CWL 257

Summer 2025 Part of Term S2

Part of Term S2
(8 week) Jun 16-Aug 7

Enlightenment Literature and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as ENGL 206. See ENGL 206.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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CWL 257 class schedule data for summer 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42358	Online	H	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Nazar, H	Part of Term: S2 Date Range: 06/16/25-08/07/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SU25 ENGL 206 / CWL 257 - Enlightenment Literature and Culture - Hina Nazar - Have you ever wondered what people mean when they say that the United States is a child of the Enlightenment, or that the Enlightenment is under attack by nativist forces, or that we need to return to Enlightenment values? This intensive 8-week course enables you to engage such statements knowledgeably by providing a broad-based introduction to the Enlightenment—a multifaceted intellectual and cultural development of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, spanning the years 1650-1800. While many of you are probably familiar with key texts and figures of the American Enlightenment, this course focuses on the European, and especially, the British Enlightenment, which preceded the founding of the United States. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europe witnessed unprecedented social, economic, political, and cultural changes that collectively produced a giant leap toward the world we inhabit today. It was an age of revolution and newfound faith in the rights of the individual, though these rights were by no means extended to all. It was an age of reason, of tremendous advances in science and technology, though reason was by no means the only altar at which so-called enlightened individuals worshipped: God and sentiment remained powerful forces throughout the long eighteenth century. We will consider how the individualistic mindset that is associated with the Enlightenment was developed by some of the most significant texts of the period, and how it challenged traditional understandings of duty and humanity’s place in the world. “Enlightenment Literature and Culture” is an asynchronous online course, though you will have regular access to the professor through zoom office hours and email. It is divided into 8 modules, which need to be followed in sequence. All assignments will be submitted digitally on Canvas.