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Dec 21, 2024
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ENG 3980 - Critical Theory for Multi-Ethnic/Cross-Cultural Studies
Examines theoretical texts and contexts in order to explore issues of power and inequality embedded in various modes of cultural representation. Students will develop a working understanding of multiple theoretical approaches to the intersections among race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, transnationalism, immigration, and colonialism-postcolonialism-neocolonialism.
Requisites: ENG 2010 or 2020 or 250 or 2 courses above ENG 200
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will become familiar with major critical concepts, specific arguments, and cultural-historical contexts within which these theoretical arguments are made.
- Students will come to understand the relationships between epistemological/ideological narratives and the politics of the sign.
- Students will develop an appreciation of the interconnections between sex, race, class, and nation.
- Students will examine the operative mythologies of Empire
- Students will explore the ways in which the study of critical theory helps us not only read specific literary texts, but also interpret the world and culture around us.
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