Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** This course will examine the most significant medieval European women authors from the 10th through the 17th centuries, from Italy and Germany to France, England, Austria, and Spain. Using a variety of techniques and media- feminist and gender theory, reader-response theory, staging and performance, films, recordings, slides, journal entries and personal criticism, etc.- to access their work, we will combine close reading with a focus on intersexuality All works will be read in translation. ***** Also offered as ENGL 311 and WGST 300. Repeatable for Credit.