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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : European Languages and Cultures - Hispanic Studies

Undergraduate Course: 20th Century Latin American Women's Writing (ELCH10021)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course aims to give the student knowledge of a representative sample of twentieth-century women's writing from Latin America, based mainly around the novel but also incorporating some poetry and short stories. In limiting the course material by gender, the focus will be on giving the student insight into, and understanding of, key cultural and theoretical issues regarding the woman writer, such as ghettoisation and l'ecriture feminine.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Entry to Spanish Hons required.
Additional Costs Primary course texts, approx. 60 Pounds
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Students should:
a) improve their skills in reading, analysing and interpreting literature in Spanish and gain the necessary skills to discuss issues relating specifically to women's writing in a theoretically sophisticated and informed manner;
b) be able to contrast different ways in which Latin American women writers have addressed questions of gender and writing and be able to offer from their readings of the prescribed texts observations about the appropriateness of various feminist models and theories in the diverse Latin American context;
c) be able to present the above in written and oral form, with reference to a broad range of secondary sources.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Fiona Mackintosh
Tel: (0131 6)50 8303
Email: f.j.mackintosh@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Fiona Scanlon
Tel: (0131 6)50 3647
Email: Fiona.Scanlon@ed.ac.uk
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