Fall 2026 Undergraduate English Courses

01  CAC  TTH6   12153   LOVE  MU-210 Love and Work: Race, Sex, and Class in Early 20th c. American Literature  In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby describes Daisy Buchanan’s voice as “full of money”; Daisy herself describes her “white girlhood” growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. In this novel, as in so many others in American literature, desire, race, and class cannot be disentangled. In this class we will explore the knotted history of work and love, desire and money, in American life in a range of early...

01   CAC   TTH5   12154   LAWRENCE   SC-214 The Sixties The 1960s were a decade of major upheaval in the United States.  A series of liberation movements challenged many of the U.S.’s core political institutions, at the same time that the nation entered into a prolonged and divisive war in Vietnam.  In the cultural realm, a generation of young writers and filmmakers sought to engage the urgent social issues of the period, inventing new aesthetic forms and techniques to address them.  In this course, we will...