922-192 LaTrobe-Gender Issues in Mod Greek Lit

Special enrolment arrangements apply. Students must contact the Faculty of Arts Office for application forms and further details.

Admission to fourth-year combined honours in Modern Greek.

In this subject students should develop research and analytical skills by exploring the representation of gender relations in a variety of literary texts. The construction of male images and masculinities, female images and femininities, sexualities, gender roles, including motherhood and fatherhood, are studied in selected works of modern Greek literature. Students who complete the subject should have developed research and analytical skills in terms of the representation of gender relations in literature; be acquainted with the theoretical framework for such research; and have significantly enhanced their skills in the comprehension and discussion of Greek texts.

• have developed their capacity for critical thinking about various kinds of evidence and theory relating to Modern Greek culture and society;

• have experience of conducting and reporting on independent research.

Two 500-word reports (on specified dates during the semester) 30%; one 2,000-word essay (due mid-semester) 35%; one 2,000-word essay (due end of semester) 35%.