Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2021-2022
FWIS 193 - LITERATURE AND QUARANTINE
Long Title: THE HOSPITAL, ASYLUM AND SANATORIUM: LONG-TERM ILLNESS IN LITERATURE AND FILM
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: Covid-19 made concepts like quarantine and isolation seem new when they are actually quite old. This course examines the way the West has quarantined, isolated, and distanced the sick in the last century and what we might learn from tracing the evolution of these concepts in film and literature.