Instr: John Mulvihill
Office: CRT 294; 229-5025
e-mail: jmulvi@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: TR 2:00pm - 3:15pm; CRT 468
Work. Labor. A burden and curse, or the source of our deepest satisfaction? A vocation and calling, or merely a way to make a living? That which wears us down and out, or a means of achieving selfhood, spiritual growth, and community respect? We'll explore these attitudes about work, and others, and examine our own attitudes, by studying classic and contemporary texts of American culture, including fiction, poetry, memoirs, songs, cartoons, ads, and film and TV-from Longfellow's 1841 poem "The Village Blacksmith" to the hit TV series The Office, from the Joad family's epic journey in Steinbeck's 1939 Grapes of Wrath to Dilbert's never-ending frustrations in Scott Adams's comic strip.
