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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

ENG 413. Advanced Studies in Literature and Ideas


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 012944 Grading Basis GRD

Advanced study of the literary treatment of an organizing theme, which may be framed broadly as part of the human experience or within a tradition of studies in the humanities. Course content may include pertinent readings from other disciplines. Possible themes: love, death, nature, evil, the comic spirit. May be repeated as course topic changes.