Module Identifier | IP31020 | ||
Module Title | WHAT IS POST MODERNISM ANYWAY? | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Jenny Edkins | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 11 Hours (10 x 1 hour) | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours (10 x hour) | ||
Assessment | Assignment | 4,000 words | 70% |
Performance assessment | 10% | ||
Essay | 1,500 words | 20% |
The module begins with a brief examination of Freud, Saussure, feminist writers and Marx, and then focuses on three writers - Foucault, Derrida and Lacan. Lectures introducing key areas are accompanied by seminars based on careful readings of selected texts supported by extensive discussion. The lectures will include opportunities for questions and debate, and may also include group activities. Seminars will be student-led.
- have a good understanding of approaches described as postmodern or post-structural
- be able to discuss some of the ethico-political questions raised by this work
- be able to demonstrate a familiarity with key post-structuralist writers, based on a direct reading of their texts