GENDER STUDIES

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

Either GD 1001 or GD 1501.

Overview

This inter-disciplinary course challenges assumptions and myths surrounding men's and women's reaction to violence as spectacle, the reporting of sexual violence and women's participation in violence. The course begins with a cross-cultural overview, followed by an introduction to the range of methodologies that will be used to approach the course material. The course also discusses the experience of researching and studying violence.

Structure

2 one-gour lectures, 1 hour of resource-based study and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%), in-course assessment (30%), tutorial participation grade (10%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%) if the tutorial participation grade is a pass.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jowett

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Overview

The course addresses research practices within Gender Studies, both in terms of the generation of data and the construction of theory. It explores the processes of undertaking empirical research such as focus groups and interviews, and also thinks through the ways in which visual culture and gender history might researched. The course considers how gender can be studied alongside class, sexuality and 'race', and it also addresses the question of whether there can or should be a specifically feminist or gender-conscious approach within social and political research.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%) unless student opts to carry forward in-course assessment mark.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr J King

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Overview

This course examines the role female icons have played in imposing images of femininity on women and/or offering empowering images of women. These icons will include historical figures such as Joan of Arc and Elizabeth I, and twentieth-century figures such as Marilyn Monroe and Madonna. They are studied in their historical and cultural contexts, and analysed from a number of perspectives, including those of art history, history, religious studies, sociology and film studies. The course, therefore, introduces students to key feminist theories, as well as giving them the opportunity to study a range of important female images. As part of the course, students are taught how to access information from the World Wide Web, and how to present it on their own Website.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (40%), in-course assessment: essay (40%), project (20%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%)unless the student opts to carry forward in-course assessment marks.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3. This course will not be running in 2007/08.

Overview

The course addresses research practices within Gender Studies, both in terms of the generation of data and the construction of theory. It explores the processes of undertaking empirical research such as focus groups and interviews, and also thinks through the ways in which visual culture and gender history might be researched. The course considers how gender can be studied alongside class, sexuality and 'race', and it also addresses the question of whether there can or should be a specifically feminist or gender-conscious approach within social and political research.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (60%) and in-course assessment (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%) unless student opts to carry forward in-course assessment mark.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalweski

Pre-requisites

None.

Notes

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 studying Gender Studies or International Relations. This course cannot be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with GD 4503.

Overview

Osama bin Ladin delivers a video message which is beamed round the world. George W Bush and Tony Blair meet to discuss the future of the Middle East. The names and faces change over time but the issues seem to remain the same. What has gender or sex got to do with any of this? Issues of international importance such as war, peace, terrorism and globailization are surely far removed from the concerns of feminists and gender theorists? This course will claim otherwise, and will look at how world politics is deeply constituted by ideas about gender and sex; even death is gendered.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture/seminar and 1 on-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 2,000 word essay (30%), written tutorial presentation (10%), examination (60%) and attendance and participation at tutorials.

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours students taking a Joint Honours programme in Gender Studies.

Overview

A dissertation of 10,000 words on a subject to be decided in consultation with the course co-ordinator, to be researched and written (under supervision by a member of the Gender Studies Group) during Senior Honours.

Structure

Individual supervision over 12 weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Dissertation (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

None.

Notes

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 studying Gender Studies or International Relations. This course cannot be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with GD 3503.

Overview

Osama bin Ladin delivers a video message which is beamed round the world. George W Bush and Tony Blair meet to discuss the future of the Middle East. The names and faces change over time but the issues seem to remain the same. What has gender or sex got to do with any of this? Issues of international importance such as war, peace, terrorism and globailization are surely far removed from the concerns of feminists and gender theorists? This course will claim otherwise, and will look at how world politics is deeply constituted by ideas about gender and sex; even death is gendered.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture/seminar and 1 on-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 3,000 word essay (30%), written tutorial presentation (10%), one examination (60%) and attendance and participation at tutorials.

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.