LAE416 Women's Lives into Literature

Women's Lives into Literature examines the process of transforming life experience into fiction, plays and poetry- what is left out, what is added, how elements are altered, considering the special skills of each writer. The historical context and specific cultural influences on American writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be considered using the works of Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Lillian Hellman, Lorraine Hansberry and Wendy Wasserstein. Prerequisites: Admission to the Master of Science in Written Communication or Consent of the Instructor. 5 quarter hours OR 3 semester hours. Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.

Distribution

GenEd-Humanities Literature Elective