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ENG 228H - Honors Gender and Story, Experimental


Credits: 3
3 Lecture Hours

Prerequisites: ENG 102  
Description
This course looks at the impact that gender has on our experiences of the world and how that influences our stories. Students will read a broad range of authors who write about their experiences within, between and beyond traditional gender roles. By looking at fiction, history, autobiography and multimedia texts, students will learn to write about literature and their own experience, coming to understand how gender shapes communication and the human experience.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will: 

  1. Define gender, sex and sexuality within an intersectional framework.
  2. Demonstrate the role gender plays in textual analysis.
  3. Analyze the political and social backgrounds of different texts.
  4. Apply critical lenses for analyzing fiction and nonfiction such as gender theory, critical race theory, postcolonialism and historical materialism.
  5. Create written responses to texts using critical theory that relate them to larger social and historical contexts.
Listed Topics
  1. Fiction, nonfiction and multimedia that engage with gender
  2. Historical contexts for gender in literary texts
  3. Critical theory about gender
  4. Writing essays about literary texts with critical awareness of social and historical context
Reference Materials
Fiction, nonfiction, and multimedia texts.
Students who successfully complete this course acquire general knowledge, skills and abilities that align with CCAC’s definition of an educated person. Specifically, this course fulfills these General Education Goals:
  • Communication
  • Culture Society & Citizenship


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