POL 350 - Seminar: Ralph Ellison and the American Dream

FDR: SS2
Planned Offering: Spring 2018 and every fourth year
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing or instructor consent. The goal of the seminar is to discern the social and political implications of Ralph Ellison’s conception of America. Students read his classic novel, Invisible Man (1952), as well as many of his other works of fiction and non-fiction, as a way to examine the American Dream in the context of the gap between American political principle and practice. Morel.