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Welcome to the home
page for the English 332 course taught by Kristi Larkin Havens during the Fall Semester 1999. This page
provides a description of the course and course related links. |
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English 332 examines,
through literature, "the cultural position of women in the
United States, emphasizing ethnic and class diversity of women
as writers and subjects for literature, and examining the entrance
of women into literature as a vocation" (Course Description, 1997). |
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In this course, we will explore
the cultural position of women women in American Literature by
looking at a variety of works by women writers from the colonial
period until the present; from Anne Bradstreet to Toni Morrison;
from Suzanne Rowson to Bharati Mukerjee. |
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By
looking at a variety of works over the course of several centuries
we can explore the way a number of factors, such as gender, class
and ethnic background, impact on and intertwine with many of
the prominent themes associated with writing by American women. |
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This course
is a writing emphasis course, so we approach our study of this
literature through a variety of writing assignments. However,
you should be able to use the various assignments to help you
study for exams, as well as generate ideas for your essays. In
other words, the quizzes, the review, and the peer group discussions
are not independent exercises, but preparation for those assignments
that carry greater points values. |
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