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ATS3503

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 25 November 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Literary Studies

Coordinator(s)

Professor Sue Kossew

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit examines women's literature from a range of periods and countries. Issues examined might include: the place of women's writing in the literary canon and in literary history; strains in feminist literary criticism and theory; recent debates regarding the reception of women's writing; the use of literature to make interventions regarding social norms around gender and sexuality; typical themes in women's writing such as marriage, motherhood, work, violence.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit students will have:

  1. the ability to assess and interpret the relationship between literary texts and their social and political context;
  2. an informed understanding of some key approaches to the study of women's writing;
  3. developed an informed critical perspective on the question of gender, literary production and literary value;
  4. solid advanced undergraduate-level skills in the reading and interpretation of literary texts.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Professor Sue Kossew

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Literary studies

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS2503