COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WOMEN AND HEALTH

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 6019 WOMEN AND HEALTH ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Women's and Family Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AKÇA TOPRAK ERGÖNEN

Offered to

Women's and Family Studies

Course Objective

It is to raise awareness, to raise awareness, to develop knowledge and attitudes about how violence against women affects women's health and their whole life, with which dynamics, prevention of violence, protection of women, recognition of health consequences and practices in our country and in the world within the scope of relevant national and international legal regulations.
Gender inequality and our sexist prejudices; how it affects individual and community life, especially education and health, and the effects of this specific violence on women's mental health, reproductive health, etc. will be examined.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   LO1: to be able to comprehend that the main reason for violence against women is gender equality.
2   LO2: to be able to comprehend the effects of violence against women on individual and community health
3   LO3: be aware of specific types of violence such as sexual violence
4   LO4: to be able to comprehend the effects of violence against women on mental health
5   LO5: to understand the effects of violence against women on reproductive health

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The main cause, risk factors, frequency of violence against women
2 Characteristics of violence against women
3 Health effects of violence against women
4 Effects of violence against women on mental health
5 Effects of violence against women on reproductive health
6 Students' homework presentations 1
7 Homework presentations 2 and MIDTERM EXAM
8 Definition, frequency and characteristics of sexual violence
9 Effects of sexual violence on women's health
10 Child marriages and adolescent pregnancies
11 Health effects of violence with case examples 1
12 Health effects of violence with case examples 2
13 Istanbul Convention
14 Project presentations of students 1
15 Project presentations of students 2
16 FINAL and course feedback

Recomended or Required Reading

https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/
https://rm.coe.int/1680462545 (Convention of Istanbul)

Akça Toprak Ergönen, Emin Biçen, Gökhan Ersoy, "COVID-19 Salgınında Ev Içi Şiddet", Adli Tıp Bülteni, 25/Covid-19 Özel sayı/48-57/2020, 2020.

Nilgün Özçakar, Akça Toprak Ergönen, Mehtap Kartal, Hakan Baydur, "Adaptation, reliability, and validity study of the Hwalek'sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S/EAST): a Turkish version", Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences, 47/-/1-9/2017, 2017.

Özçakar N, Yeşiltepe G, Karaman G, Toprak Ergönen A, "Domestic violence survivors and their experiences during legal proceedings", Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 37/1/1-7/2016, 2016.

Toprak Ergönen A, Özdemir M H, Can I, Sönmez E, Salaçin S, Berberoğlu E, Demir N, "Domestic violence on pregnant women in Turkey", Journal of Forensic and legal Medicine, 16(3), 125-129,2009.

Salaçin S, Toprak Ergönen A, Demiroğlu Uyanıker Z, "Kadına yönelik şiddet", Klinik Gelişim, 22/özel sayı/95-100/2009, 2009.

Toprak Ergönen A, Dayar Kırılmaz S, Sönmez Y, Özdemir H M, "Hekimin Suç sayılan Cinsel Amaçlı Davranışlara Uğrayanlar Için Başvuru Merkezleri Hakkındaki Düşünceleri: Anket çalışması", Türkiye Klinikleri Adli Tıp, cilt 4/ sayı 3/ 2007, 2008.

Akca Toprak Ergonen, Serpil Salacin, Sevgi Karademir, Yucel Gursel, Berna Musal, "A Domestic Violence Course for Medical Students: A Study on Its Effectiveness", Journal of Family Violence, 22/6/441-447/2007, 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, group work, structured case discussions, student assignments and presentations

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Mid-term exam 10 %
Homework 30 %
Project 50 %
Final exam 10 %

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Participation in classes
2. Making homework and project presentation

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

toprakergonen@gmail.com

Office Hours

Wednesday 10:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 4 56
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 16 5 80
Preparing presentations 14 2 28
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 168

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.1455
LO.2454
LO.3454
LO.4454
LO.5454

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