GCL 195

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Fictions of Equality

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Credit: 3 hours.

Fictions of Equality is a multi-section Grand Challenge Learning pilot course in the Inequality & Cultural Understanding pathway. Each section engages specific dimensions of Inequality & Cultural understanding from an interdisciplinary perspective while meeting the Gen Ed criteria for Humanities & the Arts (Literature and the Arts). Each section emphasizes experiential learning through, for example, projects, community engaged scholarship, field trips, archival work, or experimental writing.

Prerequisite: Restricted to first-time new freshman or first-year transfer students.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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GCL 195 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63941	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	104 English Building	Saville, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Title: FE: Marriage Equality Section Info: Through novels, poetry, memoirs, and films students will explore marriage in terms of the power dynamics that have defined marital relationships in various periods and cultures--from Jane Austen’s Britain to multicultural London, to marriage equality for gays and lesbians in the contemporary U.S. Using the library's rare books archives they will see how young couples found one another in Austen’s time and explore records of domestic violence in the Victorian era. Guest speakers on contemporary marriage equality will include a local Family Court judge. Students will use their ePortfolios to translate their archival work into a capstone research project. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
	63942	Lecture-Discussion	B	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	G20 Foreign Languages Building	Delgado, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Title: FE: Where Is the Good Life? Section Info: Through the study of diverse texts (fiction, film, popular songs, documentaries), students in this course will explore how the concepts of “the good life” and the “American dream” are interpreted and fulfilled by different social groups and in different cultural contexts. Students will also get to explore personally, and reflect upon, evolving and persistent inequalities in our own community of C-U, including transportation and housing challenges faced by immigrants or the working poor. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.