Courses | Nineteenth-Century Studies

Industries, jobs and technologies change. Nineteenth-Century Studies empowers you to focus broadly — develop a wide knowledge base — so you can see what’s coming, and be ready to lead the way. Below is a list of courses to get you started on your life’s story.

Graduate Catalog list of courses

Core Courses

ENGL/HIST 919 Fall 2018	“Legal Fictions” William G. Thomas III (History) & Peter J. Capuano (English)
ENGL/HIST 918 Spring 2019	Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Studies Theme and instructors TBD

802E	American Poetry
802L	Romantic Poetry
805A	19th Century British Novel
805M	American Novel I
832	American Authors to 1900
865	19th Century British Literature
902	Seminar in Poetry
931	Seminar in British Authors since 1800
932	Seminar in American Authors to 1900
965	Seminar in 19th Century Literature

802	Sexuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America
803	U.S. Military History 1607-1917
824	European Social and Cultural History Since 1815
834	England in the Victorian Age
842	Antebellum America 1800-1850
843	American Urban and Social History I
844	American Urban and Social History II
845	The American Civil War and Reconstruction
846	America in the Gilded Age
848	History of Women and Gender in the American West
849	Ideas in America to the Civil War
850	Ideas in America Since the Civil War
851	The American West to 1900
857	U.S. Economic History I
865	History of Plains Indians
885	Africa Since 1800
889	African American Origins to 1877
889	History of United States Foreign Relations to 1909
933	Readings and Problems in Recent European History
934	Seminar in Recent European History
941	Readings and Problems in American History
942	Seminar in American History

FREN 853	French Literature: The Nineteenth Century
FREN 854	French Literature: The Nineteenth Century
FREN 876	French Poetry from the Romantic to the Contemporary
FREN 898	From Balzac to Proust: The 19th Century French Novel in Translation
FREN 927	Flaubert
GERM 848	Romanticism
GERM 849	Survey of Nineteenth Century German Literature (1820-1848)
GERM 850	Survey of Nineteenth Century German Literature (1848-1900)
GERM 851	Naturalism and Expressionism
GERM 859	The Works of Goethe and Schiller
GERM 860	Goethe's Faust
RUSS 841	The Russian Novel
RUSS 842	Russian Poetry the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
RUSS 854	The Russian Intellectual Tradition (1700-present)
SPAN 853	Survey of 19th Century Literature and Culture in Spain
SPAN 957	Literary Movements: Realism Naturalism and Modernity in 19th Century Spain

888	Music of the Romantic Period

841	Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
851	19th Century American Art