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HI303Z: MEN, WOMEN AND EUNUCHS (2014-2015)

Last modified: 28 Jun 2018 10:27


Course Overview

This course introduces you to the idea of gender as a social construct, while at the same time, teaching you a certain amount about the Byzantine world, focusing particularly on the period from the fourth to sixth centuries. Sexual identity is an extremely important aspect of personal identity in all societies, but by looking at a pre-medieval set of ideas which are in fundamental ways, radically different from our own, you will be helped to think critically and analytically about an area of human experience which is commonly regarded as ‘natural’, and not subject to this kind of enquiry.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Session First Sub Session Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Jane Stevenson

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

None.

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course introduces you to the idea of gender as a social construct, while at the same time, teaching you a certain amount about the Byzantine world, focusing particularly on the period from the fourth to sixth centuries. Sexual identity is an extremely important aspect of personal identity in all societies, but by looking at a pre-medieval set of ideas which are in fundamental ways, radically different from our own, you will be helped to think critically and analytically about an area of human experience which is commonly regarded as ‘natural’, and not subject to this kind of enquiry.

Further Information & Notes

This module is available to students on all non-History degree programmes as a Discipline Breadth course for the enhanced study requirement. However, the admission of students with a non-History degree intention will be at the discretion of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy.
 

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt: Seminar presentation (powerpoint) (10%); first essay (40%), 2,500 words (50%) second essay, 2,500 words

Resit: One essay 2,500 words (100%).

Formative Assessment

Students are invited to submit plan and bibliography, and to discuss appropriate reading. Formative assessment is delivered using the History department's essay return sheet, which allows focus, structure, content, argument, sources, notes/bibliography, language skills and presentation to be graded separately and the information brought together with comment on the essay as a whole and an overall mark.

Feedback

Essays are returned individually, and discussed one to one.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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