52-2751 Literature and Visual Culture

This course introduces students to a broad range of approaches to visual texts and written literature. Students will learn how visual, cultural, and literary theories enable them to create different interpretive strategies in their approaches to specific texts. Critical concepts studied may include subjectivity, the gaze, (re)presentation, gendered bodies, the practice of everyday life, the posthuman. The class will emphasize students’ critical writing as a creative process.

3 Credits
HL
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710