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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGL 4640 - Literature of the American West


This course is an in-depth study of texts written west of the 100th meridian. Major categories to be studied are Native American writing, Chicano writing, environmental literature and nature writing, texts of the Western exploration and the “Manifest Destiny” tradition, texts of the intermountain and urban west, as well as class “Westerns.”

Prerequisite/Corequisite:
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102H with a grade of C or higher

Hours:
3