Course details

Name: ENWR - 250

Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: WRITING WOMEN SAFE

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
This course exposes students to writing-as-social-action through intensive study of the topic of sexual violence against women. Students will gain a broad-based understanding of community literacy and the role of writing outside school walls in order to fully explore how writing can function as an activist tool for the prevention of sexual violence. We will read broadly on the issue of sexual violence against women--analyzing depictions of rape in popular language, exploring how rape has been discussed in feminist theory and scholarship, and researching community-based and activist responses to rape and its prevention—in order to strengthen our own literacy practices towards prevention and awareness-raising. Students will be familiar with local, national, and international agencies that work to protect women from sexual violence and advocate for rape survivors. Students will develop activist writing projects that work to serve and further these existing efforts.

Last updated on 2010-10-28 By Restaino Jessica (restainoj)

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 1:00 am To 2:15 am

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Teaching Faculty: Restaino Jessica (restainoj)

Is course canceled: No