SOCY60991 15 Semester 1 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Jessica Mancuso Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 <p>This course will:</p><ul> <li>Review several developments in social, political, philosophical, and cultural theories of gender and sexuality</li> <li>Evaluate the form and structure of theoretical arguments from different disciplinary perspectives</li> <li>Asses the ways in which ideas are produced and distributed through processes grounded in the material working practices of academia and publishing, including those of reading and writing</li> <li>Encourage graduate students to exchange ideas and critical responses to theories of gender as members of a seminar group.</li></ul> <p>This course will:</p><ul> <li>Historically situate the political and theoretical movements that have contributed to varying, key ways of thinking about sexed divisions, gender, and sexuality</li> <li>Review key developments in social, political, philosophical, and cultural theories of gender and sexuality, how they intersect and relate to one another, and their political implications through thematic empirical examples</li> <li>Provide students with a solid critical foundation to read media content and everyday situations through the sociological lens informed by academic theories of gender and sexuality</li> <li>Assess the ways in which knowledge and ideas are produced, accounting for the intrinsic link between power and language, and the methodological implications this has for social scientists</li> <li>Encourage students to collectively debate and critically engage with academic and real-world material through seminar group activities</li></ul> <ul> <li>To review several developments in social, political, philosophical, and cultural theories of gender and sexuality</li> <li>To evaluate the form and structure of theoretical arguments from different disciplinary perspectives</li> <li>To assess the ways in which ideas are produced and distributed through processes grounded in the material working practices of academia and publishing, including those of reading and writing</li> <li>To encourage graduate students to exchange ideas and critical responses to theories of gender as members of a seminar group.</li></ul> <p>On completion of this unit, successful students will be able to:</p><ul> <li>discuss and engage with key texts within recent theories on gender and sexuality</li> <li>place debates around gender and sexuality in their historical and theoretical contexts</li></ul><p>In addition, the students will develop and build on:</p><ul> <li>critical reading skills</li> <li>ability to discuss and engage with texts</li> <li>ability to develop coherent, structured arguments</li></ul> <p>10 x weekly 1 hr lecture &amp; 10 x weekly 1 hr seminars</p> 0 Other 100% <p>Assessment is by a 3,000 word assessed essay (100%)</p><p>Non-assessed essay plan (0%)</p> Y 0 0 0