Interart Studies and Representations of Women

Code:

MEAAM009

Acronym:

EIRM

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Anglo-American Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAAM	0	Course Programme	1	-	9	-
MEAA	2	Study Plan since 2007/2008	1	-	9	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Aims:
This course aims to explore some of the forms taken by the representation of women in a variety of traditions, artistic media and historical moments. One of its goals is thus to acquaint students with the literary and plastic work of the authors to be studied; other prominent goals include highlighting some of the notions that have more persistently marked critical discourse on intermediality, as well as the extent to which representations have informed a range of discourses of / on women.
Skills:
this course will enhance the students' ability to understand the synchronic and diachronic conditions for the production of images of women in various 'media', by summoning and employing, in a critically productive way, notions such as representation and intermediality.
Outcomes:
by the end of the semester students should be able to pronounce in a historically and theoretically sustained way on representations of women the involve more than one semiotic system.

Program

This course emerges as part of a degree centred on the study of English-language literatures and cultures, and this will certainly become apparent in its choice of literary texts, as much as in its dominant critical references. Nonetheless, the Anglophone component will hardly prove exclusive, since the course will indeed address texts and visual materials that belong (among others) within Portuguese literature and art.
Its programme combines a synchronic with a diachronic orientation, and the latter will prominently involve a consideration of European traditions of discourse on / representation of women in art and literature. Students will be asked to approach and query texts and art work so as to foreground their historical determination as also, in broader terms, the contingent features to be acknowledged in the general object of this course and in the arguments for its specificity.

Teaching methods and learning activities

As is to be expected in a graduate seminar, sessions will integrate active teaching contributions from the seminar leader – butstudents will be required to contribute actively and regularly to the seminar. Students will also be expected to carry out research assignments under the teacher's guidance, but geared towards a growing autonomy of their research effort.

keywords

Humanities
Humanities > Literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

a) attendance: a minimum of 2/3 of all sessions;
b) active participation in class;
c) presentation and discussion of written essays, to be submitted in the course of the semester

Calculation formula of final grade

FM to be obtained through this formula (with reference to the “elements for assessment” indicated above):

(a + b) + [c) x 2] : 3 = FM

Examinations or Special Assignments

n/a

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n/a

Classification improvement

n/a

Observations

A reading list will be provided at the beginning of the semester with clear indications regarding texts and editions.
A research bibliography list will be posted at the beginning of the semester; this should help students locate some of the relevant sources in libraries that are available to them.