ENGH105

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Literature of Disability

English College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

ENGH

Course Number

105

Status

Active

Course Attributes

CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, MECW: Major-English:CreativeWriting, MEWC: Major-English:Writing/Comms, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, NENL: Minor-English:Literature

Course Short Title

Literature of Disability

Course Long Title

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Course Description

Demonstrates the social functioning of literature through an examination of the way in which disability is deployed in narratives. Includes texts well-known for their portrayals of disability, as well as examples from popular culture, and recent texts that seek to reinvent disability as a literary trope. Attention is paid to disability theory and the history of the disability rights movement in connection with close reading of the relevant texts.

Min

4

Repeatable

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Course Restrictions

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Equivalent Course(s)

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