Module ARAM225 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM225: Gender and Politics in the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following themes:
· On knowledge ‘production’
· Gender & sexuality 101
· Activism & transformation
· Otherness & belonging
· Violence
· Politics
· Nations, states & intervention/s
· Representation
· Agency
· Intimacy
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
---|---|---|
22 | 278 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminars |
Guided Independent Study | 77 | Weekly reading (7 hours per week) |
Guided Independent Study | 22 | Class participation (2 hours preparation per week) |
Guided Independent Study | 30 | Blog posts (2 hours researching & 4 hours writing per week, 5 submitted in total) |
Guided Independent Study | 59 | Project (40 hours researching/coordinating, 19 hours writing/preparing presentation and materials). |
Guided Independent Study | 90 | Essay (60 hours reading and 30 hours writing) |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Other Learning Resources
Videos/films, TV programmes, online materials (news sites, blogs, social media), images, podcasts, play scripts, music, memoirs.