Interdisciplinary Seminar
Code: 105809 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500000 Sociocultural Gender Studies | OT | 3 |
Contact
- Name:
- Sonia Parella Rubio
- Email:
- sonia.parella@uab.cat
Teachers
- Enrico Mora
- Blanca Valdivia Gutierrez
- Nuria Alcaraz Coca
- Sonia Parella Rubio
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
It is an optional subject without prerequisites.
Objectives and Contextualisation
It is an optional subject in the area of knowledge of Sociology. It raises the main critical debates on gender relations. The main objective is to introduce elements of theoretical reflection and empirical analysis that help to understand the complexity of current debates from a gender perspective. The specific objectives are specified in the presentation of five approaches according to fields of sociological specialization:
Specific objective 1:
To analyse the crossroads between multiculturalism and feminism based on the tensions it raises in contexts of formal equality.
Specific objective 2:
To analyse the gender production of corporality and its discomforts, as well as the new forms of resistance and dissent to the hegemonic bodily mandates of the contemporary western patriarchy
Specific objective 3:
Analyze gender as a determinant in the physical and social construction of space
Specific objective 4:
To analyse the emergence and development of equality policies
To explore the main discussions about gender justice and citizenship
Competences
- Express correctly and in a non-sexist or homophobic manner both orally and in writing.
- Formulate, argue and discuss your own and others' ideas in a respectful, critical and reasoned way.
- Incorporate the non-androcentric perspective in the work carried out.
- Interpret gender inequalities in relation to sexuality, class, ethnicity and territory based on the concepts and approaches of sociocultural analysis.
- Propose and analyze the results of gender policies and plans of equality and equity in institutions, companies, public, private and non-governmental organizations.
- Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze the impact of the application of social policies with a gender perspective.
- Analyze theoretically ethnographic examples of cultural diversity in the fields of education, gender and inclusion-exclusion systems.
- Distinguish the effects of the sex and gender variables in the empirical analyzes.
- Make an inclusive use of language.
- Prepare an organized and correct speech, orally and in writing, in the corresponding language.
- Relate the most current debates around the different gender approaches with the social and historical context in which they arise.
- Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Use the specific technical vocabulary and own interpretation of the required disciplines.
Content
Theme 1
Rethinking diversity and multiculturalism from gender
Gender, ethnicity/race, rights and citizenship: Current debates
Theme 2
The social and gender production of corporeality and discomfort
Corporal dissidences
Theme 3
Gender as determinant in the physical and social construction of space
Feminist criticism of the contemporary city
Ecofeminist proposals for rethinking the territory
Theme 4
Feminist movement versus institutional feminism
About policies: redistribution versus recognition
From theory to practice: gender mainstrem or intersectionality?
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Master lessons and seminars | 45 | 1.8 | |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutoring students and practices | 30 | 1.2 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Reading articles, team work, presentation in seminars, papers | 75 | 3 |
The contents of the subject will be developed through the following activities:
- Master lessons
- Reading
- Debates, seminars, oral presentations and student participation
- Tutoring students
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.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group working theme 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5, 7, 8, 9 |
| Group working theme 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5, 7, 8, 9 |
| Group working theme 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5, 7, 8, 9 |
| Group working theme 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5, 7, 8, 9 |
| Individual paper | 40 | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
The evaluation model will be continued and will include six learning evidences:
- Individual paper (40%)
- Four brief group work according each theme of the subject, including attendance evaluation (10% each one + 5% attendance)
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place
In order to pass this subject, students must obtain an overall grade equal to or greater than 5, this grade resulting from the calculation of the grades obtained from the five learning evidences (the sum of the grades proportional to the percentages indicated for each learning evidence). Students obtaining a global average grade of less than 5 will be deemed to have failed the subject.
Conditions to be evaluated: Participate actively in the classes, as well as deliver and pass with an average final grade higher than 5 points the individual and group work.
It will be considered "Not assessable" when a person presents less than 2 evidence of learning, otherwise, the grade resulting from the proportional computation of the number of evidence of learning presented will be indicated.
In order to opt for re-assessment, students must have obtained a final overall grade of between 3.5 and 4.9 in this phase. In the re-assessment phase, students may have those evidences re-assessed that have previously been assessed as insufficient; these will be analogous to those submitted during the continuous assessment process.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
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 begiven a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
FINAL EXAMINATION: Delivery on a single date of the individual paper on one of the proposals formulated by the teaching staff (40%) and preparation of 2 individual exercises (to choose between the 4 thematic blocks) (30% each exercise)
Plagiarism or copying: if this is detected in any of the work submitted, the assessment grade for that work will be 0. If this occurs more than once, the subject as a whole will be awarded a Fail grade.
Bibliography
The annotated bibliography of each theme will be listed at the beginning of the course
Software
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Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |