ENGL 2065 - GLBTQ Literature

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This course, intended for all students, examines Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (GLBTQ) literature. This course welcomes students of all genders and sexual orientations. Students will engage in critical analysis, form aesthetic judgments, and develop an informed personal reaction to GLBTQ literature. Readings and course materials will focus on the following: GLBTQ issues, GLBTQ writers and readers, and GLBTQ audiences as fundamental to an understanding of the diverse human condition. Emphasis will be placed on a wide range of literature, including historical texts, multiple and diverse genres, and cross-cultural literature.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 7 Human Diversity

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: ENGL 1020   with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content

1. Literature by, about, and for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (GLBTQ) people
2. Literary traditions of GLBTQ authors and literature
3. Authors¿ life experiences and influences on GLBTQ literature
4. Historical and artistic trends and influences on GLBTQ literature
5. Elements of literature, including plot, character, point-of-view, setting, theme, tone, style
6. Strategies of literary criticism with emphasis on queer-theory and feminist approaches
7. Definition of ¿literature¿ and canon formation
8. Literature by GLBTQ authors and for GLBTQ readers from a variety of cultures, regions, ethnicities, and/or classes

1. analyze basic literary elements in works studied.
2. analyze fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction in GLBTQ literature.
3. analyze the social, legal, political, economic, and religious institutions and attitudes that affect human sexual and gender expression, as reflected in the literature.
4. analyze those works as expressions of diverse individual and human values within a historical and social context.
5. articulate an informed personal reaction to GLBTQ literature.
6. develop personal responses to various GLBTQ issues as expressed in the literature.
7. evaluate GLBTQ issues by considering personal choices, human interrelationships, cultural systems, and institutions as seen in the literature.
8. explore various solutions to GLBTQ problems as seen in the literature and in current issues.
9. identify the scope and variety of works in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (GLBTQ) literature.
10. interpret patterns and interrelationships between individual experience and socio-cultural systems as reflected in the literature.

06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.

06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
Competency 2 (7-10)
07. 01. Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States’ history and culture.

07. 03. Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.

07. 04. Describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.

07. 05. Demonstrate communication skills necessary for living and working effectively in a society with great population diversity.

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