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Nov 08, 2024
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ES 382 - Women of Color Writers: Race, Sex, and Resistance Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Diversity Structured as a “reading salon,” this course involves student-centered discussions of writings by US women of color. May include discussion of novels, short stories, poetry and/or essays that address racial uplift, sexuality, radical self-love, resistance, and revolution.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better. Equivalent Quarter Course: ES 3730. Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice). Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: - Analyze women of color writers with attention to themes of racial uplift, gender equity, sexuality, radical self-love, resistance, and revolution; Identify structures of oppression that impact women of color in the US;
- Write analytical responses to key writings by women of color; and
- Give an oral presentation weaving together the themes of the course, integrating personal testimony, key quotes from the assigned reading, and an interpretation of several texts.
UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes - demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
- analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
- demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes - describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
- identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
- analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
- recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.
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