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Students participating in teacher preparation programs must complete a three-credit literature selection course chosen from the following list. Additional courses focusing specifically on literature may be considered as substitutions for this Pennsylvania Department of Education requirement.

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Secondary Education Literature Course Selections

  • AF AM 147 The Life and Thought of Malcolm X

  • CAMS 001 Greek and Roman Literature

  • CAMS 045 (IL) Classical Mythology

  • CMLIT 001 (IL) Introduction to Western Literatures Through the Renaissance

  • CMLIT 002 (IL) Introduction to Western Literatures Since the Renaissance

  • CMLIT 003 (IL) Introduction to African Literatures

  • CMLIT 004 (IL) Introduction to Asian Literatures

  • CMLIT 005 (IL) (US) Introduction to Literatures of the Americas

  • CMLIT 006 (IL) Philosophy and Literature in Western Culture

  • CMLIT 010 (IL) World Literatures

  • CMLIT 012 (GH) (IL) Introduction to World Drama and Performance

  • CMLIT 100 (IL) Reading Across Cultures

  • CMLIT 101 (IL) (US) Race, Gender, and Identity in World Literature

  • CMLIT 105 (IL) The Development of Literary Humor

  • CMLIT 106 (IL) The Arthurian Legend

  • CMLIT 107 (IL) Exploration, Travel, Migration, and Exile

  • CMLIT 108 (IL) Myths and Mythologies

  • CMLIT 109 (IL) Native American Myths, Legends, and Literatures

  • CMLIT 110 (IL) (US) Jewish Literature: An International Perspective

  • CMLIT 120 (GH) (IL) The Literature of the Occult

  • CMLIT 130 (GH) (IL) Banned Books: International and Comparative Perspectives

  • CMLIT 131 (GH) (IL) Crime and Detection in World Literature

  • CMLIT 132 (GH) (IL) Nobel Prize Literature

  • CMLIT 143 (GH) (IL) Human Rights and World Literature

  • CMLIT 153 (IL) International Cultures Through Literature and Film

  • ENGL 001 Understanding Literature

  • ENGL 002 The Great Traditions in English Literature

  • ENGL 103 The Great Traditions in American Literature

  • ENGL 104 The Bible as Literature

  • ENGL 129 Shakespeare

  • ENGL 130 Reading Popular Texts

  • ENGL 133 Modern American Literature to World War II

  • ENGL 134 American Comedy

  • ENGL 135 (US) Alternative Voices in American Literature

  • ENGL 136 (GH) The Graphic Novel

  • ENGL 140 Contemporary Literature

  • ENGL 145 Modern Irish Literature

  • ENGL 180 Literature and the Natural World

  • ENGL 181C The Beach: Exploring the Literature of the Atlantic Shore

  • ENGL 182 Literature of the Empire

  • ENGL 184 (IL) The Short Story

  • ENGL 189 (IL) Modern Drama

  • ENGL 191 Science Fiction

  • ENGL 192 (GH) The Literature of Fantasy

  • ENGL 194 (IL) (US) Women Writers

  • ENGL 200 Introduction to Critical Reading

  • ENGL 201 What is Literature

  • ENGL 221 British Literature to 1798

  • ENGL 222 British Literature from 1798

  • ENGL 226 Latina and Latina Border Theories

  • ENGL 231 American Literature to 1865

  • ENGL 232 American Literature from 1865

  • ENGL/CHEM 233 Chemistry and Literature

  • ENGL 240 Exploring Literary Traditions

  • ENGL 262 Reading Fiction

  • ENGL 263 Reading Poetry

  • ENGL 265 Reading Nonfiction

  •  WMNST 106N (GH) (US) (IL) Representing Women and Gender in Literature, Art and Popular Cultures