Apr 04, 2025  
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CWL 340 - Topics in World Literature for Writers


A literature course for writers concentrating on one area, to be announced in the course schedule, of non-Western culture. Topics could include a contemporary or historical trend, a social issue, or any other topic of expression that illuminates national, regional or cultural difference, as, for example, Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond; Contemporary World Fiction for Writers; Reading Nature in Japanese Poetry; Varieties of the Short Story; and Asian Theatre and Drama. The emphasis will be on scholarly analysis, but with engagement of student writers.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): one D.E.C. B or HUM course

Advisory Preq: CWL 190  

DEC: J

SBC: GLO, HFA+

Repeatable: Students may repeat this course as topic changes.