College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Palestine/Israel
Module ARAM230 for 2017/8
Module ARAM230 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM230: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Palestine/Israel
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to provide you with the skills of critical gender analysis, which will allow you to explore how settler colonialism and political violence are sustained and subverted in Palestine/Israel. You will learn to analyse how gender roles, relations, codes and norms become central to the production of violence, as well as how women and men experience, understand and resist this violence on individual and collective levels. Students are expected to take an active role in creating and leading our learning community. The module encourages politically active learning through discussion of topical events and project-based assessment.
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, codes, norms and relations sustain political violence in Palestine/Israel. 2. Identify and critically assess how settler colonialism underwrites conflict in Palestine/Israel, in part through gendered and sexualised dynamics. 3. Evaluate how gender shapes diverse modes of resistance to political violence and settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Analyse and assess academic texts and prevailing discursive frames (i.e., conflict or occupation) critically. 4. Analyse and assess academic texts and prevailing discursive frames (i.e., conflict or occupation) critically. 5. Identify processes by which gender (i.e., femaleness and maleness) is socially constructed and becomes implicated in politics. |
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. Carry out independent study and group work, including the presentation of material for group discussion. |