ENGL 343: Emerson, Thoreau, Du Bois

1 unit
Prerequisites: Completion with a 2.0 or better of at least three units in English, including one unit numbered ENGL 220 to ENGL 289; or permission of instructor.
An extended exploration of three key works of American Literature–Ralph Waldo Emerson’s- Essays, Henry David Thoreau’s- Walden, and W.E.B. Du Bois’s- The Souls of Black Folk – guided by one primary question: What do these authors and their work have to tell us about how we should live our lives today in the midst of so much racial inequality and environmental crisis? Christensen