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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
emergent political ideologies, and other challenges to fifties’ conformity. Revealing
individual, cultural, and social change, we will study the literary and cultural movements
captured in the work of J.D. Salinger, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Ellison,
Tennessee Williams, Jack Kerouac, and Sylvia Plath.
EH 228 Ourselves and Others: Gender, Race, and Class in Literature (1)
An introduction to the study of literature through reading, discussion, and community
service. Students examine works of fiction, poetry, and drama that wrestle with
differences of gender, race, and socioeconomic class that have the capacity to divide us as
well as enrich our perspectives. Fifteen hours of community service tutoring at local
after-school programs and providing meals and conversation to women and children at a
local shelter creates a powerful connection between literary study and the lives of our
neighbors.
A service-learning integrated course.
EH 229 Protest Literature (1)
An introduction to the study of literature through works written specifically to change the
world, or at least some aspect of it. Among the more famous works that have been
labeled “protest literature” are Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
, Upton
Sinclair’s
The Jungle
, John Steinbeck’s
The Grapes of Wrath
, and Kurt Vonnegut’s
Slaughterhouse Five
. The course examines a variety of movements for social change
within the historical contexts of the American Revolution, the antebellum period, the
progressive era, and the 1960s. A Leadership Studies designated course.
EH 230 Plural America I (1)
An introduction to the plurality of the American culture from within the liberal arts
traditions of history and literature. The intent is to recognize the aspects of other cultures
appropriated into the Western tradition but often either unacknowledged or glossed over.
The end should be an appreciation of the achievements and limitations of our Western
heritage, and a heightened sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the world-at-large. Plural
America I focuses on Native American and Chicano history and literature, and on the
European context of American society. (Also listed as HI 230 and HON 230.)
Prerequisite: EH 102 or EH 208.
EH 231 Plural America II (1)
An introduction to the plurality of the American culture from within the liberal arts
traditions of history and literature. The intent is to recognize the aspects of other cultures
appropriated into the Western tradition but often either unacknowledged or glossed over.
The end should be an appreciation of the achievements and limitations of our Western
heritage, and a heightened sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the world-at-large. Plural
America II focuses on African-American and Asian-American history and literature, and
on the 1960s as a catalyst for multi-culturalism. (Also listed as HI 231 and HON 231.)
Prerequisite: EH 102 or EH 208.
EH 232 The Story of Freedom: The Writers Who Helped End Slavery (1)
An interdisciplinary investigation of the history and literature of America’s antislavery