A survey of the development of the short story, to include analysis of short stories by authors that reflect a diversity of cultural perspectives. This course may include a wide variety of Western canon authors such as Alexie, Atwood, Baldwin, Bechdel, Borges, Calvino, Camus, Carver, Cather, Chekhov, Chopin, Crane, De Maupassant, Erdrich, Faulkner, Fuentes, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Hurston,quez, O'Connor, Oates, Poe, Silko, Walker, among others. LIT2020 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing. LIT2020 meets the International/ Intercultural competency requirement.