ATS1666 · Gender, identity and power

Overview

In this unit, you will examine the relationship between gender, identity, and power in society. You will explore current debates about gender, gender identities, and sexual identities in gender theory, everyday discourse, media and popular culture, and political spaces, and evaluate the ways that gender continues to be highly contested and regulated via social institutions and structures of power. Using theories and frameworks explored in the unit, you will also explore the idea of gender as a site of resistance, and identify new and emerging stories that provide alternative ways of performing gender and gendered identities beyond the sex/gender binary.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. explain and analyse core intersectional, queer, and gender theories;
2. examine the key cultural, social, and political debates about gender in the global context;
3. analyse the role of power structures and social institutions in regulating gender;
4. evaluate the implications of these structures and institutions across diverse gender and sexual identities;
5. connect personal experience and real-world examples to theoretical frameworks;
6. communicate clearly and effectively in written and audio-visual formats.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.