Apr 30, 2025  
Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Catalog 2025-2026

HCOM 436 - Literature of Sexualities


Students analyze literary criticism that offers criteria for defining straight, cisgender, asexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex,  transsexual,  transgender and other sexual ways of being in literary tradition(s). We explore canonized, non-canonical, and marginalized texts in relationship to issues of sexuality and authorship, content, genre, and form.  As well, students come to understand the long-standing politicization and censorship of the sexualized body in literature.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE  Area 1A and 1B and 1C with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered

Units: 4