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Course An introduction to Chinese literature in the 20th Century. The publishing industry, and especially literature, played an influential role in shaping China's modern development. Students will study the origins of the New Culture movement's "new literature," analyze "revolutionary romanticism" and art for the masses, as well as examine contemporary works of popular fiction. The course relates China's literary and cultural trends within the local and global dimensions of modernity. All works in English. CC: HUL, LCC, HUM ISP: AIS

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course From the glitzy production studios of 1930s Shanghai to the contemporary hinterlands of China, the backstreets of Hong Kong, and the towns of Taiwan, this course examines the development and transformation of Chinese cinema. It will explore questions of aesthetics, Chinese identity, transnationalism, and representation. CC: HUM, LCC, WAC ISP: AIS, FLM

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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course The course examines gender and sexuality in 20th-century China as a gateway to understanding the political, cultural, and economic realities of China today. We consider the figure of the "New Woman" during China's civil war and World War II, the androgynous ideal after the founding of the People's Republic, the "Successful Man" during China's economic reform, and the articulations of "Comrades" as part of local, national, and international conversations. Readings in English. All films subtitled. CC: HUL, LCC ISP: AIS, GSWS

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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course An examination of topics in Asian American studies through film and performance by and about Asian Americans. Class material draws from independent filmmakers, theatrical and artistic performances, as well as theoretical and critical texts on culture and diversity, gender, the diaspora, and ethnicity. CC: HUM, LCC ISP: AIS,

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MLT

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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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MLT

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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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MLT

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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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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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2026-2027

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2026-2027

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2026-2027

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2026-2027

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2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

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2026-2027

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2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

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MLT

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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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MLT

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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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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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Course In this course we will investigate illness and its various representations in 19th and 20th century Russian culture. Specific emphasis will be placed on madness, disease and death in our discussion of various literary and historical madmen. The course will be conducted as a combination of lectures and class discussion. An occasional film will be shown. Cross-Listed: RUS 330 CC: HUL, HUM, LCC, WAC ISP: REE

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MLT

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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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MLT

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course

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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MLT

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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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MLT

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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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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, HUM, LCC

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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Prerequisite

None for MLT. GER 201 or permission of the instructor if student seeking GER credit. CQ: HUL, HUM ISP: GSWS

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MLT

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course

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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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MLT

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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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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course We will discuss the present distribution of the East European peoples, their prehistory, and their relation to other peoples of Europe and Asia. We will also survey their early culture, including pagan, animistic, and dualistic religious beliefs, and Christianization. Our focus will be the myth of the vampire, which has had enduring power not only in Eastern European folk belief but also in American popular culture right up to the present day. CC: HUL, HUM, LCC, JCHF, JLIT ISP: FLM, REE

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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course Through analysis of literature, film, and visual arts we will discuss the Russian impact on the world with all its manifestations, constructive and destructive, and we will also attempt to "imagine" Russia in the future. Do you want to know more about Dostoevsky, communist and post-communist Russia, and, most importantly, the Russian Mafia? CC: HUL, HUM, LCC ISP: REE

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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course At its inception, Soviet film was intertwined with political revolution. In masterpieces such as Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin and Pudovkin's Mother, film directors sought to portray the Bolshevik take-over as a legitimate and inevitable response to oppression. Who could imagine that the same country would produce Little

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MLT

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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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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course explores the impact of tourism and how once can become a more mindful and sustainable traveler--what does that even mean? Students will engage with terms like ecotourism, voluntourism, community tourism, agrotourism, and indigenous tourism through concrete case studies from Spanish-speaking countries, such as Spain, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Mexico, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. They will learn about each country's geography and critically reflect on their role as travelers. This course is highly collaborative, student-centered, participatory, and project-based. Students will read newspapers articles, scholarly articles, watch documentaries, videos, and produce weekly written reactions and design a three-week sustainable trip. CC: HUM, LCCS, GCHF, GWOL, WAC ISP: ENS, LAS

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course examines canonical and non-canonical Spanish cinema by well-known as well as lesser- known filmmakers. In addressing questions pertaining to national and regional identities, the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, the Spanish transition to a democratic republic and its evolving cultural values, and the country's subsequent incorporation into the European Union, the course also revisits Spain's imperial past and the country's place, today, in world affairs. Students should expect to acquire greater knowledge of Spanish cultural diversity and history, while developing further their film analysis, conversation, and writing skills. CC: HUM ISP: FLM

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course A survey of the main trends in film production in Latin America since the 1950s. Readings and discussions on issues of film history, aesthetics, representation and reception will frame our critical reflection on the construction of various types identities in some of the national cinemas across Latin America. CC: HUM, LCC, JCAD, JCHF, WAC ISP: FLM, GSWS, LAS

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This survey course offers an interdisciplinary study of Caribbean literature focusing on the political history of the region from 1898 to the present. Besides the literary texts, films and substantive readings will contribute to an examination of four main topics: Legacies of Colonialism; Race and Ethnicity; Constructed Identities; and the Caribbean Diaspora. Students will be exposed to the rich and often overlooked literary production by Caribbean writers, drawing lines of comparison and contrast among writers from several of the islands, and identifying the common literary elements and devices shared by them. The course seeks to promote a reflection on how Caribbean intellectuals explore and deal with issues of self-determination and the construction of identities. CC: HUL, LCC, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AFR, LAS

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course In this course we will examine the connection between politics and popular religions in Latin America, taking a critical view of several of their manifestations without losing track of the language and "sciences" historically used to describe them. We will engage biblical, anthropological, videographic, ethnohistorical and cultural theory texts as well as oral histories and collective memories. The final goal is to tease out those ideas that have traditionally defined the terms in which we understand and explain the "popular" in religious behavior; to understand better the conflicted relationship between "popular" cultural and institutional spaces; and finally to understand why the evolution of popular religions in Latin America cannot be examined without also taking into account their political economy. CC: HUM, LCC ISP: AFR, LAS, REL

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course offers an interdisciplinary study of contemporary Latin American cinema focusing on issues of representation, reception and spectatorship, and the construction of (national, cultural, gender, and racial) identity. Besides the films, reviews and substantive readings will contribute to an examination of five main topics: 1) Constructions of Gender; 2) Representations of National Identity; 3) Race and Class; 4) Queer Images; and, 5) Imagining Marginality. All films studied in class will link two or more of these topics. CC: HUM, LCC ISP: FLM,

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course examines different styles of documentary and realist film making from Latin America. It looks critically and with a "film-eye" at the aesthetic and socio-political meanings of conventional and experimental films dealing with social reality and its representation. We will analyze a selective, but historically contextualized and engaging, collection of films that include, among others, Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (1950), Hector Babenco's Pixote (1981), and Fernando Meirelles' City of God (2002). CC: HUM, LCC ISP: FLM, LAS

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This course explores Latin American literature and film in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the dictatorships and the early years after the military coups in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Readings include texts by writers who stayed in their countries and wrote under the confines of censorship, texts by writers in exile, and theoretical texts on violence, torture, and censorship. Some themes and questions we will discuss are constraints of censorship, the gendering of the nation, control and punishment. CC: HUL, HUM, LCC ISP: LAS

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

Course This is a class in literature, film and essays from both sides of the Mexican-American border. This course is designed to give students an under-standing of the complexities of the history, culture and sense of identity of residents from both sides. The class will be discussion based and will focus on the close readings of novels, poems, short stories and plays. CC: HUL, HUM, LCC ISP: AMS, GSWS, LAS

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

in American Literature & Cinema Course The course is a survey of the cultural production and representation of the Dominican and Puerto Rican communities in New York City from the late 1950's to the present. Through the analysis of literary texts (narrative, poetry, theater) and films, students are encouraged to reflect on the forging of transnational identities and other issues (race, cultural identity, gender and masculinities) related to these two Caribbean diasporic communities in the U.S., and on the politics of their representation within the American cultural economy. CC: HUL, HUM, LCC ISP: AFR, AMS, FLM, LAS

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu

Course This is an exploration of how masculinities (and maleness) are performed and how men perform gender. The course is a survey of literary and cinematic texts from around the world, with emphasis on Hispanic and Latinx communities (from Spain, Spanish America, and the USA) that adopt cross-dressing as a subversive device to question and delegitimize authority at various arenas (heteronormative gender roles, sexual and national identities, state politics and citizenship, and cultural hegemony). It also seeks to dissect binary understandings of gender while exploring the concept as a performative social construct, and establishing connections with and drawing examples from literary production, cinema, and popular culture. From this angle, emphasis will be placed on the performance of socially regulated gender roles whose scripts are constantly altered and in flux, albeit at times guarded violently by diverse social members and institutions. Beyond the analysis of literary texts and films, the course incorporates critical theory and cultural artifacts (music videos, magazine ads, billboards, art works) that frame the class discussions and enable us to connect the primary texts with local and global discourses around social demarcations of gender. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: FLM, GSWS, LAS

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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MLT

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2024-2025

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catalog.union.edu

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MLT

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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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MLT

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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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MLT

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2026-2027

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Academic Catalog 2026-2027

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catalog.union.edu