LIT courses
297 courses · Duke University · Fall 2026
- LIT 80S — Special Topics: Introduction to Literature1 section
- LIT 89S — First-Year Seminar1 section
- LIT 100 — Literature Lower Level Elective1 section
- LIT 100S — Literature Lower Level Elective Seminar1 section
- LIT 102 — Introduction to African American Studies1 section
- LIT 103 — American Indian Nations Today1 section
- LIT 104 — American Indians Go Graphic1 section
- LIT 105CN — Global Communism: Russian Soviet Culture and its Influence1 section
- LIT 109CN — Imperialism, Anticolonialism, Decolonization1 section
- LIT 110S — Intro to Digital Culture: Media Theory, Politics, Aesthetics1 section
- LIT 111S — Embodied Blackness1 section
- LIT 147CNS — Border Fictions1 section
- LIT 155CNS — The Cultural Cold War: Voices From Below1 section
- LIT 165FS — Virtual Realities: Collective Dreams from Plato to Cyberspace1 section
- LIT 170CN — Political Theater1 section
- LIT 174CNS — Gender and Sexuality in Modernist Literature1 section
- LIT 178CNS — Museums and Coloniality in a Global Context1 section
- LIT 185CN — Surveillance and Society: Big Brother, Secret Police, and Reality TV1 section
- LIT 188FS — Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games1 section
- LIT 190 — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 190FS — Special Topics in the Focus Program1 section
- LIT 190S — Special Topics: Introduction to Literature1 section
- LIT 199 — LGBTQ/Queer Cinema and Cultural Production1 section
- LIT 200 — Literature Upper Level Elective1 section
- LIT 201S — Introduction to Global Cultural Studies1 section
- LIT 202 — Introduction to Performance Studies1 section
- LIT 205 — The Problem of Love in Western Literature1 section
- LIT 205S — The Problem of Love in Western Literature1 section
- LIT 209S — Banned Books1 section
- LIT 210 — Robots and Monsters: Unruly Hu1 section
- LIT 211 — Indian Cinema1 section
- LIT 212 — World of Korean and Diaspora Cinema1 section
- LIT 213 — Japanese Cinema1 section
- LIT 214 — Master Filmmakers of Chinese Cinemas1 section
- LIT 215 — Italian Cinema1 section
- LIT 217 — Contemporary Israeli Cinema1 section
- LIT 218 — Cinematic Authorship1 section
- LIT 219S — The Pursuit of Happiness1 section
- LIT 220 — Film Genres1 section
- LIT 220S — American Cinema: Redefined1 section
- LIT 222 — Performance Art History and Theory1 section
- LIT 226S — World of Gaming: Art, Theory, Technology, and Business of a Multi-Billion Dollar Global…1 section
- LIT 227S — Horror Cinema: Fear Society and the Moving Image1 section
- LIT 229S — Space-Body-Image1 section
- LIT 230A — Introduction to Global Los Angeles: An Interdisciplinary Survey (Service-Learning)1 section
- LIT 237 — K-Pop, Idols, and Fandom1 section
- LIT 240S — Cold War Hollywood: The Case of Alfred Hitchcock1 section
- LIT 243 — Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South1 section
- LIT 243S — Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South1 section
- LIT 244 — Modern European Short Fiction1 section
- LIT 245 — Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise1 section
- LIT 246 — Flaubert's Brain: Neurohumanities1 section
- LIT 249 — Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games1 section
- LIT 249S — Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games1 section
- LIT 250S — Indigenous Journeys in South Asian Film and Literature1 section
- LIT 251 — Arab Cultures: Literature, Politics, History1 section
- LIT 252 — Romantic Fairy Tales: Literary and Folk Fairy Tales from Grimms to Disney1 section
- LIT 254S — Unsettling Modernity: Korea, Empire, Diaspora1 section
- LIT 259 — Critical Race Studies: Race and Racism in Black American Ordinary Life and Culture1 section
- LIT 260S — Representing Breast Cancer: Feminist Literature, Art, and Film1 section
- LIT 265 — Virtual Realities: Collective Dreams from Plato to Cyberspace1 section
- LIT 265S — Virtual Realities: Collective Dreams from Plato to Cyberspace1 section
- LIT 272S — Cyber Connections: Communication in the Digital Age1 section
- LIT 273 — What Is Europe?1 section
- LIT 274 — Imagining Europe: Arts, Culture, Politics1 section
- LIT 276S — Turkish Cultural History in Fiction and Film1 section
- LIT 277S — Introduction to Asian American Literature1 section
- LIT 278S — Literatures and Films of Pandemic1 section
- LIT 279S — Docu-Poetry: Real Life Truths Outside and Inside the Poetic Narrative1 section
- LIT 281 — Horror: Monsters, Vampires, and Ghosts in Film and Literature1 section
- LIT 282S — Modernism and the Arts1 section
- LIT 285S — Existentialism1 section
- LIT 286 — German History Through Film1 section
- LIT 290 — Special Topics in International Literature and Culture1 section
- LIT 290-2 — Special Topics in National Cinema1 section
- LIT 290A — Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 290S — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 290S-1 — Special Topics in International Literature and Culture1 section
- LIT 290S-2 — Special Topics in National Cinema1 section
- LIT 290SA — Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 295S — Sex Work: The Politics of Sexual Labor1 section
- LIT 299S — Feminist Theory1 section
- LIT 300 — Literature Upper Level Elective1 section
- LIT 300S — Literature Upper Level Elective Seminar1 section
- LIT 301S — Theory Now1 section
- LIT 302 — Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes1 section
- LIT 302S — Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes1 section
- LIT 303S — Fiction/Reality/Autofiction: The Existential Turn in Contemporary Literature1 section
- LIT 304S — Introduction to Digital Culture: Media Theory, Politics, Aesthetics1 section
- LIT 305 — Portals: Art of Jumping Worlds1 section
- LIT 306S — Reading Literature in French1 section
- LIT 308S — Manger: Foodways and Food Systems1 section
- LIT 309 — Global Russia1 section
- LIT 314 — What is Critical Theory? An Introduction1 section
- LIT 316S — Film Theory1 section
- LIT 317S — Media Theory1 section
- LIT 318S — American Independent Cinema1 section
- LIT 319S — Expressing Immigrant Experience: The Russians1 section
- LIT 320S — Social Movements and Social Media1 section
- LIT 321 — Sample & Remix: Contemporary Cultural Production Across Arts & Media1 section
- LIT 325S — Understanding Mediation1 section
- LIT 328S — Literary Islam1 section
- LIT 329S — Undocumented America in Literature1 section
- LIT 331 — Kant1 section
- LIT 332S — Social Movements in Age of Globalization1 section
- LIT 333 — Bad Behavior1 section
- LIT 335 — One Great Book: Proseminar in Russian/Slavic Literature1 section
- LIT 336 — Introduction to US Latino/a Literature1 section
- LIT 336A — Introduction to LatinX Literature1 section
- LIT 337 — America from Abroad: Literature and Cinema1 section
- LIT 337S — Don Quixote for Beginners1 section
- LIT 339 — El cine político en américa Latina1 section
- LIT 340S — Reading Like a Queer1 section
- LIT 341S — Perspectives on the Amazon1 section
- LIT 342A — Dante and the Art of Hell1 section
- LIT 343 — African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship1 section
- LIT 346S — The End of One's World: Facing Geopolitical Collapse1 section
- LIT 347S — War1 section
- LIT 350 — Brains, Everywhere1 section
- LIT 350S — Brains, Everywhere1 section
- LIT 351 — Contemporary Novel1 section
- LIT 352S — Digital Storytelling and Interactive Narrative1 section
- LIT 354S — Intro to Psychoanalytic Theory1 section
- LIT 355S — Black Feminism and Fashion1 section
- LIT 356S — Michel Foucault and Theories of Power1 section
- LIT 357S — Russian Women Writers1 section
- LIT 359S — Peasants in Russian Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Thought and Literature1 section
- LIT 361 — Global Apple: Life and Death and the Digital Revolution1 section
- LIT 361S — Global Apple: Life and Death and the Digital Revolution1 section
- LIT 362 — What Is Beauty?1 section
- LIT 363S — Global Hispanophone in Translation1 section
- LIT 365S — Franz Kafka: One Great Writer1 section
- LIT 366S — Art and Activism: Manifestos, Revolutions, and the Avant-gardes1 section
- LIT 369 — Germany Confronts Nazism and the Holocaust1 section
- LIT 370S — Russian Fiction and Film1 section
- LIT 373S — Recycled Cinema1 section
- LIT 374S — Masculinities & Global Politics1 section
- LIT 375SA — Writing in and on Berlin: Perspectives on a Metropolis1 section
- LIT 376S — Svevo and World Literature1 section
- LIT 377 — Marx, Nietzsche, Freud1 section
- LIT 378 — Race, Class, and Family in Contemporary Literature: Journeys, Generations, and Translations1 section
- LIT 379S — The Detective Novel1 section
- LIT 380 — Marxism and Society1 section
- LIT 382S — Fictions That Mark the Moment1 section
- LIT 383S — Breakdown: Madness, Self, Fiction1 section
- LIT 385 — Mafia at the Movies1 section
- LIT 386S — Mapping Jewish Modernism1 section
- LIT 387 — Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities1 section
- LIT 390 — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 390-7 — Special Topics in the Study of Literature in Relation to Other Disciplines1 section
- LIT 390A-13 — Special Topics in World Literature and Culture1 section
- LIT 390S — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 390S-1 — Special Topics in Literary Genres1 section
- LIT 390S-10 — Special Topics in Literature and National Cultures, Ethnicity, Race1 section
- LIT 390S-12 — Topics in Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism1 section
- LIT 390S-15 — Special Topics in North American Literature and Culture1 section
- LIT 390S-2 — Special Topics in Literary Movements1 section
- LIT 390S-3 — Special Topics in Individual Authors1 section
- LIT 390S-4 — Special Topics in Film1 section
- LIT 390S-5 — Selected Topics in Feminist Studies1 section
- LIT 390S-6 — Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality1 section
- LIT 390S-7 — Special Topics in the Study of Literature in Relation to Other Disciplines1 section
- LIT 390S-8 — Special Topics in Culture and the Arts1 section
- LIT 390S-9 — Special Topics in Science and Culture1 section
- LIT 390SA — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 391 — Independent Study1 section
- LIT 393 — Research Independent Study1 section
- LIT 396S — East-West Cinema1 section
- LIT 400 — Literature Upper Level Elective1 section
- LIT 409S — Black (In) Translation1 section
- LIT 410S — Contemporary French Fiction1 section
- LIT 412S — Cultures of New Media1 section
- LIT 416S — Strange Masterpieces: Major Authors in French and Francophone Modernity1 section
- LIT 417S — Imagining Freedom: Literature and Cinema of Decolonization in South Asia1 section
- LIT 418S — Art & Democracy: Madrid/Barcelona/Valencia/Bilbao1 section
- LIT 419S — Global Environmentalism and the Politics of Nature1 section
- LIT 420 — Biography, Life Writing, Autofiction1 section
- LIT 420A — Poéticas de aquí y de allá / Thinking Language: Poetics from Here and There1 section
- LIT 421 — Poéticas de aquí y de allá / Thinking Language: Poetics from Here and There1 section
- LIT 426S — France-Asia: Cultural Transfers and Translations in a Globalized Context1 section
- LIT 427S — Banlieues and Peripheries in French Contemporary Literature and Cinema1 section
- LIT 428S — Reading Contemporary Literature in French for the 'Choix Goncourt' Prize1 section
- LIT 430 — Gender and the Law1 section
- LIT 438S — Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and Science Fiction1 section
- LIT 439 — Queer China1 section
- LIT 442S — Jorge Luis Borges and Literary Representation in the Contemporary World1 section
- LIT 450 — Foucault in Slow Motion1 section
- LIT 450S — Foucault in Slow Motion1 section
- LIT 460S — Weil, Beauvoir, Murdoch: Three Women Philosophers in Mid-Twentieth Century Europe1 section
- LIT 475S — Queer Theory1 section
- LIT 476S — Archiving and Visualizing Asia/America: Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production1 section
- LIT 483 — What Machiavelli Really Says1 section
- LIT 489S — Screening Europe1 section
- LIT 490 — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 490-1 — Special Topics in Theory1 section
- LIT 490S-1 — Special Topics Theory1 section
- LIT 490S-2 — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 495 — Honors Thesis I1 section
- LIT 496 — Honors Thesis II1 section
- LIT 507S — Mimesis in Theory, Embodied Practice, and Literary Arts1 section
- LIT 508S — Atlantic Worlds Workshop1 section
- LIT 509S — Atlantic Worlds Workshop Research Seminar1 section
- LIT 510 — Citizen Godard1 section
- LIT 511S — Feeling and Protest1 section
- LIT 512S — Performing Gender/Exhibiting Race1 section
- LIT 521S — Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Science1 section
- LIT 522 — Eco-Media: Studies in Planetary Futures1 section
- LIT 522S — Eco-Media: Studies in Planetary Futures1 section
- LIT 525S — Art as Work: Valuing Labor in the Arts1 section
- LIT 532S — Comparative Modernisms1 section
- LIT 538S — Don Quixote in the Real World: From Escapism to Engagement1 section
- LIT 539S — Queer China1 section
- LIT 540S — Methods and Theories of Romance Studies1 section
- LIT 541S — Premodern Times: A User's Manual1 section
- LIT 543S — Reading Heidegger1 section
- LIT 544S — Memory and Documentary Cinema in Latin America1 section
- LIT 551S — Translation: Theory/Praxis1 section
- LIT 557 — Cultural Memory1 section
- LIT 570S — Philosophy in Motion: Corporeality, Gesture, and Movement in Modern Thought1 section
- LIT 571 — East Asian Cultural Studies1 section
- LIT 572S — Antonio Gramsci and the Marxist Legacy1 section
- LIT 573S — Introduction to Contemporary African Philosophy1 section
- LIT 575 — Frankfurt School Critical Theory1 section
- LIT 575S — Queer Theories of Experience & Art1 section
- LIT 576S — Theory & Aesthetics: Rousseau1 section
- LIT 577S — Edward Said: Theory, Politics, Culture1 section
- LIT 580S — Jews and the End of Theory1 section
- LIT 581S — Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Caribbean Philosophy1 section
- LIT 582 — Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise1 section
- LIT 584S — Boccaccio Studies1 section
- LIT 585S — Epic and Exile: Classical Themes, Renaissance Variations1 section
- LIT 590 — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 590S — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 609 — Biography, Life Writing, Autofiction1 section
- LIT 610S — Basic Concepts in Cinema Studies1 section
- LIT 611S — Film Feminisms1 section
- LIT 612S — Theories of the Image: The Image in Walter Benjamin1 section
- LIT 613S — Third Cinema1 section
- LIT 615S — Media Philosophy: Systems, Information, Capital1 section
- LIT 616S — Literature and Philosophy1 section
- LIT 617S — China As World Picture1 section
- LIT 618S — Theories of the Visual1 section
- LIT 620S — Film-philosophers/Film-makers1 section
- LIT 625S — Comparative Media Studies1 section
- LIT 632 — Questions of National Cinemas1 section
- LIT 650S — History of Mental Illness1 section
- LIT 651S — Theories of Violence1 section
- LIT 681S — Wittgensteinian Perspectives on Literary Theory1 section
- LIT 682S — Simone de Beauvoir1 section
- LIT 684S — Western Philosophy, Global Revolution1 section
- LIT 690 — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 690-1 — Special Topics in Literature of the Modern Era1 section
- LIT 690-3 — Topics in Cultural Studies1 section
- LIT 690-6 — Topics in Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism1 section
- LIT 690-7 — Special Topics in Literature and History1 section
- LIT 690-8 — Special Topics in Literature: Paradigms of Modern Thought1 section
- LIT 690S — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 690S-3 — Topics in Cultural Studies1 section
- LIT 690S-4 — Special Topics in Film1 section
- LIT 690S-6 — Topics in Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism1 section
- LIT 690S-8 — Special Topics in Literature: Paradigms of Modern Thought1 section
- LIT 691S — Black Sonic Culture—Analog to Digital1 section
- LIT 692S — Klein, Winnicott, Lacan on the mOther/Child relation1 section
- LIT 695S — Literature Seminar1 section
- LIT 700S — Surveillance, Technology, and Capitalism1 section
- LIT 707S — Precarity and Affect1 section
- LIT 708S — Anthropology of Contact: Contagion, Coloniality, Capital1 section
- LIT 709S — Science, Medicine, and the Body1 section
- LIT 713S — Svevo and World Literature1 section
- LIT 715 — Cultural Memory1 section
- LIT 716S — Banlieues, Margins and Peripheries in French Contemporary Literature, Cinema, and Theory1 section
- LIT 717S — Art & Democracy: Madrid/Barcelona/Bilbao1 section
- LIT 718S — Baroque: Patterns of Thought, Transformation, and Accumulation in the Hispanic World1 section
- LIT 730S — East/West/Zion: Jewish Literary Modernism1 section
- LIT 741S — The Symbolist Movement in the Arts and European Thought1 section
- LIT 743 — What Machiavelli Really Says1 section
- LIT 745S — Brutal Humanism in Postwar Austria: Bernhard, Jelinek, Haneke, Seidl1 section
- LIT 750S — Gender and Aesthetic Theory1 section
- LIT 751S — Digital Storytelling and Interactive Narrative1 section
- LIT 752S — The Concept of the Symbol1 section
- LIT 760S — Major Figures in Feminist Thought1 section
- LIT 761S — Foundations in Feminist Theory1 section
- LIT 775S — Queer Art - Graduate1 section
- LIT 780S — Teaching Race, Teaching Gender1 section
- LIT 801 — History of Criticism1 section
- LIT 822S — Writing is Thinking1 section
- LIT 826S — Contemporary Genre Fiction: The Global Novel1 section
- LIT 827S — The Global Novel: Post, What?1 section
- LIT 836S — Freudo-Marxism1 section
- LIT 840S — Seminar in Emergent Literatures1 section
- LIT 850S — Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy1 section
- LIT 881S — Critical Posthumanities: The Human in Question1 section
- LIT 882S — Philosophy and Literature1 section
- LIT 890 — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- LIT 890S — Seminars in Literature1 section
- LIT 891 — Special Readings1 section
- LIT 892S — Publication Workshop1 section
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