NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 性別研究與文學(5515)
(Eng.) Gender Studies
Offering Dept Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 2 Teacher CHENG CHUN-JUNG
Department Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures(N)Undergraduate Language English Semester 2026-SPRING
Course Description Sine gender has been an issue in civilization, the course is to introduce first the 1st-wave feminists like Beauvoir and Woolf before the 1960s and the subsequent feminists like Kate Millet, E. Showalter, J. Kristeva, H. Cixous, L. Irigray, Alice Jardine, Judith Butler, D. Haraway, etc.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
To help studetns grasp the ideas and efforts that the so-called feminists have come up with and mad in the historical process so that the gender issue can be more highlighted in discussions.
Exercises
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 introduction upon the differences between sex and gender, and then the elaboration of languistic operations has complicated the simple clear-cut of sex and gender.
Week 2 Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Three Guineas
Week 3 Kate Millet: Sexual Politics
Week 4 Elaine Showalter: gynocriticism
Week 5 Kristeva: Power of Horror, abject, chora, symbolic/semiotic
Week 6 Helene Cixous: feminie writing, female body, writing
Week 7 Luce Irigray: Speculum of the Other Woman, women’s eroticism
Week 8 Alice Jardine: gynesis-- ”woman’ as intrinsic to new and necessary modes of thinking, writing, speaking
Week 9 Judith Butler: idea of performativity, gender as failed copy
Week 10 Donna Haraway: cyborg and post-gender
Week 11 E. F. Sedgwick: Episemology of the Closet
Week 12 Adrienne Rich: compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence
Week 13 Jane Rule: Lesbian Images
Week 14 J. Dollimore: perverse dynamic
Week 15 Jeffrey Weeks: flux of desire
Week 16 self-study will focus on the review of sex and gender, of the introduced outstanding feminists in terms of partiarchy, sexuality in literary texts, the clear-cut of heterosexuality and homosexuality, the emgernce of gay, lesbian, queen and their sanguine influences upon the independence of the colonized states.
self-directed
learning
   01.Participation in professional forums, lectures, and corporate sharing sessions related to industry-government-academia-research exchange activities.
   02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.
   03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.

Evaluation
class attendance, in-class discussions, quizes, and final self-study essyas
Textbook & other References
A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literay Theory 5th edition
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
kjcheng@dragon.mail.nchu.edu.tw
Office Hours
every Monday evening from 5:50 to 6:20
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL)
03.Good Health and Well-Being   04.Quality Education   05.Gender Equality   10.Reduced Inequalities   16.Peace and Justiceinclude experience courses:N
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Update Date, year/month/day:2026/01/16 09:32:41 Printed Date, year/month/day:2026 / 3 / 10
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