Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - Enters deeply into the world of one literary work and explores its reverberations across national and disciplinary boundaries. Topic for Spring 2026, Section A1: Seeing and Believing: Narrative, Art, and Identity in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red. Explores this contemporary novel set in 16th-century Istanbul as a crossroads of literature, visual culture, philosophy. Examines how multiple narrators challenge conventional ideas of truth, authorship, artistic representation, and weave together elements of mystery, romance, and metafiction. †opic for Spring 2026, Section B1: Homer’s Iliad. Semester-long attentive reading of Homer’s Iliad (in English), the oldest work of Western literature. First-time readers today are finding that this epic of the Trojan War is not only absorbing and relevant, but important to them personally. Find out why. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course..

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