ENGL 267 Good and Evil in Literature and Culture

Prerequisite: English Composition core or permission of instructor
How do stories shape our sense of good and evil? Especially today, when fewer and fewer people adhere to the principles of a specific faith, many of us work through questions of ethics and morality as we read books, watch movies and shows, and play video games. Are cultural commodities reliable sources for helping us to understand such weighty questions, or does a good plot tend to oversimplify complex ideas? In this class, we’ll explore plays, novels, movies, and more that tackle these weighty concepts and discover the role that stores play in understanding what’s right and what’s wrong—both for ourselves and for our society.

Credits

3.0

Core

Ethics

Offered

Offered As Needed