GEN1000 Perspectives on General Education, except with the permission of the Module Coordinator
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This module is designed to introduce a sociological study of gender and examine why it remains central in understanding the social relations of contemporary life. It examines how different institutions of family, labor market, mass media and government become the pivotal sites for the interaction, reproduction, and changes in gender roles. It also investigates how gender is interconnected with other social systems of domination such as sexuality, age, class, race and ethnicity. The module combines theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of gender.
Upon completion of this module, students should be able to:
a. recognise and examine the ways in which gender structures our culture and society today.
b. explore the ways in which systems of power, privilege, and oppression shape our gendered experiences as individuals and members of communities.
c. explain and evaluate the ways in which our lived experiences and social institutions are structured through the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and culture.
1. Defining gender
1.1 Understanding gender, culture and society
1.2 The social construction of sex, gender and sexuality
1.3 Feminist perspectives: The interaction of gender and inequality and feminist social movements
2. Doing gender
2.1 Family, reproduction and intimate relationship
2.2 Family transitions
2.3 Media and consumption
3. Gender and power
3.1 Gender, work and leisure
3.2 Gender and sex work
3.3 Gender and migration
1. Class participation (5%)
2. Group presentation (15%)
3. Test (30%)
4. Individual Essay (50%)
