College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Gender, Politics and Society in the Middle East
Module ARAM220 for 2016/7
Module ARAM220 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM220: Gender, Politics and Society in the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Aims
The course consists of lectures, class discussions, and student presentations, which aim to enable you to conduct independent gender analyses of contemporary debates relating to women and gender in the Middle East. You will build the tools of analysis throughout the 11-week course as part of a learning community that takes a critical approach to the study of politics and society. This course promotes a politically engaged mode of learning, primarily through group discussions and activities.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Discern the various ways in which gender roles, relations and norms are constructed, reproduced and challenged in the Middle East. 2. Identify and assess the changing social, political, cultural and economic contexts that shape gender in the Middle East. 3. Evaluate critically different theoretical and methodological approaches employed in the study of women and gender in the Middle East. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Analyse and assess academic texts and prevailing cultural notions critically. 5. Distinguish between a range of methodological approaches as well as variety of genres, i.e. anthropological and sociological texts, (auto)biographical writings and fiction |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. Digest, select and organise material to produce, to a deadline, a coherent and cogent argument 7. Critically examine and review existing literature 8. Identify processes by which gender, i.e. femaleness and maleness, are socially and culturally constructed in different contexts 9. Carry out independent study and group work, including the presentation of material for group discussion. |
