Offers students at sophomore and junior levels an introduction to some of the forms, concerns, and genres of contemporary lesbian, bisexual, and gay writing in English. Same as LGBT 2707. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Surveys historical and contemporary North American Native American literature. Examines the continuity and incorporation of traditional stories and values in Native Literature, including novels, short stories, and poetry. Same as ETHN 2713.
Introduces Chicana and Chicano and Mexican literary studies, focusing on narrative works by Chicana and Chicano writers. Examines diverse range of Mexican writing in Greater Mexico as it addresses recurring issues and themes, including language, race and class, questions of identity, and gender relations. Same as ETHN 2746.
Surveys the development of literatures in English in former British colonies. Topics include the spread and adaptation of English language literary forms in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the far new world (Australia and New Zealand). Students learn the causes of the dispersion and the motivations for the clearly different uses of English literary forms in the ex-colonies. Same as ETHN 2761. .
Studies special topics in gender studies; specially designed for English majors. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Introduces literature by British and American women. Same as WMST 3267. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors).
Studies special topics in multicultural literature; specially designed for English majors. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores the Jewish-American experience from the 19th-century to the present through writers such as Sholom Aleichem, Peretz, Babel, Singer, Malamud, Miller, Ginsberg, and Ozick. The Jewish experience ranges from the travails of immigration to the loss of identity through assimilation. Same as JWST 3677. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors).
Focuses on areas of research interest in the study of women's literature, such as selected themes or critical issues. Students are expected to contribute original research to the topic under consideration. Same as WMST 4277. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Examines a special topic in LGBT literature, foregrounding an approach that focuses on how same-sex desire is represented in literature. May explore the rhetorical and ideological depiction of masculinity and femininity; literary representations of inversion, bisexuality, and transgenderism; the social construction of homosexuality. Specific topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as LGBT/WMST 4287. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Provides advanced in-depth study of literatures written by ethnic American authors. Texts may be drawn from a range of African-American, Chicano/a, Latino/a, Asian American, Native American or Indigenous literature traditions. Topics vary each semester. Same as ETHN 4692. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Engages a wide range of NAIS methodologies with a series of case studies. Focuses on print, visual, and digital texts encompassing wide swathe of Eurowestern disciplines, while seeking to recuperate and restore Indigenous epistemic practices within our scholarship. Refines students' skills in intellectual debate in the spirit of shared inquiry and challenges research and writing skills. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ETHN 1023 (minimum grade C-).
