Advanced Teaching Skills will develop your critical understanding of learning theory and your ability to use it to inform practice. You will recognise and...

Advanced Teaching Skills will develop your critical understanding of learning theory and your ability to use it to inform practice. You will recognise and critically analyse key educational theories and integrate theory into teaching practice.  You will learn how to use feedback to motivate learners and analyse the impact of feedback on learning.

After taking this module, you should be able to recognise and critically analyse key educational theories including, but not limited to: adult learning theory, social cognitive theory, self-directed learning and situated learning.  You will integrate learning theory into teaching practice and be aware of the theoretical approaches that could be relevant to different educational situations.  You will also look at theory relating to the motivation of learners and apply this appropriately to address barriers to learning.

This module is assessed through a 3000 word coursework assignment carrying 100% of the final mark

This advanced module provides an introduction to key ideas and texts in Queer Theory and analyses representations of queerness (broadly defined) in literature...

This advanced module provides an introduction to key ideas and texts in Queer Theory and analyses representations of queerness (broadly defined) in literature and visual culture. It will include enqueery into practices of queer representation and reading as modes of resisting normative categories of identification in the realms of gender, sexuality, politics and nationhood. Topics may include Trans theory, Queerness as Performance, Queer Memoir, Queering as a Form of Political Critique and Queer Futurity. 

By the end of the module, students will be able to demonstrate:

knowledge of a selection key texts in queer theory and how they fit in to a wider theoretical landscape; 
	an awareness of critical and cultural debates about representation, identity, performativity, gender, sexuality and queerness; 
	an ability to distinguish different strands of queer theory and to articulate its development over time; 
	engagement with and an ability to summarise and interpret layers of meaning within a range of primary texts and secondary sources; 
	an ability to manage their own learning outside of the class; 
	an understanding of how to formulate appropriate research questions relating to representations and theories of queerness. 
Selected Preliminary Reading:

Butler, Judith, ‘Critically Queer’ (1993)

Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues. Firebrand Books, 1993. https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/.

Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia the Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York University Press, 2009. ucl-new-primo.com, http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814759516/.

Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Gigi. https://www.gigiotalvaro.com/. Selected performances including “Intertwining Roots (2015), Excerpts.” Vimeo, https://vimeo.com/130639631.

Preciado, Paul B., ‘Introduction’, Countersexual Manifesto. Columbia University Press (2000).