English Course Descriptions
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Summer & Fall 2025 Graduate Classes
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Summer 2025 Lower-Division Required Textbooks
Writing About Writing, 5th edition. Wardle, Elizabeth and Doug Downs. MacMillan, 2023.
Writing Memphis, 3rd edition. Katherine Fredlund (ed.)
Hard Copy ISBN: 978-1-5339-2428-5
VitalSource eBook ISBN: 978-1-5339-2884-9
The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter 14th edition. Kelly Mays.
Hard Copy ISBN: 978-0-393-88630-6
eBook ISBN: 978-0-393-88629-0
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
ISBN: 9780812993547
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volumes 1 & 2, 3rd edition. Henry Louis Gates and Valerie Smith.
Hard Copy ISBN: 978-0393911558