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Oct 05, 2024
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ENG 272 - Queer Literature Credits: 3 Description Overview of gay and lesbian literary figures from Western antiquity to present. Instruction explores love and sex between same-sex relationships through a historical and theoretical framework. Emphasis on rereading texts to discover gay and lesbian themes ignored or concealed in more traditional textural analyses.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Trace the literary, social, and political evolution of gay and lesbian literature.
- Demonstrate an understanding that the literary, social, and political history of gay men is radically different from lesbian women.
- Chart the varying images of homosexuality that have been constructed over time.
- Demonstrate an awareness about a hidden heritage of lost or unfamiliar homoerotic texts.
- Explain how the psychological influence of sexologists and of Freud on sexual identity, gender roles resulted in the categories such as “sexual inverts” and “the third sex.”
- Recognize the issues involved in naming within the Queer community itself.
- Recognize heterosexism, explain how it operates, and how lesbian and gay people have had to learn the rituals of deceit, impersonation, and appearance in order to survive it.
Prerequisite: ENG 100 or ENG 101 or ENG 101H or ENG 110 or ENG 113 with a grade of C- or higher; or Department Chair or Instructor approval Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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