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The Conversation: Justice and Politics

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Nature and the
Environment

Justice and
Politics

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Ethnicity

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the World

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and Secularity

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and Disability

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Courses in Our Catalog

ENGL 254 | Staging Revolution: Hamilton and Plays of Rebellion and Resistance (Fall 2021)
ENGL 303 | American Cultures
ENGL 455 | Persuasive Writing
ENGL 483 | American Crime Novel
ENGL 483 | Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Literature
ENGL 498 | Law and Literature

Courses on Offer this Semester

ENGL 200 | Language, Linguistics, and Society

TR 9:45-11:00 & 2:30-3:45 | Anne Snellen

ENGL 201 | British Literature

Swords, Dragons, and Stages

TR 12:55-2:10 | Scott MacKenzie

ENGL 209 | Introduction to Jane Austen

MWF 9:10-10:00 | Jessica Freeman

ENGL 226 | Introduction to Caribbean Literature

TR 2:30-3:45 | Gichingiri Ndigirigi

ENGL 233 | Major Black Writers

Black Fire: Literature and Liberation

MWF 1:50-2:40 | Katy Chiles

ENGL 250 | Popular Fiction

Dystopian Literature

TR 2:30-3:45 | Erin Smith

ENGL 251 | Introduction to Poetry

TR 12:55-2:10 | Mary Christensen

ENGL 253 | Introduction to Fiction

MWF 10:20-11:10 | Sarah Cantrell

MWF 12:40-1:30 | Harry Newburn

Online Asynchronous | Kelvin Massey

ENGL 335 | African Literature

Transplants in African Literature

TR 11:20-12:35 | Gichingiri Ndigirigi

ENGL 360 | Technical and Professional Writing

Digital Security, AI, and Nuclear Conflict

TR 11:20-12:35 | Anne Snellen

ENGL 436 | Modern American Novel

Reading History, Race, and the Mind of the Writer

TR 2:30-3:45 | La Vinia Jennings

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