| |
Mar 18, 2026
|
|
|
|
|
2025-2026 Academic Catalog
|
ENG 402 - Literature and the Big Questions
3 Credit Hour(s)
This course explores how literature helps us to ask (and maybe begin to answer) the big questions about ourselves and our places in the universe. Is life essentially comic or tragic? How do such mindsets condition the way we understand the world? What are the implications of gender on the individual? Why write about suffering in an already distressed world? What is the nature of the divine? Why are we here? Readings may range across a variety of cultures and historical periods (such as a survey of comedies from ancient Greece to 21st century U.S.) or may focus on narrower periods (such as 19th and 20th century Russian literature and poetry).
Prerequisite(s): ENG 240 , ENG 301 , or ENG 305
Liberal Arts Core Fulfillment: 6.1 & 6.2 Senior Capstone Experience
Offered: Fall Odd
|
|
