RACE AND SEXUALITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and question cultural assumptions and knowledge claims as they relate to race and ethnicity and how they are affected by socio-historical factors. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and explore the intersection between race and sexuality in American literature with an emphasis on sex/gender difference, feminism, transgenderism, and nationalism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Critique the nature of literature as advocacy. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Leverage writing as a mode of learning and means of conveying critical analysis . Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate and pursue an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and question cultural assumptions and knowledge claims as they relate to race and ethnicity and how they are affected by socio-historical factors. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and explore the intersection between race and sexuality in American literature with an emphasis on sex/gender difference, feminism, transgenderism, and nationalism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Critique the nature of literature as advocacy. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Leverage writing as a mode of learning and means of conveying critical analysis . Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate and pursue an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate