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ENGL 208LRace and the Literary Tradition

Units
0.50
Faculty
Arts
Subject
English
Cross-listed
GSJ 208L

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2025–26.

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

How have ideas of race been represented, transmitted, and resisted in the canon of literature in English over the centuries? Topics may include the invention of race, Eurocentrism and imaginative geography, racial beauty myths, internalized racism, and issues of gender, sexuality, and colonialism.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Check it elsewhere for Fall 2026

Calendar versions

Undergraduate Calendar