Overview
This topic offers students a critical introduction to key concepts and approaches in Women's and Gender Studies and explores how experiences and ideas of gender are entangled with sexuality, disability, class, race and climate change.
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Aims
This topic aims to:
- offers students knowledge of key concepts in Women's and Gender Studies
- provides students with appropriate language and conceptual tools to consider the various ways the diversity of gendered experiences are formed
- offers students key skills in the critical analysis of intersectional gender related themes
- enhance students oral communication and writing skills
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Debate the concepts of gender, sex and identity
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Evaluate the ways race, ethnicity, class, disability and sexuality intersect with experiences of gender and sex
3.
Compare academic literature from the field of Women's and Gender Studies
4.
Evaluate issues arising from debates relating to sex, gender and feminism
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