PSIR308 GENDER AND POLITICS
| Course Code: | 3540308 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. ZÜLKÜF AYDIN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, students will
- Learn socially and politically constructed character of identities based on sex, gender and sexuality.
- Learn historically changing and varying Feminist criticism towards central presumptions of traditional Political Science and Political Theory. .
- Learn the various criticism from gender studies field towards the public sphere and private sphere dichotomy.
- Learn importance of gender in formal political practice and the role of the states in the enhancing, improving as well as subverting gendered division of labor in society.
- Learn the ways in which social stratification based on race, ethnicity, class goes along with gendered inequailities.
- Learn the various and diversified policies and practices of nationalist ideologies influencing the groups with various gender identities.
- Learn the gendered nature of economic relations under the ınfluence globalization process.
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will
- Learn various criticisms from Gender Studies field to Political Science theory.
- Learn main arguments of first-wave, second-wave and third-wave feminist scholarship and gender studies scholarship to the public sphere vs private sphere distinction, to the state discourses and policies, to citizenship policies and practices, to political representation and reproductive rights.
- Know the Intersectionality approach
- Know the state-feminism, its practices and its critiques
- Know gender-neutral, gender-different, gender-plural citizenship policies as a way to regender citizenship
- Learn about flexibility in neoliberal economic policies, its impact on feminization of labor and side effects of the feminization of labor.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Having academic knowledge in Political Science and International relations disciplines | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Developing an interdisciplinary perspective incorporating other areas of the social sciences as well | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Being capable of evaluating political, economic and social matters at local, national and international levels | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Being capable of making sense of, follow and analyze political, economic and social events | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being sensitive to global, environmental and social problems | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Developing a critical mind capable of making constructive criticisms, open to lifelong learning, researching, inquiring, questioning and problems solving | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Being capable of individual work, entrepreneur, good time management and able to actively take part in group work for common purposes | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Having effective communication skills in Turkish and English languages | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Being capable of using communication technologies in reaching to information and organizing and presenting this information in a systematic way | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution