Alumni Sequence: The American Tradition Year II
This course was available in the past and may be presented again as part of the Basic Program of Liberal Education curriculum.
Spring concludes the sequence, moving toward the twentieth century and more diverse perspectives as encountered in drama, literature, and philosophy.
Seminar Reading List:
1. Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Vintage. ISBN 978-0679728894.
2. Wallace Stevens. Poems provided in PDF on the course Canvas site.
3. James Baldwin. The Fire Next Time. Vintage. ISBN 978-0679744726.
4. August Wilson. Fences. Penguin. ISBN 978-0735216686.
5. Reinhold Niebuhr. The Irony of American History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226583990.
Tutorial Reading List:
1. McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Penguin, ISBN 978-0679641049
Notes
Online registration closes Friday, March 15 at 5 pm CT.
You will receive an invitation to join the Canvas site for the course a week before the class begins. The Zoom link for the course will be in Canvas. For more information about Canvas, please see our Remote Learning Resources page.