EN5118 Women, Writing and Gender 2: Victorian to Contemporary

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

To be arranged

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Module coordinator

Dr K Ward

Dr K Ward
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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

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-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS EN5117

Assessment pattern

100% coursework

Re-assessment

100% coursework

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2 hour seminar

Scheduled learning hours

18

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

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