Objectives
Knowledge Bases
Students should:
- develop ability to understand and analyze texts with sexual themes and images
- develop understanding of literature and print and visual media in their interdisciplinary contexts (e.g., cultural, social, historical, scientific, psychological, and political)
- understand rhetorical strategies and power relations of sexualized discourse
- learn to appreciate textual and imagistic complexity, ambiguity, and paradox
- learn to identify sexual styles in the context of historical periods
- develop ability to understand and apply theory to sexuality and power relations
Academic Skills
Students should:
- be able to reason, think critically, evaluate, use evidence, and make judgments
- be able to write clearly and imaginatively, in a variety of forms and for a variety of purposes and audiences
- use appropriate conventions of language, including correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation
- be able to revise
- be able to find appropriate print and electronic sources
- develop a sense of fairness, objectivity, and accuracy in reporting
- understand the ethics of research and writing, including the proper citation, and integration, of source materials into their work and the meaning and consequences of plagiarism
- develop listening skills
- develop ability to speak effectively
Social and Personal Skills
Students should:
- learn to be self-reflecting
- develop ability to work cooperatively
- engage in civil debate
- develop respect for both intellectual and cultural diversity