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ANTH3022 – Gender, Sexuality and Global Health
2020 – Session 2, Weekday attendance, North Ryde
Notice
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General Information
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lisa Wynn
Payel Ray
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| Credit points |
Credit points
10
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above
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| Corequisites |
Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
Anthropologists understand gender as the meanings that a particular society gives to the physical or biological traits that differentiate males and females. This unit will explore how cultural norms around gender and sexuality have defined, constructed, constrained, or expanded people's notions of self, their bodies, and their health in specific sociocultural contexts. The anthropological understanding of gender and sexuality, as well as health, provides a fresh lens on what appears, when viewed in terms of international politics, as 'global imperatives' - the imperative to control female sexuality and population, for example, or to categorise male and femaleness, or to control disease epidemics such as AIDS. Every one of these imperatives in fact is mediated and refracted through understandings and meanings that cling to what is most immediate and local to each of us, namely, our bodies. Anthropology understands these meanings as simultaneously symbolic, biological and existential, but the meanings are also historically and culturally specific. Gender, sexuality, and health are always mediated by the local, even as people absorb and adapt new global discourses about their sexual identity and wellbeing.
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- ULO1: Demonstrate an anthropological understanding of gender and sexuality as sociocultural constructs.
- ULO2: Articulate the ways that sociocultural norms around gender and sexuality shape health outcomes.
- ULO3: Demonstrate a critical understanding of how the intersection of culture, health and sexuality can underpin vulnerability to sexual and reproductive health problems as well as shape the implementation of government and donor policies and interventions.
- ULO4: Critically and reflexively analyse the role of global markets, rise of human capital, increased mobility and structural inequalities in creating disparities in sexual and reproductive health conditions.
- ULO5: Analyse the relationship between gender, sexuality and health in global discourses of development and international aid.
General Assessment Information
Please see iLearn and listen to the weekly lectures for detailed information about assessments
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Presentation | 10% | No | TBD (each student will present once) |
| Tutorial reading and response | 30% | Yes | Weekly, BEFORE tutorials, starting week 2 |
| Research Essay | 30% | No | Week 8 |
| Take home exam | 30% | No | Week 13 |
Presentation
Assessment Type 1: Presentation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: TBD (each student will present once)
Weighting: 10%
Short oral presentation in tutorials
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an anthropological understanding of gender and sexuality as sociocultural constructs.
- Articulate the ways that sociocultural norms around gender and sexuality shape health outcomes.
- Analyse the relationship between gender, sexuality and health in global discourses of development and international aid.
Tutorial reading and response
Assessment Type 1: Summary
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Weekly, BEFORE tutorials, starting week 2
Weighting: 30%
This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
Weekly summary of assigned readings and active participation in tutorial discussion
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an anthropological understanding of gender and sexuality as sociocultural constructs.
- Articulate the ways that sociocultural norms around gender and sexuality shape health outcomes.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of how the intersection of culture, health and sexuality can underpin vulnerability to sexual and reproductive health problems as well as shape the implementation of government and donor policies and interventions.
- Critically and reflexively analyse the role of global markets, rise of human capital, increased mobility and structural inequalities in creating disparities in sexual and reproductive health conditions.
- Analyse the relationship between gender, sexuality and health in global discourses of development and international aid.
Research Essay
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Week 8
Weighting: 30%
Students will write an expository essay exploring a topic related to the course material
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an anthropological understanding of gender and sexuality as sociocultural constructs.
- Articulate the ways that sociocultural norms around gender and sexuality shape health outcomes.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of how the intersection of culture, health and sexuality can underpin vulnerability to sexual and reproductive health problems as well as shape the implementation of government and donor policies and interventions.
- Critically and reflexively analyse the role of global markets, rise of human capital, increased mobility and structural inequalities in creating disparities in sexual and reproductive health conditions.
- Analyse the relationship between gender, sexuality and health in global discourses of development and international aid.
Take home exam
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 30%
Take home exam with short answer questions covering main topics of the unit
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an anthropological understanding of gender and sexuality as sociocultural constructs.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of how the intersection of culture, health and sexuality can underpin vulnerability to sexual and reproductive health problems as well as shape the implementation of government and donor policies and interventions.
- Critically and reflexively analyse the role of global markets, rise of human capital, increased mobility and structural inequalities in creating disparities in sexual and reproductive health conditions.
- Analyse the relationship between gender, sexuality and health in global discourses of development and international aid.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
- the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
- the Writing Centre for academic skills support.
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Delivery and Resources
Lectures: Every week, the lecture will be delivered via a live Zoom meeting. Lectures are always interactive with student participation, so please join us if you can! However, it will be recorded so if you cannot watch the lecture synchronously, you can catch up on the lecture recording later.
Tutorials: You may sign up for in-person or online tutorials. Any in-person learning activities may be subject to change depending on the COVID pandemic and recommendations from NSW Health, so please check iLearn for detailed information about tutorials and assessments. Any changes will be announced in lecture and via iLearn announcement.
Readings: Each week (starting from Week 2) you are expected to do the weekly readings and write a short summary before the tutorial (see iLearn for detailed assessment information). The lecture readings will be available via Leganto, through iLearn and are all available from the library website. If you can't find a reading, e-mail the library (lib.reserve@mq.edu.au) or the convenor (lisa.wynn@mq.edu.au) so that we can make sure it's available online.
Assessment submission: All written assessments will be submitted online via iLearn; your oral presentation will be during tutorial. See iLearn for details.
Unit Schedule
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