Messina College · Boston College
Literature Core: Crossing BordersReading, Thinking, Writing is a college level introductory course to literature. We will study texts of different genres (fiction, graphic novels, drama, and films) that deal with the experience of border crossing. In this course, we will take borders to mean both spatial or geopolitical boundaries (e.g., between towns, states, countries, continents, etc.) and boundaries based on social and cultural categories (gender, social class, race, ethnicity, etc.). We will be interested in the ways texts represent these borders and the people who inhabit these spaces. H
