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What is literature? Why do we study it? What value does it hold for society?
How can a rhetorical approach prepare us to write in any professional context or genre?
How do the choices we make as writers shape what the reader experiences?
How do comic books—or graphic novels—offer possibilities different from other literary forms?
What would happen if we were to examine literary texts through the lens of energy?
How does women’s literature challenge conventional notions of gender and sexuality?
What is rhetoric? What is the connection between rhetoric
and culture?
and culture?
In what ways do Medieval prose and poetry influence the popular genres and culture of today?
What critical and theoretical approaches might we use to better understand primary literary material across genres?
How might we question 19th century intersections of race, gender, and democracy without imposing 21st century understandings?
How do the aesthetic elements of early American literature reflect the cultural and political shifts of the time?
How does young adult literature shape our understanding of how adolescence intertwines with issues of friendship, sexuality, and violence?
How does world literature shape our understanding of the various ethical and existential challenges of modern life?
How can theories—feminist, postcolonial, formal, structural, and queer—help us understand how literature and society influence one another?
How do our own writing experiences compare to current debates about the nature and purpose of composition?
How does multinational, multilingual, and multicultural American lit imagine America as an indigenous, colonial, national, or imperial space?