In this course, students study language in its many forms and the cultural contexts that produce and consume it. They examine the impact that evolving cultures have on the uses of language as a means of communication within and among those cultures.
Students study nonfiction texts, including essays, speeches, journalism, and advertising, as well as novels, short stories, poetry, and drama from a wide array of regions and time periods, allowing them to closely examine the relationship between a literary text and its cultural context.
