ENG2238 — Contemporary Fiction
ENG 2238 - Contemporary Fiction ENG 2238 - Contemporary Fiction 3 Credits Explores recently published short stories and novels which represent diverse cultural and artistic expressions and the race, power, and justice themes and issues inscribed in the assigned works. Emphasis will be on North American writers, but works by writers from other countries may be included. One of these two: EAP 0099, ENG 0099 (Minimum grade: 1.67 GPA Equivalent) And 2. Any one of these three: READ 0093, READ 0094, READ 0099 OR ENG 1108 Major Content Areas Elements of fiction and their use in analyzing contemporary fiction Forming a critical response to a text Understanding power relations with regard to sexism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, transphobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia Understanding historical and contemporary systemic structures of racism that sustain social, political, economic, and/or environmental inequities and are produced and/or reflected in contemporary fiction Learning
Prerequisites: EAP0099, ENG0099, READ0093, READ0094, READ0099, ENG1108