ENG 206 Transformative Texts I: Citizenship and Communities
This is the first of two gateway courses leading to a series of integrated pathways through our university's existing liberal arts curriculum. The gateway courses and the pathways feature common readings; show the humanities as a source of meaning and purpose in life; and invite students to think about citizenship from various perspectives, with an emphasis on American democracy. These humanities-centered sequence of courses are based on readings from a wide array of times and cultures that explicitly and implicitly engage these topics, and that branch out to incorporate local and global realities and imperatives of citizenship.