AIM OF THE COURSE: To introduce students to experiences unique to women and to the fundamental precepts of the feminist movement and to identify the polyphonic quality of women's voices.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:

a. To equip students to steer clear of misconceptions regarding women and to evolve a human perspective about them.

b. To arouse a keen interest in analysing critically the diversity of women's experiences across the world and to marvel at their creative skills.

c. To perceive gender as a social construct

AIM OF THE COURSE: The course aims at introducing to the students the various aspects of marginality and how the question of marginality gets reflected in literature through revolutionary, indigenous and autonomous ways of expression.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:

1. To sensitize the students on issues pertaining to the marginalized

2. To educate the students about the evolving patterns of generic and other technical possibilities that the marginalized use to represent their predicament.

3. To communicate to the students how marginality is very often a contextual factor related to the socio cultural reality.

4. To discuss how the question of marginality has evolved by giving space to new and till now avoided categories of outcastes, bodily and culturally and how such people develop their own styles of articulation and subsequent theoretical foundations.