ENGL 160 - Literature By and About Women

Credits: 5
Introduces writings by and about women. Studies cultural/historical concepts and paradigms that have impacted women’s concepts of them, of their relationships to men, and of their relationships to the general cultures that surround them. Introduces students to writers from various literary periods and from various nations and cultures.

Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099.

Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English and Diversity

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Encourage women to look at themselves and take pride in themselves and their perceptions.
Encourage men to appreciate the viewpoints and perceptions of women.
Show, through the literature, how women are conditioned by and react to dominant, primarily masculine, ideologies through cultural history.
Reinterpret the literature in the light of new insights by and about women.
Acquire insights into the human condition as it is shown in all literature.
Analyze literature as art.
Write responses to literature.
Demonstrating critical reflection in participation.

Program Outcomes
Students will demonstrate college-level reading skills by summarizing, analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing, and evaluating college texts; and develop an awareness of the approaches writers use for different audiences, genres, and rhetorical situations.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.