GENDER STUDIES

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Chatterjee

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Overview

• Senior Honours students will be expected to demonstrate a wider range of reading in student presentations - and also in written work submitted throughout the course
.

• Senior Honours students will be also expected to demonstrate a deeper understanding of the concepts taught on the course - evidence of this will be expected in the dissertation.


• Both Junior and Senior Honours students will submit a short critical review of a feminist text as part of the course assessment. However, Senior Honours students will be expected to show a deeper level of understanding in their critical review, in this instance drawing on their own experience of research planning as they will write review this whilst concurrently working on their own dissertation.

Structure

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

Assessment

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

Resit: In-course grades will be carried forward unless the student opts to resubmit course work.

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: In-course grades will be carried forward unless the student opts to resubmit course work.

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 Chatterjee

Pre-requisites

None.

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: In-course grades will be carried forward unless the student opts to resubmit course work.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

None.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2008/09.
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 Gordon Brown 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 seem to be 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: In-course grades will be carried forward unless the student opts to resubmit course work.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

None

Notes

In 2008/09, this course will be offered in second semester as GD 4505.

Overview

'Sex Scandals' gives us an opportunity to more closely investigate how sex saturates contemporary politics and society. Sex is generally thought to be incidental and only problematic when it becomes related to 'scandal' as the cases of 'Profumo' and 'Lewinsky' demonstrate. In this course we will look at how gender and sex saturate the political environment.

Structure

One hour lecture: time to be arranged.
One hour tutorial: to be arranged

Assessment

1st Attempt: Short paper (10%), essay (40%), project (50%).

Resit: In-course grades will be carried forward unless the student opts to resubmit course work. And then: if mark is less than 6, three hour written examination (100%).

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: In-course grades will be carried forward unless the student opts to resubmit course work.