Comparative Gender in Global Perspective - YMGS510

• Title: Comparative Gender in Global Perspective
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:written
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:16/0, Ex [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. Věra Sokolová, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Dagmar Lorenz - Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses unavailable to incoming students
• Is interchangeable with: YMGS110

Annotation

English

This course is a devised as a discussion class in which all 2nd-year MA students of Gender Studies, Czech and international, meet together to collectively re-read and discuss texts from obligatory courses in the graduate programme for gender studies that teachers have identified as being of key relevance for the MA state exam. The course is taught in English and emphasis is placed on the ability of all students to present, discuss and argue in academic English. The seminar is devised as a space for slowing down and re-visiting some key propositions including enduring conundrums such as the tangled relations between sex and gender, biology and society, body and mind, culture and economy, binarity and non-binarity. A central proposition of the course is that past interpretations do not exhaust the range of possibilities, and a feminist future still gets made in the present, and that when we re-read these texts together with texts from other classes and with readers from a range of different societal contexts new activations, connections and possibilities might open up. We will also use methods such as concept speed dating to explore key concepts and learn from each other.

Last update: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (18.09.2024)

Czech

This course is a devised as a discussion class in which all 2nd-year MA students of Gender Studies, Czech and international, meet together to collectively re-read and discuss texts from obligatory courses in the graduate program for gender studies. Teachers have identified these texts as being of key relevance for the MA state exam. The course is taught in English and emphasis is placed on the ability of all students to present, discuss and argue in academic English. The seminar is devised as a space for slowing down and re-visiting some key propositions including the tangled relations between sex and gender, biology and society, body and mind, culture and economy, binarity and non-binarity. A central proposition of the course is that past interpretations do not exhaust the range of possibilities, a feminist future still gets made in the present, and that when we re-read these texts together with texts from other classes and with readers from a range of different societal contexts new activations, connections and possibilities might open up. We will also use methods such as concept speed dating to explore key concepts and learn from each other.

Last update: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (18.09.2024)

Course completion requirements

Requirements and Assessment:

1.   Attendance and Active Participation in Class Discussions (60%)

2. Devising 2-3 discussion questions centrering on a key concept or idea for one of the required reading (10%)

3.  Written response paper that details your changing understanding of a concept or proposition and/or makes connections to another concept/proposition (800 words) (30%)

Written make up will be required for classes missed.

Last update: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (18.09.2024)

Syllabus

A full syllabus with key readings will be provided before the start of the new semester.

Last update: Lorenz - Meyer Dagmar, M.A., Ph.D. (18.09.2024)