The Perspective of Gender in the Contemporary World
Code: 106200 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2504216 Contemporary History, Politics and Economics | OB | 2 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Carlos Ángel Ordas Garcia
- Email:
- carlosangel.ordas@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- english (eng)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
Those of the obligatory subjects of the degree in Contemporary History, Politics and Economics.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The aims of the subject are:
- Present the main historical issues related to gender perspective in the Late Modern Period
- Provide the students with the key elements to place gender perspective in the analysis of the Late Modern Period
- Provide the students with useful sources in order to develop their cognitive skills regarding the relationships between genders and history, politics and economics
Competences
- Distinguish between and analyse the type of relations that have been established over the last century among the different social, political and economic agents on national, regional and international frameworks.
- Explain and summarise knowledge acquired in English language at an advanced level.
- Identify the role in the present of the different social memories referring to conflictive pasts, differentiating between the concepts of history and memory.
- Recognise the basic foundations of economic analysis from both a microeconomic and macroeconomic perspective.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
- Work cooperatively in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams implementing new projects.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse the mechanisms of the formation of salaries.
- Appropriately identifying and using information sources for the historical research, specially about contemporary political regimes.
- Assess work-related policies.
- Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
- Deal sensitively with social questions
- Developing the ability of historical analysis and synthesis.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Identifying the social, economic and political structures of the contemporary world.
- Interpret the motivations, instruments and effects of public intervention in the labour market.
- Make a brief comparison of national and/or regional cases within the same international framework.
- Manage and apply data to solve problems.
- Organising and planning the search of historical information.
- Present works in formats tailored to the needs and personal styles, both individual and small group.
- Properly using the specific vocabulary of History.
- Recognising diversity and multiculturalism.
- Recognising the historical processes that led to the contemporary society.
- Relating elements and factors involved in the development of historical processes.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Understand and explain situations of memory in conflict from the perspectives of class, gender and national identity.
- Understand the different perspectives of class, gender and national identity on which different relations between social, political and economic agents are based.
- Using computing resources of the area of study of history.
- Using the specific work methods of Contemporary History.
- Work in teams respecting all points of view. Use the specific vocabulary of history correctly.
Content
- Construction of gender discourse, 19th and 20th centuries.
- Gender resistance: from the beginnings of feminism to the second wave of feminism.
- History, Herstory and Gender
- Gender politics
- Production and reproduction
- Gender Beyond the West
Methodology
The teaching methodology and the training activities can be diverse and will be evaluated according to the teacher's opinion. For Assistance to theoretical classes
- Assistance to theoretical classes
- Assistance to flipped classroms
- Comprehensive reading of texts
- Performing reviews, works and analytical comments
- Preparation and realization of oral presentations
- Personal study
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Theoretical classes | 20.4 | 0.82 | 21, 4, 9, 7, 18 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Flipped classrooms | 30.6 | 1.22 | 1, 3, 11, 21, 4, 6, 2, 10, 7, 14, 18, 24 |
| Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal study | 75 | 3 |
Assessment
*The subject will be evaluated by applying the following procedures:
- Group wor and a flipped classroom in group (mandatory to qualify for recovery): 35%
- Individual assignment: 30%
- Writing exams: 35%
* All the subject matter of the course contained in the explanations in class and, where appropriate, compulsory readings that can be indicated during the course will be evaluated.
* The dates of completion of the tests in the classroom and delivery of work will be communicated to the students at the beginning of the course.
* At the time of completion of each evaluation activity, the faculty will inform the students (Moodle) of the procedure and date of review of the grades.
Recovery
- A student will be considered as "not evaluable" if he/she does not present the work and does not participate in the group flipped classroom.
- The recovery will consist of a global examination of the subject matter and will be held on the official dates established by the Faculty.
- In no case may recovery be considered as a means of improving the qualification of students who have already passed the subject in the normal process of continuous assessment.
- Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5.
- The maximum note that can be obtained in the recovery is 5 (Approved).
Revision
- The students will have the right to review the results of the tests carried out. the teacher will establish a specifi tutoring schedule to proceed with the comment of the evaluation activities carried out
- The copy of written sources (internet, books, works, etc.) and presented as original is a 0 in the grade of the exercise or written test. Several irregularitiescommitted will imply a global score of zero.
- In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities, the student will receive a zero as the final grade for the class.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam | Exam (35%) | 1.5 | 0.06 | 19, 11, 21, 9, 8, 17, 18, 15 |
| Group Practices | 1 paper/seminary (35%) | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 3, 20, 12, 10, 13, 7, 14, 24, 23, 22 |
| Individual Practices | 1 paper (30%) | 4.5 | 0.18 | 19, 20, 4, 6, 2, 14, 16, 5 |
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Software
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