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[ 162UNTRDGEK23 ] KV Decoding gender

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3 ECTS B1 - Bachelor's programme 1. year (*)Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung Doris Weichselbaumer 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Original study plan Bachelor's programme Transformation Studies. Art x Science 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students are able to understand key concepts, debates and methods of Gender Studies.
Skills Knowledge
Identifying the cultural change of gender codes and the changing cultural coding of gender. Developing understanding how cultural transformation goes along with a change in a culture’s ideas of femininity, masculinity. Analysing and evaluating intersexuality as well as norms of gender in manifold cultural products and production. Comprehensive insight into a historical dimension of cultural de- and re-coding of gender orders and gender meanings. Knowledge of the cross-cultural dimension of changes in gender codes.
Criteria for evaluation Attendance and participation in discussion; reading of the assigned literature; small case studies and presentations.
Methods Research results are presented that unpack mechanisms and background assumptions of gender relations in diverse social and cultural fields and products. Students are encouraged to pursue self-learning in this field. Several approaches to unravel gender and diversity in social and cultural fields in innovative ways will be discussed.
Language English
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 40
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority