School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Gender Issues: Terms and Debates
  • Unit Code

    CSV3105
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kwadwo ADUSEI-ASANTE

Description

This unit approaches the study of gender both as an academic practice and as a feature of our everyday lives. The unit introduces students to many of the terms used in the analysis of gender, and to a range of understandings of how gender is produced. It introduces students to ways of reading and ways of seeing gender in visual and written texts, and provides an overview of some of the most influential recent writing on gender issues, terms and debates. It begins with an overview of the international situation and an exploration of the history of feminist activism in twentieth century Australia as background to an understanding of the analysis of gender issues in contemporary society.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Offshore delivery.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse ways of reading the action of gender in our lives.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the links between women's activism nationally and internationally, and the contemporary study of gender.
  3. Describe how ways of seeing are entwined with producing gendered identities and meanings.
  4. Develop an overview of contemporary writing on gender and bodies.
  5. Develop an overview of the range and complexity of the different discourses which contribute to the field of contemporary gender studies.
  6. Discuss how gender operates in the immediate context of our everyday lives.
  7. Discuss the history and meanings of many of the terms used in the analysis of gender.

Unit Content

  1. Ways of talking and ways of thinking: terms and discourses used in contemporary gender studies.
  2. Ways of seeing: processes of stereotyping; the formation of identification and desire through seeing; looking at cultural texts.
  3. The history of feminist activism in twentieth century Australia.
  4. Ways of reading: reading gender in texts; being positioned as gendered readers; analysing gendered discourse.
  5. Gender Studies: Ways of being and Ways of living.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, and discussions; print and audio visual media.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Essay ^Assignment 130%
Journal ^Reflection20%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Essay ^Assignment 130%
Journal ^Reflection20%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Wharton, A. S. (2012). The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research. (2nd ed.). West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Gender Issues: Terms and Debates
  • Unit Code

    CSV3105
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kwadwo ADUSEI-ASANTE

Description

This unit approaches the study of gender both as an academic practice and as a feature of our everyday lives. The unit introduces students to many of the terms used in the analysis of gender, and to a range of understandings of how gender is produced. It introduces students to ways of reading and ways of seeing gender in visual and written texts, and provides an overview of some of the most influential recent writing on gender issues, terms and debates. It begins with an overview of the international situation and an exploration of the history of feminist activism in twentieth century Australia as background to an understanding of the analysis of gender issues in contemporary society.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Offshore delivery.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse ways of reading the action of gender in our lives.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the links between women's activism nationally and internationally, and the contemporary study of gender.
  3. Describe how ways of seeing are entwined with producing gendered identities and meanings.
  4. Develop an overview of contemporary writing on gender and bodies.
  5. Develop an overview of the range and complexity of the different discourses which contribute to the field of contemporary gender studies.
  6. Discuss how gender operates in the immediate context of our everyday lives.
  7. Discuss the history and meanings of many of the terms used in the analysis of gender.

Unit Content

  1. Ways of talking and ways of thinking: terms and discourses used in contemporary gender studies.
  2. Ways of seeing: processes of stereotyping; the formation of identification and desire through seeing; looking at cultural texts.
  3. The history of feminist activism in twentieth century Australia.
  4. Ways of reading: reading gender in texts; being positioned as gendered readers; analysing gendered discourse.
  5. Gender Studies: Ways of being and Ways of living.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, and discussions; print and audio visual media.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Essay ^Assignment 130%
Journal ^Reflection20%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Essay ^Assignment 130%
Journal ^Reflection20%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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