ASOA15031U Gender and Body Dynamics. Cross-disciplinary perspectives
BA/MA Elective course
Course package: (MSc Curriculum 2015):
Knowledge, organisation and politics
BA-Undergraduates from foreign countries (exchange students) can sign up for this course
NB!
Please be aware, that in BSc/MSc courses you can ONLY join a
group, if everyone in the group is registered for the same amount
of ECTS.
The aim of this course :Gender and Body Dynamics in the 21st
century is to provide a venue of exchange between international and
Danish students across health, science and social sciences to learn
about recent developments in the field. The focus will be on
interdisciplinary approaches related to sexuality, health and
nutrition and , reproductive body technologies. In addition the
course will introduce to new theoretical and
methodological developments in gender and body
studies.
Recent decades have witnessed an explosive development in the
interface of gender and body dynamics. The variety of turns in late
modern technologies and feminist knowledge production have blurred
traditional boundaries between public and private and between human
and non human: Who owns the body and who disposes over the
different parts? And who are responsible for choices and
regulations in the field of lifestyles, nutrition and reproductive
technologies? What are the implications of the current ideas of
gender, that have become more fluent and multiple? And how do the
new understandings relocate old and new power structures and
hierarchies at local, regional and global levels?
Gendered bodies are today subject of opposing strategies of
deregulation and “free choice” on one hand and of radicalized body
governance and interventions from the state and commercial
interests on the other hand. Body discipline and purity, has become
a central ideal of the current social investment strategy of the
developed welfare states as expressed in fitness and anti fat and
smoking campaigns. Today the body takes center stage and has become
an issue for both personal and collective identities and
strategies, which in many ways coincides with a search for new
gender identities in late modernity.
The course will be structured around lectures/presentations
of interdisciplinary theories of gender and body and look at,
how gender and body dynamics are have been and are produced in
different institutional and thematic sites. The
lectures will be focused on the following themes:
Theoretical turns and key concepts among them are: ( Beauvoir
, Butler, Barad), Methodological turns and intersectionality
(Harding/Haraway/Lykke), gender and body in qualitative and
quantitative methodologies across the disciplines, thematic
focus on gender and body dynamics in medical science
and cultures, In food, pharma and fitness and, gender and body
management in bio medical perspectives.
In addition to the lectures a couple of institutional visits will be arranged: such as a visit to the Museum of Medical history, a pharma company.
The course is part of the Gender Certificate initiative at
University of Copenhagen.
See:
http://koensforskning.soc.ku.dk/gendercertificate/
and lectures will be presented by a cross-disciplinary of faculty members from University of Copenhagen.
KNOWLEDGE
By the end of the course students are
- familiar with central theories and methodological approaches relevant to the field of gender studies
- identify thematical issues related to gender, body technologies, strategies and identities
SKILLS
By the end of the course students are able to
- apply and evaluate the use of various theoretical and methodological approaches
- approach conceptual debates on gender and body in relevant areas
COMPETENCES
By the end of the course studens are able to
- analyze significant cases in Danish and global contexts
Printed syllabus - availiable in the CSS bookstore
www.koensforskning.soc.ku.dk/gendercertificate/
WORKLOAD
The number of lecture hours are the same for both 7,5 and 10 ECTS courses.
10 ECTS:
Lectures: 28
Course preparation: 169
Exam Preparation: 78
Total: 275
- Category
- Hours
- Course Preparation
- 100
- Exam Preparation
- 78
- Lectures
- 28
- Total
- 206
Registration deadline for courses is June 1 for Autumn semester
and December 1 for Spring semester.
Registration deadline for Summer school is June 1 and December
1 (Credit students only June 1).
When registered you will be signed up for exam.
Exchange students must sign up by filling in an application form
which you find
here:
course registration
Meritstuderende:
klik her
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentIndividual/group. Free written take-home essays are assignments for which students define and formulate a problem within the parameters of the course and based on an individual exam syllabus. The free written take-home essay must be no longer than 10 pages. For group assignments, an extra 5 pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet.
- Exam registration requirements
Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2015 to take this exam.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Internal examiners
- Exam period
Submission dates and time will be available at KUnet, www.kunet.dk. Exchange students and danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/
- Re-exam
At re-exam, the form of examination is the same as ordinary exam.
If the form of examination is ”active participation” the re-examination form is always “free written take-home essay”.
Criteria for exam assesment
Please see the learning outcome.
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentIndividual/group. Free written take-home essays are assignments for which students define and formulate a problem within the parameters of the course and based on an individual exam syllabus. The free written take-home essay must be no longer than 10 pages. For group assignments, an extra 5 pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet.
- Exam registration requirements
Sociology students must be enrolled under BSc Curriculum 2005 to take this exam.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Internal examiners
- Exam period
Submission dates and time will be available at KUnet, www.kunet.dk. Exchange students and danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/
- Re-exam
At re-exam, the form of examination is the same as ordinary exam.
If the form of examination is ”active participation” the re-examination form is always “free written take-home essay”.
Criteria for exam assesment
Please see the learning outcome.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASOA15031U
- Credit
- See exam description
- Level
- BachelorBachelor choice,Full Degree Master,Full Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- Se skemalink.
- Study board
- Department of Sociology, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Sociology
Course Coordinators
- Hilda Rømer Christensen (3-6b756643767266316e7831676e)
Lecturers
Hilda Rømer Christensen, e-mail: hrc@soc.ku.dk