ENGL-5214: Topics in Race and Pre-Modern Literature

Description: Pre-modern ideas of race and how they appear in literature, from heathen Saxons to Saracen knights, from Jerusalem to the lands of Prester John. Connections and disparities between modern racial discourses and historical ones. Theories of race, descriptions of the world and its peoples, narratives of travel, and representations of race in literature. May be repeated one time with different content for a maximum of 6 credits. Pre: Graduate standing.

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Course Hours: 3 credits

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Repeatability: up to 6 credit hours