Choose any four courses from the list below; if concentrating in “Literature and the Law”, choose at least two of the courses identified in the bottom note. One 200-level general education literature or writing course (with the exception of ENG 201) can be used to satisfy an elective.
| ENG 215 | Poetry Writing and Reading | 3 |
| ENG 216 | Fiction Writing | 3 |
| ENG 212 | Introduction to Creative Writing | 3 |
| ENG 221 | Screenwriting for Film, Television, and Internet | 3 |
| ENG 228/ANT 228 | Introduction to Language | 3 |
| ENG 230 | Journalism in the 21st Century | 3 |
| ENG 233 | News Reporting and Writing | 4 |
| ENG 235 | Writing for Management, Business and Public Administration | 3 |
| ENG 242 | Contemporary Media in Everyday Life | 3 |
| ENG 245 | Creative Nonfiction | 3 |
| ENG 250 | Writing for Legal Studies | 3 |
| ENG 255 | Argument Writing | 3 |
| ENG 260 | Grammar, Syntax, and Style: Writing for All Disciplines | 3 |
| ENG 313 | Advanced Fiction Writing | 3 |
| ENG 316 | Advanced Argument Writing and Response: Theory and Practice | 3 |
| ENG 328/ANT 328 | Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence in the Courts | 3 |
| ENG 334 | Intermediate News Reporting and Writing | 4 |
| ENG 336 | Digital Journalism | 4 |
| ENG 350 | Advanced Legal Writing: Advocacy and Oral Argument | 3 |
| ISP 321 | Moral, Legal and Ethical Dilemmas that Shape the U.S.A. | 3 |
| ISP 322 | Making Waves: Troublemakers, Gadflies and Whistleblowers | 3 |
| LIT 203 | New York City in Literature | 3 |
| LIT 212 | Literature of the African World | 3 |
| LIT 219 | The Word as Weapon | 3 |
| LIT 223/AFR 223 | African-American Literature | 3 |
| LIT 265 | Foundations of U.S. Latino/a Literature | 3 |
| LIT 275 | The Language of Film | 3 |
| LIT 283 | New York City in Film | 3 |
| LIT 284 | Film and Society | 3 |
| LIT 285 | The Rebel in Film | 3 |
| LIT 286 | The Horror Film | 3 |
| LIT 287 | Selected Topics in Literature | 3 |
| LIT 287 | Selected Topics in Literature | 3 |
| LIT 309 | Contemporary Fiction | 3 |
| LIT 311 | Literature and Ethics | 3 |
| LIT 313 | Shakespeare | 3 |
| LIT 314 | Shakespeare and Justice | 3 |
| LIT 315 | American Literature and the Law | 3 |
| LIT 316 | Gender and Identity in Literary Traditions | 3 |
| LIT 319 | Law and Justice in European Medieval Literature | 3 |
| LIT 323 | The Crime Film | 3 |
| LIT 324 | Road Movies | 3 |
| LIT 325 | Science Fiction Film | 3 |
| LIT 326 | Crime, Punishment and Justice in the U.S. Literature | 3 |
| LIT 327 | Crime, Punishment and Justice in World Literature | 3 |
| LIT 328 | Film Criticism | 3 |
| LIT 329 | Documentary Film and Media | 3 |
| LIT 330 | Alfred Hitchcock | 3 |
| LIT 331 | Steven Spielberg | 3 |
| LIT 332 | Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee | 3 |
| LIT 340/AFR 340 | The African-American Experience in America: Comparative Racial Perspectives | 3 |
| LIT 342 | Perspectives on Literature and Human Rights | 3 |
| LIT 344 | Caribbean Literature and Culture | 3 |
| LIT 346 | Cultures in Conflict | 3 |
| LIT 352 | New Fiction | 3 |
| LIT 353 | Comic Books and Graphic Novels: Investigating a Literary Medium | 3 |
| LIT 357 | Violence of Language: U.S. Latino/a Street Literature | 3 |
| LIT 360 | Mythology in Literature | 3 |
| LIT 362 | The Bible as Literature | 3 |
| LIT 366 | Writing Nature: Literature and Ecology | 3 |
| LIT 380 | Advanced Selected Topics in Literature | 3 |
| LIT 383 | Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Latino/a Literature | 3 |
| LIT 401 | Special Topics | 3 |
| LIT 409 | Seminar in U.S. Latino/a Literature | 3 |
| LLS 362 | Entangled Tongues: Bilingualism in U.S. Latino/a Literature | 3 |
| LLS 363 | Il-Legal Subjects: U.S. Latino/a Lit & the Law | 3 |
| LLS 364 | Ethical Strains in U.S. Latino/a Literature | 3 |
ENG 250, ENG 328/ANT 328, ENG 350, ISP 321, ISP 322, LIT 219, LIT 311, LIT 314, LIT 315, LIT 319, LIT 323, LIT 326, LIT 327, LIT 342, LLS 363: Courses that can be counted toward the LIT and the LAW concentration. Students should consult the current course schedule for offerings.
Students can use only one general education literature courses from the section below to satisfy an elective.
(If concentrating in Literature and the Law, choose Literature and the Law Seminar)