Mar 28, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 221 - Banned Books


Censorship is nothing new; books have been banned, burned, and bowdlerized for generations. In this course, we will study some of those books and work toward an understanding of what lies beneath the impulse to censor. Are some ideas simply so unpleasant that they need to be kept from the citizenry? We will read texts that have been banned for political or religious reasons, texts that have faced obscenity charges, and texts that have been challenged as inappropriate for schools and public libraries. Our overarching concern will be to contemplate what place censorship has in a free society.

(Cr: 3)