Unit convenor and teaching staff | Unit convenor and teaching staff |
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
12cp or admission to GDipArts
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit examines how gender functions in our day-to-day lives. We look closely at common activities like shopping, eating, grooming, talking, reading, going to the movies, using cosmetic surgery, getting married and more, to examine some of the discourses – biological, cultural, social, anthropological – that reproduce ideas of masculinity and femininity, of being a man or woman. We look at intersections of gender with class, ethnicity, and race. We also introduce students to some of the influential ideas on how gender works, theories by European philosophers like Freud and Foucault, as well as essays by feminist activists and post-modern writers on gender and sexuality.
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Name | Weighting | Due |
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Quizzes | 40% | Fridays, weeks 2-12 |
Essay + Essay Plan | 50% | Week 7 & Week 13 |
Participation | 10% | throughout |
Due: Fridays, weeks 2-12
Weighting: 40%
Weekly multiple choice quiz on the required readings and on the lectures of weeks 2-12
Due: Week 7 & Week 13
Weighting: 50%
This assignment comes in two parts.
Part One: Choose a question from those listed on iLearn. Submit an essay plan in Week 7 with key readings identified and annotated, and ideas sketched. Part One is worth 20%.
Part Two: Write an analytical essay on the question selected. Part Two is worth 30%.
Due: throughout
Weighting: 10%
Peer discussion of unit material on the GEN210 iLearn site.
For external students, the benchmark for a clear pass is 2 discussion items of approximately 150 words each, posted on the GEN210 iLearn site per week (24 minimum total). These may be averaged over the semester but significant uncleared absences will be penalised and significant shortfalls in participation will result in failure.
For an above-pass participation mark, it is the quality as well as quantity (above benchmarked minimum) of discussion posts that will count.
Day and Online.
For external students, GEN210 comprises of one 2 hour Lecture (recorded) available via iLearn.
This unit has an online presence in iLearn (http://ilearn.mq.edu.au). Students are required to have regular access to a computer and the internet. Mobile devices alone are not sufficient.
This unit will use Echo lecture recording (accessed via iLearn).
- For technical support go to: http://mq.edu.au/about_us/offices_and_units/informatics/help - For student quick guides on the use of iLearn go to: http://mq.edu.au/iLearn/student_info/guides.htm
For current updates, lecture times and classrooms please consult the MQ Timetables website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au
Required readings can be accessed through e-reserve via iLearn. These can be read online, printed out by the student and/or downloaded.
FEEDBACK
Feedback and unit evaluation
The Faculty of Arts values student feedback and seeks to continually improve its teaching. At present, the Faculty collects student feedback in two ways:
1. Anonymous evaluation surveys which are disseminated at the completion of each unit. 2. Student feedback meetings which are held twice a year in the Faculty of Arts. These meetings are advertised on campus and all students are encouraged to attend.
What has changed based on student feedback
Based on feedback obtained from past students, this unit has been adapted in the following way(s):
New topics on media (advertising) and inter-sex and trans-sexual issues have been introduced due to popular demand.
The tutorials run one week after the lectures. The readings listed will be discussed in both lectures and tutorials. Required reading is directly addressed in tutorial discussion. The required readings will be accessible via iLearn. Quiz questions will be set on both the required readings and the weekly lectures.
Attendance at tutorials by internal students is required for a satisfactory participation mark. Attendance at lectures by internal students is also required (especially for AV material). Students may seek permission to listen to ECHO recordings in lieu of attending lectures only with permission of the convenor.
Week |
Reading Gender in Everyday Life - Lecture topics |
Week 1 |
Having gender (biology): the brain and hormones |
Week 2 |
Having gender (sociobiology): rape; mothering |
Week 3 |
Representing gender (socialisation & coding): advertising |
Week 4 |
Buying into gender (socialisation & consuming): shopping |
Week 5 |
Playing out gender (socialisation & coupling): weddings |
Week 6 |
Playing with gender (socialisation & queering): Barbie dolls |
Week 7 |
Constructing gender (socialisation & psychoanalysis): stalking and jealousy |
Week 8 |
Doing gender (cutting up the body; conforming/transforming): cosmetic surgery |
Week 9 |
Doing gender (cutting up the body; conforming/transforming): inter-sex and trans-sexual surgery |
Week 10 |
Doing gender (fighting back through the body): female body building |
Week 11 |
Performing gender (fighting back through the body): madness and hysteria |
Week 12 |
Performing gender (through the masquerade): make-up, masking and drag |
Week 13 |
No lecture – film |
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Disruption to Studies Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html The Disruption to Studies Policy is effective from March 3 2014 and replaces the Special Consideration Policy.
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