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4 
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Students in 2001 Cohort & after: Must have completed a minimum of 80 MC. 
HY4219 
HY4219

The module is an advanced overview of major approaches and themes in American intellectual history. Students will explore the diversity of American thinkers. The module will focus on the twentieth century and analyses American thinkers in their social contexts. This course provides a diverse and multifarious look at American intellectual history through a study of specific intellectual figures. Students will develop their understanding of the complexity of American intellectual traditions. For students majoring in history and those with an interest in the USA. 

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4 
0-3-0-2-5 
Completed at least 28 MCs in English Literature, including EN1101E / EN2101 / EN2101E / GEM1000K / GEK1000. 
EN4231 
EN4231 

Students will think critically and engage with a wide range of materials and texts. Explicitly interdisciplinary in its approach and content, the course exposes to a variety of ideas and issues related to the militarization of society, economics, technology, culture and family. How the policies, technologies, and weapons of the Cold War have profoundly shaped the current moment. The cultural historical context of the Cold War through a range of documents and "texts" - including music, policy papers, art, historical documents, technology, films, TV, game theory, and literature. This is for EN majors/EN (Hons) students/Advanced CFM students/ISM students. 

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4 
0-3-0-3-4 
Completed at least 28 MCs in English Literature, including EN1101E / EN2101 / EN2101E / GEM1000K / GEK1000. 
EN4232 
EN4232 

This module, which is aimed at upper level English Literature majors and cross-faculty students who have some experience with literary analysis, will focus on American literary orientalism in order to continue to examine questions of race, gender, ethnicity and literary form in the (mainly postwar) American imaginary. 

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4 
0-3-0-3-4 
Completed at least 28 MCs in English Literature, including EN1101E / EN2101 / EN2101E / GEM1000K / GEK1000. 
EN4233 
EN4233 

This module focuses on select topics within American culture as a means of exploring aspects of American history, national identity and social formation. Documents drawn from a variety of media and across discourses will be examined.