FYS 1167 - Immigrant in American Lit

Credits: 4.0
This course will examine the ways in which the immigrant experience in America has been imaginatively expressed through a variety of literary genres: short stories, novels, poems, and memoirs. We will begin our inquiry with readings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the several-decade period during which more than twenty million immigrants entered the United States and during which a significant amount of literature by and about immigrants was first produced. Our study will continue through the twentieth century and focus on the more recent outpouring of published immigrant voices in contemporary fiction and poetry. Through critical reading and oral and written analysis, students will examine the ways in which immigrants have struggled to acclimate themselves to their new environment in America.
McDaniel Plan: First-Year Seminar