COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENDER AND POWER

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SOS 4025 GENDER AND POWER COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Sociology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YILDIZ AKPOLAT

Offered to

Sociology (Evening)
Sociology

Course Objective

To understand the position of women in modern societies and to examime the reflections of this position in the sphere of culture, politics, economy and etc.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to understand the importance of gender as an area of
2   to understand the theoretical approaches to the position of women in modern societies
3   to understand where women stay in the distribution of power in the fields of economy, politics and so on
4   to understand how and why women have been taking outside of history writing
5   to analyze the representation of women in media
6   to understand the centrality of women in the social change and transformation

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Gender as an area of study (1,2,3)
2 Feminism as defense of women rights and Feminisms (7, 9, 11)
3 Modernity, Women, Power (1, 4, 11)
4 Patriarhcy as a tool of power (1, 4)
5 Family and Women (1, 6)
6 Construction of Nation and Women (8, 11)
7 History-Writing and Women (2)
8 Women, Oral History, and the Memory of Women (2, 7)
9 Mid-Term
10 Women and Working (9, 5)
11 Invisible Labor of Women (3,4, 9)
12 Women and Violence (4)

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Deniz Kandiyoti, 1990, Cariyeler, Bacılar, Yurttaşlar, Istanbul: Iletişim
2.Fatmagül Berktay, 2003, Tarihin Cinsiyeti, Istanbul: Metis Yayınları
3. Aynur Ilyasoğlu ve Necla Akgökçe, 2001, yerli Bir Feminizme Doğru, Istanbul: Sel Yayıncılık
4. Sibel Özbudun, Cahide Sarı ve Temel Demirer, 2007, Küreselleşme, Kadın ve Yeni-Ataerki, Istanbul: ütopya
5. Şirin Tekeli, 1993, Kadın Bakış Açısından Kadınlar, Istanbul: Iletişim
6. Simone de Beauvoir, 1993, Ikinci Cins I, II, III Cilt, Istanbul: Payel
7. Luce Irigaray, 2006, Sen, Ben, Biz, Ankara: Imge
8. Nira Yuval-Davis, 1997, Cinsiyet ve Millet, Istanbul: Iletişim Yayınları
9.Serpil Çakır ve Necla Akgökçe, 1995, Kadın Araştırmalarında Yöntem, Istanbul: Sel Yayıncılık
10. Seçil Büker ve Ayşe Kıran, 1999, Reklamlarda Kadına Yönelik Şiddet, Istanbul Alan Yayıncılık

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 110

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.154
LO.24354
LO.3454
LO.44545
LO.55445
LO.64

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