EGL

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course Students will explore the art of poetry by examining a selection of poems from at least three cultures and by considering how poetry conveys its complex meanings through voice, image, rhythm, as well as formal and experimental structures. Particular attention will be given to developing reading and writing skills. 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course Students will explore fictional works from at least three cultures. Emphasis will be placed on exploring the art of narrative - considering the ways stories get told and the reasons for telling them. Attention may be paid to such concerns as narrative point of view, storytelling strategies and character development, the relationship between oral and written narrative traditions, and narrative theory. Particular attention will be given to developing reading and writing skills. 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM, JLIT

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course In this course we will explore how plays engage audiences and readers in fundamental questions about human identity. Not only do plays acted on the stage abound in examples of characters who switch places or are mistaken for one another, they also provide a forum for individual characters to question their relationships with the people and culture that surround them. Even as plays stage the most private of feelings in a public setting, they also suggest that human interactions frequently involve playing a role. Dramatic literature puts front and center the ways in which many forms of identity-including gender and race-are socially constructed. At the same time that this course offers a wide- ranging introduction to the forms of dramatic literature, it will pay special attention to the ways in which play present

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course will introduce students to the pleasures of poetry by way of the process of creating it. Students will read and discuss poems by a diverse range of contemporary poets, respond to writing prompts that clarify the structure of these poems while encouraging individual experimentation, and complete a final portfolio of carefully revised assignments. 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM, JCAD, JLIT

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course In this multi-genre creative writing course, we'll read and write poetry, fiction and/or creative nonfiction, considering everything we read from a writer's perspective, asking what we can learn from it for our own writing. We'll read work by writers from diverse identities, perspectives, and aesthetic approaches; complete many writing exercises; and develop longer drafts outside of class. Students will gain editorial skills and will regularly share their writing with the group. This introductory course is appropriate for anyone who is curious about using language as a creative medium. 100-level course are open to all students. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM, JCAD, JLIT

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course examines poetry that is part of the Black Lives Matter movement. We will investigate poetry as a form of protest for African Americans in the 21st Century and examine how it is used to resist white supremacy and violence against Black communities. Poet: Jericho Brown, Danez Smith, Ross Ray, Eve L. Ewing, Claudia Rakine, and more. Also, counts toward AFS, AMS. 100-level courses open to all students. CC: HUL, LCC, JCAD, JLIT, WAC ISP: AFR, AMS

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course In the song "In My Life," John Lennon sings "Though I know I'll never lose affection / for people and things that went before / I know I'll often stop and think about them." The speaker sings about "people and things" that have shaped and continue to inform his identity. In this class, we will study poems that impact a person's sense of self and home. The poems we will read will explore history, family, place, race, class, gender, as well as love, sex, death, mourning, and joy, as these are the "stuff of life." 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, GCAD, GLIT

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course This class will examine and interrogate poetry-its form, its content, and everything in between-with respect to queer poetic works. We will put diction, voice, rhythm, imagery, and form in conversation with social, cultural, and political issues that surround queer poetry. From single foundational poems to contemporary poetry collections, we will dive into the relationship between poetry and queer identity. This class has critical, creative, and collaborative components and you will be asked to do them all. 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, HUM, JCHF, JLIT, WAC ISP: GSW

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course In this course we'll read and critically engage with contemporary poets writing predominantly in English from a decolonial perspective. From the intersection of poetics, aesthetics, decolonial (and anti-colonial) theory, and social justice in the arts, we will explore what a poetics of reading and writing decoloniality entails. By centering our exploration on poets who write from ongoing colonial experiences, we'll build an understanding of the work of poetry in decolonial imaginings. We will explore how decolonial poetic practices work against racism, colonialism, and other contemporary systems of oppression, and consider how decolonial poets respond to and engage with these systems both

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course introduces students to a variety of fictional forms. We consider what makes prose into literary fiction and develop an arsenal of key terms and ideas about narrative that will lay the groundwork either for further study or for lifelong learning and appreciation. Our primary sources range from oral stories to novels from around the globe to recent experiments in fiction, with particular emphasis on writers from underrepresented groups. 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course The digital age and the medieval period-two disparate phases of history-may at first blush appear to have nothing in common. Yet, as medieval scholars have shown, this myth is best dispelled in and through the medieval manuscript, a physical object representing the convergence of text and technology in its earliest form. Using the medieval manuscript as a case study, this class will introduce students to digital topics such as online storytelling, digital archives and curation, online exhibits, data interpretation, and more. Along the way, students will learn skills of technical literacy, written analysis, and archival interpretation using programs such as Omeka, Artsteps, Audacity, Voyant Tools, and StoryMaps. Cross-Listed: SMT 140, AAH CC: HUL, WAC, HUM

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course (Spring: Troxell) In this course we will examine elements of film form such as cinematography, sound, editing, lighting, mise-en-scene, and narrative structure. Considering film an art form, a commercial product, a psychological experience, and a social practice, we will also pay close attention to issues of genre, performance, intertextuality and authorship. 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course Cybernetic organisms, or "cyborgs," represent the ultimate integration of biology and technology since these are organisms living with abiotic parts. This exciting new interdisciplinary course will provide an introduction to the biological and computer science concepts fundamental to the development of cyborg technology as well as critical evaluation of the consequences of introducing such technology in society. Students taking this course will not just be trained how to develop cyborg technology, but whether or not such technology should be developed for society. Cross- Listed: BIO 088, CSC 088 CC: HUL, HUM, SCLB, SET, WAC, JDQR, JETS, JLIT JNPS

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course In "Reimagining Beowulf," we'll examine one of the oldest and most enduring works of Old English literature, Beowulf. Through critical analysis and discussion, students will confront Beowulf not only as an epic poem but also as a cultural artifact that has evolved through time, shaping and being shaped by its place in the British literary canon. Exploring the complexities of representation, we'll examine how the text explores hierarchies of identity, power, religion, class, race, and gender. Moreover, this course challenges students to critically engage with Beowulf, questioning conventional interpretations and seeking alternative narratives within the text. By exploring marginalized perspectives and overlooked themes, our aim will be to recuperate and amplify voices often silenced in traditional analyses of this canonical text. EGL 190 may alternatively count as a pre-1700 credit for English majors. 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM, JLIT

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course Modernism, the literary movement that dominated in the West from about 1890-1950, has been a stronghold of white male privilege, subtended by deep seated anxieties about other bodies. In this section of "Confronting the Canon," we will consider the complicated legacy of modernism and its influence on more recent literary works; the often troubling personal and political legacy of modernist writers; the relationship between the modernist canon and perpetuation of white supremacy; and the ways in which modernism, and the scholarship about it, bolster a rigid heteronormative patriarchy. "Confronting the Canon" courses are cornerstones of the new English curriculum and required beginning with majors/minors in the class of 2025. 100-level courses are open to all students. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AFR, GSW

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course The study of the relationship between literature and empire has overwhelmingly focused on a small core of European empires. This class will expand understanding of the relationship between imperialism and literature by examining novels, epics, and allegories written in entangled colonial networks in which Europe is influential, but not the sole player. Readings for this class will focus on empires located on the continents of Africa and Asia broadly defined, including the Zulu, Ottoman, Russian, Japanese, and Soviet imperial formations. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, GLIT, GCHF, GSPE ISP: AFR, AIS, GSWS

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course will challenge traditional renderings of various heroic tales through the double-edged lens of queer and feminist theory. Our discussions will draw from various scenes and film screenings of classic stories that may include The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bhagavad Gita, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia, Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the story of Jesus, Beowulf, and several fairy tales, as well as slightly more contemporary classics such as Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Matrix, Harry Potter, and The Wizard of Oz, among others. "Confronting the Canon" courses are cornerstones of the new English curriculum and required beginning with majors/minors in the class of 2025. Also counts toward GSW.

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course introduces students to some of the foundational questions raised when interrogating & reconfiguring what has long been considered the traditional, Western literary canon. English classes, in many different educational settings, have an extensive history of perpetuating the "greatness" of texts by white, heterosexual, male authors, often at the expense of those works written by women, writers of color, & queer writers, among other diverse groups. "The Many Faces of Dido" will challenge traditional interpretations of Dido, portrayed in classical works of fiction, poetry, drama, & art. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE ISP: GSWS

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course Shakespeare's works speak to perennial human concerns (ambition, unrequited love, the conflicts between generations), and he has even been lauded as the "inventor of the human." At the same time, his plays come from a very specific cultural milieu; he was a white man who lived in England from 1564-1616. In this course, we will explore the plays written in the first half of Shakespeare's career, collaborating to appreciate the rhetorical devices of Shakespeare's language and to understand the cultural milieu in which his plays were written. Some of the questions that we will ask include: How do structures of political and familial authority affect the characters' conceptions of their roles and duties? What possibilities do the plays offer for female empowerment? To what extent did Shakespeare's stage, which reached audiences of all classes, challenge contemporary conceptions of inherited nobility at a time of increasing social mobility? Shakespeare's plays have at their center the question of performance; this makes them very well suited to exploring the multifaceted ways in which human identity is social constructed and socially expressed. In our readings of romantic comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing, we will ask how both women and men are constricted by gendered expectations of honor. We will also explore the pernicious association between "fairness" and beauty in Shakespeare's time, discovering how expectations about women's supposed sexual and physical purity worked through references to offensive racial stereotypes about contamination. In our discussion of The Merchant of Venice, we will pay particular attention to how the privileging of upper-class, Christian men in the play and the religious othering of Shylock and Jessica contributes to a society in which injustice is hypocritically masked as mercy, and all characters suffer. Our examination of the history plays such as Henry IV, Part 1, will attend to the costs of creating an English national identity; in particular, we will explore how racial and gendered othering in these plays defines what it means to be English in way that privilege some and exclude others. Cross-Listed: ATH 256 Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM, JLIT

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EGL

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, WAC, HUM, JLIT

Course In this course we will explore plays written in the second half of Shakespeare's career. We will emphasize Shakespeare's great tragedies-works that retain their ability to astound readers and audiences today-but we'll also explore his later comedies, "problem plays," and tragicomic final works. We will collaborate to appreciate the sounds and meaning of Shakespeare's language, to think about the ways he structures plots and creates vivid characters, to understand the cultural milieu in which his plays were written, to make thematic connections across the plays, and to appreciate the plays as both literature and in performance. Shakespearean drama can be challenging to study, but the rewards are lifelong: revelry in language, a strong grounding in theatrical traditions that remain dominant in our culture, a deeper understanding of the actions and values that motivate human beings in society, and an engagement with dramatic works that continue to be reimagined worldwide. Cross-Listed: ATH 257 Prerequisite(s): One 100- level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM,

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EGL

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, JCHF, JLIT, WAC

and Renaissance Course This course explores the medieval and early modern female writers of England and France. We will ask: how did women respond in writing to the male-defined literary traditions and conventions of these eras? The course also provides an introduction to some of the major questions and works of feminist literary criticism, including: Why should we read the works of women? What aesthetic standards should we apply when discussing their works? Is

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course In 410 the Romans abandoned Britain, withdrawing to the continent just as pagan Germanic raiders began to challenge the island's native Picts and Celts. In 1066 the Duke of Normandy crossed the Channel and kicked a Danish king off the throne of a fully Christianized England. In between these two events lies the matter of this course: the subtle and sophisticated literature, art, and culture of early medieval England. We will explore its evolution and wrestle with thorny questions about the significance and meaning it has been accorded over the centuries. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course explores English literature as it reflects, shapes, and critiques society from the onset of the Hundred Years' War to the overthrow of Richard II (1337- 1400), a turbulent period that includes the Peasants' Revolt, the Black Plague, the rise of English as the language of literature and government, and the proto-Protestant movement known as Lollardy. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC

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EGL

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT, JCHF

Course This course explores English Renaissance texts from a variety of genres with an eye to the gender norms that they both created and critiqued. On the one hand, the early modern period offered very distinct roles for men and women. Men were expected to abide by a code of honor that emphasized bravery and action, while women were expected to be chaste, silent, and obedient. On the other hand, there were countless examples of these norms being challenged. Reading plays, poems, speeches, and conduct manuals, we will consider the complexity of their presentations of gender. Prerequisite(s): Any 100 level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT ISP: GSWS

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100 level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT ISP: GSWS

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EGL

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT, JCHF

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC

Course This course will look at seventeenth-century literature and culture through the idea of revenge, which became a dominant form in an age of turmoil, injury, and change. We will begin with the early revenge plays of Shakespeare, Tourneur, Marston, Ford, and Webster, proceed through the cosmic revenge of Satan in Paradise Lost,

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course The two sides of Milton - the high humanist poet, author of the greatest epic in English and one of the greatest religious poems in any language, and the Puritan revolutionary, defender of regicide and champion of the English commonwealth. The goal of the course will be to see if the two sides can be held separate, or if they must be seen as complementary. We will read Paradise Lost at the rate of one book per week, always trying to relate the two sides of the poet. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: REL

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course will closely examine the culture that produced both the first official poet laureate of England, John Dryden, and the most notoriously libertine poet in English, the Earl of Rochester. Also appearing will be the first English woman to make a living from literature, Aphra Behn; the wittiest playwrights in English dramatic history (Wycherley, Etherege, Congreve); John Milton; some very early English novels; and some pretty good philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and maybe even Sir Isaac Newton. All that and the Great Fire of London, outbreaks of the plague, several wars, and major revolutions in politics and science. Prerequisite(s): One 100- level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM,

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course will draw on literary and historical writings and artwork that emerged before, during, and after the three revolutions that ravaged the circum-Atlantic world between 1765 and 1804. We will consider interconnected events leading up to each conflict and the consequences of war on racial, ethnic, gendered, and indigenous groups. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF,JLIT, JSPE ISP: AFR, AMS, GSWS

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EGL

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF,JLIT, JSPE ISP: AFR, AMS, GSWS

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, JCHF, JLIT, WAC

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT, JCHF, JSPE ISP: GSW

Course Units: This course will challenge gendered judgments and standardized principles represented in the masculinized canon of nineteenth-century nature writing and establishes a framework for women writers of the long nineteenth century, who were active contributors to the discourse of natural history. These women writers engaged in critical observations of eco-materiality, analyzed their findings, and encrypted their discoveries of nature in their literary creations. Our course readings will focus on the works of several prominent, trans-Atlantic literary women from the long-nineteenth century whose multi-directional observations of animate and inanimate objects in the

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EGL

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course Jane Austen has achieved what few other literary authors can boast: membership in "the canon" of "great authors" and an intensely devoted, energetic modern fan base complete with cosplay, fan fiction, pilgrimages, and a never-ending series of visual adaptations. Students will read Jane Austen's work in chronological order, explore some late 18th and early 19th century contexts (biographical, philosophical, literary, cultural, historical), become familiar with some of the central, current, and ongoing scholarly debates about Austen, and discuss the value of, and consider the insights revealed by, some modern adaptations of Austen's work. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP:

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EGL

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

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One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT ISP: GSWS

Course In her seminal study, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, Cathy N. Davidson argues that "literature is not simply words upon a page but a complex social, political, and material process of cultural production" (viii). The eighteenth-century sentimental novel serves to highlight a moment in history lodged among judgments, anxieties and controversies about the direction the newly-formed American Republic would take at the end of the Revolution. Embedded within these narratives are questions about both men's and women's power and authority in the public and private spheres, the negation of the female self, the seductive function of romance and courtship, and the perception of women's bodies as moral, social, and biologic commodities. This course seeks to explore disjunctions between the sentimental structure of the early American novel and its contradictory attitudes toward liberty and self- expression. Through the lens of queer theory, affect theory, and new materialism, students will examine how seduction, homoerotica, and cross-dressing both reinforce and subvert American values and ideals that are distinct from European standards of morality. The readings will also consider how the cult of "true womanhood," prominent during the first few decades of the nineteenth century, suppressed pleas for women's equality. How do the texts under consideration help to define the new nation, its citizens, and boundaries? In what ways do these texts consolidate nationhood through the formation of a national literature and the narrative structure of a national history, culture, and consciousness? Do these novels construct, conserve, or undermine American cultural institutions? Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE ISP: AMS, GSWS

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EGL

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE ISP: AMS, GSWS

Course This course focuses on the self-conscious development of literary tradition in 19th century America - - its meaning, its implications, its failures -- and its aesthetic and moral possibilities. Writers under consideration may include Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Twain, and topics will include individualism, transcendentalism, abolition, the coming of war, the aftermath of war, growth, expansion, and power. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS

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EGL

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1

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

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One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: WAC ISP: AMS

Course This introductory survey course will trace African American movement towards literary and aesthetic mastery beginning with what Henry Louis Gates calls "oral writing." Readings begin with the first known written poems and progress from slave narratives and autobiography to essays and fiction. Authors include Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Solomon Northup, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AFR, AMS, GSWS

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EGL

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AFR, AMS, GSWS

Course Realism and naturalism were aesthetic movements that emerged in American fiction between approximately 1865 and 1925. This course examines these two literary movements to show how writers of this era explored the trauma created by war (the Civil War and WWI), the moral consequences of freedom and sexual awareness, rapid urbanization and the Great Northern migration, inconsistencies between wealth and poverty, and innovative discoveries in science and technology. The purpose of this course, then, is to investigate how the authors of this period practiced their art both collectively and individually and the ways in which American social life informed the ideologies of realism and naturalism. Possible writers we will study include William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, GSW

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EGL

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, GSW

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EGL

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT ISP: AFR, AMS

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EGL

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course of a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: WAC, HUM, JLIT, JSPE, JCHF ISP: AFR, AMS, ENS, GSWS, LAW

Course Experimental writing explores language as a medium in unexpected and often surprising ways. This course will focus primarily on poetry, though poetry defined somewhat broadly, including mixed media, visual, and prose poetry. We'll read a variety of experimental texts, using them as launch points for our own experimental writing practices. This generative workshop will focus on the creation of new work using experimental techniques, while learning to engage deeply in reflective reading practices with each other's work. We'll experiment with constraint, computational poetry, hybrid and mixed media poetry, and generally be open to as many processes and approaches as we can. The goals of our workshop time, and our readings, will be to encourage you to develop new modes, skills, and techniques for writing creatively. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCAD

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EGL

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course Units: This course will explore the intersection between poetry and visual arts as a space for literary artistic production. Through demonstration and assignments students will write poetry and create prints and objects that integrate visual and textual elements. Students will practice combiningstructure, visual, and textual content in meaningful ways. Cross-Listed: AVA 353 Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test or AVA 150 , or AVA 251 or AVA 252 or instructor's permission

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EGL

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course

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2024-2025

Source

catalog.union.edu

Course This course will examine contemporary British literary works. We will be reading closely, carefully, and critically about gender, sexuality, class, race, love, trauma, narrative, style, history, and more. This course will familiarize students with a sampling of the (often experimental) literature that the global Anglophone world has produced fairly recently; our selections will range from experimental short stories to books-turned-films to so-called "weird fiction," in order to address the following major questions: how does the contemporary British literary imagination develop? And, what, exactly, does it develop into? Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: GSWS

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EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT, JCAD

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EGL

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1

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course is a study in the role of history in the ways that two poets, Bob Dylan and Gary Snyder, conceive of their work. Dylan's fascination with the music and history of America from the run-up to the Civil War through Reconstruction and the Great Depression, shapes his sense of useful subject matter, his development of the personae that inhabit his lyrics, and his range of rhetoric, from the nostalgic to the prophetic; it also places him squarely within contemporary controversies about the political uses of history. Gary Snyder's understanding that history extends to the natural world and our relationship to it is integral to his complex enterprise as a writer of poems and essays, as an activist and educator, and as a point of connection in a web of similarly concerned thinkers. His conception of history as a matter of bioregions rather than of nations and of tradition as a matter of wisdom rather than of identity unsettles the usual divisions between art, politics and science as well as our conventional expectations of poetry. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCAD, JLIT ISP: AMS, REE

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EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Subject

EGL

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. Students who have previously taken EGL 115 may not enroll. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AFR, AMS

Course In this course, we will take a close look at the work of five poets, three whose lives have spanned the American experience from the 1960s to the present (Peg Boyers, Carl Phillips, Frank Bidart) and two younger poets (Chelsea Woodard and Diane Mehta, both Union graduates). We'll take a look at the problem of the speaker in the poems (who may be the poet, more or less, or a mask, or a fiction, or some combination), which is also a way of asking questions about identity, history, and culture, as well as about freedom and restraint, the possibilities and limitations of language. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS

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EGL

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1

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course An examination of the writers of the Beat Generation (including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Edward Sanders) and of their lasting influence on American popular culture. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, GLIT, GCAD ISP: AMS, GSWS, REE

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EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2024-2025

Source

catalog.union.edu

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT, JSPE ISP: AFR, REE

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EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, LCC, WAC, GLIT, GCHF, GSPE ISP: AIS

Course This course examines the theme of haunting in contemporary US ethnic literature. With this theme in mind, we will investigate the following questions throughout the trimester: Why is haunting such a prevalent theme in ethnic writing? What do we mean when we say that a text is haunted? What are the causes of haunting? What is possession? What are some ways to dispossess or exorcise ghosts? What are the functions of ghosts? Is there such a thing as a good haunting? What are their messages to us? How do we listen to ghosts? Authors include Lan Cao, Nora Okja Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AMS, GSW

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EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, JCHF, JLIT, WAC ISP: AMS, GSW

Course This class will examine various perspectives on "The Vietnam War," or, as the people of Viet Nam call it, "The American War." In our archeological exploration into the nature of knowledge about this period in Viet Nam/U.S. history, we will not privilege one perspective over another. Rather, we will examine the diverse political, ideological, and moral positions from which various groups, such as the U.S. government, U.S. soldiers, U.S. citizens, the North Vietnamese people, and the South Vietnamese people, perceive this historic conflict. Prerequisite(s): One

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EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, GCHF, GLIT, WAC ISP: AIS, AMS

Course If you are interested in the diverse history of Asian immigration in the U.S., take this course. Together as a class, we will examine major historical moments in Asian America: the first wave of Asian immigration in the mid-nineteenth century, the anti-Asian laws of the late nineteenth century, the Japanese internment during the Second World War, the emergence of Asian American studies during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Southeast Asian refugees after the Viet Nam/American War, and the contemporary turns to the transnational and the pan ethnic. To cover these historical moments, we will read the following texts: Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, Eat a Bowl of Tea, Farwell to Manzanar, When Broken Glass Floats, American Born Chinese, and American Son. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AIS, AMS, FLM

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EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AIS, AMS, FLM

Course This course examines the diverse literatures, histories, and cultures of the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong and Laotian through the lens of war, migration, and return. Specific attention will be paid to how the War in Vietnam spread to neighboring countries such as Cambodia and Laos, resulting in mass migration of people from Southeast Asia to the West, specifically the United States. We will examine the literatures, oral testimonies, films, and music created by Southeast Asians in America. Possible authors include: Andrew Lam, Bich Minh Nguyen, Le Thi Diem Thuy, Loung Ung, Chanrithy Him, Kao Kalia Yang, Mai Neng Moua, and Burlee Vang. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AIS, AMS

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EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AIS, AMS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUM, HUL, WAC, JLIT ISP: GSW

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: FLM, GSWS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, LCC, HUM, WAC ISP: FLM, GSWS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC

Course This course examines British fiction from the early twentieth-century, a period often referred to as the "modernist" era. The moderns experimented with new, different, and exciting ways of writing that perplexed many readers, yet such changes have come to be seen as important innovations in literary style. In addition to engaging with questions of form and style, the moderns were also interested in subjects that were previously viewed as taboo, questionable, and, as such, often unspeakable. These topics included trauma, the lasting effects of war, sexual

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EGL

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1

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course While traditionally modernism has been considered a largely European and North American affair, in recent years scholars have sought to contest and expand this canon. New research has shown that modernism existed all over the world, from Africa and Latin America, to the South Pacific and East Asia, and on all continents in between. This course introduces students to a new globally expanded understanding of modernism, while asking them to actively contribute to the ongoing expansion of the canon. We will work with new scholarship and archival materials, in order to better understand what happens to modernism as it spreads around the world. Writers may include African writers such as Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Wole Soyinka; Caribbean writers Claude McKay and Aimé Césaire; Japanese poets, Hirato Renkichi and Chika Sagawa; Chinese writers such as Lu Xun and Eileen Zhang; Indian writers from Tagore and the Indian Progressive Writers Association to the 1960s avant-gardes; and Turkish modernists including Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and the Garip poets. Students will have the opportunity to work with texts in any languages they may read, or to work exclusively in English (including in translation). By exploring literary criticism on modernism in its historical and global contexts, students will gain an understanding of major debates which have shaped modernist studies across the twentieth century including New Criticism, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, as well as more recent debates on the global turn including weak theory and "bad" modernisms. Students will also improve their writing and independent research skills through an anthology project that invites them to contribute to the ongoing canonization of global modernist texts through producing scholarly annotations, introductions, and digital editing. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, LCC, WAC, GLIT, GCHF, GSPE ISP: AIS

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EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, LCC, WAC, GLIT, GCHF, GSPE ISP: AIS

Course By examining literary and cultural representations, this course both interrogates the politics and social dynamics of various sexual identities and subjectivities and examines complex representations of both gender and sexuality. This course also focuses on the literary study of important straight, gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, and transgender writers within their evolving social, historical, and cultural contexts over the last few centuries. We will discuss some of the major critical debates both in literary studies and in gender and sexuality studies, asking and attempting to answer the following questions: How is sexuality represented in literature? How has the relationship between literature and sexuality evolved over time? Who creates the discourses on sexualized bodies and identities? How can we understand the relationship between lived experience and literary/cultural representations? What might be queer about literature? What makes a narrative queer? Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM ISP: GSW

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EGL

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1

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course provides an introduction to the major themes and concerns of twentieth- and twenty-first century African American women writers. We begin in the 18th century and move quickly to the 20th and 21st. We will examine the ways in which black womanhood is characterized through intersecting categories of race, gender, class, sexuality, and empire. We will explore how selected authors wrestle with stereotypical images of African American women, examine the connections between black womanhood, community, and empire, and discuss the

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EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: LCC, HUL, HUM, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE, WAC ISP: AFR, AMS, GSW

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EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUM, HUL, WAC, GCHF, GLIT, GSPE ISP: GSW

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: SOCS, HUL, HUM, JCAD, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE, WAC ISP: AFR, AMS, GSW

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EGL

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1

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: JLIT, JCHF, WAC ISP: AIS, AMS, GSWS

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EGL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a grade of 5 on AP English Literature or Language test CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC-R, JLIT, JCHF ISP: GSWS, AIS

Course Merriam Webster defines a crime as an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government; especially: a gross violation of law. A crime, however, is also defined in moral and ethical terms, as a grave offense, especially against morality; something reprehensible, foolish, or disgraceful. Students in this course will

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EGL

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1

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM ISP: AMS, ENS, LAW

Course Students will consider literary works from several Native American writers who challenge white privilege and modes of possession. Texts will support place consciousness and tribal revitalization through an intergenerational awareness of intercultural dialogue. The course will focus on Indigenous counter-narratives that endeavor to dislodge the dominance of canonical white writers and, using a queer theoretical lens, will explore ways to reframe binary heteronormative practices.Course readings will focus on the consequences of dualistic thinking, colonization, and Eurocentric ideals. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. ISP: ENS

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EGL

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1

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Subject

EGL

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1

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: JLIT, WAC

Course By interrogating literary, cultural, and psychoanalytical texts, this course examines the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis; the two have been in close conversation since the early theoretical developments that began to define psychoanalysis. From Freud's use of Hamlet and The Sandman as key cornerstones of his own theories to the way that J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone illustrates Jacques Lacan's notion of the Mirror Stage, literature and psychoanalysis have been dialogically and dynamically intimate bedfellows. During our term, we will look at psychoanalytical writings by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and others in conjunction with transhistorical literary and cultural texts. We will examine specific psychoanalytical concepts like the unconscious, desire, sublimation, shame, the uncanny, the death drive, the primal horde, infantile sexuality, and mourning and

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EGL

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1

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course

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2024-2025

Source

catalog.union.edu

Course This course explores the development of the autobiographical genre from the late 18th century to the present day, beginning with Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions. Through a combination of close reading, historical contextualization, and critical analysis, we will engage with key texts that have shaped the autobiographical form. Readings will focus on the interplay of memory, truth, and storytelling, as well as the ethical dimensions of self- representation. We will also explore the ways authors shape their life stories to reveal complex identities, cultural contexts, and historical moments. Reading lists vary widely from term to term. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS

Subject

EGL

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS

Course In this course we will investigate the rich and complex history of the genre of English manor house fiction. Focusing on texts ranging from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and E. M. Forster's Howards End to Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, and Ian McEwan's Atonement, we will explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, and especially class in both course readings and class discussions. Furthermore, we'll examine a number of filmic representations of British country house life, including Robert Altman's Gosford Park and Julian Fellowes' Downton Abbey. In addition to crafting course papers, students will have the option to research, create, and showcase their own multi-media projects exploring virtual manor homes via a range of freely downloadable programs and platforms. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCAD, JLIT ISP: GSW, STS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCAD, JLIT ISP: GSW, STS

Course This course will deal with works of fiction in which philosophy or philosophical concepts play a significant role. A key issue is the relationship between ideas and (literary) form. Authors will come from a wide range of traditions and may include Descartes, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Nietzsche, Camus, Dostoevsky, Borges, Calvino, Lem, and Le Guin. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM ISP: REE

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2024-2025

Source

catalog.union.edu

Course An interdisciplinary examination of the interactions between literature and science. Topics will vary from year to year and may include science writing, the representation of science and scientists in literature, literature inspired by science, literature and science as competing ways of knowing the world, the figurative dimension of scientific writing, and speculative fiction. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM ISP: AMS, STS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Units

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: STS

Course This course will focus on the traditions of nature and environmental writing in the American context, with an emphasis on the social and cultural dynamics of the environment and environmental action. Among other questions, we will ask ourselves: How do class, gender, and race enter into the nexus of social interactions that shape our environment? What is the place of literature in community, literacy, and environmental activism? What are the connections between the ways we speak and write about the environment and our actions toward the environment? How does the wilderness concept affect the ways citizens have access to public spaces? We will consider the concept of "nature" as we move through the course, culminating (if you like) with some nature writing of your own. Readings may include Thoreau; Carson; Leopold; Kingsolver, and selections from Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden; Colors of Nature; Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, and the American Landscape; and F. Marina Schauffler, Turning to Earth: Stories of Ecological Conversion. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE ISP: AMS, ENS, STS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

Credit unit

Units

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE, WAC ISP: AMS, ENS, STS

Course Environmental research psychologist Maria Vittoria Giuliani emphasizes that human-to-place attachments "not only permeate our daily life but very often appear also in the representations, idealizations and expressions of life and affect represented [in] literature." Indeed, many literary works emphasize humanity's basic attachment needs and the importance person-to-place bonds have in the development of the human psyche. American fiction writers frequently employ descriptions of American landscapes as inspiration for character and plot development, and American nature writers often emphasize the way in which wilderness environments may influence one's mental and physical health and emotional well-being. In fact, recent studies in the field of cognitive neuroscience provide empirical evidence to substantiate the theory that exposure to a natural environment may actually generate structural changes in the brain by increasing oxygenation and blood flow that occur in response to neural activity. Hence, this course will employ contemporary studies in place attachment, environmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to examine the way in which various literary works illustrate the important role environment plays in aiding or obstructing one's ability to think, reason, remember, problem-solve, process information, use language, or be creative. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, ENS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, ENS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: WAC, JLIT, JCHF, JSPE ISP: ENS, STS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, JLIT

Course Interactive fiction is storytelling that uses technology to create an interactive "reading" experience, requiring the reader to make choices that influence the plot. In this course you are going to read, critique, and create interactive fiction. You'll develop your storytelling skills, and along the way you'll learn some programming concepts, and history of narrative. video games. We'll also consider how race, gender, class, sexuality, and (dis)ability shape our experiences of these games as players and writers. No previous CS experience is necessary. Students will need access to a laptop for class. Cross-Listed: CSC 084 Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of instructors. CC: HUL, HUM, SET, WAC, JCAD, JETS, JLIT ISP: AMS, GSW, STS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of instructors. CQ: HUL, HUM, SET, WAC, JCAD, JETS, JLIT ISP: AMS, GSW, STS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM ISP: REE

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of instructor. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: FLM

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of instructor. CQ: HUM, WAC ISP: FLM, GSW

Course What exactly does the designation "indie" mean when both filmmakers who disseminate their work online and specialized divisions within Hollywood studios claim this term as their own? In this course we will trace the development of the independent cinema from the late 1960s when first-time directors challenged Hollywood norms to create the New American Cinema, through its heyday the 1990s, into the present era-where many argue it has become thoroughly institutionalized. In examining the enormously flexible characterization "independent" we will draw on of a variety of code systems (cultural, artistic, narrative, cinematic, and intertextual) to analyze the work of such directors as George Romero, Julie Dash, Todd Haynes, Mira Nair, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, and Kelly Reichardt. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, GCAD, GLIT, GSPE ISP: AMS, FLM

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

Credit unit

Units

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC, GCAD, GLIT, GSPE ISP: AMS, FLM, GSWS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUL, HUM, wac ISP: AMS, FLM

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CQ: HUM, WAC, JLIT, JSPE ISP: AMS, FLM

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUM, LCC, WAC, JCAD, JCHF, JLIT

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUM, WAC, JCAD, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AMS, GSW

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of instructor. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC

Subject

EGL

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0

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0

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. For Film studies students, EGL 150 is recommended. CQ: HUM, WAC, JLIT, JCAD ISP: AMS, FLM

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

EGL 295H CQ: HUL, HUM

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EGL

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0

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test.

Subject

EGL

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0

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test.

Subject

EGL

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0

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test.

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

It is strongly recommended, although not required, that students have already taken EGL 293 . One 100-level and two 200-level English courses or instructor’s permission. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

It is strongly recommended that students have already taken EGL 294 . One 100-level and two 200-level English courses or instructor’s permission. Previous workshop experience is recommended. CQ: HUL, WAC, HUM

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

One 100-level and two 200-level English courses. Students should have GPSs of 3.3 or above. CQ: HUL, HUM, WAC-R ISP: GSW

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

Three English courses or instructor’s permission. CQ: WAC-R

Course When James Joyce's novel Ulysses was published in 1922, critics praised it as a text which created new literary forms leading to a radical shift in the understanding of what literature was able to say and do. The advent of Ulysses is considered a watershed moment in the history of Anglophone literature and the novel is often hailed as the most important book of the 20th century. Yet, the text's publication also created a huge uproar for authors of fiction from around the globe. Joyce's ambitions to encompass and record, in a single text, all of Irish culture and minute details of the city of Dublin, inspired other authors to search for ways in which their own national culture could be summed up in a single text. In this seminar we will explore authors who have taken up the challenge to write a "Ulysses of their Own," using the formal experiments of Joyce's novel as a springboard to reflect on their own national literary traditions in the face of a rapidly changing and unevenly experienced modernity. We will read texts such as Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (Germany); Yasunari Kawabata's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (Japan); GV Desani's All About H. Hatterr (India); Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's A Mind at Peace (Turkey); and Derek Walcott's Omeros (Saint Lucia). The seminar will introduce students to theoretical concepts integral to the study of

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EGL

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1

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1

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2024-2025

Source

catalog.union.edu

Course This is a course on the cultural politics of popular music. Since pop music is, by definition, ephemeral - shaped by and to some degree shaping the attitudes of a particular time and place - it can offer insights into what those attitudes were. On the contrary, some pop music transcends its cultural milieu, thus revealing something deeper about our culture in general. The Beatles, the most influential and still the most popular band of the rock era, offer one example; the musicians of Motown and other predominantly African-American recording platforms like Stax- Volt, without whom there would be no Beatles, offer another. After examining the lasting contributions of these artists as a foundation, we will, in the last weeks of the term, look at more contemporary pop musicians and their impact. Taylor Swift will be the focus, but students may nominate their own candidates (Beyonce? Rihanna? The Replacements?) for pop immortality and impact as well. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level and two 200-level English courses or instructor's permission. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC-R Note: No musical knowledge is required for this course. An ability to keep time and notice stand-out musical elements (key modulations, odd or interesting chords) would be useful but is not required. If you can play a bit, though, feel free to do so. • **Pre-req: Students must take three courses-an Introductory-level course (unless exempt) and at least two 200-level courses-before enrolling in a 300-level seminar. Three intermediate courses of choice (all 200-levels are the same difficulty):

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EGL

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1

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2024-2025

Source

catalog.union.edu

Subject

EGL

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1

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

It is strongly recommended that students have already taken EGL 293 , EGL 300 . Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CQ: HUL, HUM, WS

Subject

EGL

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1

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1

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Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

It is strongly recommended that students have already taken EGL 293 , EGL 301 . Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CQ: HUL, HUM, WS

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EGL

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0

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Subject

EGL

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2

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2

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Subject

EGL

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1

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CQ: WS/WAC-R

Subject

EGL

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1

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

It is strongly recommended that students have already taken EGL 295. For English majors or CWR minors, or with instructor’s permission. CQ: WS

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EGL

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1

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2026-2027

Catalog

Academic Catalog 2026-2027

Source

catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CQ: WS/WAC-R

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EGL

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1

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

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EGL

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu