Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Dr Leigh Boucher
Australian Hearing Hub, Level 2
By Appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MRes
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit examines the ways in which various contestations (over postmodernism, poststructuralism and queer theory) challenged the foundational categories of feminist theory in the 1980s and 1990s. The unit will ponder whether the call for a contingent feminist theory and practice undermined or, in fact, invigorated feminist critical thought and practice. Through an engagement with the various critical frameworks that emerged in the wake of these contestations, the unit will then examine the reformulations and reframings that feminist scholars have produced in the decades since these interventions. What do these new critical frameworks seek to explain? Do they represent a return or a critical rupture? Are we living in a post-feminist moment? This unit will be framed as a cross-disciplinary unit, students are encouraged to bring their diverse disciplinary perspectives to the discussion and assessment.
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Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Seminar Participation/Blogs | 25% | No | Ongoing |
Critical Review | 25% | No | Friday 12 April 2019, 5pm |
Research Essay | 50% | No | Friday 10 June 2019, 5pm |
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 25%
Students should come to the seminars ready to engage and discuss the weekly materials.There is no hurdle requirement to come to class – if students haven’t completed the readings, attendance is not recommended. Please also be aware of others in the seminar-room and differing levels of familiarity with feminist thought – some students will not have engaged closely with this material before.
In order to satisfy the requirements for this assessment, each week all students must contribute either a "post" or a "response" to the class blog. This can be accessed via iLearn, and in our first seminar of the semester we will nominate discussion leaders for each week.
These blog posts are a way to demonstrate your ongoing engagement with the material we look at in this course. This is not an assessment, then, in which you must prove your expertise. Rather, use this task as a space in which you can further discuss the ideas we ponder in class, ask any questions that we might not have had time for, or to clarify with your classmates any material you find difficult. Each blog post should be around 100-200 words. They do not have to be fully referenced, although if you draw on material beyond the required readings, it is a good idea to note the texts you've used.
Due: Friday 12 April 2019, 5pm
Weighting: 25%
Write a critical review of one piece of scholarship (article or book chapter) that engages with a concept/idea developed in one of the weekly seminars. Select a piece of scholarship that emerges in your own field. You should consider how this piece of research engages with the concept you have selected and consider its utility in your chosen research field (ie, is the sex/gender distinction useful for media studies?).
Due: Friday 10 June 2019, 5pm
Weighting: 50%
Produce a piece of independent research that engages with a key debate from the unit. Essay questions will be made available on ilearn. The essay should be submitted via turnitin.
Seminars will take place Fridays, 1pm-3pm. Unit readings are accessible through iLearn or the library catalogue.
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