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Usual instructors: Dr. Laurel Bollinger, Dr. Julie Early, Dr. Rose Norman (rotates).
This course covers texts by representative women writers. Selected texts vary with instructors. Dr. Norman's class is a thematic survey, covering texts written in English from medieval to modern times. The course includes works by such writers as Kate Chopin, Charlotte Bronte, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as many lesser known writers. Course objectives for the thematic survey version are a) to orient students to English-speaking women writers in literary history; b) to develop critical awareness of feminist issues in literature; and c) to explore literary traditions in writings by women.
This counts as one of the core courses in the Women's Studies minor.