Topics in American Literature and Society

Catalog description

This course focuses on a variable theme determined by the professor that is significant to American literature and society. Special emphasis is placed on revealing the many ways that literature is both a product of society and shapes society. The purpose of this course is to reveal how literature performs personal, cultural, social, political, and economic functions in particular American contexts, both in the time it was written but also still today. This course is repeatable, so long as the theme is not repeated.