Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA55 - FYS-FakeNews & False Realities

This class teaches and emphasizes the literary skills of close reading and analysis with an eye to helping students engage more critically with the world around them. In particular, we'll be analyzing the rhetoric deployed in advertisements, modern political addresses, and clips from our 24-hr news cycle. This course takes literary skills and directly applies them to the world in which students live and work every day.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.