ASOA05014U Gender, Welfare, Citizenship in Europe. Theoretical Turns and Key Issues

Volume 2013/2014
Education
BA + MA
Content

The course shall address gender, welfare and citizenship  in the context of globalisation, immigration and shifts in social structures, political cultures and identities. The geopolitical framework will be the European Union and its member-states. Departing from the Nordic countries that have often been seen as model states in relation to welfare facilities and gender equal citizenship the course shall explore how the claims on the welfare state and in regard to citizenship have multiplied in a set of new agendas and outlooks that have produced fresh demands and fields of conflicts. They become articulated not least through issues and demands around gender, family, sexuality, ethnicity and religion. How are the EU and the member-states able to negotiate and meet those challenges. Is the Nordic Model suited to act as a future model for the European Welfare architecture?

Learning Outcome

The goal of the course is to make students familiar with  a range of theories and methodological  approaches in gender and welfare research:  such as gender as an analytical category, ideas of welfare and gender regimes, intersectionality as a methodology and at work in gender and diversity mainstreaming. And moreover to  make students able to  present current political and knowledge based discourses on gendering of men, masculinities and parental leave, prostitution and trafficking, gendered migration and domestic work.  How are such issues negotiated and how do they contribute to a re-location of European welfare discourses and citizenship?

Students will be presented for relevant academic literature and  invited to active participation through the collection of  data material from small scale field work, web searches and visits to a couple of Danish welfare institutions and NGOs.

Literature
Compendium  ( in print)
Lecturers, group work, small scale field studies, institutional visits, course seminar.
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  • Category
  • Hours
  • Exam
  • 123,5
  • Lectures
  • 28
  • Preparation
  • 123,5
  • Total
  • 275,0
Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Continuous assessment
with small essay
Individual or group
Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal examiners.
Exam period
Handing in of papers: 12.00 o’clock in the secretariat (16.1.34) Submission dates will be available on Absalon.
Criteria for exam assesment
See course aims.
Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Oral defence
An oral exam based upon a topic chosen by the individual student
Group/individual: Individual
Size: A synopsis of maximum 3 pages of 2400 characters. The synopsis may be handed in as a group. However, the oral exam is on individual basis. The synopsis itself is meant as a discussion paper and does not enter into the assessment
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal examiners.
Exam period
Handing in of papers: 12.00 o’clock in the secretariat (16.1.34) Submission dates will be available on Absalon.
Criteria for exam assesment
See course aims.
Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Size: A Free written take-home essay of maximum 15 pages of 2400 characters each page (incl. spaces). If written by a group, the essay may be 50 % of 2400 characters each page longer per additional student.
Attention: When handing in as a group, the contribution of each student must be pointed out
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal examiners.
Exam period
Handing in of papers: 12.00 o’clock in the secretariat (16.1.34) Submission dates will be available on Absalon.
Criteria for exam assesment
See course aims.