Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: OLD MAIDS: SINGLE WOMEN IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores how single women have been written about and discussed from the nineteenth century to today. Students will explore literary, cultural, and visual representations of the single woman and discover to what extent these portrayals still trade on the same stereotypes and assumptions of the Victorian era.