LITERATURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique some of the ways that key works of literature engage with pressing questions about class, race, gender, equality, immigration, and other issues of social justice. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique some of the ways that key works of literature engage with pressing questions about class, race, gender, equality, immigration, and other issues of social justice. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Undergraduate