Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description The course will investigate and explore the enduring language and imagery of queer matters in contemporary cultures, through the languages of literature and art. The course will have a dual focus, with the intention of: examining the creation of specific queer artefacts, as well as assessing the role, function and consequences of literary and artistic creations, actions or events identified as queer. To do so, different queer theories will be employed as a tool kit to address the different languages of sexual politics through the arts and the cultural artefacts (TV series, films, visual arts) from different sociocultures whether European, Latin American or Arab. IT will also look at the relationship between art, activism and artivism. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Give an account of the ongoing centrality of the queer issues in today’s cultures 2. Engage with the semiotic and non-semiotic languages of queerness 3. Use different strands of queer theories as a paradigm to analyse cultural productions 4. Assess the way contemporary literary and artistic artefacts use their own languages to reflect societies’ upheavals 5. Assess the way contemporary literary and artistic artefacts use their own languages to respond to the societies’ upheavals 6. Demonstrate an adequate level of critical understanding as a means to address contemporary cultural debates 7. Respond in an informed and articulate manner to cultural artefacts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Queer Theory and Queer politics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List Books: None Articles: None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other Resources None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||