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Group III: Special Topics II

Group III: Special Topics II (Fall 2025)

ENGL 487
Undergraduate
Fall 2025
3 Units
In-person
6
  • ENGL 200
  • ENGL 290

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one-way Exclusions

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ENGL 487: Women鈥檚 Autobiography

This course will explore women鈥檚 autobiographical writing in the 20th and 21st centuries.  We will study the genre of autobiography generally, and examine the issues and challenges that attend women鈥檚 autobiographical narratives in particular.  Authors studied will likely include:  Simone de Beauvoir, Zora Neale Hurston, Carolyn Kay Steedman, Lynda Barry, Deborah Levy, Colombe Schneck, and Alison Bechdel.  Theoretical and critical readings on autobiography will also be included in the course content.

 

 

Assessments

Grading Components

  • Attendance
  • Participation
  • Seminar presentation
  • Short exercises and assignments
  • In-class writing
  • Final exam

**Subject to change**

This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.

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With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once. 

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