An advanced course exploring one or two literary genres or formal categories. It focuses on analyzing the parameters and practices of a broad generic category (e.g. the short story; lyric poetry; epic and mock-epic; autobiography; the bildungsroman; protest literature) or a genre specific to a particular period (e.g. mid-century American crime novels; Elizabethan songs and sonnets; Victorian drama). May be repeated up to 9 hours under different subtitles. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. May fulfill ENG Early Period requirement depending on the course: see departmental listings for different offerings per semester.

An advanced course exploring one or two literary genres or formal categories. It focuses on analyzing the parameters and practices of a broad generic category (e.g. the short story; lyric poetry; epic and mock-epic; autobiography; the bildungsroman; protest literature) or a genre specific to a particular period (e.g. mid-century American crime novels; Elizabethan songs and sonnets; Victorian drama). May be repeated up to 9 hours under different subtitles. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. May fulfill ENG Early Period requirement depending on the course: see departmental listings for different offerings per semester.