Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313157 Advanced English Studies | OT | 0 | 2 |
A C2 level of English, a combined interest in Gender Studies and contemporary popular music. 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: in 2022-23 we will analyze masculinity in relation to contemporary popular music.
Contents: Considering the theorisation of gender and sexuality in Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies and Masculinity Studies through the analysis of a variety of texts in English. Please, note: for 2022-23 the focus will be on contemporary songs and music videos by male artists.
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:
* The activities and class participation will be carried out in the classroom and in forums in our virtual classroom on Moodle.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
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 assigned male artists to participate in an e-book project to be published in the Dipòsit Digital de Documentació of UAB (see as an example https://ddd.uab.cat/record/254907). Deadline to submit the essays 15 June 2022. 50% (19 h)
Peer reviewing of your classmates’ oral and written work. 20% (11 h)
Classroom presentations (individual) based on the artists 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 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 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.
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 june 2023.
Observations
All the texts must be read inadvance, classes are organized as seminars with full student participation.
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 10 sessions of 180 minutes or 10 weeks (11:30-14:30 Wednesday) = 30 hours. The sessions begins on Wednesday 15 February and end on Wednesday 26 May, 2023
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
Raewyn Connell, Masculinities (U of California Press, 2005)
NOTE: apart from this book, the teacher will indicate a number of articles as compulsory reading.
No software is used.