HI403Z: MEN, WOMEN & EUNUCHS (2014-2015)

This course introduces you to the idea of gender as a social construct, while at the same time, teaching you a certain amount about the Byzantine world, focusing particularly on the period from the fourth to sixth centuries. Sexual identity is an extremely important aspect of personal identity in all societies, but by looking at a pre-medieval set of ideas which are in fundamental ways, radically different from our own, you will be helped to think critically and analytically about an area of human experience which is commonly regarded as ‘natural’, and not subject to this kind of enquiry.

This module is available to students on all non-History degree programmes as a Discipline Breadth course for the enhanced study requirement. However, the admission of students with a non-History degree intention will be at the discretion of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy.

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

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For level 4 the assessment will be 10% on seminar presentation plus general attendance and contributions in seminars, 10% for response and chairing, 20% on short essay (2,500 words), 60% on long essay (5,000 words) This course may not be included in a graduating curriculum with HI303Z/HI353Z

Students are invited to submit plan and bibliography, and to discuss appropriate reading. Formative assessment is delivered using the History department's essay return sheet, which allows focus, structure, content, argument, sources, notes/bibliography, language skills and presentation to be graded separately and the information brought together with comment on the essay as a whole and an overall mark.

Essays are returned individually, and discussed one to one.

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