ENG 260 Introduction to Women Writers

This course will introduce students to the richness and variety of literary works written by women over the course of several centuries. Issues that concern women writers, the impact of stories, and how class, race, and gender work to construct the stories we live by will be central to the course. Critical thinking will play a role as students consider literature written by a range of women writers in a global context. The course will include an introduction to feminist literary theory and will introduce students to a variety of literary genres and styles.

Credits

4

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Understand the social, political, and cultural contexts within which women have written historically and presently
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between writing and female identity
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the role that class and racial divides play in women's writing and the category of "women's writing"
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which women represent themselves in history
5. Demonstrate an ability to distinguish between connotation and denotation and demonstrate how the connotative language helps shape major points of a literary text (poem, story, play)
6. Demonstrate ability to use interpretive frameworks to investigate contextual meanings of literature