Seminar in English Studies and Public Affairs

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Explores how literature shapes and is shaped by public debates, cultural heritages, and community needs. Course Unit 1, “Writers, Writing, and Leadership,” examines writers’ and literary institutions’ interventions in crises of leadership, types of writing that have developed to fill voids in leadership, and/or, literary representations of leadership. Unit 2, “Writing Cultures and Intercultural Encounters,” considers writers’ efforts to imagine or represent cultures and cross-cultural relations. Unit 3, “Texts and Their Communities,” focuses on the relations between texts and their audiences, the development of literary communities and institutions, and/or the process of writing or editing a text for a particular local community. Public Affairs Capstone Experience course. Prerequisite: ENG 235 ; and must be taken in the senior year or by permission (with a minimum of 75 hours completed).