| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 20hrs (10 x 2hrs seminars/workshops) |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 30 minute group oral presentation | 40% |
| Semester Assessment | 1 x 2500 word essay | 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit or resit failed elements and/or make good any miossing elements. |
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a detailed knowledge of a range of queer novels from 1980's-present day;
2. articulate this knowledge in the form of reasoned critical analysis of particular texts;
3. locate the texts studied in appropriate literary, historical, and theoretical contexts;
4. explain, and engage with, relevant aspects of recent scholarly and/or critical debates about the texts studied;
5. articulate some of their findings in the form of an oral presentation.
This module focuses on the field of contemporary queer fiction, examining queer sexuality and gender issues and placing them in their historical and cultural contexts. In particular, it asks how the authors studied have experimented with both content and form in their exploration of the changing issues faced by queer writers over the last twenty-five years. We will use both queer fiction and queer theory to analyse how sexuality and gender are understood in society and how tensions around issues of assimilation and radical otherness have evolved since the 1980s. The module asks students to look at how these factors shape the novels under discussion and how, in turn, the novels respond to the particular challenges the debates present.
This is a new option developed to fill a gap in the portfolio of modules currently available. It will focus on novels dealing with sexuality and gender issues written between 1980 and the present day, and will explore litrary and cultural issues relevant to the topic.
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | N/A |
| Communication | Through group discussions and presentations |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Through independent reading and research. |
| Information Technology | Through powerpoint presentations. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | By critical self reflection and through the development of transferrable communication and research skills. |
| Problem solving | By developing evaluative analysis and critical skills and by formulating and conducting a detailed arguement. |
| Research skills | By relating literary texts to hstorical contexts and by synthesising information in an evaluative argument. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Detailed critical/theoretical analysis of literary texts and evaluation of broad intellectual concepts. |
| Team work | Through group presentations. |
This module is at CQFW Level 6