FYS ENG19 - Conspiracy Theory in American Culture

4 Hour(s) Credit
Explore the cultural history of conspiracy theory and its artistic accomplices in American society. Examine various modes of conspiracies real and imagined - pseudoscience, secret societies, folk science fiction, government malfeasance - as a special kind of narrative folklore that is both a habit of the human condition but also a peculiar phenomenon entangled in the fabric of the American identity and experience.
Three hours per week with enhancement
Meets General Education: First Year Seminar (FYS)