ALL326 - Gender, Sexuality and Texts for Young People

Unit details

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Year:2019 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Trimester 1 Unit Chair:

Kristine Moruzi

Prerequisite:

Successful completion of at least one second year literature or gender and sexuality unit

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

ALL226, ALL626

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 2 hour Seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online):

Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2 hour online seminar equivalent per week

Content

Both traditional and new media texts incorporate representations of the child that are gendered, sexualised, pathologised and commodified. In this unit, students critically engage with a range of texts representing the child as embodied subject, and research and respond to the politics of representation. Building on their understanding of narrative theory, ideology, power and identity as they operate in literature and other textual forms, students investigate how texts intervene in the construction of the embodied child as a gendered and sexual subject. 

Assessment

Assessment 1 - Written exercise (2000 words) - 50%

Assessment 2 - Critical essay (2000 words) - 50%

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