Where We Are: Reading in Place

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both ENGL1745 and ENGL1746. What is the relationship between where we are and who we are? Where we are shapes our being, enables our thinking, inspires creativity, and facilitates connection. In these paired courses, students will think about where we are at a range of scales, from the local (What does it mean to be at BC?) to the historical (How are we part of the story of Boston?) to the global (What does the far-away have to do with us?). Students will cultivate a mindful and ethical relationship to place by bridging the imaginative possibilities that literary analysis facilitates with the sense of empowerment and personal agency that writing affords.