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.
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 |
Discipline-Specific Courses
English
| 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 |
History
| 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 |
Modern Languages
| 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 |
Music
| 888 | Music of the Romantic Period |
Art History
| 841 | Impressionism and Post-Impressionism |
| 851 | 19th Century American Art |