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GLITS 200 Literature and the Nobel Prize (3) A&H
Literature from around the world as seen through the writings of Nobel Prize winners. Features authors from a range of countries, languages, and traditions to explore wide-ranging questions such as: What is literature? Why study literature in global contexts? Who wins, who doesn't, and why? What does that tell us about literature and about the world in which we live? Credit/no-credit only.
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GLITS 250 Introduction to Global Literatures: Literatures and Languages (5, max. 15) A&H
An introduction to literary study. Literature from around the globe, with emphasis on modes of aesthetic representation. Analysis of how formal and rhetorical features shape meaning in literature. Topics vary.
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GLITS 251 Introduction to Global Literatures: Cross-Cultural Themes (5, max. 15) A&H
An introduction to literary study. Literature from around the globe, with focus on themes such as love, friendship, war, family, art, hope, joy, goodness, or justice. Topics vary.
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GLITS 252 Introduction to Global Literatures: Literary Genres Across Time and Place (5, max. 15) A&H
An introduction to literary study. Literature from around the globe, with focus on a specific genre such as novel, short story, fairy tale, myth, drama, lyric or epic poetry. Topics vary.
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GLITS 253 Literature and Identities (5, max. 15) A&H/SSc
Analysis of literary strategies in texts that grapple with social, cultural, and personal identities. Engagement with the ways texts deploy narrative, imagery, metaphor, and other elements to achieve their rhetorical purposes. Topics vary.
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GLITS 311 Literature Across Times (5, max. 15) A&H
Studies in literary and cultural history, spanning multiple periods. Topics vary.
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GLITS 312 Literature Across Languages (5, max. 15) A&H
Translation studies and the literature of languages in contact, including the varieties and interrelationships of Global English. Topics vary.
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GLITS 313 Literature Across Places (5, max. 15) A&H
Strategies of reading and imagined dialogues between texts from disparate places. Topics vary.
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GLITS 314 Literature Across Genres/Modes (5, max. 15) A&H
Literary work developed across various forms of imaginative expression, such as the adaptation of prose fiction to theater, or treatment of a common theme in multiple genres (such as poetry, legend, opera, comics, fictional and non-fictional narrative, essays). Topics vary.
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GLITS 315 Literature Across Disciplines (5, max. 15) A&H
Explores literature in conjunction with other fields of study, such as environmental humanities, medical humanities, or studies of literature and law, literature and art. Topics vary.
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GLITS 450 Global Literary Studies Seminar (5) A&H
Oral and written academic presentation and communication. Open to students concentrating or considering concentration in literary studies.
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