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1. Encourage students to develop a critical analysis of how gender and masculinities organise and construct our everyday lives;
2. Gain a better understanding of diversity and ourselves through the comparative study of other cultures and their notions of gender and masculinities;
3. Critically analyse the ways our societies produce power, knowledge, discourses, and inequalities through gender and masculinities.
4. Embrace an intersectional approach that posits gender and masculinity at the interaction of other factors such as race/ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, among others.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities | 24 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 54 |
Total | 102 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Individual Project: This is a take-home open book examination and should demonstrate your proficiency in applying concepts relevant to masculinities studies to a topic of your choice. | Week 15 | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 70 |
No |
Quizzes/Short Exercises: ONE individual take-home Multiple Choice Questionnaire. The questions will be drawn from material covered in each of the weekly learning units. | Week 7 | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 30 |
No |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Individual feedback will be provided to students post-assessment.
Name | Role |
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Ms Judy Walsh | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |