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2012/13 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

GEND5105M Global Genders

30 creditsClass Size: 25

Module manager: Dr Shirley Tate
Email: s.a.tate@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2012/13

This module is approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module will provide critical perspectives on global genders.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

- identify key theoretical concepts in the study of global genders;
- understand the critical debates surrounding global genders;
- critically analyse globalised cultural forms and practices from a gender perspective;
- review and critically appraise writing on global genders;
- synthesise information and knowledge from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives;
- use the above to produce a critical essay which addresses key arguments and debates within the field of global genders.

Skills outcomes
During the course of the module students will also have the opportunity to:
- Engage with a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary viewpoints on global genders.
- Evaluate a range of methodologies deployed in the study of global genders.
- Develop an awareness of a range of theoretical perspectives and approaches to support further research in their specialist area.
- Experience a range of teaching and learning methods.
- Develop an awareness of key contemporary issues pertinent to the interdisciplinary study of global genders.

Syllabus

Geopolitical shifts and globalisation necessitate an active deliberate focus on questions of genealogies, legacies and futures in comparative gender studies. This new module takes a detailed look at global genders. It will provide students with a range of critical perspectives on:
- theorising genders in different geographical spaces;
- understanding inequality among and between peoples rather than looking at traits embodied in all non-Western, non-white peoples and cultures;
- the term 'global' in relation to an analysis of economic, political, ideological and cultural processes within a post-colonial era which foregrounds the operations of nation, 'race', class, ethnicity, gender, heterosexism and capitalism, for example.

Key themes covered in the module include, gender and post-colonial theory, migration, gender and nation, sexuality, militarization and women's peace movements, new reproductive technologies and the regulation of the body, gender and development, work, international management and forms of control, sexuality and cinema, women's creative work.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	11	2.00	22.00
Private study hours			278.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Preparatory reading for seminars 11 x 10 hours = 110
Preparation of essay = 168

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Attendance at seminars
Participation / engagement
Tutorials
1 x 6000 word essay

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1 x 6,000 word essay	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 04/10/2013

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