Topics in European Literature & History

3 units

This new course offers advanced undergraduates and graduate students the opportunity to work with a faculty member in the development of an individual professor's research project. The aim is to expose the student to the practices as well as the principles of advanced literary research. Each student will participate in the growth of the scholarly concept and help with the progress of its documentation and elaboration, at once learning the craft of research by example and turning the lessons to work of their own. The outcomes foreseen include the extension and refinement of the faculty member's project and substantial progress on the part of the students toward publishable work of their own. The faculty project at the center of this course is a book-length study, "A Literary History of the European War of 1914-1918," which entails a comparative study of the literatures written from the major nations in the First World War (Great Britain, France, and Germany). As students make progress toward publishable work of their own, they may be working within the large subject of this book or in related historical and literary directions.