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==Course description==
 
==Course description==
'''5PU506''' is a second year module on the BA (Hons) Writing and Publishing degree. Students will be using Wikipedia to: enhance their knowledge of decision making and editing in a dynamic and changing environment; conducting research into the writing and editing process, negotiating with others in a collaborative environment and using this knowledge to edit a live work; and learning effective written communication and appropriate formatting and referencing.
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'''WMST 250''' is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies with special focus on the arts and humanities. The course aims to develop your skills in analysing and critiquing cultural texts, particularly their representations of women and their assumptions about gender, race, class, sexuality, and other categories of identity. It also introduces you to the cultural production of a range of women artists from different backgrounds, working in many different mediums and genres. It explores some of the differences among women, as well as connections and affiliations among them as creative workers in the arts.
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This assignment in particular will familiarize students with knowledge production and sharing online, placed in context with the historical erasure of women cultural producers.

Latest revision as of 14:54, 11 December 2018

Course description

WMST 250 is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies with special focus on the arts and humanities. The course aims to develop your skills in analysing and critiquing cultural texts, particularly their representations of women and their assumptions about gender, race, class, sexuality, and other categories of identity. It also introduces you to the cultural production of a range of women artists from different backgrounds, working in many different mediums and genres. It explores some of the differences among women, as well as connections and affiliations among them as creative workers in the arts.

This assignment in particular will familiarize students with knowledge production and sharing online, placed in context with the historical erasure of women cultural producers.