Literature courses offer a focused exploration of significant issues in literature, such as author, time period, place, culture, difference, and linguistics. Salman Rushdie writes, “Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.” In this spirit, students will engage critically and creatively with compelling texts from around the globe, delving into human experience across national and cultural boundaries. Students will investigate how ethnicity, nationalism, religion, gender, and economics influence world literature.