GENDER STUDIES

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr J King

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

How did women get the vote? When did the idea that 'a woman's place is in the home' start to be seriously challenged? Who created the first women's refuge for victims of domestic abuse? This course attempts to answer such questions by tracing the history of the women's movement from 1900 to the present. It focuses on a number of 'revolting' women, whose thinking has had a major impact, and studies their work in its historical and social context. The course also examines more broad-based debates and forms of activism. Through studying a wide variety of sources - historical, literary, theoretical and visual - students will examine what women thought about the problems facing them, and what solutions they found to them.

Structure

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

Assessment

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

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

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr M Jowett

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

This course involves study of how ideas about the feminine and the masculine are evolved and communicated in our society, and of key aspects of the roles which women adopt in their domestic lives, and the implications of these roles for other aspects of women’s experience.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

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

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

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 2 or above.

Notes

This course will be available in the first half-session of 2005/06 as CU 2006.

Overview

This course offers students an opportunity to study the role of women and men in the culture and society of England, Scotland and Ireland. The course is taught in ‘reverse’ chronological order, beginning with the period after women won the vote and ending with the middle ages. In each chronological segment the same key themes are addressed, normally including family, work, health, politics, knowledge and belief. In addition, students will be introduced to relevant aspects of art and material culture. Throughout, women’s role in society will be analysed by comparison with the role of men in society.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures per week; 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Resit: Examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

Either WS 1005 or WS 1504.

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-hour 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, and, for 2005/06 only, to students in Programme Year 4.

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 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

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

None.

Notes

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 studying Gender Studies or International Relations.

Overview

Osama bin Ladin delivers a video message which is beamed round the world. Yasser Arafat dies. George W Bush and Tony Blair meet to discuss the future of the Middle East. American soldiers are televised shooting dead apparently unarmed and injured Iraqis in the continuing 'post-war' violence. The names and faces change over time. 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: Examination (60%), in-course assessment (40%).

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.