Literature and Culture

Catalog description

This interdisciplinary course explores a period or movement in intellectual and/or cultural history. It may also focus upon transformative texts, events, or characters as they engage these movements and moments. This course will invite students to engage in a dialogue between disciplines and ideas using literary texts both as the primary source for inquiry and the medium through which ideas are imagined, articulated, and contested. Students will explore the ideas, events, and literary genres that frame the particular intellectual issue or historical moment, while also engaging the varied contexts that inform a work of literature.