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2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

FREN3760 Women in Early Modern France

20 creditsClass Size: 12

Module manager: Paul White
Email: P.M.White@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

Pre-requisite qualifications

Ability to study a module taught in French, usually evidenced by having completed level 2 of a degree programme including French.

Module replaces

FREN3512 (Women Writers in Early Modern France, 10 credits)

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module, taught entirely through seminars, studies the social and cultural history of women in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It examines, through close study of novels, plays and poetry of the period, how women were represented in texts by men and how women represented themselves in their own texts.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a broad understanding of the status of women and women writers in sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French culture and society
2. demonstrate sound, critical knowledge of the prescribed texts
3. relate the prescribed texts to their literary, historical, social and cultural contexts and to more than one topic area
4. have some understanding of the historical and literary factors that have a bearing on the texts studied
5. demonstrate familiarity with the critical literature relevant to each text and evaluate different critical approaches
6. select, evaluate and organise coherently and persuasively evidence gathered from a study of the prescribed texts and associated critical literature in the form of oral presentations and essays

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. analyse critically complex literary texts
2. evaluate critically secondary sources and different analytical approaches
3. select, evaluate and organise coherently and persuasively evidence gathered from a study of the prescribed texts and associated critical literature in the form of oral presentations and essays
4. demonstrate enhanced skills in French in an academic register

Skills outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. analyse critically complex literary texts
2. evaluate critically secondary sources and different analytical approaches
3. select, evaluate and organise coherently and persuasively evidence gathered from a study of the prescribed texts and associated critical literature in the form of oral presentations and essays
4. demonstrate enhanced skills in French in an academic register

Syllabus

This module, taught entirely through seminars, studies the social and cultural history of women in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It aims to understand the history of women's paradoxical cultural influence and subjugation: at precisely the time when women were habitually relegated to the private, domestic sphere and to the status of objects (notably through the institutions of law, marriage, and education), a significant number of them nevertheless entered into the public domain as writing subjects. Topics and themes for study include: gender and genre; women as writing subjects; male-authored fictional representations of women; attitudes to female sexuality and to women’s learning; debates about the status of women within the institution of marriage; social satire and feminist protest.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	20	1.00	20.00
Private study hours			180.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Students will be expected to read around the subjects in preparation for and following seminars; they will also be set specific research tasks for each seminar, requiring targeted reading of primary and secondary texts and the preparation of oral and/or written presentations. In addition, students will have to prepare for the essay and examination that constitute the assessment of this module.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will receive oral feedback on any presentations they give in seminars. They will also be encouraged to hand in essays for written comment at any point in the module. They will receive written feedback on their performance in the examination at the end of semester 1. In addition, students will be made aware of the tutor's availability for consultation outside seminars.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2,500-3,000 words	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr 00 mins	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 21/08/2015

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