ENGH105
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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Equivalent Course(s)
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