Chick lit: It's not just for Harvard anymore

Earlier, I noted that chick lit is being taught at Harvard this fall.

Apparently, it's also being taught at the prestigious University of Texas at Austin.

Topic: Chick Rhetoric

Course Description

Everybody knows what a chick flick is-- it's a sappy love story in which everyone cries-and real men don't watch them. Yet the sappy and tragic Titanic was the largest grossing film ever, and not because only women saw it. The term Chick Lit didn't appear in the Oxford English Dictionary until 2002, but it can be argued that Jane Austen was writing the stuff back in the 19th Century....

http://web.austin.utexas.edu/cola/students/courses/coursedetail.cfm?courseID=13479