2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Oct 03, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGL 250 - Women in Literature


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

This course examines the roles of women in literature as characters readers, and writers. Included in the readings are short stories, novels, novellas, essays, poetry, and drama, all by women and about women. The course will provide a historical overview of women’s writing and will focus on the challenges of women writing, the creation and treatment of women’s lives in literature, the form and content of women’s writing, and the literary and feminist theories that discuss women’s place in history and society by investigating the evolving conditions of women. Also the course examines how women represent themselves and what their expectations and hopes are for their own and daughters’ futures.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110