Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
ENG 3250 - Women’s Literature
Introduces students to a variety of literary genres and works written by women. Emphasis is on exploring ways that women authors, including those from international and historically marginalized communities, negotiate diverse cultural expectations and/or their own identity positions. Students practice critical reading and literary analysis in light of cultural, historical, and intersectional perspectives.
Requisites: ENG 1100 or ENG 2010 or 2020 or 2 courses above ENG 2000 or (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe unique conditions associated with female authorship.
- Students will be able to recognize multiple communication styles and relate those to communication outside the classroom.
- Students will be able to evaluate and use strategies to mitigate their own biases and expectations in addressing women authors from other cultures and/or with other identity markers such as race, religion, sexuality, and ability.
- Students will be able to ask complex questions about women-authored texts and articulate answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
- Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of other cultural groups.
- Students will be able to use literary evidence to make effective arguments about literary works.
- Students will be able to describe characteristics of significant genres and authors of women-authored texts using critical terminology.
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