CENG203

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Imagining Freedom and Citizenship in the West

School of Arts and Sciences

Course Subject Code

CENG

Course Number

203

Course Description

This course examines how literature has engaged with the values of freedom and citizenship from the earliest Western thinkers of the Greco-Roman world to the modern American context, considering the development of ideals such as civic engagement, the rule of law, faith and freedom, liberty of conscience, individual freedom and human rights, as well as how freedom has been contested politically throughout literary history. Co-requisite: CHST 203.