COURSE OUTLINE
Revision: Judith Bentley

DEPARTMENT: Academic Programs
CURRICULUM: Literature
COURSE TITLE: Studies in Literature: Women
COURSE NUMBER: ENG291
TYPE OF COURSE: Academic Transfer
Special Requirement Met: Integrated Study

AREA(S) OF KNOWLEDGE: Literature/History of Ideas
United States Cultures

COURSE LENGTH: 11 weeks
CREDIT HOURS: 5
LECTURE HOURS: 55
LAB HOURS: 0
CLASS SIZE: 35
PREREQUISITES: None

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Studies images of women in literature through time and across U.S. cultures.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES ADDRESSED:

1. Communication:
   
   • Read and listen actively to learn and communicate.
   • Speak and write effectively for personal, academic and career purposes. purposes.
2. Human Relations:
   
   • Use social interactive skills to work in groups effectively.
   • Recognize the diversity of cultural influences and values.
3. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:
   
   • Think critically in evaluating information, solving problems and making decisions.
4. Personal Responsibility:
   
   • Be motivated and able to continue learning and adapt to change.
   • Value one's own skills, abilities, ideas and art.
   • Take pride in one's work.
   • Be aware of civic and environmental issues.
5. Information Literacy:
   
   • Access and evaluate information from a variety of sources and contexts, including technology.
   • Use information to achieve personal, academic, and career goals, as well as to participate in a democratic society.

GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the course the student will:

1. Be aware of the power and scope of American women's writing.
2. Appreciate the diversity of culture and literature in the United States.
3. Understand how women developed as writers.
4. See continuity as well as diversity in literature.
5. Be able to use research to enrich understanding of individual authors.
6. Be able to use literary elements to evaluate written works.
7. Use personal response to understand and analyze literature.

TOPICAL OUTLINE: APPROX. HOURS

1. Historical survey of writing by American women, from colonial times to the present,
   including the historical and social context
2. Knowledge of literary terms such as genre, canon, theme, plot, character, style, point of view
3. Discussion of literary elements in works read
4. Consideration of literary movements, such as sentimentalism, realism, naturalism, modernism,
   the protest tradition
5. Research and oral presentations on individual writers
6. Small group discussion of literary works
7. Feminist literary criticism
8. Discussion of U.S. cultures reflected in literature