Course Description

37-213 Seminar: Literature and Social Change F,W(3-0) [0.50]

This course explores the social and cultural work that literary texts perform. Seminars will illuminate such categories as gender, sexuality, nation, race, ethnicity, and class; particular ways in which they are written into a limited number of literary works; and some of the critical debates surrounding our interpretations of those processes. (Choice of focus and texts to be determined by individual instructors.)Writing- and presentation-intensive course.

Prerquisites: 37-106.

Concurrent: 37-206.

Exclusions: 37-2111/2.

Course Profile

1998-99 Undergraduate Calendar