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| SYLLABUS |
| Gender Studies and Health I,
6 ECTS Credits |
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COURSE CATEGORY Course within the Programme - Master of Arts and Science in Health and Society
MAIN FIELD OF STUDY Health and Society - HOA
SUBJECT AREA
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COURSE CODE |
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| AIM OF THE COURSE |
| The students shall acheive basic knowledge of gender-theoretical perspectives and notions and the students shall be able to understand and use, in an appropriate way, these perspectives and notions. They shall be acquainted with major theories and evidence concerning the interplay between gender and health. They shall also be able to examine cultural discourses on masculinity and femininity of matter to health and disease representations, and cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary gender research on health. They shall be able to analyse and discuss cases independently and in teams. Finally, they shall be able to present such an analysis in a scientific paper to be presented and discussed at a seminar. |
| CONTENTS |
| Gender studies and health is an interdisciplinary course which provides students with basic knowledge of gender-theoretical perspectives and notions. The course presents and examines gender studies on health within a wide variety of disciplines and particularly among humanistic and social sciences. It will provide the students with a brief orientation of similarities and differences in gender related health in different time- and space-specific contexts. It will also examine feminist criticisms of certain health research and of conceptual tools in such research. The course examines cultural representations of femininity and masculinity by examining examples of practices, debates and political struggles of matter to health policies as well as feminist criticisms of traditional medical ethics. It also explores the interconnection between gender and biological sex, relative welfare and behavioural patterns on male/female health differentials in different historical and geographical contexts, and particularly in periods of rapid social change. Topics for discussion may include reproduction and new reproductive technologies, health, death and developments of medical treatments. |
| TEACHING |
| Lectures, central texts, individual work and seminars. Alternatively as an individual course: reading, tutorials and written assignment. |
| EXAMINATION |
Active participation in seminars. Discussion of short papers presented by the students. Alternatively as an individual course: A written assignment.
Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course two times 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 |
Admission to the Master program in Health and Society or, as a single subject course, a Swedish “grundexamen” (fil. kand.), an international degree corresponding to a Bachelor in Arts and/or Science or studies up to a documented equivalent level. |
| 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
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| 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. |
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Gender Studies and Health I
Gender Studies and Health I |
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Department responsible
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the course or
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IHS - Department of Health and Society |
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| Registrar No: 1237/04-41 |
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Course Code: HHSID7 |
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Exam codes: see Local Computer System |
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| Subject/Subject Area : Health and Society - HOA |
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Education level |
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Field of Education |
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HOA |
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HU |
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The syllabus was approved by the Board of Faculty of Arts and Science 2006-03-27
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