Dec 21, 2024  
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog

ENGL 251 - Voices of Women In Literature


Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
Surveys selected women writers across time and cultures. Time period covered ranges from the 18th to the 21st century. Formerly: LIT 251.
Course Outcomes:
  • Interpret literature and evaluate the readings for authorial style, intent, theme, and characterization.
  • Define and employ appropriate literary terminology.
  • Evaluate the role of women in literature (both as authors and characters) and compare how those roles have shifted over time and across cultures.
  • Appraise the ways in which a writer’s insight can be relevant culturally and personally.
  • Compose unified, coherent responses to the literature which appropriately cite from the text under consideration.
Course Attribute(s): Diversity, Humanities