ASOA15030U Gender, Welfare, Citizenship in Europe. Theoretical Turns and Key Issues

Volume 2015/2016
Education

BA/MA Elective course
Specialiseringslinje: Politisk Sociologi
Course package (Msc Curriculum 2015):  Knowledge, organisation and politics; Welfare, inequality and mobility; Culture, lifestyle and everyday life.
 

Content

The course focus on gender, welfare and citizenship in the context of globalization, 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 of recognition and redistribution related to gender, family, sexuality, ethnicity, religion and violence. 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 the interface of gender, welfare research and citizenship research: such as gender as an analytical category, ideas of welfare and gender regimes,  citizenship and belonging, intersectionality as a mixed methodology and at work in gender and diversity mainstreaming. And moreover to enable students to present knowledge based discourses on current affairs of gendering men, masculinities and parental leave, prostitution and trafficking, gendered migration, labourmarket and domestic work. How are such issues approached and how do they contribute to a re-location of European welfare discourses and ideas of citizenship.

The aims of the course are  to

- learn about relevant tematic issues related to the intersecting fields of gender, welfare and citizenship.

-  provide students with theoretical and  methodological skills and understandings related t othe intersecting fields of gender, welfare and citizenship  

- to understand and and qualify contemporary debates on gender, welfare and citizenship in  relevant areas

-  to enable studens to locate and analyze significant cases in Danish and European contexts

Printed compendium + case based materials provided by teacher and students.

Students will be presented for relevant academic litetarure in lectures + team discussions. Also students will be required to active participation in presentations and small scale field work. Visits to a couple of institutions and NGOs are integrated in the course.
This course i part of the gender certificate initiative at University of Copenhagen
see www: koensforskning.soc.ku.dk/​gendercertificate/​.

INDICATIVE WORKLOAD
The number of lecture hours are the same for both 15 and 20 ECTS courses.

15 ECTS:
Lectures: 56
Course preparation: 150
Exercises: 30
Project work: 97
Exam Preparation: 80
Total: 413

20 ECTS:
Lectures: 56
Course preparation: 200
Exercises: 40
Project work: 139
Exam Preparation: 115
Total: 550
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Course Preparation
  • 150
  • Exam Preparation
  • 80
  • Exercises
  • 30
  • Lectures
  • 56
  • Project work
  • 97
  • Total
  • 413
Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Portfolio
Individual or group. A portfolio assignment is defined as a series of short assignments during the course that address one or more set questions and feedback is offered during the course. All of the assignments are submitted together for assessment at the end of the course. The portfolio assignments must be no longer than 30 pages. For group assignments, an extra 15 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
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

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
20 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Individual or group. A portfolio assignment is defined as a series of short assignments during the course that address one or more set questions and feedback is offered during the course. All of the assignments are submitted together for assessment at the end of the course. The portfolio assignments must be no longer than 30 pages. For group assignments, an extra 15 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 2005 or BSc Curriculum to take this exam.

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Criteria for exam assesment

Please see the learning outcome.