Overview

Gender is an integral part of the public and private lives of individuals and societies. In its narrowest sense, gender means socially constructed sex, be it female or male. However, there has now been a noticeable transition so that gender refers to those socially constructed roles, behaviours, and attributes that society considers appropriate for men and women.

Subjects may include, but are not limited to:

Weekly workshops will investigate the historical, social and individual significance of gender in various contexts e.g. the home, the workplace and in terms of education and employment as well as gender differences and the translation of difference into inequality will be addressed. Workshops will also focus on gender in relation to the media, crime and culture

Assessment Strategy

Excellent

Excellent (A- to A -) Essay* - critically examines and addresses comprehensive debates in the field of gender - critically appraises academic evidence.

Blog - critically analyses and appraises gendered inequalities - critically constructs and composes detailed discussions of how to tackle specific inequalities being discussed
- critically appraises academic evidence.

Good (B- to B+) Essay - examines and addresses comprehensive debates in the field of gender - appraises academic evidence.

Blog - analyses and appraises gendered inequalities - constructs and composes detailed discussions of how to tackle specific inequalities being discussed
- appraises academic evidence.

Satisfactory (C- to C+) *Essay) - demonstrates a basic appraisal of debates in the field of gender - demonstrates a basic appraisal of academic evidence.

Blog - provides a good analysis of gendered inequalities - constructs and composes good discussions of how to tackle specific inequalities being discussed
- utilises a mixture of academic and non-academic supporting evidence

Threshold (D+ to D-) *Essay) - demonstrates little/no discussion of debates in the field of gender - utilises non-academic supporting evidence.

Blog - provides little/no discussion of gendered inequalities - provides little/no discussion discussions of how to tackle specific inequalities being discussed
- utilises mainly non-academic supporting evidence.

Learning Outcomes

• Communicate in writing about how gendered inequalities can be tackled.

• Communicate in writing about the effects and assumptions made about sex and gender in various areas of social life.

• Critically evaluate and articulate how gender intersects with other aspects of identity

• Demonstrate and articulate the major debates, controversies, themes and theories about sex and gender in in the contemporary world.