ENGL 2706

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ENGL 2706
The Idea of Hospitality II: Fiction, Film, and Media in Our Time

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

What does it mean to welcome strangers today? How does it feel to be the outsider or the exile? How should we imagine hospitality for the refugee, the business traveler, the homeless person, the guest worker, the asylum seeker, the tourist? As border controls tighten and questions of belonging become increasingly vexed, writers and artists are exploring the hardest questions about hospitality. This half of the course, offered as a 2 credit unit, will focus on treatments of hospitality in fiction, film, and other media in our own time, including Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Stephen Frear's film, Dirty Pretty Things.  

When Offered Spring (weeks 8-14).

Comments This course can be taken on its own or can be joined with ENGL 2705 for an additional 2 credits.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second. 

  • 2 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16576 ENGL 2706   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person