Checking date: 10/05/2018


Course: 2020/2021

Introduction to gender studies
(12777)
Bachelor in Business Administration (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 147 - Estudio: 204)


Coordinating teacher: GONZALEZ MARIN, MARIA CARMEN EVA

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Courses of humanities
ECTS Credits: 2.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
As an elementary course, students are not requested to have any previous knowledge of the subject. We assume that their basic competence in History, Philosophy etc, is sufficient to complete the course successfully.
Students will have to acquire basic skills to take part in those ¿public¿ debates that are currently emerging around gender issues. In order to facilitate students¿ training the course offers: - Accurate knowledge related to vocabulary and concepts that are normally involved when addressing issues related to gender in the public sphere. - The ability to reconstruct and reflect upon the arguments and positions articulated around gender issues. - The ability to elaborate new perspectives on these very issues and adopt innovate approaches to examine old problems/theoretical discussions.
Description of contents: programme
The course objective is to familiarize the student with the central issues and discussions on gender and sexuality as a specific field of enquiry (Gender Studies). The course is organised around three axes that articulate the most relevant aspects of traditional feminist/women¿s studies and, in the last section, we will consider the recent theoretical contributions. Program 1. Exclusion: a genealogy. Plato: The Republic. Book V Aristotle: Politics Book I 2 On equality and its traps Wollstonecraft, M.: Vindication of the Rights of Women De Beauvoir, S.: The Second Sex 3. On Difference Irigaray, L: Je, tu, nous: Towards a Culture of Difference. Braidotti, R: Patterns of Dissonance. 4. Overcoming gender Haraway, D: Simians, Cyhorgs and Women. The Reinvention ofNature Butler, J: Gender Trouble.
Learning activities and methodology
The teaching methodology in this course will consist primarily of the presentation of thematic blocks in the first class of the week and discussion of the texts in the second class of each week. Students are expected f to read short texts before the classes and come to them with a number of issues that will form the basis of discussion. An active commitment from students and effective participation in classes are expected The tutorial system will be the usual, ie, the teacher will ber available for students two hours per week. In the event that there are problems of understanding they try to solve them through collective tutorials.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.