University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 2

Planned timetable: To be arranged

This module continues the chronological survey of debates surrounding women, writing and gender. The module examines continuity and change in constructions of gender across the period 1800 to the present. Students will be introduced to key critical readings of nineteenth-century women's writing, before moving on to consider the work of modernist writers and a range of contemporary writers whose rewriting of history and myth engages with current debates in gender theory.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass EN5117

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 2 hour seminar (x 9 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours: 18

Guided independent study hours: 280

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 100% coursework


Re-assessment: 100% coursework

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr K Ward
Module teaching staff: Team taught

Intended learning outcomes

• Analyse a range of writings from the Victorian to the contemporary and other relevant materials including critical resources at an advanced level.
• Work with a range of research methods and tools (for example, library and archival catalogues and online databases)
• Present lengthy and complex arguments in writing and use discipline-specific methods of bibliography and citation
• Apply, explore and develop new knowledge and understanding through seminar debate, supervisory discussion and independent research
• Lead discussion of complex topics in a classroom environment