ATS2248 Writing women
Faculty of Arts
ATS2248 Writing women is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2023. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2023
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2023 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS2248
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ATS2248
No unit lists ATS2248 as a prerequisite in the 2023 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Must have passed 12 points of Arts units at level 1
Overview
The unit examines women's literature across a range of periods, countries and genres. Issues examined include: the material conditions that have impacted on women as writers and readers; the place of women in the literary canon; currents and tensions in feminist literary criticism and theory; recent debates regarding gender bias in the reception of women's writing; contemporary interventions to decolonise literary history; the impact of changing social norms regarding gender and sexuality. Themes examined include: love, sex, marriage, motherhood, race, class, work, power, suffering, violence, silence, friendship and freedom. Key questions include: Is there a distinctively ‘feminine’ mode of writing? What kinds of freedoms and conditions does a women need in order to write?; and, Whose voices get noticed when writing by women is produced?
Offerings in 2023
The 2023 handbook lists no offerings for ATS2248.
Assessment
- Analytical exerciseAssignment30%
- Presentation25%
- Essay45%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
assess and interpret the relationship between literary texts and their social, economic and political contexts;
- 2
discuss key approaches to the study of women's writing;
- 3
critique the question of gender, literary production and literary value;
- 4
critically analyse and interpret literary texts.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials24 hours
- Lectures12 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
This unit engages students in actively applying their knowledge, skills and attributes in interactive, collaborative and reflective activities.
Where it fits
ATS2248 is part of 2 areas of study in the 2023 handbook.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Melinda Harvey
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Melinda Harvey
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS2248?
ATS2248 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS2248 offered?
ATS2248 has no offerings listed in the 2023 handbook.
How much work is ATS2248?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ATS2248 have an exam?
No. ATS2248 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.
Which majors and minors include ATS2248?
ATS2248 is part of Literary studies.