University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 10

Semester: 1

Availability restrictions: Available to General Degree students with the permission of the Honours Adviser.

Planned timetable: To be confirmed

For hundreds of years, scholars and critics have been discussing ways of interpreting the fascinating and prominent female characters of Greek Tragedy. With the advent of feminist scholarship to Classics, this discussion has branched into a variety of particularly fruitful scholarly approaches. This course will introduce students to some of those approaches, and the readings of tragedies which have resulted from them. Students will read and discuss a range of tragedies from the works of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, and consider how successful critical approaches have been in generating new understanding of the female characters found within them.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): As stated in School of Classics Undergraduate Handbook

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 2 seminars (x10 weeks) plus one consultation appointment to discuss essay title.

Scheduled learning hours: 21

Guided independent study hours: 270

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 100% Coursework


Re-assessment: 100% Examination

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr K J Cook
Module teaching staff: Dr Kate Cook
Module coordinator email kjc26@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of some key presentations of female characters and choruses in Greek tragedy.
• Give accounts of some key approaches to researching women in Greek tragedy, and judge their effectiveness.
• Articulate and evaluate, orally and in writing, the relevant critical debates.
• Construct complex arguments.
• Develop their own approaches to the subject in a final independent essay.