ENGL 280

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Women Writers

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Credit: 3 hours.

Study of British and American women authors.

Same as GWS 280. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 280 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39491	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	307 David Kinley Hall	Cole, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Title: Women, Animals & Ecology Section Info: Topic Section Q: Women, Animals and Ecology This semester, Women Writers focuses on gender and environmentalism. Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring is sometimes said to have launched the environmental movement in the United States; we will read excerpts from that, along with Elizabeth Cline’s Over-dressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. Most of the course, however, will be focused on environmental novels by women: these include Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, set on a family farm in Iowa; Helena Maria Viromontes, Under the Feet of Jesus, which features migrant farm workers in the Western United States; Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, an Orwellian take on a post-apocalyptic future; and Sheri Tepper, Grass, set in an off-world colony for aristocratic fox hunters. In discussing these novels, we will explore important relationships among environmentalism and other fields to which it is—or can be—closely allied: gender studies, animal studies, critical race studies, queer studies, and food studies.