LIT 119 Just Joking? Reading and Writing Satire
3 hours
When is a joke not just a joke? This class focuses on funny texts with serious messages. Whenever the law has failed to do its job, whenever people have proved too stubborn to know what’s good for them, writers have used satire to expose injustice and ridicule bad behavior. This course will explore satire, irony, and humor in literary works and popular culture, from Internet memes to timeless classics of the form. Along the way the class will collaborate to create their own satires investigating just what kind of difference satire can make–in the writer, and in society.
Prerequisite
None
Notes
This course satisfies the College Option: Communications area of the Gen Ed Program.
Formerly LIT 219 Word as Weapon.