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ENGLISH LITERATURE (L14)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2019

L14 E Lit 151First-Year Seminar: Real Life3.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-1:00PDuncker / 109 MilderNo Final1550
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L14 E Lit 156First-Year Seminar: Literature of Post-Adolescence3.0 Units
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01-T-R---2:30P-4:00PCupples II / L007 WindleNo Final16160
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L14 E Lit 2151Literature in English: Early Texts and Contexts3.0 Units
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01-T-R---10:00A-11:30AEads / 210 PawlNo Final14130
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02-T-R---11:30A-1:00PCupples II / L011 ArchNo Final15120
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03-T-R---11:30A-1:00PCupples I / 216 ThomasNo Final15150
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L14 E Lit 2152Literature in English: Modern Texts and Contexts3.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30ARidgley / 107 BailinNo Final15120
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02-T-R---4:00P-5:30PJanuary Hall / 10A MaciakNo Final15150
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03M-W----10:00A-11:30ARudolph / 102 GradertNo Final1570
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L14 E Lit 302The Great American Novel3.0 Units
Description:What is the Great American Novel? This is a question that has been hotly debated for decades, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner to Toni Morrison. It's a question with a hundred answers and no answers at all-a question of taste, of prejudice, of time. But what is a "Great American Novel"? What does it look like? What do we expect of it? What have Americans throughout history wanted it to say about America? These are questions we can, and will, answer in this course. As elusive a thing as the Great American Novel has been, the idea of the Great American Novel has a long and fascinating history that mirrors all the major movements of American literature from the American Renaissance to the present. Piecing together the story of this dream, this cultural quest with all of its inclusions and exclusions, is a way of telling a shadow history of American society. The Great American Novel tradition is something like a fossil record of America's shifting norms in relation to race, gender, sexuality, domesticity, democracy, citizenship, immigration, labor, capitalism, and war. And so each presumptive Great American Novel is a new variation in an evolving genre and a new thesis statement of American grandiosity or guilt. By cataloguing shared themes, conventions, and preoccupations, and by paying close attention to a handful of likely-and unlikely-candidates, this course will big questions about American exceptionalism, American tragedy, and the role of art in American culture. Authors will likely include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L98 302AFrequency:None / History
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01-T-R---10:00A-11:30ACupples I / 218 MaciakNo Final25190
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L14 E Lit 313Topics in English Literature: Ocean, Island, Ghetto, Globe: An Introduction to Asian American Lit3.0 Units
Description:Where do Asian Americans belong? This question has long been a problem for Asian Americans. The disparate routes Asian migrants took to the U.S. tie their stories "here" to a "there" overseas. Meanwhile, their places here in the U.S. have been ambivalent: embraced as model minorities but also excluded as racial others, foreigners, even potential traitors. Out of this history comes a literature that wrestles with the problem of place and setting. From fiction to poetry to graphic novels, this course will introduce us to the range of Asian American literature and stretch our ideas of what it can be and where it can travel. Through this literature, we'll examine how Asian Americans have imagined their horizons of belonging when their places in the nation and world are unclear. We'll journey from familiar Asian American settings-Chinatown, the island, the Asia-Pacific-to less familiar ones-the American hemisphere, the trans-Atlantic, global utopias, fantasy worlds. Across these diverse settings, Asian American literature questions where and why we draw the boundaries of community, identity, and political responsibility in an increasingly migrant world. Authors may include Monique Truong, Frank Chin, Rishi Reddi, Marjorie Liu, Cathy Park Hong, and Ruth Ozeki. Satisfies the Twenthieth Century and later requirement.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L16 313A  L46 313  L97 3130  L98 3131Frequency:None / History

L14 E Lit 315Topics in American Literature: History and the 20th Century American Novel3.0 Units
Description:Norman Mailer titled his book on the 1967 anti-war march on the Pentagon "Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History." The main title, taken from Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach," refers to the physical and moral confusion of war and of warring historical forces generally; the subtitle suggests more than the status of Mailer's book as a historical novel. History is itself a "novel," Mailer implies, filled with sometimes larger than life characters and taking on meaning only as it is told and retold by successive interpreters. The novel is "history" in that it belongs to and reflects its times and, insofar as it impresses itself on the minds of its readers, contributes to the making of history. The course will explore several novelists' constructions of American history through the 1970s. Readings will likely include William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!," a microcosmic history of the South from ante-bellum times through the early 20th century; selections from John Dos Passos's epic "U.S.A"; Philip Roth's counterfactual "The Plot Against America," which imagines a Fascist takeover of the country; Don DeLillo's 'Libra," a fiction about Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy Assassination; Mailer's "Armies of the Night," a record of and meditation on the turbulence of the late 1960s: Toni Morrison's 'Song Of Solomon," a saga of the Afro-American experience across most of a century; and possibly E. L. Doctorow's "Ragtime," an inventive tragicomedy about race and culture early in the early 1900s. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L98 315AFrequency:None / History
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30ACupples I / 216 MilderNo Final2090
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L14 E Lit 318Topics in American Literature: The Cultural History of the American Teenager3.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30ASimon / 022 ShipeNo Final25270
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L14 E Lit 334A History of the Golden Age of Children's Literature3.0 Units
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:30PSever / 300 PawlMay 7 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM20180
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02-T-R---4:00P-5:30PSimon / 022 PawlMay 8 2019 6:00PM - 8:00PM20140
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L14 E Lit 3360Topics in American Culture Studies: Passing Time: Contested Racial Boundaries in Modern Am Culture3.0 Units
Description:From Nella Larsen's classic Harlem Renaissance novel Passing (1929) to Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning thriller Get Out (2017), racial crossing, exchange, and intermixture remain a preoccupation in American culture. But who can cross racial boundaries, and who cannot? What motivates a person to leave behind one identity and take up another? And how have Americans at different time periods differentiated an authentic identity from a false one? This course explores these questions through an interdisciplinary archive of sources from history, literature, film, journalism, law, and philosophy. Tracing shifting conceptions of race, gender, and sexuality across the 20th and 21st centuries, we will consider how the practice of passing has changed over time and the ways in which it continues to shape contemporary ideas about identity categories. We will examine the costs and benefits of situating ideas like immigrant assimilation and cultural appropriation in relation to passing, as well as the uses and the limitations of thinking comparatively about racial passing and gender or sexuality passing. Our discussions will make use of a diverse set of scholarly and popular sources, including works from Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Michael Jackson, Octavia Butler, and Alison Bechdel.
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L98 3360  L18 3366  L57 3360Frequency:Unpredictable / History
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30ASeigle / L002 ThurmanPaper/Project/Take Home20180
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L14 E Lit 336BTopics in American Cultural Studies: Reading American Fan Cultures3.0 Units

L14 E Lit 3552Introduction to Literary Theory3.0 Units
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01-T-R---4:00P-5:30PDuncker / 109 BattenNo Final15100
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02-T-R---1:00P-2:30PCupples II / L007 WindleNo Final1540
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L14 E Lit 357The Art of Poetry3.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-1:00PJanuary Hall / 20 E. FinneranNo Final1550
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L14 E Lit 391WLiterature and Medicine3.0 Units
Description:Because illness, disease, pain, and fear of death are essential features of the human condition, these themes frequently appear in major literary works, a survey of which we will read in this class. We will focus especially on the suffering, helplessness, insight, and enlightenment experienced by both the ill and those who care for them. Works responding to the devastating plagues in the medieval and early modern periods hold especial interest for those studying illness and medicine; we will read works on plague by Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Defoe, with Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor" providing a starting point for our analysis. Two twentieth-century novels-"The Plague," by Camus, and "Blindness," by Saramago-will show us the additional imaginative possibilities of plague as metaphor and allegory. We will also read shorter works of fiction by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Mann, Eliot, Gilman, and Porter, as well as Edson's play "Wit." Students will be encouraged to consider how illness, disease, and fear of death affect both individual human beings and entire societies. In addition, students will fulfill their writing-intensive requirement through careful drafting, peer review, and revision; they will be encouraged to develop arguments with sound reasoning, appropriate structure, and well-judged textual support. Prerequisite: Writing 1.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L85 391WFrequency:None / History

L14 E Lit 410Medieval English Literature I: English Literary Manuscripts3.0 Units
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01M-W----2:30P-4:00PEads / 205 LawtonNo Final1580
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L14 E Lit 423Topics in American Literature: Imagining Multi-Racial Coalitions3.0 Units
Description:How can we grasp the charged and shifting landscape of contemporary U.S. racial relations? We seem, as a nation, to be desperate for a language, image, metaphor, or story that could make sense of multi-racial America and bring groups together. This course asks how the imaginative arts of literature and film might contribute to this effort. After all, bringing racial groups together across entrenched divides is an act of political imagination. How do people come to see and, more importantly, feel the common experiences, joint goals, and parallel positions that lay the groundwork for multi-racial coalitions? We'll track a generation of novelists, playwrights, poets, and filmmakers undertaking this work to recognize racial tensions and envision possible alliances. They are developing cultural forms that revise the enduring black/white scheme of race in America to register the increasing numbers of Latinxs and Asian Americans and the occluded presence of Native Americans. We'll set their creations alongside current efforts in sociology, political science, and ethnic studies in order to understand the racial imaginaries that shape how diverse Americans perceive their interrelations and divisions. Authors/directors include Spike Lee, Chang-rae Lee, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Tei Yamashita, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Gish Jen. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L46 423  L98 423Frequency:Every 2 Years / History
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01-T-R---2:30P-4:00PRudolph / 282 Le-KhacNo Final15120
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L14 E Lit 4231Topics in American Literature I: American Women Writers and Modernism3.0 Units
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01M-W----11:30A-1:00PDuncker / 1 PollakNo Final15100
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L14 E Lit 440James Joyce's Ulysses3.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-1:00PCupples II / L007 SherryNo Final20190
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L14 E Lit 461Topics in English Literature I: Fictions of the Anthropocene3.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30ARudolph / 282 Dutton, MicirNo Final15110
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L14 E Lit 462Topics in English Lit II: Sex and the City: Drama, Print, and Popular Culture in Early Modern London3.0 Units

L14 E Lit 4621Topics in Literature: Let's Talk about Life: Science Studies and Literary Study3.0 Units
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01-T-R---1:00P-2:30PEads / 208 MeyerNo Final1530
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L14 E Lit 494ASeminar: Popular Culture in the Early Modern Age3.0 Units
Description:This course explores festive, theatrical, literary, visual, and musical forms of "popular culture" in Europe between 1400 and 1800. In the first part of the course, we will examine European cultural forms-English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, etc.---generated by and for non-elite groups: popular rituals, carnival songs, cheap print, folk plays, jigs, ballads, oral and written storytelling, protest poems, fool societies, beggar songs, woodcut images, peasant utopias, and musical forms such as the frottola. The second part of the course addresses expressions and representations of plebeian culture in the paintings, literature, and music of such artists as Pieter Brueghel, François Rabelais, William Shakespeare, and Antoine Busnoys. As we read through our primary texts, we will ask several questions. What, in fact, is "popular culture"? To what extent-and how-can we reconstruct the actual voices of ordinary people? What was the relationship between elite and popular culture in this period? Was early modern plebeian culture capable of generating social revolt? Our focus will be on the early modern period, but we will also consider how popular culture works in our own day. The course will include several visits from faculty in other disciplines. The course, which counts for the interdisciplinary requirement for the new Early Modern Studies Graduate Certificate, is also open to advanced undergraduates and other graduate students in the humanities.
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L16 494  L15 495Frequency:Unpredictable / History

L14 E Lit 500INDEPENDENT STUDYVar. Units (max = 6.0)
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L14 E Lit 5001HONORS THESIS TUTORIALVar. Units (max = 1.0)
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L14 E Lit 508Seminar: Marilynne Robinson3.0 Units
Description:The novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson first achieved national acclaim with "Housekeeping" (1980), a haunting coming-of-age novel about two sisters set in the beauty and grandeur of the west. That novel eventually established Robinson at the Iowa Writers Workshop where she taught for many years. What many noticed in her first book was a new sort of voice, a lyric prose, which returned over two decades later in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Gilead" (2004). Since then, she has written two more novels ("Home" and "Lila") set in the same town, but with radically different voices and perspectives. Between these novels and her collected essays, Robinson's work engages issues of race, gender, history, regionalism, and religion. Her later work has focused in particular on the role of the humanities and higher education. She has been a lecturer in high demand (appearing at Wash U in November 2018), and she has been interviewed many times-most noticeably by Barack Obama for "The New York Review of Books." In this class, we will read all her published books, asking questions of development, style, and voice. Meanwhile, as we see what critical engagements have been made with her writings, we will situate her within broader academic discourses (like feminist studies, critical race theory, or religion and literature), and ask how various approaches can open new insights into her writings. In this class students will write both a personal essay (responding to an essay of Robinson's) and a critical seminar paper engaging any topic raised by her work.
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L14 E Lit 551Literature and the Cultural Sphere of Early Modernity: Methods of Study3.0 Units
Description:The aim of Comparative Literature 550 is to introduce graduate students to recent methods and models of study in early modern literature and culture. Over the past several decades, the early modern field has been home to some of the most exciting historical, critical, and methodological innovation: 'The New Historicism'; the histories of reading and of the book; the history of the emotions and the turn to affect; patronage and the idea of political and social networks; the intersections of gossip, news and high culture; the changing textual boundaries of national literary cultures; digital humanities, early modern texts, and literary study. Attendant on each field of inquiry are questions of method and of theory: to what traditional and to what new archives do we now turn in our work? what notions of text and textuality help us to draw the boundaries of our work as early modernists? and how do protocols of evidence variously shape our work as critics and historians? 'Literature and the Cultural Sphere of Early Modernity' will explore such questions and their relations to one another through common readings, discussions of set texts, and brief papers applying new methods and models; our work will also be shaped by the interests and fields of study among members of the seminar. The course is designed for students pursuing the Early Modern Studies Certificate, but it is broadly open to graduate students in our various language and literature programs, to historians interested in interdisciplinary study, as well as to students in other humanities and social science fields such as art history and philosophy.
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L16 550Frequency:Annually / History

L14 E Lit 580Directed ReadingVar. Units (max = 6.0)
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21TBATBAKlimasewiskiNo Final99900
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22TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
23TBATBALawtonNo Final9900
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24TBATBALe-KhacNo Final000
25TBATBALoewensteinNo Final9900
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26TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
27TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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28TBATBAMaxwellNo Final9900
29TBATBAMcKelvyNo Final9900
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30TBATBAMcPhersonNo Final000
31TBATBAMeyerNo Final9900
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32TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
33TBATBAMilderNo Final9900
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34TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
35TBATBAParvulescuNo Final9900
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36TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
37TBATBAPawlNo Final9900
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38TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
39TBATBAPhillipsNo Final9900
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40TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
41TBATBAPollakNo Final9900
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43TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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44TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
45TBATBARosenfeldNo Final9900
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46TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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47TBATBARulandNo Final9900
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48TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
49TBATBASchmidgenNo Final9900
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50TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
51TBATBASheaNo Final9900
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52TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
53TBATBASherryNo Final9900
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54TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
55TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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56TBATBAVan EngenNo Final000
57TBATBAWalkerNo Final9900
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58TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
59TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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60TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
61TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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62TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
63TBATBAZafarNo Final9900
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64TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
65TBATBAZwickerNo Final9900
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L14 E Lit 590RESEARCHVar. Units (max = 9.0)
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01TBATBABailinNo Final5000
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03TBATBABangNo Final5000
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04TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
05TBATBABattenNo Final5000
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06TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
07TBATBABrownNo Final5000
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08TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
09TBATBADavisNo Final5000
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10TBATBADuttonNo Final000
11TBATBAEarlyNo Final5000
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12TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
13TBATBAFieldsNo Final5000
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14TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
15TBATBAFinneranNo Final5000
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16TBATBAGurnisNo Final000
17TBATBA[TBA]No Final5000
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18TBATBAHenkeNo Final300
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19TBATBAJohnstonNo Final5000
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20TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
21TBATBAKlimasewiskiNo Final99900
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22TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
23TBATBALawtonNo Final900
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24TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
25TBATBALoewensteinNo Final9900
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26TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
27TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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28TBATBAMaxwellNo Final9900
29TBATBAMcKelvyNo Final9900
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30TBATBAMcPhersonNo Final000
31TBATBAMeyerNo Final9900
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32TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
33TBATBAMilderNo Final9900
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34TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
35TBATBAParvulescuNo Final9900
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36TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
37TBATBAPawlNo Final9900
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38TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
39TBATBAPhillipsNo Final9900
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40TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
41TBATBAPollakNo Final9900
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42TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
43TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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44TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
45TBATBARosenfeldNo Final9900
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46TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
47TBATBARulandNo Final9900
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48TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
49TBATBASchmidgenNo Final9900
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50TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
51TBATBASheaNo Final9900
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52TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
53TBATBASherryNo Final9900
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54TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
55TBATBAVan EngenNo Final9900
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56TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
57TBATBAWalkerNo Final9900
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58TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
59TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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60TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
61TBATBA[TBA]No Final9900
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62TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
63TBATBAZafarNo Final9900
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64TBATBA[TBA]No Final000
65TBATBAZwickerNo Final9900
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Label

Home/Ident

A course may be either a “Home” course or an “Ident” course.

A “Home” course is a course that is created, maintained and “owned” by one academic department (aka the “Home” department). The “Home” department is primarily responsible for the decision making and logistical support for the course and instructor.

An “Ident” course is the exact same course as the “Home” (i.e. same instructor, same class time, etc), but is simply being offered to students through another department for purposes of registering under a different department and course number.

Students should, whenever possible, register for their courses under the department number toward which they intend to count the course. For example, an AFAS major should register for the course "Africa: Peoples and Cultures" under its Ident number, L90 306B, whereas an Anthropology major should register for the same course under its Home number, L48 306B.

Grade Options
C=Credit (letter grade)
P=Pass/Fail
A=Audit
U=Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
S=Special Audit
Q=ME Q (Medical School)

Please note: not all grade options assigned to a course are available to all students, based on prime school and/or division. Please contact the student support services area in your school or program with questions.