SOC659 SPACE, PLACE AND GENDER
| Course Code: | 2320659 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | PhD |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AYŞE NUR SAKTANBER |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The objective of the course is to introduce a spatial perspective to sociological inquiry through the lenses of gender analyses in urban theory, social history, geography, architecture and sociology. This course will enhance the interdisciplinary approaches to sociology by adding another dimension of theory and empirical research to the curriculum that is space and gender and will expand graduate students’ abilities in critical thinking, writing and understanding difference in methodological approaches by also encouraging them to develop research projects on the culturally specific relations between space and gender.
Course Content
This course stems from a discussion which argues that throughout history and across cultures, architectural and geographic spatial arrangements have reinforced status differences between different gender identities, and, thus aims to examine the relationship between space, place and gender from an interdisciplinary feminist perspective by focusing on the current debates in urban theory, social history, feminist geography, architecture, gender and cultural studies. Feminist postmodern critique of modernist either/or distinctions and the gendered manifestations of these distinctions in different political and cultural contexts which created exclusivist claims to places, and how these claims are both challenged and negotiated by various social agents constitute the central discussion topics of the course with special emphasis on the global sense of the place within a space-time continuum.
Course Learning Outcomes
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To interpret knowledge produced by society from a sociological perspective | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To renew, improve their accumulation and construct new knowledge by following up-to-date publications and research programs | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To produce original and expert solutions within and outside the discipline and in interdisciplinary levels | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To implement the ethics of sociological research | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To analyze, in comprehensive and expert ways, social, environmental, and economic effects in the areas where sociological approaches are appropriated | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To use and transfer the accumulation of sociological knowledge in an interdisciplinary way | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To analyze social structures and dynamics by correlating the past, the present and the future, and to identify new structures and dynamics | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To connect social theories of knowledge and social practices with an expert view | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution