UCL - Interdisciplinary Introduction to Gender Studies

[POLS1232]

[15h] 3 credits

Teacher(s): Florence Degavre, Pascale Jamoulle

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

This course aims to introduce the study of gender and demonstrate the value and importance of this approach to all scientific disciplines. The first is to specify what kind of approach a historical introduction to the issue of inequality between men and women (in the family, work, politics, social insurance, sickness, law, etc.). then show how the gender perspective was built in within scientific disciplines (such as history, law, sociology, demography, anthropology, economics, philosophy, etc.). The course also will question the values, ideas, beliefs and social practices intend to legitimize a view supposedly neutral, and the mechanisms of social construction and reproduction science.

Content and teaching methods

As a multi-category, gender is in question given the nature of the alleged biological duality of the sexes and its political and social. This course will examine how this analysis affects all dimensions of the scientific, social and biopolitical.
Among the main topics include:
- Introduction to the historical problem of gender (claim equal rights, differentialism, universalism , interactionism, ...).
- Readings on gender specific disciplines and their relevance to this discipline: social sciences, medicine, law, psychology, communication, philosophy ...
Method:
(1) A course consisting of: d 'presentations on the history of gender studies, on the presentations to the introduction of gender in the various disciplines
(2) reading an introduction to the issue of gender and reading on a gender perspective on discipline for most of the student.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation: Evaluation of individual or group on the course readings and imposed and voluntary.
Materials: Bibliography, lectures and portfolio guide to prepare lecture notes.