Courses in Literature

Core Major literature courses

• LIT 057 CM - British Writers I
• LIT 058 CM - British Writers II
• LIT 100 CM - Literary Theory Since Plato

Creative writing courses

• LIT 031 CM - Introduction to Creative Writing
• LIT 034 CM - Creative Journalism
• LIT 036 CM - Screenwriting
• LIT 038 CM - Fiction Writing
• LIT 181 CM - Advanced Creative Writing
• LIT 183 CM - Advanced Fiction Writing

Pre-1700 literature courses

• LIT 061 CM - The Bible
• LIT 062 CM - Shakespeare’s Tragedies
• LIT 063 CM - Chaucer
• LIT 064 CM - Shakespeare’s Histories and Romances
• LIT 065 CM - Love Poetry of the English Renaissance
• LIT 066 CM - Shakespeare’s Comedies
• LIT 067 CM - Milton
• LIT 069 CM - Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• LIT 098 CM - News from the Delphic Oracle: Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
• LIT 104 CM - The Tragedies of Sophocles
• LIT 105 CM - Gender and Family in Medieval Literature
• LIT 107B CM - Medieval Drama
• LIT 108 CM - Medieval Women Writers
• LIT 110 CM - The Age of Chivalry
• LIT 111 CM - Dante
• LIT 114 CM - Politics, Violence, and Early Modern Literature
• LIT 115 CM - Shakespeare and His Rivals
• LIT 117 CM - Literature of Late Medieval England

1700-1900 literature courses

• LIT 060 CM - American Writers to 1900
• LIT 068 CM - Sex, Lies, and 18th-Century English Stage Comedy
• LIT 070 CM - The Rise of the English Novel
• LIT 072 CM - Jane Austen
• LIT 073 CM - The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
• LIT 074 CM - The Gothic Novel: Producing Monsters
• LIT 080 CM - 19th-Century American Fiction
• LIT 081 CM - Melville
• LIT 089 CM - Reading Thomas Jefferson & the African in America
• LIT 118 CM - The Romantic Revolution
• LIT 119 CM - 19th-Century Russian Novel
• LIT 143 CM - Victorian Poetry and Essay
• LIT 147 CM - The Word and the Garden
• LIT 165 CM - Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud

American literature courses

• LIT 060 CM - American Writers to 1900
• LIT 080 CM - 19th-Century American Fiction
• LIT 081 CM - Melville
• LIT 084 CM - Lyric Voice & Vision in Modern American Literature and Film
• LIT 087 CM - Modern Black Fiction
• LIT 089 CM - Reading Thomas Jefferson & the African in America
• LIT 091 CM - American Poetry: Tradition and Experiment
• LIT 167 CM - Gay and Lesbian Writers
• LIT 195 CM - Robert Frost

Single author literature courses

• LIT 062 CM - Shakespeare’s Tragedies
• LIT 063 CM - Chaucer
• LIT 066 CM - Shakespeare’s Comedies
• LIT 067 CM - Milton
• LIT 069 CM - Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• LIT 072 CM - Jane Austen
• LIT 073 CM - The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
• LIT 075 CM - Vladimir Nabokov
• LIT 104 CM - The Tragedies of Sophocles
• LIT 111 CM - Dante
• LIT 144 CM - W.B. Yeats
• LIT 182 CM - James Joyce
• LIT 195 CM - Robert Frost

Elective courses in literature

• LIT 077 CM - Richard Wright and Zora Neal Hurston
• LIT 078 CM - Travel Narratives
• LIT 085 CM - Contemporary American Fiction
• LIT 092 CM - Close Reading
• LIT 099 CM - Special Topics in Literature
• LIT 102 CM - Exploring Poetry
• LIT 107 CM - Modern Drama
• LIT 116 CM - Autobiography and Literary Imagination
• LIT 121 CM - British Modernism
• LIT 122 CM - European Modernist Fiction
• LIT 123 CM - Fugitives From Utopia: The Writers of Post-War Poland
• LIT 124 CM - Literature and War
• LIT 125 CM - 20th-Century English and Irish Poetry
• LIT 127 CM - The Novel Since World War II
• LIT 130 CM - Introduction to Film
• LIT 131 CM - Film History I (1925-1965)
• LIT 132 CM - Film History II (1965-Present)
• LIT 133 CM - Film and Literature
• LIT 134 CM - Special Studies in Film
• LIT 135 CM - Alfred Hitchcock
• LIT 137 CM - Gay and Lesbian Cinema in the U.S.
• LIT 138 CM - Film and Mass Culture
• LIT 139 CM - Film Theory
• LIT 146 CM - The Domestic Life of Empire
• LIT 155 CM - Writing Nature: Gardens, Fields, and Wilderness
• LIT 160 CM - Science and Faith in Modern Literature
• LIT 163 CM - Leadership in Literature and Film
• LIT 166 CM - Feminist Theory
• LIT 168 CM - Postmodernism and Postmodern Fiction
• LIT 170 CM - Women and Comedy
• LIT 175 CM - Women’s Magazines and the Female Journalist
• LIT 177 CM - The Art of Oratory
• LIT 199 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.