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SYLLABUS

Politics and poetics of representation, 7,5 ECTS Credits

COURSE CATEGORY   Single Subject Course MAIN FIELD OF STUDY   Gender Studies - GEU SUBJECT AREA   Gender Studies – GS1   COURSE CODE   757G21

AIM OF THE COURSE

On completion of the course, the students should be able to: - critically account for knowledge production and communication practices; - account for intersectional key issues/debates/concepts in various contexts of gender studies; - demonstrate the ability and skills to gather and critically interpret politics and poetics of popular science and popular culture - demonstrate the ability to apply intersectional theories/concepts for basic analysis within fields such as feminist cultural studies and feminist science studies.

CONTENTS

The course provides overviews and in-depth knowledge of certain aspects, as regards - introductions to feminist cultural studies and feminist science studies, and others; - tools to analyze knowledge production and communicative practices with emphasis on meaning making processes - tools to communicate transgression of boundaries between the academic and the creative communication, politics and poetics.

TEACHING

The course is based on online learning, including pre-recorded lectures followed by seminar discussions in online classrooms. Knowledge is further reinforced during online-seminars, -workshops and/or other learning activities. In between online-seminars and -lectures students study the course literature independently and communicate with each other online in mandatory tutor groups and co-tutor groups.

EXAMINATION

The course is examined through active participation in online seminars and/or other learning activities and through a written individual assignment, submitted online. Detailed information about the examination can be found in a key information document of the course. Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination. Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Documented knowledge of English equivalent to Engelska B/Engelska 6: internationally recognized test, e.g. TOEFL (minimum scores: Paper based 575 + TWE-score 4.5, and internet based 90+TWE-score 20), IELTS, academic (minimum score Overall band 6.5 and no band under 5.5), or equivalent.

GRADING

The course is graded according to the ECTS grading scale A-F

CERTIFICATE

Course certificate is issued by the Faculty Board on request. The Department provides a special form which should be submitted to the Student Affairs Division.

COURSE LITERATURE

The course literature is decided upon by the department in question.

OTHER INFORMATION

Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.

Politics and poetics of representation Representationer som politik och poetik   Department responsible for the course or equivalent: TEMA - Department of Thematic Studies             Registrar No: 2016-00201   Course Code: 757G21           Exam codes: see Local Computer System       Subject/Subject Area : Gender Studies - GEU                       Level   Education level     Subject Area Code   Field of Education   G1X   Basic level       HU   The syllabus was approved by the Board of Faculty of Arts and Science 2016-04-13