ADM4190 GENDER AND POLITICS
| Course Code: | 3104190 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and Public Adm. |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. CANAN ASLAN AKMAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course aims at surveying the gender and politics literature to introduce students of
political science to the major issues in women's political participation. It provides a critical gender perspektife to political institutions and representation.
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the students will be able to analyze and discuss gender the role of gender in political participation.
The students will cultivate an understanding of how norms of femininity and masculinity produce a gender gap in political engagement and its consequences.
The students will have gained an awareness of gender issues in parliamentary representation and political leadership.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability to reach the information they need in their daily lives, and to interpret it | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Being in command of the basic concepts of law | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Understanding the political, economical, and social transformations that occur in a wide range of areas including local and international levels | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Defining and solving problems encountered in political, social, and economic life | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being conscious, effective and rational citizens who can comprehend the transformations taking place in Turkey and in the world today | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Being professionals who can operate as productive participants in any public organization | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Having the knowledge about how public organizations function and how their decision making processes and mechanisms work | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Developing original solutions to the problems faced in relation to their own area of interest | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Critical thinking ability | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Being in command of the interdisciplinary approaches | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution