ALL256 - Gender, Sex and Literature
Unit details
Year: | 2020 unit information |
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Important Update: | Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of your trimester or semester. Last updated: 2 June 2020 |
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Ann Vickery |
Prerequisite: | One unit from: AGS101, AGS102, ALL101, ALL102, ALL153, ALL154 |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 1-hour class per week, 1 x 2-hour seminar per week |
Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | 1 x 2-hour online independent and collaborative learning activities per week |
Content
This unit will examine three major themes: feminisms, sexualities, and contemporary controversies. Students will critically reflect on a wide variety of literary engagements with gender and sexuality, including representations of masculinity, heterosexuality, families and love. Beginning with a focus on historical representations of gender and sexuality in Anglophone writing from the nineteenth century, this unit will study key figures and texts in feminist and queer literature. The unit will engage theoretical resources from feminist, queer and postcolonial studies to examine questions of class, race and ability. The unit is taught and assessed through an interdisciplinary approach to studying literature, drawing on archival, historical and cultural resources. Texts studied include: The Yellow Wallpaper, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Room of One's Own, Zami, Loaded, and The Argonauts.
| These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
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ULO1 | Apply knowledge of literary history, literary language, literary techniques, and theories of gender and sexuality to interpreting literary texts | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Utilize digital technologies to access research materials on literature as well as to draw on these technologies when constructing critical and/or creative research outputs | GLO3: Digital literacy |
ULO3 | Undertake close reading of literary texts in terms of their formal properties and historical context. Apply critical methodologies in the thematic and formal analysis of literary texts | GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO4 | Investigate and analyse literature in order to understand how literary texts can represent sexuality, gender, identity, and emergent subjectivities | GLO5: Problem solving |
ULO5 | Demonstrate self management capacities in selection of relevant theoretical and interdisciplinary contexts in which to understand and create informed interpretations and responses to literary texts and be responsible and accountable for continued learning | GLO6: Self-management |
ULO6 | Engage ethically with diverse communities and cultures in a national and global context | GLO8: Global citizenship |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
Trimester 2:Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 (Individual) - Exercise | 700 words | 15% | Information not yet available |
Online Exercise | 300 words | 10% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 2 (Individual) - Exercise | 1000 words | 25% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 3 (Individual) - Essay | 2000 words | 50% | Information not yet available |
Information not yet available
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ALL256 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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