Course Offerings

EN 101 THE PROCESS OF WRITING (3)
Offers intensive work in generating ideas, organization, style, and mechanics for the development of college-level writing. Admission by assignment. Does not fulfill core requirements in English.

EN 111 COLLEGE WRITING (3)
A writing intensive course that develops students’ college-level writing competence; writing is taught as a
process that entails a series of revisions through the completion of several short assignments and longer expository essays. Includes preparation of a research paper and instruction in MLA style. Introduces literary analysis, terminology, and technique by reading and interpreting literature that comprises various genres and represents diverse cultures.

EN 111L COLLEGE WRITING LAB(3)
Instructor: E. Eklund
W 2:30 PM-3:20 PM
EN 111L serves as a workshop to provide the support that NEXUS writers need to succeed in EN 111 and is paired with EN 111 College Writing as part of the NEXUS program. The course provides students with an opportunity to focus on critical reading, writing, and thinking in a small cohort with an emphasis on collaborative learning. Typical activities include: answering questions left over from EN 111 class meetings; discussing ideas for the next essay in EN 111; reviewing drafts of essays students are working on for EN 111; writing short papers that reinforce what has been discussed in EN 111 or that prepare students for what will be discussed in EN 111; and working on grammar and punctuation. Some class time will also be spent discussing how to succeed as a college student and
discussing any problems interfering with the students’ progress in EN 111. *Students may not withdraw from this course. By placement. This course has a co-requisite: EN 111.

EN 202 INTRO TO DRAMA (3)
Instructor: L. Grancagnolo
TR 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Studies eight plays representing the major stages in the development of drama from ancient ritual to contemporary commercial theater.

EN 207 GLOBAL LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: T. Harney-Mahajan
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM & TF 11:30 AM-12:45 PM
Explores non-western and world literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, including works from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

EN 221 WOMEN IN LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: K. Kornacki
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Examines the construction of female images, roles and attitudes in literature by and about women from around the globe. We will examine the representation of gendered identity in a variety of genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry) and historical periods with a central focus on modern and contemporary works.

EN 227 500 AMER IMAGES IN LIT
Instructor: K. Kornacki
Online
Explores short stories, novels, and poetry embodying various images of America—its geography, values, customs, and people— emphasizing the subject and quality of the images presented, the literary techniques with which these are developed, and the total self-reflection of the country which they convey.

EN 230 LITERATURE AND MEDICINE
Instructor: M. Lindroth
TR 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
This course focuses on writers who have depicted illness and the universal questions common to all humans as they face their own mortality. While there is a long history of literature that reflects this topic, this course will consider more contemporary illnesses through the genres of fiction, non¬fiction, drama and poetry to make discussion more relevant for students.

EN 240 INTRO TO POETRY
Instructor: C. Echterling
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Provides a solid foundation in the essential vocabulary for interpreting poems and appreciating the techniques of poets both traditional and contemporary. Offers an optional service-learning component, giving the opportunity to volunteer to work in groups with a local, published poet in a variety of ways.

EN 303 LIT OF RMNT MOVEMENT
Instructor: K. Kornacki
T 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Studies the origin, development and influence of Romanticism as a European and Transatlantic movement. While emphasis is placed on the British context and focused on the “big six” poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Byron, and Keats), the course explores the ways in which Romanticism was a much wider movement that informed and was informed by the philosophical, political, religious, literary, artistic, and social revolutions of the era. Students will examine the ways that Romantic writers textually changed their literary inheritance and reinvented it. Those changes remain very much a part of contemporary conceptions about literature, human subjectivity, and the experience of history.

EN 304 (EG) LITERATURE & DIVERSITY
Instructor: D. Anderson
MW 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
This course focuses on literary works that foreground or thematize forms of social diversity or difference—“race” and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, disability, etc. The course introduces students to works of (mostly) American literature that explore the social construction and significance of diverse identities—how and by whom these identities are defined, valued and contested; how they influence experience and perception; how they shape or misshapen human interactions; and, not least, how they are continually complicated or problematized by the
complexities of individual lives (e.g., the fact that we often inhabit multiple “identities” simultaneously) and the reality of our common humanity.

EN 306 ENGLISH LITERATURE
Instructor: M. Lindroth
TR 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Covers the development of English literature from early medieval to modern times, including readings from representative authors of each period.

EN 308 TELLING TALES: NARRATIVE FROM
Instructor: D. Anderson
TR 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Some theorists contend that storytelling, like language itself, is fundamental to what makes us human. We all tell stories all the time, and yet the act of narration, in literature as well as film, the news and everyday life is far from simple or innocent, involving a sometimes uneasy collaboration of narrators, character-listeners and inscribed as well as actual readers, and raising questions about the role of power, ideology and personal perspective in the construction of meaning. “Telling Tales: Narrative from Beowulf to Beloved” invites students to explore these complexities of narrative in a body of works ranging from early texts in the Anglo-American tradition to the contemporary novel.
The course also introduces students to a number of key concepts in the study of narrative, including narrative perspective, focalization, the unreliable narrator, the implied author, frame narrative, master plots, narrative contestation, etc.

EN 314 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Instructor: C. Echterling
Online
Presents a multidisciplinary overview of children’s literature in the light of recent scholarship including: the historical context of classical and popular children’s literature; philosophical, educational and sociological theories of childhood; and literary motifs and archetypes.

EN 317 LITERARY STUDIES
Instructor: D. Anderson
MW 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
Explores contemporary critical approaches to literature, including new historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, African-American criticism, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/queer criticism. We will examine the various theories as well as the assumptions and values upon which they rely in seminar form, developing the tools of literary analysis.

EN 334 (EE) REFUGEE CRISIS IN WORLD LIT
Instructor: D. Anderson
TR 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
**Ethical Inquiry Effective, Fall 2019 forward.** The number of people forced to flee their homes by war, persecution, poverty and environmental degradation is greater today (over sixty-five million) than at any other time in world history. Stories of deadly journeys, squalid camps, border walls, travel bans, separated families and rising xenophobia have become a commonplace of the nightly news, but so too have individual acts of kindness and collective expressions of solidarity with the most vulnerable. As David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee has powerfully argued, how individuals and their governments respond to the refugee crisis is a test not only of a society’s laws and policies but of our values: “Empathy and altruism are two of the foundations of civilization. Turn that empathy and altruism into action and we live out a basic moral credo.” This
course explores the ethical issues raised by current and past refugee crises through the lens of global literature, reading novels, short stories, poems, plays and creative non-fiction for what they can tell us about our ethical duty to one another, especially as that duty may be complicated by cultural differences, social divisions and the operation of social forces beyond individual control.”

Enriched Core: Ethical Inquiry and Applications.
EN 345 AFRICIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Instructor: E. Onami
WF 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
Surveys African American literature starting with historical texts including poetry, slave-narratives, folk tales and African-American spirituals, through post-Emancipation literature of racial uplift and polemic writing, to the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Moving through the twentieth century, the course examines social protest literature, autobiographical writing, feminist statements, and neo-slave-narratives. The institution of slavery and its legacy loom large in many of the texts.
Beginning with Frederick Douglass’s foundational Narrative (1845) and culminating in Octavia Butler’s neo-slave narrative, Kindred (1979), we will pay particular attention to the role of memory and self-representation in literature and appreciate literature as a tool for social justice. Includes a field trip to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and a walking tour of Harlem.

EN 401 SHAKESPEARE:POL.PLAY
Instructor: M. Lindroth
TR 11:30 AM-12:45 PM
Explores Shakespeare’s interpretation of the use and abuse of political power while tracing his dramatic development through critical reading of representative plays.

EN 410 CAPSTONE E-PORTFOLIO PROJECT
Instructor: M. Lindroth
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
One of the final courses that an English major takes, the “Capstone e-Portfolio Project” offers students the opportunity to revisit several papers written for English classes taken at Caldwell University. In this capstone course, students will heavily revise these papers according to certain guidelines, incorporate the process of self-reflection, and ultimately create an e-portfolio that will showcase their accomplishments as English majors. *Formerly English Seminar through Spring 2019.

EN 418 GUILTY PLEASURES: READING & WRITING
Instructor: K. Jorgensen
T 4:20 PM-6:50 PM
DOES NOT FULFILL ENG. LIT. CORE: “Soothsayers and Truth-tellers: Satire, Sci-fi, and Speculative Fiction as Agents of Social Change. In this course, we will consider how we can use our creativity to shape the world we live in. Through these genres, which can act as fun-house mirrors of society by distorting our reality to illuminate the problems we see, we will make incisive critiques with sharp humor, scientific imaginings, and world building. For inspiration, we will read, watch, and discuss examples of these. Possible readings and viewings will include Margatet Atwood, Kurt Vinnegut,Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Suzanne Collins, Jonathan Swift, The Onion, Black Mirror, Russian Doll, and Get Out.”

EN 101 THE PROCESS OF WRITING (3)
Offers intensive work in generating ideas, organization, style, and mechanics for the development of college-level writing. Admission by assignment. Does not fulfill core requirements in English.

EN 111 COLLEGE WRITING (3)
A writing intensive course that develops students’ college-level writing competence; writing is taught as a process that entails a series of revisions through the completion of several short assignments and longer expository essays. Includes preparation of a research paper and instruction in MLA style. Introduces literary analysis, terminology, and technique by reading and interpreting literature that comprises various genres and represents diverse cultures.

(HP) EN 111 COLLEGE WRITING (3)
Instructor: D. Anderson
TR 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
A writing intensive course that develops students’ college-level writing competence; writing is taught as a process that entails a series of revisions through the completion of several short assignments and longer expository essays. Includes preparation of a research paper and instruction in MLA style. Introduces literary analysis, terminology, and technique by reading and interpreting literature that comprises various genres and represents diverse cultures.

EN 202 INTRO TO DRAMA (3)
Instructor: L. Grancagnolo
MW 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
TR 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Studies eight plays representing the major stages in the development of drama from ancient ritual to contemporary commercial theater.

EN 207 GLOBAL LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: T. Harney-Mahajan
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
TF 11:30 AM-12:45 PM
Explores non-western and world literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the
present, including works from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

EN 221 WOMEN IN LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: M. Lindroth
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Examines the construction of female images, roles and attitudes in literature by and about women from around the globe. We will examine the representation of gendered identity in a variety of genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry) and historical periods with a central focus on modern and contemporary works.

EN 227 AMERICAN IMAGES IN LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: E. Onami
WF 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
Explores short stories, novels, and poetry embodying various images of America—its geography, values, customs, and people— emphasizing the subject and quality of the images presented, the literary techniques with which these are developed, and the total self-reflection of the country which they convey.

EN 301 FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: T. Harney-Mahajan
MW 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
Surveys major literary texts in the history of western and world literature with an emphasis on those considered essential to an understanding of British and American literature.

EN 305 AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: D. Anderson
TR 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
Surveys over three hundred years of American literature beginning with the Puritans and other early English settlers and ending in the first half of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the nineteenth century. Ranging across a variety of genres, modes, and literary movements, from the early Puritan “plain style” to the nineteenth-century American literary Renaissance, from realism and regional local color writing to modernism, from Realism to the Harlem Renaissance, this class will explore how American writers have created an American subject.

EN 314 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: C. Echterling
Online Course
Presents a multidisciplinary overview of children’s literature in the light of recent scholarship including: the historical context of classical and popular children’s literature; philosophical, educational and sociological theories of childhood; and literary motifs and archetypes.

EN 317 LITERARY CRITICISM (3)
Instructor: M. Lindroth
TR 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Explores contemporary critical approaches to literature, including new historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, African-American criticism, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/queer criticism. We will examine the various theories as well as the assumptions and values upon which they rely in seminar form, developing the tools of literary analysis.

EN 320 WRITING POWER (3)
DOES NOT FULFILL ENG. LIT. CORE: Offers an intensive writing workshop for students determined to advance from average to superior writing performance. Emphasis on effective strategies for producing compelling prose in many disciplines.

(HP) EN 320 WRITING POWER (3)
Instructor: M. Miller
MW 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
DOES NOT FULFILL ENG. LIT. CORE: Offers an intensive writing workshop for students determined to advance from average to superior writing performance. Emphasis on effective strategies for producing compelling prose in many disciplines.

EN 321 (EE) WORK AND WORKING-CLASS LIFE (3)
Instructor: D. Anderson
MW 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
“Work and Working-Class Life in Literature” invites students to explore ethical issues in the context of literature (short stories, novels, poems, plays, non-fiction essays) focused on work, working people and working-class life. Some of the questions we consider in class discussion and in writing are the following: Does work have an ethical value beyond its purpose of earning a living? Why are some kinds of work valued less than others? Are poverty and unemployment a sign of personal, or societal, moral failing? What ethical obligations do workers owe each other and/or to the people who employ them? What ethical conflicts are faced by working people trying to survive in a harshly competitive
world?

EN 323 JOURNAL EDITING (3)
Instructor: M. Miller
TR 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
This course will enable students to exercise a critical eye when selecting poems submitted by a wide variety of contemporary poets on the basis of their artistic merit. Students read submissions using Submittable, the journal industry’s leader in online submissions software. Selected poems are published in the next annual issue of the international print poetry journal, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. Students’ names appear under the category “Undergraduate Readers” on the issue’s mast page. They read articles involved in understanding the cultural milieu from which the journal was conceived as well as examine the contents of other current literary journals devoted to the intersection of literature and religious faith or spirituality in order to determine Presence’s contribution to this field. Students write short book reviews of recently published collections of poems. Excerpts from these student reviews are posted on the journal’s website: www.catholicpoetryjournal.com.

EN 324 (EC) CATHOLIC WRITERS (3)
Instructor: M. Miller
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Studies a range of major authors from the medieval period to the 21st century whose Catholicism is central to their artistic vision, influencing the content and/or the form of their work. Genres include epic, lyric, short fiction, novel, and graphic novel. Works are read from a theological perspective, and requirements include a written analysis of a contemporary film from this perspective. Writers may include Dante, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Flannery O’Connor, Alice McDermott, Gene Luen Yang, and Julia Alvarez.

EN 349 (EE) LITERATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT (3)
Instructor: M. Lindroth
TR 11:30 AM-12:45 PM
Introduces students to American nature/environmental writing and explores the different ways writers have thought about our relationship to the natural world. Reading texts ranging across time and space, we discuss the kinds of questions they raise and try to answer: What obligations do people have to other species? What is our relation to the natural places or bioregions we inhabit? What environmental threats do we face, and how can they be addressed? What is the relationship between environmental and social justice?
In addition to reading, discussing, and writing about the work of others, students also have an opportunity to do some “field observations,” spending some class time outside directly observing nature in order to produce their own creative nonfiction essays. Summer 2020 & Prior- Global Awareness Fall 2020 forward- Ethical Inquiry.

EN 406 CREATIVE WRITING (3)
Instructor: K. Jorgensen
T 4:20 PM-6:50PM
DOES NOT FULFILL ENG. LIT. CORE: Offers an intensive exploration of the short story and lyric poetry. A workshop for students interested in developing creative talents. Opportunity for publication in literary magazine.

EN 410 SENIOR PORTFOLIO PROJECT (3)
Instructor: M/ Lindroth
MW 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
One of the final courses that an English major takes, the “Capstone e-Portfolio Project” offers students the opportunity to revisit several papers written for English classes taken at Caldwell University. In this capstone course, students will heavily revise these papers according to certain guidelines, incorporate the process of self-reflection, and ultimately create an e-portfolio that will showcase their accomplishments as English majors.
*Formerly English Seminar through Spring 2019.

EN 101 THE PROCESS OF WRITING (3)
MW 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
Offers intensive work in generating ideas, organization, style, and mechanics for the
development of college-level writing. Admission by assignment. Does not fulfill core
requirement in English.

EN 111 COLLEGE WRITING (3)
A writing intensive course that develops students’ college-level writing competence; writing
is taught as a process that entails a series of revisions through the completion of several
short assignments and longer expository essays. Includes preparation of a research paper
and instruction in MLA style. Introduces literary analysis, terminology, and technique by
reading and interpreting literature that comprises various genres and represents diverse
cultures.

EN 202 INTRO TO DRAMA (3)
TR 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Studies eight plays representing the major stages in the development of drama from
ancient ritual to contemporary commercial theater.

EN 207 GLOBAL LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: T. Harney-Mahajan
WF 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
W 4:20 PM-6:50 PM
Explores non-western and world literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to
the present, including works from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
EN 227 AMER IMAGES IN LIT (3)
MW 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
Explores short stories, novels, and poetry embodying various images of America—its
geography, values, customs, and people— emphasizing the subject and quality of the
images presented, the literary techniques with which these are developed, and the total
self-reflection of the country which they convey.

EN 230 LITERATURE AND MEDICINE (3)
Instructor: M. Lindroth
TR 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
MW 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
This course focuses on writers who have depicted illness and the universal questions
common to all humans as they face their own mortality. While there is a long history of
literature that reflects this topic, this course will consider more contemporary illnesses
through the genres of fiction, non¬fiction, drama and poetry to make discussion more
relevant for students.

EN 240 INTRO TO POETRY (3)
Instructor: M. Miller
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
MW 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
Provides a solid foundation in the essential vocabulary for interpreting poems and
appreciating the techniques of poets both traditional and contemporary. Offers an optional
service-learning component, giving the opportunity to volunteer to work in groups with a
local, published poet in a variety of ways.

EN 304 (EG) LITERATURE & DIVERSITY (3)
Instructor: D. Anderson
MW 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
This course focuses on literary works that foreground or thematize forms of social diversity
or difference—“race” and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, disability, etc. The course
introduces students to works of (mostly) American literature that explore the social
construction and significance of diverse identities—how and by whom these identities are
defined, valued and contested; how they influence experience and perception; how they
shape or misshape human interactions; and, not least, how they are continually
complicated or problematized by the complexities of individual lives (e.g., the fact that we
often inhabit multiple “identities” simultaneously) and the reality of our common humanity.

EN 306 ENGLISH LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: M. Miller
TR 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
Covers the development of English literature from early medieval to modern times,
including readings from representative authors of each period.

EN 319 WRITING THE SELF IN POETRY AND PROS (3)
R 4:20 PM-6:50 PM
Writing the Self in Poetry and Prose is a hybrid literature/creative writing/performance
course that allows students to explore the possibilities for self-expression in poetry and
personal essays. Students read and analyze examples of personal essays and lyric poetry
by published authors; read and discuss a guidebook discussion of craft; write their own
pieces in a collaborative, workshop setting that encourages critique and revision; and,
ultimately, perform selected pieces for their classmates and/or a campus audience in a
campus venue. Though there will be a strong autobiographical element in the writing
studied and produced for the course, students will also be encouraged to think about how
their experiences and concerns as individual writers intersect with the wider world and can
be expressed in ways that will engage an audience.

EN 330 CONTEMPORARY IRISH FICTION (3)
Instructor: T. Harney-Mahajan
MW 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
This course will focus on Irish fiction from the mid-1980’s to the present. A thematic
approach will cover such topics as the implications of politics and religion, gender and
sexuality, and the persistence of cultural myths within a literary framework.

EN 334 (EE) REFUGEE CRISIS IN WORLD LIT (3)
Instructor: D. Anderson
TR 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
Ethical Inquiry Effective, Fall 2019 forward. The number of people forced to flee their
homes by war, persecution, poverty and environmental degradation is greater today (over
sixty-five million) than at any other time in world history. Stories of deadly journeys, squalid
camps, border walls, travel bans, separated families and rising xenophobia have become a
commonplace of the nightly news, but so too have individual acts of kindness and collective
expressions of solidarity with the most vulnerable. As David Miliband, head of the
International Rescue Committee has powerfully argued, how individuals and their
governments respond to the refugee crisis is a test not only of a society’s laws and policies
but of our values: “Empathy and altruism are two of the foundations of civilization. Turn
that empathy and altruism into action and we live out a basic moral credo.” This course
explores the ethical issues raised by current and past refugee crises through the lens of
global literature, reading novels, short stories, poems, plays and creative non-fiction for
what they can tell us about our ethical duty to one another, especially as that duty may be
complicated by cultural differences, social divisions and the operation of social forces
beyond individual control.” Enriched Core: Ethical Inquiry and Applications

EN 345 AFRICIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)
Instructor: K. Kornacki
WF 10:00 AM-11:15 AM
Surveys African American literature starting with historical texts including poetry, slave-narratives, folk tales and African-American spirituals, through post-Emancipation literature
of racial uplift and polemic writing, to the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Moving
through the twentieth century, the course examines social protest literature,
autobiographical writing, feminist statements, and neo-slave narratives. The institution of
slavery and its legacy loom large in many of the texts. Beginning with Frederick Douglass’s
foundational Narrative (1845) and culminating in Octavia Butler’s neo-slave narrative,
Kindred (1979), we will pay particular attention to the role of memory and
self-representation in literature and appreciate literature as a tool for social justice.
Includes a field trip to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and a walking
tour of Harlem.

EN 403 LIT VICTORIAN AGE (3)
Instructor: M. Miller
M 4:20 PM-6:50 PM
Studies the variety of trends present in English literature in the period from 1832 to 1900
as shown in the works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and others.

EN 410 SENIOR PORTFOLIO PROJECT (3)
Instructor: M. Lindroth
MW 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
One of the final courses that an English major takes, the “Capstone e-Portfolio Project”
offers students the opportunity to revisit several papers written for English classes taken at
Caldwell University. In this capstone course, students will heavily revise these papers
according to certain guidelines, incorporate the process of self-reflection, and ultimately
create an e-portfolio that will showcase their accomplishments as English majors.
*Formerly English Seminar through Spring 2019.

EN 413 CONTEMPORARY FICTION (3)
Instructor: D. Anderson
TR 3:00 PM-4:15 PM
Emphasizes literary analysis in world fiction by late 20th and early 21st century writers,
including Erdrich, Morrison, Achebe, Ondaatje, and others.

EN 417 SHAKESP:PLAYS OF LVE (3)
Instructor: M. Lindroth
TR 11:30 AM-12:45 PM
Explores Shakespeare’s use and interpretation of the literary conventions of love while
tracing his dramatic development through critical reading of representative plays and
sonnets.

EN 418 GUILTY PLEASURES: READING & WRITING
T 4:20 PM-6:50 PM
“Soothsayers and Truth-tellers: Satire, Sci-fi, and Speculative Fiction as Agents of Social
Change. In this course, we will consider how we can use our creativity to shape the world
we live in. Through these genres, which can act as fun-house mirrors of society by
distorting our reality to illuminate the problems we see, we will make incisive critiques with
sharp humor, scientific imaginings, and world building. For inspiration, we will read, watch,
and discuss examples of these. Possible readings and viewings will include Margatet
Atwood, Kurt Vinnegut, Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Suzanne Collins, Jonathan Swift, The
Onion, Black Mirror, Russian Doll, and Get Out.”