ENGL 266 International Women Writers (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 230
Course Description
This course focuses on literary works by women writers across the globe, emphasizing positionality and intersectionality.
Course Content
A. Gender as a social construct
B. Women's positionality and intersectionality, with an emphasis on race, class, and sexuality
C. Global social, historical, and economic contexts in women’s writing
D. Imagery, symbolism, metaphors, and other literary devices to convey meaning
E. Genre and cross-genre approaches, both in how writers use and transgress them.
F. Role of resistance and reform (particularly in relationship to patriarchy and misogyny, war and suffrage, racial and gender inequality, ageism and ableism) in women’s writing
G. Intercultural and inter-generational relations
Student Outcomes
1. Analyze how positionality and intersectionality shape or inflect verbal and visual feminist rhetorics.
2. Analyze the global social, racial, historical, and economic contexts in selected literary works.
3. Identify the types of imagery, symbols, metaphors and other devices, literary or otherwise, utilized to convey meaning.
4. Examine the role of genre and cross-genre approaches employed and transgressed by women writers in selected works.
5. Analyze how resistance and reform have informed women’s writing.
6. Examine how global, intercultural, and inter-generational relations between women impact their work and interpretations of their work.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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