Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Explore your fears in this pandemic literature course next spring
On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Our lives have changed in so many ways since then, while the lives of so many others have ended. We鈥檝e been left trying to make sense of it all. With this in mind, the Department of English decided to offer ENGL 121, From Plague to COVID: Literatures of Pandemic for spring 2021. This team-taught course will explore not only how pandemics have informed literature throughout history, but also how literature responds to and informs our experience of a pandemic.
ENGL 121 has no prerequisites and is open to undergraduates outside of the Department of English. Students who have never taken an English class before will meet an all-star cast of ten English professors in this new course.
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