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Workload
Education level
Study areas
Responsible person
Hours per week
Coordinating university
3 ECTS
B1 - Bachelor's programme 1. year
(*)Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Doris Weichselbaumer
2 hpw
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Pre-requisites
(*)keine
Original study plan
Study (*)Gruppe "Gender Studies" 0
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students are able to produce advanced analyses of complex relationships between the economy and gender relations. Students can identify and critically discuss gender blind assumptions and gendered implications of economic theories and practices.
Skills
Knowledge
Students are able to understand (k2) advanced concepts of feminist economics. They are able to interpret (k2) and critically assess (k5) academic texts on feminist economics.
Students are able to apply (k3) feminist economic theories and to connect them analytically to current economic issues (k4).
Students are able to investigate (k4) gender blindness as well as gender specific implications of economic theories and practices and to criticially ecaluate and discuss them (k5).
Advanced theoretical foundations and research questions in feminist economics.
historical and current developments in the feminist discourse on the economy.
central approaches and methods of Gender Studies in the economy.
Criteria for evaluation
The course is a literature seminar. Students actively analyse the texts (see KUSSS), reflect upon them, discuss them in the course and develop the topics. This should lead to a scientific paper, developing one of the discussed areas of research.
