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ENLT 151W Women and Embodiment: Disability, Medicine, and Feminism (4)
This course introduces students to reading and writing about literature at the college level. Throughout the semester, we’ll practice skills necessary for literary analysis, including close reading, using textual evidence, and developing strong interpretive arguments. As we read novels, short stories, poetry, and drama from across time and continents, we will engage with disability studies and feminism as interpretive lenses. We’ll question: What is disability studies, and how can it intersect with literary interpretations of gender, race, class, and sexuality? How is disability and illness represented in literature and performances? How have women authors critiqued medical institutions and their treatment of women’s bodies? To what extent have feminist movements included or excluded women with disabilities? This course also satisfies an LO2 Women's Voices and provides students the opportunity to earn the W.

ENLT 151W Inherited Tales (4)
Childhood stories often frame adults' worldviews. Fairy tales and myths certainly influence the worlds later authors have created. Beginning with tales from diverse cultures, this class will explore common literature tropes and female figures, such as the Damsel in Distress, the Star-crossed Lovers, and the Child Run Amok. Then we'll move forward in time, seeing how these tropes and figures were reinvented in texts that include Persepolis and Hadestown. The aim is to discover what's new and what's lasting in global literature. Students will learn to read, analyze, and compose texts in order to become more engaged and critical of literature. This course also satisfies an LO2 Women's Voices and provides students the opportunity to earn the W.

ENLT 151W Making Worlds from Words: Worldbuilding in Literature (4) FIRST YEAR SEMINAR COURSE 
This course explores the techniques and purposes of world building in literature. Any written text uses words to guide its reader in the creation of an imaginary place different from the present physical reality surrounding that reader. In literary texts, the constructions that result from the process of reading are sensuously vivid, emotionally compelling, and intellectually engaging, so that the reader may feel that she has entered another world. One useful way to improve one’s understanding and enjoyment of literature, then, is to consider how literary texts guide their readers in a process of mental construction that results in something that can be experienced as an imagined world. This course also satisfies an LO2 Women's Voices and provides students the opportunity to earn the W.

HUST 103 Lives and Times (3)
This course features lively classroom discussion and introduces you to a wide range of fascinating people throughout history. Through novels, memoirs, and films, we see what makes these people tick, whether they are slaves, affluent housewives, concentration camp inmates, or little girls in the Australian outback. We try to answer the sorts of questions that we all have to ask ourselves:  How do my childhood experiences make me the adult I become? What place does spirituality have in my life? How do I balance the need to be my own person with the need to belong to my peer group or family? This course also satisfies an LO2 Women’s Voices and LO3 Social Responsibility.