Literature and the Social Sciences

Students read literature and learn to imagine a sociological truth described and evoked in it. Through a close analysis and interpretation of selected works, students understand how literature express some important truth about the nature of the experience related to the social sciences embodied in it where novelists, sociologists, and historians come together to attempt to interpret and explain a complex social reality, not by empirical tests of validity but through the power of keen observation and creative representation.

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