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All extra material will be uploaded on Blackboard.
CONTACT POLICY
10% ATTENDANCE
Attending class is an important part of your learning experience. You
are expected to come to class on time and prepared, and to keep up
to date on your reading assignments. Beginning in the second week
(after add/drop ends), attendance will be taken in every class. If you
are absent, it is your responsibility to find out what we covered that
day.
10%
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION
GROUP REPORTS
You will be divided into sub-groups and every 2/3 weeks you will be
given questions on the texts we will be studying to provide short
group reports. These reports should not exceed in length 500
words and their purpose is to get you into thinking/debating some of
the ideas/texts we will be discussing in class. Each time you will be
responsible to forward/circulate your reports to the rest of the class
before our session via the class e-mail, and make it available to your
fellow students to study before class. The format of your responses
could either be in the form of small paragraphs or bullet points.
30% MID-TERM EXAM
You will write 1 essay in this course (2000 words each). Your essays
should be informed by at least 2 secondary sources and should be
submitted both in hard copy and to turnitin.com
35% TAKE-HOME ESSAY
Your final essay for this class will be 2500 words. This essay should
have a comparative frame and should be enriched by at least 4
secondary sources. Your final essay should be submitted to me by the
first week of the examination period (date to be announced) via email and you should also submit it to Turnitin.com.
MARKING SKALE
A
A-
B+
4.00
3.70
3.30
100 -93.0 %
B-
93.0 -89.0
89.0 -87.0
2.70
2.30
83.0 -79.0%
79.0 -77.0
1.3
69.0- 66.0
1.0
66.0 -60.0
0.0
Below 60 %
%
2.00
77.0 -73.0
%
B
3.00
87.0 -83.0
C-
1.70
73.0- 69.0%
0
I
N/A
Incomplet
e
You are responsible for the timely completion and submission of your
assignments. All turnitin.com assignments are due by 23:59 on the due
date. Late assignments will be penalized -5 points per day (to a maximum
of 7 days and -35 points). Late work will be given a mark but risks
receiving minimal or no written commentary/feedback. Please note that
under no circumstances will it be possible to complete additional
assignments for extra credit in this course.
ACADEMIC INTERGRITY
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FEMINISMS
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WEEKS 9 - 10
Texts
Simone de Beauvoir, Introduction in The Second Sex [23-39]
Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa in Signs [875-893]
Judith Butler, Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions in Gender
Trouble [163-180]
Supplementary Material