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SYLLABUS
Analytical Tools, 12 ECTS Credits
 
COURSE CATEGORY   Master´s Programme in Gender Studies
MAIN FIELD OF STUDY   Gender Studies - GEU
SUBJECT AREA   Gender Studies – GS1
  COURSE CODE   757A23
AIM OF THE COURSE
On completion of the course, the students should, on an advanced level within the field of Gender Studies – Intersectionality and Change, be able to:
- account for, explain and relate to methodologies described in the course;
- define, compare, and assess the methods and theories comprised in the course;
- apply appropriate methodologies in an independent study.
CONTENTS
The course includes:
- methodological debates within the field of Gender Studies – Intersectionality and Change;
- methods for designing, carrying out and writing a pilot study relevant for the field, such as, for example, writing, interviewing, dialoguing and theatre performance as methods of inquiry, use of online tools as a method of inquiry, textual and visual analysis, ethnographic methods, policy analysis and action research methods, as well as selected quantitative methods.
TEACHING
Lectures followed by discussions take place in the online classroom. Knowledge is further reinforced during online-seminars, -workshops and/or other learning activities. In between online-seminars and -lectures students study the course literature independently and communicate with each other online in peer learning groups, supervised by student tutors. The course includes that the students carry out a pilot study of a self-selected topic within the field of Gender Studies – Intersectionality and Change. The completion of the pilot study is carried out under supervision by teachers and tutors.
EXAMINATION
The course is examined through active participation in online-seminars and -workshops, through continuous written individual assignments, submitted online, and through a pilot study, which is to be documented in a written report, submitted online.
Detailed information about the examination can be found in the study guide.

Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.

Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree with at least 30 ECTS credits in Gender Studies or equivalent qualifications are required.
Documented knowledge of English equivalent to Engelska B/Engelska 6.
GRADING
The course is graded according to the ECTS grading scale A-F
CERTIFICATE
Course certificate is issued by the Faculty Board on request. The Department provides a special form which should be submitted to the Student Affairs Division.
COURSE LITERATURE
The course literature is decided upon by the department in question.
OTHER INFORMATION
Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus.

The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.
 
Analytical Tools
Analytiska verktyg
 
Department responsible
for the course or equivalent:
TEMA - Department of Thematic Studies
           
Registrar No: 2015-01423   Course Code: 757A23      
    Exam codes: see Local Computer System      
Subject/Subject Area : Gender Studies - GEU          
           
Level   Education level     Subject Area Code   Field of Education  
A1X   Advanced level       SA  
The syllabus was approved by the Board of Faculty of Arts and Science 2016-01-29