This course will take a thematic approach to understanding and analyzing literature by examining multiple texts that engage with a common course theme or idea concerned with one or more aspects of human experience. This course will introduce students to methods for studying literature through thematically focused analysis. The organizing principle of this course will be thematic, but the course will also engage with form and the cultural aspects of the literature studied. This is a writing-infused course. Specific topics will vary. This course may be used for general education credit.