CLS3000

Introduction to critical theory

Alexander Garc'a Düttmann and Claire Colebrook

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton
* Prohibitions: CRT2010/CRT3010/ENH2060/ENH3060

Objectives As for CLS2000 with the additional objective that students learn how to negotiate critical theories concerning social power, language and difference when reading literary and other cultural texts.

Synopsis As for CLS2000.

Assessment Class test (2 hours): 30%
* Seminar paper (equivalent to 1000 words): 15%
* Essays or essay (3000 words): 50%
* Seminar participation: 5%
* Third-year students will be expected to read a more diverse group of texts and to write on specified topics requiring a greater critical understanding, specifically of how theoretically self-aware reading requires the negotiation of critical theories concerning social power, language and difference.