Postgraduate Course: Utopia II: Suffrage to Cyberpunk (ENLI11073)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will examine the idea of utopia within the context of ten key twentieth century texts, beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and concluding with Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). Themes to be discussed include technology and ideology, power, gender and utopia, subjectivity and the (post) modern subject, and geographical spaces.
*This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently postgraduate places are limited |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
| By the end of this course will be able to examine the idea of utopia within the context of key twentieth century texts. They will also be able to be discuss the technology and ideology, power, gender and utopia, subjectivity and the (post) modern subject, and geographical spaces.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
PG Version |
| Keywords | U2StC |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Alexandra Lawrie
Tel: (0131 6)50 8968
Email: Alex.Lawrie@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kara McCormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Kara.McCormack@ed.ac.uk |
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