Last modified: 19 Jul 2022 13:00
This course provides students with theoretical and empirical understanding of sexualities and gender diversity in contemporary societies, paying particular attention to the historical conditions that have shaped how we conceptualise and experience sexualities and genders today. By mapping interconnections between wider power relations, and individual identities and bodies, it examines the intersectional ways in which sexualities and gender diversity are expressed, represented, and regulated.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The course focuses on the theoretical and empirical connections and relationships between wider social power relations and individual expressions and embodiments of sexuality and gender diversity. It will introduce students to feminist, queer, and decolonial theories and approaches to the social and cultural study of sexuality and gender, by examining major historical developments and contemporary examples of the diverse manifestations of sexual and gendered lives and bodies. Key topics and issues that are covered encompass the scientific and medical regulation and colonial legacies of sex, gender, and sexuality; the relationships between sexuality, gender, and the nation; and the emergence and contemporary manifestations of sexual and gender identities, including queer, trans, and non-binary identities. The course will also critically explore new and emerging gendered and sexual technologies and how sexualities and gender diversity might be imagined and (re)configured for the future.
The course enables students to gain understanding of the importance of sexuality and gender as lived realities and as organising structures of society and culture, while building knowledge of the processes that underpin social and cultural change around sexual and gendered identities and power relations. Through class discussions, exercises, and course assessments, students will gain an appreciation of competing theoretical perspectives around sexuality and gender, and how these can be applied to a range of empirical manifestations and examples of sexualities and gender diversity in different contexts. Students will have opportunities to develop their skills in critical thinking and analysis as well as understanding social problems and challenges pertaining to sexualities and gender diversity.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 12 | Feedback Weeks | 15 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be providing within three weeks of submission in writing and, upon student request, further feedback will be provided via in person or online one-to-one meeting. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Apply | Students will learn to critically interpret and apply key concepts and theoretical approaches to empirical phenomena and social problems around sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students will gain understanding of key concepts and theoretical approaches within the social study of sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Factual | Remember | Students will become familiar with social power relations, institutions, historical developments, processes underpinning social change around sexualities and gender diversity in the contemporary world |
| Reflection | Analyse | Students will gain skills to present, discuss and reflect on their own and others’ interpretations of social phenomena and processes around sexualities and gender diversity in a well-reasoned way. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 17 | Feedback Weeks | 20 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be providing within three weeks of submission in writing and, upon student request, further feedback will be provided via in person or online one-to-one meeting. |
Word Count | 3500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Students will learn to critically analyse and assess empirical evidence, theoretical approaches, and the relationship between the two within the social study of sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Apply | Students will learn to critically interpret and apply key concepts and theoretical approaches to empirical phenomena and social problems around sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students will learn to critically evaluate existing arguments and construct their own sociological arguments about empirical and theoretical perspectives on sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students will gain understanding of key concepts and theoretical approaches within the social study of sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Factual | Remember | Students will become familiar with social power relations, institutions, historical developments, processes underpinning social change around sexualities and gender diversity in the contemporary world |
| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | 0 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 15,16 | Feedback Weeks | 17 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be providing by week 12 in writing and, upon student request, further feedback will be provided via in person or online one-to-one meeting. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Students will learn to critically analyse and assess empirical evidence, theoretical approaches, and the relationship between the two within the social study of sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Apply | Students will learn to critically interpret and apply key concepts and theoretical approaches to empirical phenomena and social problems around sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students will learn to critically evaluate existing arguments and construct their own sociological arguments about empirical and theoretical perspectives on sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students will gain understanding of key concepts and theoretical approaches within the social study of sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Factual | Remember | Students will become familiar with social power relations, institutions, historical developments, processes underpinning social change around sexualities and gender diversity in the contemporary world |
| Reflection | Analyse | Students will gain skills to present, discuss and reflect on their own and others’ interpretations of social phenomena and processes around sexualities and gender diversity in a well-reasoned way. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Feedback will be providing within three weeks of submission in writing and, upon student request, further feedback will be provided via in person or online one-to-one meeting. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Factual | Remember | Students will become familiar with social power relations, institutions, historical developments, processes underpinning social change around sexualities and gender diversity in the contemporary world |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students will gain understanding of key concepts and theoretical approaches within the social study of sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Apply | Students will learn to critically interpret and apply key concepts and theoretical approaches to empirical phenomena and social problems around sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Students will learn to critically analyse and assess empirical evidence, theoretical approaches, and the relationship between the two within the social study of sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students will learn to critically evaluate existing arguments and construct their own sociological arguments about empirical and theoretical perspectives on sexualities and gender diversity. |
| Reflection | Analyse | Students will gain skills to present, discuss and reflect on their own and others’ interpretations of social phenomena and processes around sexualities and gender diversity in a well-reasoned way. |
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