LIT 190 - Women Writers

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Core

The course studies literature written by women, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, and other forms of literature, and emphasizes analytical writing, interpretation, and basic critical approaches. Students will read a range of female authors whose works span racial, cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic groups across history and appraise issues inherent to gender identification.
Competencies

Apply college-level reading skills to literary works written by diverse women
1. Read a variety of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama
2. Demonstrate understanding of genre distinctions
3. Apply terminology appropriate to reading literary texts
4. Use effective reading techniques such as rereading, annotating, close reading, paraphrasing, and summarizing
Analyze literature by women, focusing on textual, structural, and thematic elements
1. Explain the relationship between literary form and content
2. Discuss connections between authors and texts
3. Examine the relationships between literary texts and historical contexts
4. Analyze literature through the application of one or more critical approaches, such as Formalism, Marxism, Feminism and Gender Studies, Mythological, Psychological, Cultural Studies, and others
Interpret literature by women using elements of literary criticism
1. Interpret poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama in context
2. Discuss how multiple interpretations exist simultaneously
3. Interpret literature using one or more critical approaches, such as Formalism, Marxism, Feminism and Gender Studies, Mythological, Psychological, Cultural Studies, and others
Evaluate literature’s continuing relevance to the human condition
1. Consider the role of racial, cultural, economic and educational diversity in women writers work
2. Correlate assigned texts with current events, global contexts, and material from other disciplines
3. Reflect on how texts shape identities
Create effective writing to demonstrate understanding of course goals
1. Demonstrate awareness of academic conventions for organization, audience, research, and language
2. Generate writing as an active process, using planning, drafting, revising, and editing
3. Produce written analyses or interpretations
Integrate standard college-level documentation practices
1. Understand definitions and consequences of plagiarism
2. Identify reasons for documentation
3. Integrate sources effectively within the given context
4. Document sources using MLA style