ENGL 2614 - World Literature

Arts & Sciences
Previous Course Number: NEW

In this course, students encounter texts that represent a broad spectrum of the global cultures, peoples and literary forms of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will read fiction and essays that speak both to regional and domestic concerns and to the episodes of contact - war, trade, travel - that have brought cultures together. The course is an opportunity to experience the major concerns of the past 115 years, whether devastation in Europe, the legacies of colonialism in the Global South (the nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, and most of Asia), or racial segregation in America, and to study the often radical literary forms that writers turned to as a response.
credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1100