BA Humanities

An introduction to classics of Western Literature and the ways in which later writers have engaged with them. An introduction to classics of Western Literature and the ways in which later writers have engaged with them. Readings may include Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Inferno, Plato's Phaedrus, Mann's Death in Venice, Sophocles' Philoctetes, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid. The course alternates between lectures and discussion sections, with emphasis on students' class participation and essay writing.