Course

Reading Women's Writing - ARTS2037

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of the Arts and Media

Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1

Excluded: ENGL2400

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

Subject Area: English
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Women's and Gender Studies, Creative Writing



This course introduces students to the work of some of the major and avant-garde women writers and film-makers in the twentieth and twenty-first century, drawing on the genres of novel, short story, poetry, drama and involving visual and textual media. A wide range of issues will be explored, including formal innovation, lines of influence and radical traditions in women's writing, identity formation and the interaction of gender, race and class within the practices of writing and reading.
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