GWS506 IMAGES OF WOMEN IN WESTERN LITERATURE FROM PRE-MODERN TO POSTMODERN ERA
| Course Code: |
8100506 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Gender&women Studies |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
To examine gendered identities in the representative works by and about women; to read, analyse, and discuss diverse identity and socialization processes that determine gender roles; to recognize the on-going dialogue of women and politics, literature, history, art, anthropology, and psychology; to identify motifs, themes, and stereotypical patterns in different literary forms; to seek for historical, philosophical and cultural information in order to appreciate literature; to analyse, interpret and make research on concepts such as sex, gender, class, cultural diversity, women’s experiences and achievements, and the impact of sexism and prejudice; to perceive the role of gender in literature in a chronological and from multidimensional perspective.
