ENGL 190Introductory Topics in Literature
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ENGL
61 courses with the subject ENGL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ENGL 191Golden Age of Piracy: Histories, Literature, Legends, and Myths4
Credits: The pirates who plundered the ships of the Spanish Main and cruised the coasts of Africa and the Americas both served and troubled conventional notions of race, gender, economics, law, and nationality in a period that saw the rise of Empire and the Atlantic slave trade, the American Revolution, and the wars of the early nineteenth century. The usually criminal and always liminal status of those who decided to “go upon the account” has attracted the attention of numerous authors and filmmakers who have cast them as brave iconoclasts, romantic heroes, and heartless villains. This class will explore representations of seventeenth and eighteenth-century pirates from their time to our own.
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- ENGL
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- 4
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- 4
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 192Medieval Frame Tales and Story Collections
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 206Creative Publishing: The Southwestern Review I
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 207Creative Publishing: The Southwestern Review II
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 210Introduction to Creative Writing
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 218Myths and Sagas of Medieval Iceland4
Credits: This course focuses on the rich storytelling traditions of medieval Iceland. The endlessly diverse sagas and eddas introduce readers not only to feats of dragon-slaying heroes, disputes among Old Norse gods, fantastical tales of giants and Valkyries, and legendary explorations as far as North America but also to the more everyday aspects of medieval life-foodways, material culture, healing practices, gender roles, laws and customs, and settlement patterns across Iceland’s dangerous and beautiful landscape. Alongside our study of these Icelandic texts, we will examine global perceptions of Vikings in other parts of the medieval world as well as post-medieval lives of these enduring stories.
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- ENGL
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- 4
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- 4
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 221The Novel of Manners
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 224Survey of African American Literature
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 225Southern Literature
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 230Shakespeare
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 235World Drama
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- 2026
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ENGL 238Blue Humanities4
Credits: If you are interested in Environmental Humanities, this course invites a deeper dive into inter-disciplinary thinking with water. The human body is mostly water. The planet is mostly water. If water were our teacher, what might we learn? This course recenters attentions around our shared lifeblood to expand STEM frameworks through STREAM+ (rhetoric-reading+arts) by inviting collective thinking and engaging interdisciplinary co-teachers across campus. The classifications of “humanities,” “arts,” and “sciences” were not separated from the beginning of humanity, so how might we renew and reintegrate liquid ways of knowing? Special attention will be given to our Mississippi River Watershed that gathers waters across many states and provinces to nourish our home of Memphis. Water is strong enough to wear down stone, to quietly replenish earth, even to save someone from dying of thirst. What might happen if we reconnect with our blue natures?
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- ENGL
- Credits (min)
- 4
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- 4
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 239Environmental Humanities4
Credits: Have you ever wished to immerse in the nature of writing by reading about nature? The roots of ecology are seeded in meanings of “home” and “dwelling”-not merely a house but a life-interrelated with other lives. This course cross-pollinates literary genres (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid arts) to deepen interdisciplinary senses of place at Rhodes College. Ecology is not isolated but interconnected, as relationships between organisms and environments grow reciprocally with the more-than-human world. The act of reading literatures as landscapes (and landscapes as literatures) can hone the art of attention beyond pages to places, growing our imaginations to renew ways to care for and repair our shared planet. Special attention will be given to our campus ecosystem. Our course will interweave some histories of environmental literature to expand our sense of home on this living, breathing Earth.
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- ENGL
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- 4
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- 4
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 240Literature and Science
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 241History and Criticism of American Cinema
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 242World Film
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 245Special Topics in Film
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 255Introduction to Journalism
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 260Survey of British Literature I
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 261Survey of British Literature II
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 264Studies in African American Literature
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 265Special Topics
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 266Topics in Literature4
Credits: This course will provide students with a comprehensive introduction to modern, postmodern, and contemporary literary London through the lens of gender. In the course we will read and analyze a variety of canonical and non-canonical texts all of which take place in or are about London from the twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Students will be encouraged to think historically, in terms of the way London and representations of the city have changed and developed over the past century; and theoretically, in terms of the way the city is mediated through gender identities, different forms and genres (e.g. poetry, novels, essays, film; satire), and the interrelationship of literary and material spaces. In addition to interrogating the significance of gender in identity formation in our class texts, we will also examine the definition of the modern metropolis as a labyrinthine city of Babylon; the influence of metropolitan culture and changing gender roles on Modernism and Modernity; assimilation versus multiculturalism; immigration; and the effects of modern spaces on individuals and gender identities. Many of the texts we will read interrogate the theme of London characters feeling “outside” the city, or not part of it metaphorically. Thus, another aim of the course is to expose students to an array of novels about or by migrants, with a view to enlivening students to the complexity, and evolving nature, of migrant experience. In these texts, we will pay special attention to affect and feeling; forms and affects of social and political agency; gender; genre and form, all of which will be contextualized within the rise of feminist literary studies and its emphasis on bodies, embodiment, and emotion. Alongside these literary investigations, students will also learn about key concepts in gender, queer, Marxist and postcolonial theory, and they will be encouraged to think about how depictions of gender, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, and inclusivity reflect the anxieties and biases of culture at large. We will also consider other art forms and media contemporary to the texts we read, including films, art music, popular and folk song, news reels, visual arts. While broadly chronological, following representations of gender in London from the late eighteenth century to the early twenty first century, the course’s thematic focus will encourage students to consider the recurrence of particular ideas about gender, class, race, and citizenship across the decades, and across differing groups of Londoners and “outsiders.” The course will be conducted mainly as a seminar, in which students will participate through oral presentations and class discussion, with introductory lectures when appropriate.. In class, students will be expected to incorporate critical thinking, including specific terminology, into discussions of texts. Assessed group presentations will allow students to take ownership of the materials, and to lead class discussion. Please note that this course includes texts of varying lengths, and it assumed students will do the majority of the reading before departing for London.
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- ENGL
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- 4
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- 4
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 268Literary New York: Reading the City4
Credits: As the most densely populated urban center in North America and a historical entry point for immigration, New York is famously diverse and mutable, but it is also financially punishing and rife with visible and covert segregation. “Literary New York” examines three centuries of writing about New York, work that captures the city’s contradictory essence and challenges its power structures. We will study authors, such as Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Teju Cole, who capture and critique the New York of their moment, as we make our own observations about daily life in the city-its inspirations and its barriers. We will also learn about the contemporary literary landscape of New York, visiting iconic bookstores, a “Big 5” publishing house, & literary nonprofits, attending readings, and going on literary walking tours. The course requires structured responses to each reading, a daily journal of observational writing, on site activities, a collective zine, and a final written project.
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- ENGL
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- 4
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- 4
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 285English Seminar
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- 2026
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ENGL 290Academic Writing: Language, Knowledge, and Power
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- 2026
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ENGL 301Intermediate Fiction Workshop
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 305Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 315History of the English Language
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- 2026
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ENGL 316Advanced Grammar
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- 2026
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ENGL 320Medieval Literature of the 12th-15th Centuries
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- 2026
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ENGL 322Renaissance Poetry and Prose
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- 2026
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ENGL 323Renaissance Drama
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- 2026
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ENGL 324Renaissance Law and Literature
Approved Classes from History HIST 243: the Civil Rights Movement
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- 2026-2027
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- www.rhodes.edu
ENGL 325Chaucer
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 335Milton
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- 2026
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ENGL 336Literature and Landscape, 1500-18004
Credits: This course investigates two closely related subjects: English literature’s response to changing ideas of nature and the landscape; and the response of designers of English landscapes and gardens to literature. Material studied will range from Shakespeare to Wordsworth, including both the acknowledged literary greats and lesser-known writers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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- ENGL
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- 4
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- 4
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
- Prerequisite
- Any 190 or 200 level literature course or permission from instructor.
ENGL 343Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 345Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 350Romantic Poetry and Prose
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- 2026
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ENGL 351Victorian Poetry and Prose
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- 2026
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ENGL 355Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 359Early American Literature
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 360American Romanticism
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 362American Modernism
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- 2026
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ENGL 363Topics in Twentieth-Century British Literature
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 364Advanced African American Literature
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 365Twentieth-Century British Fiction
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 380Topics in Literary Study
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 385Junior Seminar: Critical Theory and Methodology
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 399Tutorial for Honors Candidates
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 401Advanced Fiction Workshop
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 405Advanced Nonfiction Workshop
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 460Internship
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 461Internship
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 462Topics in Professional Development
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 465Writing Fellowship
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 485Senior Research Seminar
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 495Honors Tutorial
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- ENGL
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
ENGL 496Honors Tutorial
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- ENGL
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- 2026
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- catalog.rhodes.edu
Source: Rhodes College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59