Topic: American Dreams and Realities: Learning Community

Catalog description

This learning community will focus on the interdisciplinary exploration of American culture, history, politics and identity. In this course, students will read and write about a variety of texts, focusing on the intersections between disciplines that serve to illuminate ideas about American narratives, dreams, and realities. Possible topics to be discussed will be the place of the road in American life; New Orleans; the work ethic and the American dream of success; wealth in the Gilded Age; and slavery, race and gender.