ENGL474

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This course will survey creative nonfiction, memoir, and fiction (with poetry making guest appearances) in the rich mode of interior journey: spiritual, philosophical, metaphorical. Students will be encouraged to use reading and writing as a means to shaping and deepening their interior journeys, with attention to craft but with an emphasis on addressing their individual engagement with the great existential questions: Does life inherently have meaning or must we create it, and if the latter, what are our means to that end? How does reading and writing figure in the human relationship with God / Goddess / the gods and goddesses, concepts and words - with ample time and space given to atheists and agnostics? How do we find and sustain happiness - or is \"contentment\" the better goal?

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate