BASC64233 - Alumni Sequence: The American Tradition Year II

Course Description

Spring concludes the sequence, moving toward the twentieth century and more diverse perspectives as encountered in drama, literature, and philosophy.

Seminar Reading List:

1. Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Vintage. ISBN 978-0679728894.

2. Wallace Stevens. Poems provided in PDF on the course Canvas site.
3. James Baldwin. The Fire Next Time. Vintage. ISBN 978-0679744726.

4. August Wilson. Fences. Penguin. ISBN 978-0735216686.
5. Reinhold Niebuhr. The Irony of American History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226583990.

Tutorial Reading List:

1. McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Penguin, ISBN 978-0679641049

Notes

Online registration closes Friday, March 15 at 5 pm CT.

You will receive an invitation to join the Canvas site for the course a week before the class begins. The Zoom link for the course will be in Canvas. For more information about Canvas, please see our Remote Learning Resources page.