Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CASWR 120 or equivalent). - Topics vary. May be repeated for credit if topic is different. Topic for Fall 2026: Women's Writing from East to West. This course explores prose and poetry by women writers from diverse social, religious, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, who use art to raise their voices in the world: to speak out; protest; claim equality; articulate; and recreate identity. It traces diverse female traditions from Mesopotamia and the Bible through the twenty-first century. It places female voices, at the center, while also offering a model for reading, and shaping identity, in the present. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, Writing-Intensive Course.

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