MFW 601 - Graduate Seminar: Writing I

This first residency seminar serves as a review and overview of Western and non-Western literature from Antiquity to the mid-1800s. The discourse will focus on reaching an understanding of representative works in their cultural/historical contexts and of the development of literary form and genres within the different literary traditions. The courses pedagogy gives special attention to critical thinking and writing about the relation between form, content and context, as well as comparative and interdisciplinary analysis. Major writers, movements and shifts in cultural and political attitudes will be discussed. Students will produce short writing assignments that accompany assigned readings. (3 Credits)