Global Humanities I: From California to the Global

4 credits · Undergraduate

This reading and writing intensive course is organized around key texts that focus on ever-widening parameters of scale: the local, the national-regional, and the global. Each level, - California, America and the Americas, and the world - is designated by representative literary texts, from those focused on the Bay Area to those reaching out to the planetary. The course fulfills the first half of the reading and composition requirement (R1A). Success in this course depends upon deep reading, ongoing participation, substantive interaction with a peer review group, and steady commitment to the composition and revision of several essays.