Jul 01, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

ENG 100/163 - American Nightmare/American Dream: Dystopic and Utopic American Literature

3 Credits
Offered periodically
What do The Hunger Games and the Declaration of Independence have in common? Or Thoreau’s Walden and Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech? Each offers a vision of a future American society and asks us to reexamine the principles that shape it. In this course we will explore how writers from John Winthrop to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Octavia Butler have imagined America in literature

Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Language, Arts, and Humanities