ENGL 370 - The Immigrant Experience in American Literature (W)

3 Credit(s)

In American society, few topics generate more energy than immigration. Everywhere we turn, politicians, journalists, televised talking heads, and social media commentators have something to say about it. There exists, though, a rich body of imaginative writing that provides an especially complex, personal, and therefore particularly valuable understanding of the immigrant experience. In this course, students explore an engaging selection of that literature, focusing on poetry, drama, and (especially) fiction published in the 19^th, 20^th and 21^st centuries, paying particular attention to works published after 9/11.