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ENGL 117 Troubled Romance Units: 3.00
This course explores how love and eros in literature express truths and troubles of gender and sexuality for diverse individual lives and social worlds. Either or both of the related literary meanings of romance, as magical adventure and as love story, may provide a focus for the syllabus.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Exclusion Maximum of 6.0 units of ENGL at the 100-level.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Compare the ways in which various literary genres portray different aspects of identity, love, and desire.
- Explain how different representations of love, gender, and sexuality are imagined to affect social life and social change.
- Identify literary genres as a way of classifying texts.
- Compose well-structured, thesis-driven essays and learn to revise with critical feedback.
- Analyze literary texts using discipline-specific terminology.