GS40040 Space, Place and Gender: Interrogating feminist geographies

Academic Year 2022/2023

*** Not available in the academic year indicated above ***

Space and place are increasingly acknowledged as important in how we perceive, negotiate, experience and order our complex, gendered social worlds. This module will explore ways in which the concepts space and place can help deepen our understanding of gendered social relations. Placing queer and feminist theory alongside human and social geographic theory we will interrogate the ways in which sex/gender inequalities and identities are distributed across s/place taking cognisance of their complex intersections with social class, ethnicity, age etc. We will consider these intersectional materialities across a range of spatial scales from the local to the global drawing on anti-colonial, global scholarship. Situating power relations at the centre of our enquiry we will interrogate social difference through manifestations of spatial in/exclusions and their affective implications. The course is divided into two parts: the first offers an overview of key theorists and influential concepts in understanding and imagining feminist and queer geographies; the second will be topic and site specific where we will locate our inquiry within the academy, community, state, home, public, body and others. The approach to teaching this course will be dialogical, creative and inclusive and will combine whole class teaching and lectures with small group work to maximise student participation and engagement.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate specialised and advanced theoretical knowledge of the ways in which gendered social relations, inequalities and identities are (re)produced and distributed across space and place
2. Show an ability to critically evaluate theoretical and applied material relating to queer and feminist geographies through small group discussion and project work
3. Apply knowledge and understanding of theories of space and place to the broader, interdisciplinary concerns of feminist and gender studies
4. Have the learning skills to facilitate further self-directed and autonomous research into feminist and gendered geographies
5. Complete and present an image based project which demonstrates their engagement with, and understanding of, key module themes
6.Write a scholarly essay reflecting the key module themes and concepts and which is appropriate for study at Level 4.

Indicative Module Content:

A comprehensive module outline will be available to students through Brightspace and will provide a detailed session by session content breakdown to include specific session theme, core and additional readings, module bibliography, assessment details.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24

Specified Learning Activities

92

Autonomous Student Learning

84

Total

200

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
My teaching and learning philosophy is influenced by adult education and feminist empowerment pedagogy. Drawing on the work of educationalists and pedagogues including Dewey, Greene, Freire, hooks, Brookfield and Barnett, my aim is to maximise student participation and engagement. My teaching portfolio reflects a career devoted to developing pedagogies appropriate to diverse student cohorts and seeks to make explicit the synergistic relationship between research and teaching. I draw on a range of multi-media resources, art and visual materials and a broad range of academic reading materials within class. I also make use of the UCD online Brightsppace system. Adopting a dialogical approach, I draw on a variety of methods and skills acquired over two decades including: the flipped classroom, inductive learning strategies and group work. Group work underpins my approach to teaching this particular module linked specifically to core readings and guide questions set in advance of each session. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Equivalents:
Space, Place and Gender (WS40300)


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Presentation: Short presentation based on one of the module themes Week 12 n/a Graded Yes

40

Essay: Essay appropriate to this level of study based on module themes. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded Yes

60


Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

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