Class Options: Literature and the Moral Imagination
Literature and the Moral Imagination--part of the Ethics/Religion and Society (E/RS) "core of the core"--encourages students to think about ethical or religious issues from a creative, literary perspective. The course may be satisfied through CLAS-205, ENGL-205, FREN-205 GERM-205 or SPAN-205. Available titles vary from year to year, but have recently included:
- Addiction
- Gender and Violence
- Outsiders: Hostility and Hospitality
- Adult Life Cycles
- Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Nationality
- Portrayals of the Marginalized
- American Gods
- Guilt, Forgiveness and Atonement
- The Power of Storytelling
- American Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Hispanic Literature
- Prophets, Shamans, Wizards and Magicians
- Challenging Presumptions
- Leadership and Community
- Reading/Writing Creative Autobiographies and Memoirs
- Classical Literature
- Literature of Diversity
- Responding to Evil
- Coming of Age Stories
- Love and Betrayal
- Resisting, Reshaping and Retelling
- Crime in a "Just" Society
- Margins of Society
- The American West
- Dystopias
- Memory
- War, Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Erotic Love, the Individual and Society
- Mental Illness
- Wealth and Poverty in America
- Family
- Passing and Performing Identity
- French Literature