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Module Title
Module Code	(ITS: LG5068)
Faculty		School
NFQ level		Credit Rating

Description

This module introduces students to the study of gender and politics, looking into issues of related to how societies organise, how international politics works, and how economic structures are formed and develop.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand what is gender and why it matters
2. Analyse major political, economic and social events and processes from a gendered perspective Understand what processes and phenomena gendered analysis brings to light
3. Assess the gender impact of political choices Identify gender-based discrimination and violence

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Lecture	24	12 two-hour seminars involving a lecture by the module coordinator followed by student-led class discussion
Class Presentation	10	Students will be divided in groups. Starting in week 3 and for every week after that, each group will present one reading (of their choice, avoid textbook/handbook chapters). Slides and visual material are welcome. Groups may also use case studies, movie excerpts or other material in their presentations. Connection with topics and class discussion, as well as content from other modules, is welcome
Report	30	Reconnect the book to lectures’ topics, the module’s and your independent academic readings, offer reflections on the module’s contents, as well as on you own life experience. Word count: max 2,500 words, references and notes included. Book: Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
Assignment Completion	50	The research paper should be about any topic of the module you’ve found interesting and should be primary sources-based (interviews, documents, …). You can discuss with me your plans for the paper in advance. Word count: max 3,500, including references and notes
Independent Study	136	Weekly reading and class preparation
Independent Study	226	No Description
Lecture	24	No Description
Total Workload: 500

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Presentation	Group class presentations	30%	n/a
Research Paper	One research paper about a topic of choice	40%	n/a
Report(s)	Book report	30%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Indicative reading list:
Course textbook - Laura J. Shepherd (ed), Gender Matters in Global Politics, Routledge 2014. Alternatively: Waylen, Georgina et al (eds) The Oxford handbook of gender and politics, Oxford UP, 2016. This is a list of relevant books you can read/use if interested in specific issues: Edited by Jude Browne, Why Gender?, Cambridge University Press 2021; Baron, Beth, Egypt as a woman: Nationalism, gender, and politics, University of California Press, 2005; Yuval-Davis, Nira, Gender & Nation, Sage, 1997; Terrell Carver and Veronique Mottier, Politics of Sexuality: Identity, Gender, Citizenship, Routledge 1998; Käser, Isabel, The Kurdish women's freedom movement: gender, body politics and militant feminities, Cambridge University Press 2021; Al-Rasheed, Madawi, A most masculine state: gender, politics and religion in Saudi Arabia, Cambridge University Press 2013; Le Renard, Amélie. A society of young women. Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia, Stanford University Press, 2014; Fraser, Nancy, Cinzia Arruzza, and Tithi Bhattacharya. Feminism for the 99%. London: Verso, 2019. (uploaded)

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