Courses in Literature

Core Major literature courses

• LIT057 CM - British Writers I
• LIT058 CM - British Writers II
• LIT100 CM - Literary Theory Since Plato

Creative writing courses

• LIT031 CM - Introduction to Creative Writing
• LIT034 CM - Creative Journalism
• LIT036 CM - Screenwriting
• LIT037 CM - Poetry Writing I
• LIT038 CM - Fiction Writing
• LIT181 CM - Advanced Creative Writing
• LIT183 CM - Advanced Fiction Writing
• LIT185 CM - Poetry Writing II

Pre-1700 literature courses

• LIT061 CM - The Bible
• LIT062 CM - Shakespeare’s Tragedies
• LIT063 CM - Chaucer
• LIT065 CM - Love Poetry of the English Renaissance
• LIT066 CM - Shakespeare’s Comedies
• LIT067 CM - Milton
• LIT068 CM - Slow Shakespeare
• LIT069 CM - Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• LIT078 CM - Travel and The Literary Imagination
• LIT098 CM - News from the Delphic Oracle: Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
• LIT104 CM - The Tragedies of Sophocles
• LIT110 CM - The Age of Chivalry
• LIT111 CM - Dante
• LIT114 CM - Politics, Violence, and Early Modern Literature
• LIT115 CM - Shakespeare and His Rivals
• LIT117 CM - Literature of Late Medieval England

1700-1900 literature courses

• LIT060 CM - American Writers to 1900
• LIT072 CM - Jane Austen
• LIT073 CM - The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
• LIT081 CM - Melville
• LIT089 CM - The English Enlightenment: Dryden, Pope, and Johnson
• LIT090 CM - Emily Dickinson
• LIT108 CM - Poetry and Philosophy
• LIT118 CM - The Romantic Revolution
• LIT119 CM - 19th-Century Russian Novel
• LIT148 CM - Literature and the Brain
• LIT165 CM - Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud

American literature courses

• LIT060 CM - American Writers to 1900
• LIT060B CM - American Writers 1900-Present
• LIT081 CM - Melville
• LIT084 CM - Lyric Voice & Vision in Modern American Literature and Film
• LIT090 CM - Emily Dickinson
• LIT091 CM - American Poetry: Tradition and Experiment
• LIT094 CM - American Women Poets
• LIT095 CM - Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Marianne Moore
• LIT096 CM - Wallace Stevens
• LIT097 CM - T.S. Eliot and His Circle
• LIT106 CM - Gay Poets, Poems, Poetry
• LIT107 CM - African American Poetry
• LIT129 CM - African American Literature
• LIT195 CM - Robert Frost

Single-author literature courses

• LIT062 CM - Shakespeare’s Tragedies
• LIT063 CM - Chaucer
• LIT066 CM - Shakespeare’s Comedies
• LIT067 CM - Milton
• LIT068 CM - Slow Shakespeare
• LIT069 CM - Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• LIT072 CM - Jane Austen
• LIT073 CM - The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
• LIT075 CM - Vladimir Nabokov
• LIT081 CM - Melville
• LIT090 CM - Emily Dickinson
• LIT093 CM - Becoming Elizabeth Bishop
• LIT104 CM - The Tragedies of Sophocles
• LIT111 CM - Dante
• LIT144 CM - W.B. Yeats
• LIT182 CM - James Joyce
• LIT195 CM - Robert Frost

Elective courses in literature

• LIT030 CM - Introduction to Video Art
• LIT092 CM - Close Reading
• LIT099 CM - Special Topics in Literature
• LIT101 CM - Translation in Theory and Practice
• LIT102 CM - Exploring Poetry
• LIT103 CM - The Idea of Poetry
• LIT107 CM - African American Poetry
• LIT116 CM - Autobiography and Literary Imagination
• LIT121 CM - British Modernism
• LIT122 CM - European Modernist Fiction
• LIT124 CM - Literature and War
• LIT125 CM - 20th-Century English and Irish Poetry
• LIT126 CM - Poetry and Painting
• LIT127 CM - The Novel Since World War II
• LIT130 CM - Introduction to Film
• LIT131 CM - Film History I (1925-1965)
• LIT132 CM - Film History II (1965-Present)
• LIT133 CM - Film and Literature
• LIT134 CM - Special Studies in Film
• LIT134C CM - Spy Films
• LIT135 CM - Alfred Hitchcock
• LIT136 CM - American Film Genres
• LIT137 CM - Gay and Lesbian Cinema in the U.S.
• LIT138 CM - Film and Mass Culture
• LIT139 CM - Film Theory
• LIT148 CM - Literature and the Brain
• LIT152 CM - Utopia/Dystopia: The Political Imagination in Literature and Film
• LIT154 CM - Europe/India: Literatures in Conversation
• LIT160 CM - Science and Faith in Modern Literature
• LIT161 AF - Africa in France: The French of African Descent Through Text and Film
• LIT169 CM - Freud, Kafka and Musil
• LIT177 CM - The Art of Oratory
• LIT199 CM - Independent Study in Literature

Courses in Literature Offered at the Other Claremont Colleges

CMC students may use literature courses offered at the other Claremont Colleges for the major or for the general education requirement in literature with permission of the Literature department chair.