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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog
   

ENGLIT 1247 - AUGUST WILSON


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course closely examines the work of the American dramatist august wilson. A significant amount of the playwright's work, including his epic 10-play 'Pittsburgh Cycle,' is set in Pittsburgh and notably in the hill district, where wilson spent his first 33 years. The course will engage with Wilson's plays as well as criticism, history and literature by other authors. Course goals include increased insight and skill in reading, in close analysis, and in discussing and writing about this imaginative world in its historic, social, and literary contexts. Assignments may include viewing plays and videos, researching Pittsburgh history, and field trips to the hill district.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.


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