Module outline 2016-17
Seminars: H0.44 on Wednesday mornings, 09:00–11:00
Term one outline
Please download and remember to consult weekly this schedule of focal topics and presentation groups. (Also please check in advance that your name appears in a group in every class Weeks 2–9)
Week 1 | Writing in an existential framework: de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, tome I: ‘Introduction’ (*students should read this before the seminar*) |
Week 2 | de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, tome I: Part 1: ‘Destin’ |
Week 3 | de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, tome I: Part 2: ‘Histoire’ |
Week 4 | de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, tome I: Part 3: ’Mythes’ and ‘Conclusion’ |
Week 5 | Irigaray, Je, tu, nous: from ‘Petite annonce’ to ‘“Le side ne passera pas par moi”’ |
Week 6 | Reading Week |
Week 7 | Irigaray, Je, tu, nous: from ‘Sexes et genres linguistiques’ to end |
Week 8 | Barthes, Mythologies 1: Spectacle and Identity |
Week 9 | Barthes, Mythologies 2: Media and social manipulation |
Week 10 | Barthes, Mythologies 3: Semiotics (plus discussion on ways to compare the texts) |
Term two outline
Please download this detailed schedule of our module in Term 2. [Last updated: 20.1.2017]
Term three outline
Week 2 | Revision 1: Term 1 texts |
Week 3 | Revision 2: Term 2 texts |