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ENG 335 - Women’s Literature


Description:
Examines women’s literature in light of contemporary feminist literary theories.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303.

Credits: (5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Identify different types of feminist literary theory. Including commonalities and differences in assumptions
  • Identify how feminist literary theories “revise” canonical texts and illuminate uncanonical texts, and how they revise traditional assumptions about the canon
  • Identify how and which literary works support dominant ideologies, and undermine subvert ideologies. Also be able to identify how we evaluate subversion in texts from the past.
  • Identify how literary works help us to understand commonality and differences among women of different classes, ethnic groups, etc.
  • Identify what the term “woman writer” suggests, and how this relates to beliefs of how woman and men write differently. Also, how class and ethnicity may complicate this topic, and how women face being “silenced.”
  • Demonstrate an ability to read closely, to interpret effectively, and to analyze and synthesize literary works
  • Identify beliefs about how women read differently than men, and what it means to read “as a women”. Also, students will be able to identify what it means for women to be “resisting readers” of male texts
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
12/31/2010



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