Undergraduate Modules
Horizons BA Electives
Equality Studies
Global Justice
Childhood Inequalities in a Global Context
Gender Inequality in a Global Context
Masculinities, Gender Relations and Equality
Assignments for EQUL 20010 Childhood Inequality should be handed in to Room L510 (Library Building) no later than Thursday 4th December2008 at 15.00hrs.
Office hours on 4th December are 08.30.-12.00 and 14.00-15.00hrs
LEVEL ONE
EQUL10020 Global Justice
Semester 2
Tuesdays 13.00
Room A105 (Newman)
Teaching Contact: Professor Kathleen Lynch
The objective of this module is to equip students with an integrated understanding of global inequalities, and to examine ways of creating a more sustainable and egalitarian world. The module will enable students to analyse inequalities across the economic, political, social and cultural spheres of global society. Covering a range of related topics, students will engage with issues of trade and aid, health, food, the environment, gender relations, migration, and the way in which people and global events are represented in a European context. The module will also address the role of global institutions (e.g. World Trade Organisation, international financial institutions, the United Nations) in challenging and perpetuating injustice. Throughout, the module will outline ways in which social injustices are being, and might be, challenged at the local and global levels in ways that seek to create a more egalitarian world.
LEVEL 2
EQUL 20010 Childhood Inequalities in a Global Context
Semester 1
Thursdays 16.00
F103A (Newman)
Teaching Contact; Karen Smith
The aim of this module is to enable students to develop a critical, multidisciplinary child-centred perspective on childhood inequalities in the global context. Throughout the module differences in the understanding and experience of childhood in selected poor majority-world countries will be a key focus. There will be particular emphasis on the interaction between the local and the global in terms of the political, economic and cultural conditions which shape childhoods around the world. The module will examine such issues as child-adult relations, children's education, poverty, health, child labour, children's care worlds, and children's rights and statuses. The ways in which gender, social class, ethnicity/race, disability, regional location and other differences impact on inequalities between children will also be examined in both minority and majority world contexts. Overall the module will provide students with a clear set of conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for critically analysing and challenging global inequalities between children.
Level 3
EQUL 30070 Gender Inequality in a Global Context
Semester 2
Thursday 18.00-20.00
Room:C108 (Newman)
Teaching Contact: Shirley Graham
The objective of this module is to enable students to understand inequality between women and men in a global context. It will provide them with the tools to analyse gender inequalities in the economy, political systems, the media and education. The kinds of issues to be addressed from a gender perspective include: poverty; human rights, rural development; reproduction; conflict; violence in all its forms; labour markets; and care and love. How differences between women and men are influenced by ethnic/racial status, social class, disability, sexuality, regional location and nationality will also be explored. Overall the course will provide students with clear conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for understanding and transforming the relations between women and men both locally and globally.
EQUL 30080 Masculinities, Gender Relations and Equality
Semester 2
Wednesdays 16.00-18.00
Roon:A106(Newman)
The objective of this module is to enable students to understand and critically analyse the relationship between masculinity and equality. The module will explore theoretical influences on contemporary Masculinity Studies, which take seriously the challenges posed to men by feminist, gay, and other egalitarian movements. Placing a central focus on men and masculinity the module will analyse gender relations across economic, socio-cultural, political, and affective spheres of social life. Gender dynamics, including relations between different groups of men, are considered in relation to inequalities of resources, respect and recognition, power and decision-making, working and learning, and love, care and solidarity. The module will include contexts and topics shaped by sexuality, disability, social class, 'race', ethnicity, and nationality, family and paternity, health, and age and generation. A central tenet of the module is to address how gender injustices can be challenged and key to this is considering men's lives in both political and (inter) personal terms.
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