- Teacher: Ranga Kalugampitiya
- Teacher: Prof. Arjuna Parakrama
- Teacher: I. Bakmeedeniya
- Teacher: Ranga Kalugampitiya
- Teacher: S. Marasinghe
- Teacher: Prof. Carmen Wickramagamage
This
course is designed to demonstrate the different ways in which contemporary
cultural texts of gender, class, nationality, race and media operate in current
contexts and also introduce the student to critical tools of cultural practice
and analysis. To this end, a selection of contemporary discourses, which
will enable students to engage critically with textual strategies and cultural
issues projected in them forms the core of the course. Writing as a critical analytic practice forms
the backbone of the course and for that reason, the course is structured around
a practice of writing about the self and other, social constructions
surrounding, nation, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, language and
others.
UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA, FACULTY OF ARTS FORM C-1 |
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Course code |
ENG 308 |
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Course Title |
Introduction to Theory and Practice |
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Department |
English |
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Medium |
English |
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Semester |
I: 2020 |
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Day of the week |
TBA |
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Time |
TBA |
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Venue |
TBA |
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Credits |
3 |
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Status compulsory/optional |
Compulsory |
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Prerequisites |
None |
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Maximum number of students allowed |
30 |
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Primary Instructor’s Name |
Prof. Sumathy Sivamohan |
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Supporting Instructors’ Name |
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Method of Evaluation |
Assignments 60%; Final Examination 40% |
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COURSE OUTLINE
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Course objectives: |
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week |
Lecture Topic |
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1 |
Introduction: Chapter 3 from Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere |
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2 |
Ctd. Exercises on the above |
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3 |
Above continued . Letter by Carlo Bulosan/Manto’s Ten Rupees/Quilt by Ismat Chugtai etc. Bulosan and Friere or some other creative material |
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4 |
Frantz Fanon: Chapter 5: The fact of blackness |
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5 |
Ctd. First position paper due |
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6 |
Coco Fusco: |
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7 |
Ditto |
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8 |
The Tempest |
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9 |
The Tempest Poems: Ramya Kumar, Punsara Medhani, Azfar Hussain, Sumathy Sivamohan – supplementary material could change. |
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10 |
Ethnicity in Riposte by Michael Roberts Althusser and the ISA; ‘Ideological State Apparatus” Second short paper due |
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11 |
Althusser ctd. “The Eye of Power” and “Power/Knowledge” Foucault; Discussion on long paper |
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12 |
Foucault ctd. Discussion on long paper; |
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13 |
Breast Giver by Mahesweta Devi and the notion of the subaltern. Proposal for Long paper due |
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14 |
Judith Butler and the deconstruction of Heteronomativity (optional) |
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15 |
Wrap up Long Paper Due |
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REFERENCES |
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Paulo Friere. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks |
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William Shakespeare, The Tempest |
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Simon During. 1993. Cultral Studies. 2nd Edition. London and New York: Routledge. 1999 |
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Michel Foucault: Power/Knowledge: Interviews |
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- Teacher: Ranga Kalugampitiya
- Teacher: Prof. Sumathy Sivamohan
- Teacher: I. Bakmeedeniya
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- Teacher: S. Marasinghe
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