ENGH354

Offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from post-1900 American literatures. Topics may include the study of major authors; naturalism, modernism, the Beat Generation, multiculturalism, graphic novels, postmodernism; covering fields such as women's literature, ethnic literatures, immigrant literature, queer literature; or contextualizing historical eras such as the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, civil rights, the twenty-first century. Asks students to develop their literary and analytical writing through close reading, engaging literary theories and scholarship, and developing critical approaches to the study of literature and culture.