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
Equivalent: WOMS2001, ENGL2620
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.