ENGL 308W - Writing Bad Bodies

Units: 3; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Social Justice; UWR
Course interrogates textual representations of disability, with focus on intersectional identities such as race and gender, and how these representations form perceptions of personhood, and considers who benefits from written disenfranchisement of marginalized bodies, which includes physical and mental disabilities. Must earn C- (CR) or better for UWR credit.

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, completion of second composition with a grade of C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: CR/NC grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C; Social Justice; University Writing Requirement
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Assess constructs of disability and normativity in literature and culture from the civil rights to the present;
Evaluate the symbolic roles of disability in literature and culture using interdisciplinary approaches from the humanities, disability studies, and ethnic studies;
Analyze ways disability, social justice, and the arts and humanities intersect and shape society.

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values 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.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.