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271FS. Special Topics Seminar in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology. Seminar version
of 288. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
272S. Remembrance and Reconciliation: Geographies of Memory. Exploration,
drawing on a variety of texts, of the complex dynamics of remembering and forgetting as
they bear on difficult pasts and the possibility for reconciliation. Particular attention given
to racial reconciliation in South Africa and the United States. Consent of instructor required.
Also taught as Christian Theology 270 and Distinguished Professor Course 202S.
Instructors: Holloway and Jones. 3 units.
275. American Literature since 1915. Selected topics. Instructor: Baker, Ferraro, Pope,
Strandberg, or Torgovnick. 3 units.
280. Twentieth-Century Reconceptions of Knowledge and Science. 3 units. C-L: see
Literature 260
281. Studies in Genre. History, criticism, and theory of literary genres such as the novel,
pastoral, epic, and drama. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
284. Contemporary Film Theory. Post-1968 film theory—Brechtian aesthetics, cinema
semiotics, psychoanalytic film theory, technology, feminist theory, and Third World
cinema. Instructor: Gaines. 3 units.
288A. Special Topics I. Subjects, areas, or themes that cut across historical eras, several
national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a pre-1500 course for the diversified study
requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
288B. Special Topics II. Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several
national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1500-1660 course for the diversified
study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
288C. Special Topics III. Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several
national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1660-1860 course for the diversified
study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
288E. Special Topics IV. Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several
national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1860-Present course for the diversified
study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
288F. Special Topics in Criticism. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
289. The Theory of the Novel. Major issues in the history and theory of the novel.
Instructor: Moses or Torgovnick. 3 units.
299S. Special Topics in Linguistics. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
312. Studies in Middle English Literature. Instructor: Aers, Beckwith, or Somerset. 3
units.
315. Studies in Chaucer. Instructor: Aers, Beckwith, or Somerset. 3 units.
321. Studies in Renaissance Literature. Instructor: DeNeef, Porter, or Shannon. 3 units.
324. Studies in Shakespeare. Instructor: Porter. 3 units.
329. Studies in Milton. Instructor: DeNeef. 3 units.
337. Studies in Augustanism. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
338. Studies in a Major Augustan Author. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
341. Studies in Romanticism. Instructor: Applewhite or Pfau. 3 units.
347. Studies in Victorianism. Instructor: Psomiades. 3 units.
348. Studies in a Major Nineteenth-Century British Author. Instructor: Pfau. 3 units.
353. Studies in Modern British Literature. Instructor: Baucom, Moses, or Torgovnick. 3
units.
361. Studies in American Literature before 1915. Instructor: Cohen, Holloway, or Jones.
3 units.
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