2019-2020 BSC Catalog
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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS<br />
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EH 228 ES Ourselves and Others: Gender, Race, and Class in Literature (1)<br />
An introduction to the study of literature through reading, discussion, and community<br />
service. Students examine works of fiction, poetry, and drama that wrestle with<br />
differences of gender, race, and socioeconomic class that have the capacity to divide us as<br />
well as enrich our perspectives. Fifteen hours of community service tutoring at local<br />
after-school programs and providing meals and conversation to women and children at a<br />
local shelter creates a powerful connection between literary study and the lives of our<br />
neighbors. An Explorations in Scholarship designated course. A service-learning<br />
integrated course.<br />
EH 229 CI Protest Literature (1)<br />
An introduction to the study of literature through works written specifically to change the<br />
world, or at least some aspect of it. Among the more famous works that have been<br />
labeled “protest literature” are Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Upton<br />
Sinclair’s The Jungle, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, and Kurt Vonnegut’s<br />
Slaughterhouse Five. The course examines a variety of movements for social change<br />
within the historical contexts of the American Revolution, the antebellum period, the<br />
progressive era, and the 1960s. A Community Interests and Leadership Studies<br />
designated course.<br />
EH 230 Plural America I (1)<br />
An introduction to the plurality of the American culture from within the liberal arts<br />
traditions of history and literature. The intent is to recognize the aspects of other cultures<br />
appropriated into the Western tradition but often either unacknowledged or glossed over.<br />
The end should be an appreciation of the achievements and limitations of our Western<br />
heritage, and a heightened sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the world-at-large. Plural<br />
America I focuses on Native American and Chicano history and literature, and on the<br />
European context of American society. (Also listed as HI 230 and HON 230.)<br />
Prerequisite: EH 102 or EH 208.<br />
EH 231 Plural America II (1)<br />
An introduction to the plurality of the American culture from within the liberal arts<br />
traditions of history and literature. The intent is to recognize the aspects of other cultures<br />
appropriated into the Western tradition but often either unacknowledged or glossed over.<br />
The end should be an appreciation of the achievements and limitations of our Western<br />
heritage, and a heightened sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the world-at-large. Plural<br />
America II focuses on African-American and Asian-American history and literature, and<br />
on the 1960s as a catalyst for multi-culturalism. (Also listed as HI 231 and HON 231.)<br />
Prerequisite: EH 102 or EH 208.<br />
EH 232 The Story of Freedom: The Writers Who Helped End Slavery (1)<br />
An interdisciplinary investigation of the history and literature of America’s antislavery<br />
movement from the colonial period to 1865. At its core, the course examines the<br />
transformation of attitudes toward the legitimacy of un-free labor. A Leadership Studies<br />
designated course. (Also listed as HI 232.)<br />
Birmingham-Southern College <strong>Catalog</strong> <strong>2019</strong>-<strong>2020</strong>