COR 4010 EXAMINING IDENTITY AND REPRESENTATION: WHY DOES REPRESENTATION MATTER?
This course uses contemporary literature and writing to examine identity and representation. Through the use of book study, seminar, and writing, we will engage the following skills in each class: read, write, discuss, research, and reflect. Students will engage the disciplines of sociology, literature, and writing throughout the course. Scholarship has demonstrated that we increase our understanding of others through engagement with others’ experiences or stories. Understanding this, students will use five #ownvoices texts to discuss issues of representation, (mis)representation, and lack of representation, and the intersectionality of race, family, movement, class, gender, and sexuality. The course capstone, a student led research project, is designed to allow the Elon student to apply the seminar’s focus of identity and representation to the student’s program of study through a research project.