Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313157 Advanced English Studies | OT | 0 | 1 |
A C2 level of English, a combined interest in Gender Studies and animated children's films. Participating in class discussion is an essential part of the course.
Aims: The subject “Gender Studies: New Sexualities / New Textualities” studies the literary and cultural representation of gender taking as its starting point the impact of 1960s-70s feminism and, particularly, 1990s Queer Theory and its aftermath. Please, note: for 2020-21 the focus will fall on animated children's cinema.
Contents: Considering the theorisation of gender and sexuality in Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies and Masculinity Studies through the analysis of a series of fictions (novels, short stories, film, TV series) within the genre of science fiction. Please, note: for 2020-21 the focus will fall on 21st Century animated children's films in English.
Activities
Total hours = 150
Contact: 30 (classroom: seminars, debates, text analysis and interpretation, use of secondary sources). These include 8 hours of assessment activities. Contact with teacher: 100%
Supervised 20 (office, virtual campus: tutorials, forum participation). These include 11 hours of assessment activities. Contact with teacher: 20%
Autonomous work 100 (at library, home: reading primary sources, locating and reading secondary sources, preparing seminars, writing for assessment). These include 19 hours of assessment activities. Contact with teacher: 10%
Methodology
The subject is run as a seminar and is based on class discussion. Students MUST:
- Read/see all the texts, primary and secondary
- Prepare their notes on the texts in advance, following the programme
- Participate in debates in the classroom
- Attend individual tutorials, if required
PLEASE, NOTE:
* In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classroom activities: seminars, debates, text analysis and interpretation, use of secondary sources) | 37 | 1.48 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Teacher's office and virtual campus activities: tutorials, forum participation | 12 | 0.48 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Activities at the library and at home: reading primary sources, locating and reading secondary sources, preparing seminars, writing for assessment | 63 | 2.52 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 10 |
Assessment activities (Total hours 36/150)
Between 3 and 6 datasheets per student on the films the teacher will assign to participate in the e-book project Gender in 21st Century Animated Children’s Cinema (to be published in the Dipòsit Digital de Documentació of UAB, see as an example https://ddd.uab.cat/record/163528). Deadline to submit the essays 15 January 2021. 50% (19 h)
Peer reviewing of your classmates’ oral and written work. 20% (11 h)
Classroom presentations (individual) based on the films assigned. 15% (4 h)
Class participation in the ensuing debates. 15% (4 h)
PLEASE NOTE:
*Evidence that students have not read or seen the set texts may result in a Fail for the subject.
* On carrying out each assessment activity, I will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
* Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 50% of the assessment items.
* In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
*In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Review and re-assessment
The assessment model of the course makes it highly unlikely that a student could fail, unless, of course, the work assigned is not completed in time. Students can always ask the teacher to review his/her work in individual office meetings. If the deadline is not met, a second deadline can be arranged only for fully justified reasons and not later than 25 January 2021.
Observations
ALL THE TEXTS MUST BE READ OR SEEN IN ADVANCE, AS CLASSES ARE ORGANIZED AS SEMINARS AND REQUIRE FULL STUDENT PARTICIPATION.
Students should buy, rent or borrow the films and see them outside classroom hours. Only clips might be shown in class, not the complete films.
Students are required to employ non-sexist language in their written and oral productions. For guidelines on how to do this, they are advised to check the website of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA): https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/lsa-guidelines-nonsexist-usage. Appropriate use of language will be part of the assessment criteria
Programme and syllabus
The syllabus is organised in 20 sessions or 10 weeks (11:30-13:00, Tu-Fri) = 30 hours. The sessions begins on Tuesday 29 September and end on Thursday 3 December.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Class participation | 15% | 4 | 0.16 | 2, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 7 |
Classroom presentations | 15% | 4 | 0.16 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7 |
Fact sheet writing | 50% | 19 | 0.76 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 10 |
Peer reviewing of your classmates' written work | 20% | 11 | 0.44 | 4, 9, 5, 6, 10 |
- Compulsory reading:
Robinson, Victoria & Diane Richardson. Introducing Gender and Women's Studies (4th Edition). Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015, https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/Introducing-Gender-and-Womens-Studies/?K=9781137321879
- Recommended reading:
See the list here https://bookauthority.org/books/best-animation-books
and especially the books by this autor: https://bookauthority.org/author/Maureen-Furniss. Also, the list below
For an example of the type of volume we will produce, see: Martín Alegre, Sara. Gender in 21st Century SF Cinema. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/206282
For my own work on Gender see http://gent.uab.cat/saramartinalegre