Faculty First Year Seminars 191LLC12 - Writing the Self

How does literature?both reading and writing it?help us to better understand ourselves? How do we represent ourselves in writing? Through poetry, fiction, and essays, this course will consider literature as a mode of self-discovery and self-presentation. Our readings will range from work by activists like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Audre Lorde to comic writers Trevor Noah and David Sedaris, from the poetry of Lucille Clifton and Walt Whitman to public writing on campus. We will also dabble in some literary writing of our own, exploring how we write our own lives. No creative writing experience necessary.

Freshmen Only