What should an educated person have read in school? What have most highly successful people read? Ever felt like there’s something you’re missing?
Taking World Literature is a way of solving that problem. College is perhaps the only time in your life that you may read those things that every educated person that you meet will assume that you have read. How much may depend on your understanding the boss’ love of Basho? On your laughing at the interviewer’s clever Voltairian quip? On following it with a witty retort of your own? On convincing a crowd to vote for revolution with a quote from Rousseau? On getting the song’s reference to Verlaine and Rimbaud? On impressing the right person with your take on Hedda Gabler? Or on quoting Octavio Paz to make someone fall in love with you just a little be more passionately? If you don’t know most of these references, you should, and you can. Learn what you should know to be an educated person in English 209, World Literature from the 17th Century to the Present. All the successful kids are doing it.
The course is offered in the 10-week summer schedule on Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:30-12:50, here on the Palmer Campus.
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