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Australian Masculinities: Reading Gender, Sex and Culture - ENGL3520
Webster

 
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of English, Media and Performing Arts
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/english/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 12 units of credit at the ENGL2000 level
 
 
Equivalent: AUST2033, ENGL3470, WOMS2008, WOMS3005
 
 
Excluded: ENGL3470
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Explores the construction of masculinities through the study of a range of Australian texts. Beginning with an examination of key theoretical readings in the area of gender, sex and masculinity, the course will move on to analyse these issues in a number of texts from various genres, both fictional and non-fictional, and various media, including literature, film and television.

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