ENG 131 - Small World: Literature of the Academic Life

Institution:

Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

Borrowed from the title of a novel by David Lodge, the title of this course, "Small World," captures its focus on the college campus as microcosm. The life of the university is often contrasted with "real" life, the world to which students will graduate when they earn their degrees. For professional academics, however, the world of the campus is the real world; and for the students who pass through this world, its reality shapes their life for four years, and possibly for a lifetime. This course examines the academic life as it is depicted in literature. The works chosen will examine the way in which the university setting functions in various literary genres at various periods in history, but with special emphasis on the late twentieth century. The students and professors who populate these pages will enable the students enrolled in the course, and their professor, to engage in a discussion of their common enterprise: living and working, whether for four years or for a whole career, in the little universe of the college. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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