literature of the Caribbean Diaspora

Asian Studies

  • 214a. The Tumultuous Century: Twentieth Century Chinese Literature

Chinese and Japanese

  • 214a. (see description under Asian Studies)
  • 215. Masterpieces of Traditional Chinese Literature
  • 223. The Gothic and the Supernatural in Japanese Literature  
  • 224. Japanese Popular Culture and Literature
  • 361b. Chinese and Japanese Drama and Theatre (Same as Drama 361)
  • 364. The West in Japanese Literature since the Nineteenth Century

Classics

  • 230b. Archaic Literature
  • 302a. Greek Tragedy
  • 303a. Homer
  • 215a. Republican Literature
  • 220b. Literature of the Empire
  • 302a. Virgil
  • 304a. Roman Lyric and Elegy

French

  • 242a. Studies in Genre I
  • 243a. Studies in Genre II
  • 246b. French-Speaking Cultures and Literatures of Africa and the Caribbean

German

  • 260b. Developments in German Literature  
  • ITALIAN:
  • 237a. Dante’s Divine Comedy in Translation
  • 242. Boccaccio’s Decameron in Translation: The “Novella” as Microcosm  
  • 337a. Dante’s Divine Comedy
  • 342. Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron: The “Novella” as a Microcosm  

Jewish Studies

  • 221b. Voices from Modern Israel  
  • 225b. The Hebrew Bible  

Religion

  • 221b. Voices from Modern Israel
  • 225a. The Hebrew Bible

Russian

  • 135a. The Russian Classics: The Great Realists of the Nineteenth Century  
  • 141b. Tolstoy in Battle  
  • 142b. Dostoevsky and Psychology  
  • 152b. The Russian Modernists (in English)  
  • 235a. The Russian Classics: The Great Realists of the Nineteenth Century  
  • 252b. The Russian Modernists