This course focuses on selected literary movements and their relationships to American culture since 1900. Authors studied may include Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and others. Topics may include the literatures of World War I, the Cold War, the Beat Generation, the New Social Movements of the 1960's, Postmodernism, and more. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.