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GEN&WS 285

REBELLIOUS WOMEN FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

3-4 credits.

Explores how women from different francophone regions (with a specific focus on North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East) gain agency through literature, movies, comics, and songs, contesting different forms of domination, exclusion, and injustice, based on gender, race, class, and religion.

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Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key women writers, filmmakers, and/or artists associated with the course topic. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Be familiar with the socio-historical contexts in which these women thrive. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Learn how to closely read and critically analyze literary texts, films and artistic works. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate improvement in oral and writing skills. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Show awareness of variances in culture, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and religion inherent in all societies. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key women writers, filmmakers, and/or artists associated with the course topic. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Be familiar with the socio-historical contexts in which these women thrive. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Learn how to closely read and critically analyze literary texts, films and artistic works. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate improvement in oral and writing skills. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Show awareness of variances in culture, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and religion inherent in all societies. Audience: Undergraduate

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