ENG 118 - Women As Writers

 
Description
This is the study of women and women-identifying writers that includes their contributions in the form of essays, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, autobiographies, memoir, plays and other examples of written craft. Students also study important historical, political and philosophical forces as related to women and women-identifying authors and citizens and their ongoing efforts to have their voices heard.

1. Identify multicultural women and women-identifying writers and their literature.
2. Investigate the women’s movement from civil rights through present day.
3. Examine the relationship between past and present forms of feminism, including Black feminism and Intersectional feminism, as exhibited in the literary works read throughout the semester.
4. Critique the role of current and historical forces on women writers and their work, including racial, cultural, patriarchal, socioeconomic and other societal pressures.  
5. Explicate major themes in women’s literature.
6. Apply literary terminology appropriately.
7. Analyze literature in relation to women writers and women’s challenges in the literary and actual world.
8. Develop critical thinking, interpretive and analytical skills through close examinations of literature.
9. Create a writing project displaying fresh perspectives of women/women-identifying writers and their work.

1. Elements of literature, including work such as essays, creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, autobiographies, memoir, plays and other examples of written craft
2. Changing historical, racial, cultural, socioeconomic, patriarchal and gendered definitions of women’s roles and rights
3. Themes and style anticipated, unexpected, embedded or taboo in women’s literature
4. Critical lenses for analyzing texts such as archetypal, gender theory, critical race theory and historical materialism
5. Literary analysis of writer’s work

• Communication
• Culture Society & Citizenship

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