ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
• To become acquainted with major seminal feminist works and authors
• To actively engage in theoretical discussion on gender studies
• To apply feminist theory to particular literary works in order to produce readings from a gender perspective
Analysis of Literature(es) in English from a gender perspective. The following issues will be examined: gender politics in relation to gender, feminism, feminist and women’s writing, the literary canon and gender persectives, Anglo-American and French feminist criticism and Queer Studies. Introduction to women’s writing produced in different historical periods and in relation to themes, characters, and historical context which will enable students to apply these theoretical tools of analysis to different literary works.
TEMA 1: An Introduction to Feminist Literary Theory: First-Wave Feminism
TEMA 2: Second-wave Feminism
TEMA 3: Third-wave Feminism
BASIC READING:
Saraswati, Aryu, Barbara L. Shaw and Heather Rellihan. Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches. Oxford: OUP, 2020.
Shaw, Susan and Janet Lee. Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: OUP, 2019
FURTHER READING:
Butler, Judith 1990: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge
Eagleton, Mary (ed) 1986: Feminist Literary Theory. A Reader. Cambridge, MASS: Blackwell.
Hall, Donal E. and Annamariel Jagose (eds) 2012. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader. London: Routledge. (Selected chapters).
Hill-Collins, Patricia (1990: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.
hooks, bell Ain’t I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism (1987). New York: Pluto
Irigaray, Luce 1991: “The Bodily Encounter with the Mother”. The Irigaray Reader. Margaret Whitford, ed. London: Blackwell. 34–46.
Kristeva, Julia 1984: Revolution in Poetic Language. New York: Columbia UP.
______ 1997: ‘Stabat Mater’. Diana Tietjens Meyers, ed. Feminist Social Thought. London: Routledge. 302–19.
Lovaas, Ella and Yep (eds). 2006. LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, & Contested Terrain. New York: Harrington Park P.
Rich, Adrienne 1976: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. London: Virago.
Ruddick, Sara 2009: ‘On Maternal Thinking’. Women’s Studies Quarterly 37.3&4: 305–400.
Suleiman, Susan Rubin 1988: ‘On Maternal Splitting: A Propos of Mary Gordon’s Men and Angels’. Signs 14.1: 25–41.
Woolf, Virginia [1929] 1992. A Room of One’s Own. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Worthington, Anne (2013). Queer Sexualities. Staking Out New Territories in Queer Studies. London: Inter-Disciplinary P. (selected chapters).
Competences (“Memoria do Máster Interuniversitario en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados e as Súas Aplicacións, 2ª edición", pp. 6-7: http://www.imaes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MEMORIA_ANEXOS-I-II.pdf)
G01- Ability to delve into those concepts, principles, theories or models related to the various areas of English Studies, as well as to become familiar with the methodology required to solve those problems typical of this field of study.
G02 Ability to apply the knowledge gained/obtained within the multidisciplinary and mutifaceted/versatile area of English Studies.
G04- Ability to present experiences, ideas or reports in public, as well as to express informed opinions based on criteria, external rules or personal reflections, for which a sufficient command of the academic and scientific language, both written and oral, will be necessary.
G05- Abilities to investigate and manage new knowledge and information within the context of English Studies.
G06- Ability to acquire/achieve critical thinking that will lead students to consider the relevance of the existing research in the fields of study that make up/shape/define English Studies, as well as the relevance of their own investigations.
E09- Knowledge of the main models and resources of literary/cultural research in the anglophone world.
E11- Capacity to identify and analyse the most relevant features of the anglophone culture and institutions through texts belonging to different historical periods.
• Lectures: students will be here become acquainted with varied theoretical tools and their application to literature
• Seminars: student-centred sessions
• Individual tasks in the virtual campus: online learning and interaction
• Online tutorials: student tasks, revision, book browse, databases, readings, brainstorming, group collaboration
• Discussion and debate in the virtual campus
• Online discussion
• Oral presentation of an individual research piece
• Selection of representative texts from the Anglo-American tradition (poetry, drama, novel and/or essay) to examine different narrative strtegies in the wake of the examined gender perspectives.
On the event of application of any of the contingency scenes, please check directions under the heading "Comments", since these will be applied.
• Continous assessment, which will tackle the following aspects:
• Initial level test
• Continuous assessment: participation in seminars and the other course activities (30%). Assessed competences: G01, G02, G05, E09, E11.
• Final assessment: brief oral presentation and written paper on an assigned topic. (70%). Assessed competences: G02, G04, G05, G06)
Assessment procedure according to the 'Real Decreto de 2003' on assessment in Spanish higher education.
Important notice:
1) These criteria will apply to course assessment both in May and July
2) In case some student is exempt from attending the course sessions, the 100 per cent of the final grade will be assessed by a final examination, which will take place on the date scheduled by the Faculty.
If fraudulent practices are detected in assigments or exams of any kind, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento
académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
a) Total number of hours = 75
b) Top classroom work time= 14;
c) Top work time through the virtual platform = 10;
d) Students individual work time = 51
Lectures: 5
Participation in discussions and debates: 4
Individual and/or group work: 11
Seminars (debates, presentations, etc.):7
Control activities: 4
Essay-writing, conclusions and other works related to this course: 20
Tutorials: 2
Self-assessment tasks: 2
Activities in digital platforms: 20
Total number of onsite hours: 14
Total number of hours in the virtual platform: 10
Total number of individual working hours: 51
PLAGIARISM:
If fraudulent practices are detected in assigments or exams of any kind, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento
académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
STUDENTS WHO HAD FAILED THE COURSE IN THE PREVIOUS ACADEMIC YEAR: the same assessment procedure and criteria would be applied provided that those students had passed seminar assessment the previous year, meaning that they had
obtained a 50% of the total grade.
STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN GRANTED OFFICIAL ABSENCE PERMISSION FROM THIS COURSE:
100% of the course grade will consist in an online oral exam on an appointed date.
These assessment criteria will be applied to both May and July opportunities.
Laura Maria Lojo Rodriguez
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811880
- laura.lojo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| Thursday | |||
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| 16:00-17:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C06 |
| 17:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | C06 |
| 05.23.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C06 |
| 05.23.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C06 |
| 07.04.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C06 |
| 07.04.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C06 |