AMST 120 - Hunger Games: Map and Mirror for the 21st Century

This introductory-level course uses the youth-oriented Hunger Games trilogy as a platform for launching an adult and scholarly conversation about global inequality, environmentalism, Reality TV, race/gender/sexuality, war, revolution, and the power of love. Clearly, we will take an interdisciplinary approach; that is to say we will read, discuss, write, and interact in ways that are less concerned about adhering to disciplinary traditions than about exploring ideas and problems that are relevant to the 21st century. A major goal of the course is to open up our hearts and minds, and to discover more precisely what we hunger for-as scholars, citizens, and human residents of the planet Earth. Fall semester only. (4 Credits)