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By completion of this module, students should:
- have a good understanding of key developments, frameworks and concepts in the understanding and constitution of gender and sexuality from the late 19th century to the present;
- be able to assess and critically engage with key theoretical works on gender and sexuality;
- have an advanced understanding of the historical and cultural specificity of conceptualisations of gender, sexuality, and desire;
- have an advanced understanding of the complex interactions of social, cultural, epistemological and representational factors in the constitution of gendered and sexual subjectivities;
- have an advanced understanding of the relationship between theory and politics in feminist and queer work;
- have an advanced understanding of the centrality of race, ethnicity, class and geopolitics to any exploration of gendered and sexual subjectivities;
- be able to bring the above theoretical and conceptual competencies to bear in their analyses of a wide variety of texts and media, including the production of a cogent, high level academic essay, in-class discussion, and evaluation of your own writing and thinking enabled by peer assessment exercises.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities | 76 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 100 |
Total | 200 |
Not applicable to this module.
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
Feedback will be provided individually (in person or online) after each CA assignment with the opportunity to make revisions to the assignments before final submission at the end of the semester. Feedback will be provided individually (in person or online) on essay plans/proposals before completion of the final essay. Feedback will be provided individually on the final essay after the completion of the module.
Name | Role |
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Natasha Remoundou | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |