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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
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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.