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Apr 14, 2026
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ENG 250 - Topics in North American Literature
Pre- or Co-requisite: WTNG 100 or WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Major, Minor. Fulfills General Education Domain Social Inquiry and Humanities
Note: Meets a requirement in English Major and Minor
Delivery: Lecture
This repeatable variable topics course will examine various themes, periods, and/or authors in North American Literature, exploring intersections among history, literary genre, and writers from diverse identities and backgrounds within the Americas. This course seeks to expand an understanding of what constitutes North American literature from the pre-colonial period to the present. For example, students might explore a variety of American Women Writers, comparing varied voices and ideas about race, gender and literature. Alternatively, this course might feature two or more famous writers within a literary period (e.g., Beat Poets or the Harlem Renaissance.) Further examples include Memoirs of Reclamation, Girls on Fire in North American Literature, Comic Books and Literary Elitism, and Reckoning with Ideas of Justice in the American Imagination. Course outcomes include contextualizing literary texts within historical contexts, exploring literary genre across a period of time, and connecting historical texts to issues and concerns of 21st century readers. The course, but not the topic, is repeatable for credit.
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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