(R-9) Offered autumn or spring. Prereq., LIT 300 and and 6 credits in LIT courses numbered 300 or higher or consent of instructor. Study and application of one or more theoretical approaches to interpreting texts (e.g., aesthetic post-structural, new historicist, classical, Renaissance, Romantic, narrative, psychoanalytic, formalist, neo-Marxist, feminist, gender, cultural studies and reader-response theory).