Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2022

ENGL 208   Sex and the Global City
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2024 2023 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
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Co-Requisites
Core Area
Area of InquiryHuman Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices

An introduction to literary study using the relationship between sexuality, literature and the history of global cities as a jumping off point for considering the problems, practices, and possibilities of literary study. The course undertakes close reading of modern texts to discover how urban settings influence our understandings of racial and ethnic identity, gender roles, and multiple forms of sexual relationships. It also addresses the ways that the cosmopolitan city provides new forms and content for both modern identities and post-modern narratives. Works of literature are contextualized by a variety of critical and historical works from the modernist and post-modernist periods.