ENGL228

039995

This course will integrate the study of border and migration themed literature with a service-learning component, and a final student-directed symposium that will bring the ongoing dialogue of the class to the community. The concept of the border will be addressed as both a political reality and an imaginative construct - an organizing principle for our desire to seek and transmit diverse experiences and knowledge-systems across thresholds. The guiding question for this course will be, what does it mean to be a crosser of borders? In order to answer this question in its widest sense, we will operate in an intermediate space between academic discipline and community engagement, research and creative practice. Authors will include: Gloria Anzaldúa, Junot Diaz, Karen Tei Yamashita, C.S. Giscombe, Mahmoud Darwish, and more.

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

Undergraduate

GE - GEDE (Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis), GE - T2-HUM (Tier 2 Humanities), GEED - EPHUM (Gen Ed: EP Humanist)