Course Description
This course addresses issues related to women in East Asia from comparative perspectives by examining how they are represented and how they choose to represent themselves in literary texts, film, and sociological material.
Athena Title
Women and Writing in East Asia
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. By examining course materials, the students will learn in detail how social, cultural, and historical circumstances affect women in several East Asian nations, and how they cope with resulting problems. 2. The students will compare situations of women in several different cultures, including American culture, thereby gaining analytical skills to discern similarities and differences for a better understanding of each of the involved cultures. 3. The students will examine how female writers in East Asia choose to represent themselves and other women in their various literary expressions. 4. This course will widen choice of courses for students' programs of study as an elective course of CMLT and JPNS undergraduate majors as well as of five minors, including CHNS, CMLT, JPNS, KREN, and Asian Languages and Literatures. If cross-listed with Women's Studies, the new course will also enrich the course offering of that program. 5. The course will provide non-CMLT undergraduate students with relatively easy access to the discipline of Comparative Literature without having to major or minor in it.
Topical Outline
Topics to be explored in CMLT 3220 include, among others: Women's role in East Asian family life Women's status as a labor force in East Asian society Women, education, and women's movement in East Asia Representation and self-representation of women in East Asian film "Feminine" writing in East Asia Women and belief systems in East Asia
Syllabus