ENGL 280: Introduction to Women's Literature

This course emphasizes culturally diverse texts written by and about women. Using a variety of literary genres, including short fiction, novel, poetry, drama, and film, students will critically analyze cultural roles and images of women from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Students will explore the challenges women have faced, the biologically and socially constructed roles they have assumed and sometimes rejected, and the successes and accomplishments they have achieved in a predominantly patriarchal climate. 54 lecture hours.

Fiction, poetry, drama, literary theory and criticism.
Web available texts or supplemental handouts will be assigned for additional reading.

In-class essays, out-of-class essays.
Sample Assignment: In a well constructed deductive essay, analyze the motivations of the protagonist in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour."

Read and analyze fiction, poetry, drama, literary theory and criticism.
Answer questions on readings.
Write out-of-class essays.

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3B. Humanities