Undergraduate Poetry Major - Poetry Literature Electives

Below are courses that satisfy the poetry literature requirement for poetry majors at Columbia College Chicago.

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One course in the Contemporary era (3 hours)

Examples:

• Contemporary American Poetry (52-3672)
• Contemporary World Poetry (52-4678)
• Topics in Literature: New York School Poetry (52-2711)
• Topics in Literature: The Confessional Poets (52-2718)
• British Authors Seminar: Yeats and Heaney (52-3695)
• American Authors Seminar: Whitman and Ginsberg (52-3695)

One course in the Modernist era (3 hours)

Examples:

• Modern British and American Poetry (52-3671)
• British Authors Seminar: Yeats and Heaney (52-3695)

One course in pre-20th-century Poetry (3 hours)

Examples:

• Introduction to Shakespeare (52-2660)
• Studies in Shakespeare (52-3660)
• Romantic Poets (52-3670)
• Women Romantic Poets (52-4706)
• American Authors Seminar: Whitman and Ginsberg (52-3695)
• American Authors Seminar: Emily Dickinson and Her Legacy (52-3695)

Back to Major requirements from fall 2004 to Summer 2007
Back to Major requirements for fall 2007 and beyond