ENGL 261 - Reading Gender

FDR: HL, GE3
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall

Prerequisite: Completion of FW or GE1 composition requirement.A course on using gender as a tool of literary analysis. We study the ways ideas about masculinity and femininity inform and are informed by poetry, short stories, novels, plays, films, and/or pop culture productions. Also includes readings in feminist theory about literary interpretation and about the ways gender intersects with other social categories, including race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. Historical focus will vary according to professor’s areas of interest and expertise.Staff.