Module ARA2118 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA2118: Gender-Identity and Modernity in the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Class presentation | 20 Minutes | 1-8 | Verbal feedback |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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70 | 30 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay | 35 | 1,500 words | 1-8 | Written feedback Verbal feedback (if required) |
Written examination | 30 | 1 hours | 1-8 | Written feedback Verbal feedback (if required) |
5 best reaction papers | 35 | Brief weekly 'reaction papers' based on readings and marked | 1-8 | Written feedback Verbal feedback (if required) |
0 | ||||
0 | ||||
0 |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Essay | Essay | 1-8 | 1st September |
Written examination | Written examination | 1-8 | August/September assessment period |
5 best reaction papers | 5 best reaction papers | 1-8 | 1st September |
Re-assessment notes
All three assessments are required for this module. Where you have been referred/ deferred for the essay, exam, and/or reaction papers, you will have the opportunity to complete these parts of the assessment by the above indicated date.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Abu-Lughod, Lila (ed.), Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, 1998
Al-Ali, Nadje, Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement, 2000.
Chatty, Dawn and Rabo, Annika (eds.), Organizing Women: formal and informal groups in the middle east, 1997.
Ghoussoub, May & Emma Sinclair-Webb, Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East, 2000.
Gcek, Fatma and Shiva Balaghi (eds.) Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, Power, 1994.
Haddad, Yvonne and John Esposito (eds.) Islam, Gender and Social Change, 1998.
Jayawardena, Kumari, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, 1986.
Joseph, Suad (ed.) Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity, 1999.
Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, 1991.
Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.) Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, 1996
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba, Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran, 1999
Moghadam, Valentine, Modernizing Women: Gender & Social Change in the Middle East, 1993.
Moghissi, Haideh, Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of postmodern analysis, 1999.
Tucker, Judith (ed.) Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers, 1993