Call Number | 00266 |
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Day & Time Location |
MW 2:40pm-3:55pm To be announced |
Points | 3 |
Grading Mode | Pass/Fail |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructor | Kristi-Lynn Cassaro |
Type | SEMINAR |
Course Description | In this course we probe the ideology of American "exceptionalism." We treat the literary history of this idea as a transtemporal conversation involving its founding architects, ardent critics, and experimental reformers, concerned with the question of what should be valued on the American continents and within American experience. We become cartographers of this conversation and interlocutors within it, as we explore how habits of conceiving truth, power, and the relationship of human beings to the natural world have controlled what counts as exceptional and what ordinary. Where should we direct our awe? Readings will include James Baldwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, bell hooks, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Audre Lorde, Henry David Thoreau and William Carlos Williams. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard |
Enrollment | 16 students (16 max) as of 10:05AM Thursday, December 5, 2024 |
Status | Full |
Subject | First-Year Seminar |
Number | BC1766 |
Section | 001 |
Division | Barnard College |
Open To | Barnard College |
Note | Barnard 1st Year Students Only |
Section key | 20251FYSB1766X001 |