Module SOC3013 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC3013: Gender and Society 1
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following themes over one or more week:
- Sex/gender debates and the critique of biological determinism
- Masculinities
- Bodies
- Femininities
- Sexuality
- Feminism
- Love and Intimacy
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 11 | 11 x 1 hour lectures will deliver the conceptual framework of the course and examples. |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 11 | 11 x 1 hour seminars will allow for the detailed discussion of particular topics by the students as a group. Each seminar is based on selected lecture topics. |
| Guided Independent study | 80 | Module reading |
| Guided Independent study | 48 | Research/Reading for the essay plan and essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative web based resources e.g. ELE:
Course materials (lecture slides and tutorial topics/questions) will be provided on ELE prior to each lecture/tutorial.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Attwood, Feona 2009 Mainstreaming Sex. The sexualisation of Western culture. London: I.B. Tauris.
Susan Bordo, Susan 2003 Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Connell, Raewyn. 2005 Masculinities. London: Polity.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne 2012 Sex/gender: biology in a social world. London: Routledge.
Foucault, Michel 1990 The History of Sexuality. London: Penguin.
Halberstram, Judith 2013 Gaga feminism: sex, gender, and the end of normal. Bsoton Mass: Beacon.
Rahman, Momin and Jackson, Stevi 2010. Gender and sexuality. London: Polity.
