3.00 Credits
This course focuses on long-form literature (including novels, plays, long poems, and book-length nonfiction) that have collectively become must reads. Students will examine what makes these works great - stylistically, aesthetically, historically, culturally - in an effort to question the role and creation of a canon while also appreciating the fact that some literature does, for one reason or another, rise to the top. Prerequisite: one 200-level literature course.