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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

LITR 545 Studies in Renaissance Literature


A specialized study of major nondramatic poetry and prose of the English Renaissance (exclusive of the works of John Milton). Specific major authors to be studied may include Shakespeare, More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Bacon, Jonson, Donne and Herbert. This course is typically offered every other academic year.

Credit 3 hrs
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Once per year (in-person, occasionally hybrid, or online)

Prerequisites - 15 credit hours in literature
Restriction by Major - English Language and Literature Graduate Programs  
Restriction by Degree Type -

Equivalent Course(s) -
Course History -
Change to prerequisite 5/2024; effective Fall 2024; Change to prerequisite 10/2011, effective Winter 2012


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