Texts & Ideas II, Fall 2013
All of the courses below are pre-approved to meet the second term of the Honors Texts
and Ideas requirement. All of these courses will count towards the eight Honors courses that are
to be taken in the first two years. To have “Honors” posted on your transcript for any of these
courses, you must also complete an Honors conversion project. Please see your advisor for more
details. If a course listed below is cross-listed with another department, you may take the course
under any number that is convenient for you; the other numbers are not listed here but are listed
in the course guide online.
You may meet the T&I 2 requirement with a course that is not on this list, if that course
engages serious literature in more than one genre, by more than one author, across a significant
span of time, or offers breadth and depth in the study of literature in some other way. If you
would like to fulfill this requirement with a course that is not on this list, email Dr. Wessel
Walker (dlww@umich.edu) with the details of the course, and your statement about why it
should meet T&I 2.
AAPTIS 363
The Qur’an & its Interpretations
Alexander Knysh
AAPTIS 381
Intro to Arab Lit in Tranlsation
Trevor Legassick
AAPTIS 383
Arab-Israeli Conflict in Lit
Carol Bardenstein
ACABS 270
Intro to Rabbinic Lit
Yaron Eliav
Asian 222
Great Books of Japan
Jonathan Zwicker
Comp Lit 340
Travels to Greece
Artemis Leontis
English 298.006 only Intro to Lit Studies
Andrea Zemgulys
English 360
The Rise of the Novel
Clement Hawes
English 367
Shakespeare’s Plays: Elizabethan Years
Steve Mullaney
French/Hist 323
French Enlightenment
Dena Goodman
History of Art 352
Art & Philosophy in the Renaissance Tradition
Italian 317
The Renaissance
Karla Mallette
Philosophy 388
History of Philosophy: Ancient
Matthew Evans
Russian 347
Survey of Russian Literature
Sofya Khagi
Slavic 225
Arts & Cultures of Central Europe
Herbert Eagle et al.
Thomas Willette
We encourage you, if you have sufficient expertise in a foreign language, to meet the
T&I 2 requirement through a literature course taught in that language. To that end, we have preapproved a number of courses in popular languages to meet this requirement. If your language is
not represented on this list, please speak with Dr. Wessel Walker about the course you want to
take in your language.
Spanish 373.001
From the Cid to Cide Hamete
Ryan Szpiech
Spanish 373.005
Borges y sus mundos
Katharine Jenckes
Spanish 381
Survey of Latin American Lit I
either section