Course details

Name: ENGL - 117

Title: WORLD LITERATURE: VOICES OF TRADITION AND CHALLENGE

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2018

Credits: 3

Description:
Formerly ENGL 207. Did you know only about 3% of all books published in the United States are in translation? When we read, we tend to read books about ourselves. It's time to branch out into the world! This course is an imaginative passport to other geographies, other tongues, other cultures. Now more than ever, reading the literature of global voices is an urgent and deeply rewarding project. Writers might include, for example: Clarice Lispector, Garcia Marquez, Jamaica Kincaid and Manuel Puig.

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Fiction)
• International Issues (3a)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• World Literature (TE 6a)

Teaching Faculty: Lorenz Johnny (lorenzj)

Is course canceled: No