Comparative Literature 141H - Good & Evil

Fall
2024
01
4.00
Hilary Fink

TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM

UMass Amherst
28761
Elm Room 230
hfink@umass.edu
The imaginative representation of good and evil in Western and Eastern classics, folktales, children's stories, and 20th-century literature. Cross-cultural comparison of ethical approaches to moral problems such as the suffering of the innocent, the existence of evil, the development of a moral consciousness and social responsibility, and the role of faith in a broken world. Contemporary issues of nuclear war, holocaust, AIDS, abortion, marginal persons, anawim, unwanted children. (Gen.Ed. AL, DG)

This course is open to Commonwealth Honors College students only. Recommended for Freshmen and Sophomores.
8 seats are reserved for first-year students to enroll during NSO.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.