Literature and Cultures

Catalog description

This course will take a cultural and contextual approach to understanding and analyzing literature by examining multiple texts that develop from, represent or respond to human experiences of specific times, places, histories and/or identities. This course will introduce students to methods for studying literature through culturally and contextually focused analysis. The organizing principle for this course will be contextual analysis, but the course will also engage with form and the thematic aspects of the literature studied. This is a writing-infused course. Specific topics will vary.